Lymphadenopathy-Associated Virus Isolated from Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid in AIDS-Related Complex with Lymphoid Interstitial Pneumonitis
- 18 July 1985
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 313 (3) , 183
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198507183130313
Abstract
To the Editor: We recently examined a Haitian woman with the AIDS-related complex in whom lymphadenopathy-associated virus (LAV)1 was isolated simultaneously from blood and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid. LAV has previously been isolated from peripheral-blood lymphocytes, saliva, semen, lymph nodes, and brain, but in this case it was isolated from pulmonary secretions.The patient was a 30-year-old black Haitian woman in whom anorexia, weight loss (10 kg), and intermittent fever had begun 2.5 years previously and continued after her immigration to France in May 1983. She had noted dyspnea on exertion one year before. She had no history of blood transfusion, . . .Keywords
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