PCB 4233C Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Aids, Pneumocystis Pneumonia, Pentamidine
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In june 1981, doctors at the cdc: described five cases of pneumocystis pneumonia in homosexual men in los. Angeles: received several requests for pentamidine isethionate, which is used to treat. Pneumocystis pneumonia: received reports of an unusual number of cases of kaposi"s sarcoma and suppressed immune systems in patients. Case control studies led scientists to believe: number and frequency of sexual partners among homosexual men were factors in the incidence of aids, sexual partners of homosexual and bisexual men were at risk and that more than. 20% of cases occurred in men who had a sexual relationship with an infected person. Epidemiologists gathered enough data to prepare a case definition for aids in 1983: made a recommendation for avoiding the disease, physician reporting pointed to blood and semen as principals" sources of the disease agent. Aids antibody test was developed in 1985. Hiv is a fragile virus: quickly disintegrates outside the body, cannot resist environmental pressures.
