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Historical Bibliography Updated: October 12, 2021

Pneumocystis pneumonia - Los Angeles.

Publication Details

Morb. Mortal. Wkly. Rep. (MMWR) June 5, 30, 250-252. 1981 CE.

The first paper on HIV/AIDS, reporting on June 5, 1981 on five cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) seen at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) medical center. PCP was then a rare infection; however, the lead author of the paper, Michael Gottlieb, had seen five cases of this infection since January 1981, all in previously healthy young homosexual men, indicating that their immune system was not working. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference.)

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Entry Number#9329
Permanent Linkhttps://hom-sveltekit.fly.dev/entry/11511
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLpneumocystis-pneumonia-los-angeles

Geographic Context

Mentioned in annotation: Los Angeles, CA