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June 2006, Vol 96, No. 6 | American Journal of Public Health 982-983
© 2006 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2006.088435

VOICES FROM THE PAST

Michael S. Gottlieb and the Identification of AIDS

Elizabeth Fee and Theodore M. Brown

Elizabeth Fee is with the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. Theodore M. Brown is with the Department of History and the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Elizabeth Fee, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894 (feee@mail.nih.gov).

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

THE LEAD AUTHOR OF THIS paper, Michael S. Gottlieb, was, in 1981, a 33 year-old assistant professor specializing in immunology at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center. When he asked one of his immunology fellows to look for interesting "teaching cases," he learned of a young gay man with unexplained fevers, dramatic weight loss, and a severely damaged immune system. His mouth was full of thrush, or candidiasis, which was usually seen in patients with a defect in one particular component of the immune system, the T-lymphocytes. Gottlieb later described a process of reasoning that led him . . . [Full Text]




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