S. Kartikeyan
R.N. Bharmal
R.P. Tiwari
P.S. Bisen

2007

In June 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the first evidence of a new disease that would later become known as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Since then, there has been an explosion of information, and volumes have been written on the clinical aspects, virology, immunology, pharmacology, therapeutics, and epidemiology of this new plague.