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Editorial
. 2008 Oct 14:5:91.
doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-5-91.

2008 Nobel prize in medicine for discoverers of HIV

Andrew M L Lever, Ben Berkhout
Editorial

2008 Nobel prize in medicine for discoverers of HIV

Andrew M L Lever et al. Retrovirology. .

Abstract

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier, codiscoverers of HIV, the causative agent of AIDS, have been awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. They share this prize with Harald zur Hausen who was responsible for establishing the link between human papilloma virus infection and cervical carcinoma.

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