Chapter 18
Chapter 18
Chapter 18
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Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)<br />
• 1983, HIV was correlated with<br />
AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency<br />
syndrome)<br />
• A retrovirus (an RNA virus)<br />
believed to have evolved in Africa<br />
from a monkey virus<br />
• 2006 CDC estimation:<br />
• ~ 1 million HIV infections in USA<br />
• Converging HIV and MDR-TB (multidrug<br />
resistance tuberculosis) Outbreaks<br />
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