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Until the AIDS epidemic, knowledge about cellular immune mechanisms among practising clinicians and health care workers was sketchy; opportunist infections in the immunocompromised host were regarded as recherché and as lists of bizarre organisms to be taken out and dusted down at rare intervals with a sense of the exotic; most lay people had no idea what immunologists were, unless something to do with vaccination; clinicians regarded them as laboratory-based scientists whose language was opaque, whose concepts were rarefied and whose relevance was doubtful; immunologists had uncertainties about the nature of immunosuppression in different contexts and were still grappling with the relevance of immunological tests, both new and old, to clinical diagnosis. AIDS has changed all that.
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Pinching, A. (1986). Immunology: Immunological Profile, Pathogenesis and the Role of Diagnostic Tests. In: Miller, D., Weber, J., Green, J. (eds) The Management of AIDS Patients. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18079-0_2
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