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Nutrition and Immunology

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The AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) epidemic, which appeared suddenly in the early 1980s, has largely stabilized in countries where antiretroviral drugs are widely available. However, in underdeveloped countries, especially those in Africa and Asia, the epidemic rages on at a frightening rate. The causative Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) was first identified in 1983, a time when published reports (1,2) were beginning to describe AIDS-related cachexia and the fundamental role of malnutrition in the pathogenesis of AIDS. Unexplained weight loss remains an important criterion in the diagnosis of AIDS (3).

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  1. Division of Rheumatology/Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA

    M. Eric Gershwin MD

  2. Department of Food Science and Technology, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA

    J. Bruce German PhD

  3. Department of Nutrition, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA

    Carl L. Keen PhD

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Beisel, W.R. (2000). AIDS. In: Gershwin, M.E., German, J.B., Keen, C.L. (eds) Nutrition and Immunology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-709-3_32

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