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  <dc:title>Naming the AIDS Virus</dc:title>
  <dc:subject>Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>Terminology as Topic</dc:subject>
  <dc:description>In this draft Varmus reviewed the contentious scientific, medical, and political issues surrounding the work of a subcommittee of the International Committee on the Taxonomy of Viruses that was charged with the task of proposing a uniform nomenclature for the human retrovirus that causes AIDS.  After more than a year of deliberations, the subcommittee, which Varmus chaired, proposed the name human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV.</dc:description>
  <dc:publisher>Produced: [10 April 1986]</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>University of California, San Francisco. Archives and Special Collections. Harold E. Varmus Papers</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Varmus, Harold</dc:contributor>
  <dc:type>Speeches</dc:type>
  <dc:type>Drafts (documents)</dc:type>
  <dc:format>Archival Materials</dc:format>
  <dc:format>Text</dc:format>
  <dc:format>15 pages</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>nlm:nlmuid-101584926X197-doc</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>101584926X197</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584926X197</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>Profiles ID: MVBBMS</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>English</dc:language>
  <dc:relation>Profiles in Science</dc:relation>
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