The Three Pioneers in the Discovery of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Articles > Article · 2025
Authors: Ayşe Deniz GÖKENGİN
Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, International, Scopus, 2025, vol 7, pp 463-463
Summary
Three French virologists at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, François Barré-Sinoussi, Luc Montagnier, and Jean-Claude Chermann, are recognized as the pioneers of the AIDS epidemic for their groundbreaking discovery of the etiologic agent of AIDS. This discovery has an interesting story. In January 1983, a colleague from the Bichat-Claude Bernard Hospital (...)