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Papadopulos-Eleopulos E, Turner VF, Papadimitriou JM, et al. AIDS in Africa: distinguishing fact and fiction. World J Microbiol Biotechnol. 1995;11(2):135-43doi: 10.1007/BF00704634.
Papadopulos-Eleopulos, E., Turner, V. F., Papadimitriou, J. M., & Bialy, H. (1995). AIDS in Africa: distinguishing fact and fiction. World journal of microbiology & biotechnology, 11(2), 135-43. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00704634
Papadopulos-Eleopulos, E, et al. "AIDS in Africa: distinguishing fact and fiction." World journal of microbiology & biotechnology vol. 11,2 (1995): 135-43. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00704634
Papadopulos-Eleopulos E, Turner VF, Papadimitriou JM, Bialy H. AIDS in Africa: distinguishing fact and fiction. World J Microbiol Biotechnol. 1995 Mar;11(2):135-43. doi: 10.1007/BF00704634. PMID: 24414488.
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World J Microbiol Biotechnol. 1995 Mar;11(2):135-43. doi: 10.1007/BF00704634.

AIDS in Africa: distinguishing fact and fiction.

World journal of microbiology & biotechnology

E Papadopulos-Eleopulos, V F Turner, J M Papadimitriou, H Bialy

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PMID: 24414488 DOI: 10.1007/BF00704634

Abstract

The data widely purporting to show the existence and heterosexual transmission in Africa of a new syndrome caused by a retrovirus which induces immune deficiency are critically evaluated. It is concluded that both acquired immune deficiency (AID) and the symptoms and diseases which constitute the clinical syndrome (S) are of long standing in Africa, affect both sexes equally and are caused directly and indirectly by factors other than human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Seropositivity to HIV in Africans usually represents no more than cross-reactivity caused by an abundance of antibodies induced by the numerous infectious and parasitic diseases which are endemic in Africa. The apparently high prevalence of 'AIDS' and 'HIV' seropositives is therefore not surprising and is not proof of heterosexual transmission of either HIV or AIDS.

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