Isolated in 1983, the virus that causes AIDS is known today by this acronym
| Dallas Voice [PAR] Jul 6, 2006 ... On January 23, 1983, Montagnier found a suspect virus he called LAV ... 
announced that Gallo had isolated the virus which caused AIDS, that it was ... 
Today it is generally agreed that Montagnier's group was the first to... [DOC] [TLE] Naming the Enemy: AIDS Research, Contagion and the Discovery of ... [PAR] Susan Sontag, as is well known, has written a book called AIDS and its ... of AIDS 
lies a pure, intelligible object called HIV, 'the virus that causes of AIDS' [3], ready 
to ... Because of this yearning for an objective site of disease that can be isolated 
.... in 1983 or 1984, this research resulted in the discovery of a virus (now called... [DOC] [TLE] AIDS - New World Encyclopedia [PAR] AIDS is an acronym for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.