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During the last decade, the theory has been officially accepted that AIDS is caused by the retrovirus called HIV, which is transmissible through sexual contacts and parenterally. It is widely believed that the basis of AIDS is HIV-mediated cytotoxicity for infected CD4+ cells, which causes strong dysfunctions of the immune system due to the depletion of CD4+ pool of lymphocytes; as a result, a patient dies due to one of 25–28 AIDS-associated diseases.
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Koliadin, V.L. (1996). Critical analysis of the current views on the nature of AIDS. In: Duesberg, P.H. (eds) AIDS: Virus- or Drug Induced?. Contemporary Issues in Genetics and Evolution, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1651-7_4
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