MICROBIO 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Serial Passage, Robert Gallo, Sarcoma

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Microbiology
• Course: MICROBIO 160
• Professor: Wilmore Welby

Document Summary

Cdc report came out june 5, 1981--reports pneumocystis pneumonia. But this is not common so how could it be this types of pneumonia. Homosexual men were found to have this. Patient with lung infection, fatigue, and had pneumocystis pneumonia, something that happens when there is a weakened immune system. The patient had no t cells, leaving them open to infections. Aids was initially called gay related immunodeficiency disease (aka grid). Kaposi"s sarcoma (ks) : rare form of relatively benign cancer than tends to occur in older. July 1981: 41 cases of aggressive (ks) occurred amongst young gay men in new york people. and la (nyt article). Increase in the number of cases of a rare lung infection pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. A doctor was treating a gay man in his 20s who had pneumonia. Two weeks later, he (pcp) in ca and ny. called to ask for a refill of a rare drug that i handled (pentamidine).