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Abstract
The possibility that homosexual men with the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)
had been sexual partners of each other was studied. Of the first 19 homosexual male
AIDS patients reported from southern California, names of sexual partners were obtained
for 13. Nine of the 13 patients had sexual contact with one or more AIDS patients
within five years of the onset of symptoms. Four of the patients from southern California
had contact with a non-Californian AIDS patient, who was also the sexual partner of
four AIDS patients from New York City. Ultimately, 40 patients in 10 cities were linked
by sexual contact. On the basis of six pairs of patients, a mean latency period of
10.5 months (range seven to 14 months) is estimated between sexual contact and symptom
onset. The findlng of a cluster of AIDS patients linked by sexual contact is consistent
with the hypothesis that AIDS is caused by an infectious agent.
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☆This work was presented in part at the symposium “Controversies in the Management of Infectious Complications of Neoplastic Disease,” Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, March 17 and 18, 1983.
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