HIV and AIDS in relation to other pandemics. Among the viruses plaguing humans, HIV is a recent acquisition. Its outstanding success as an infection poses immense scientific challenges to human health and raises the question "What comes next?"

EMBO Reports

Volumn 4, Issue SPEC. ISS., 2003, Pages

  Weiss, Robin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 41; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS VACCINE; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; ZIDOVUDINE; ANTI HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AGENT;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CANCER; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG DESIGN; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; EBOLA VIRUS; EPIDEMIC; FOOD HANDLING; HEALTH EDUCATION; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFLUENZA; NIPAH VIRUS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AIDS PATIENT; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 2; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; INFLUENZA A (H5N1); PANDEMIC; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; TUBERCULOSIS; TYPHUS; VIRUS LOAD; ZOONOSIS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; SOUTH AFRICA; VARIATION (GENETICS); VIRUS DISEASES; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EBOLA VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; NIPAH VIRUS;

EID: 0038454586     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.embor857     Document Type: Article

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