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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is a new infectious disease which was first described in 1983. Since then, it has gained enormous attention in the medical community as well as in public, and it was probably the mostly discussed disease over the last decade. I therefore assume that the clinical symptoms and the time course are widely known.
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Wangenheim, G.V., Lower, J. (1991). New Developments in the Diagnosis of Aids and Strategies for Therapy. In: Baum, R.P., Cox, P.H., Hör, G., Buraggi, G.L. (eds) Clinical Use of Antibodies. Developments in Nuclear Medicine, vol 19. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3516-0_14
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