TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Pain in HIV and AIDS A1 - Carr, Daniel B. A1 - Gandhi, Preeti A2 - Bajwa, Zahid H. A2 - Wootton, R. Joshua A2 - Warfield, Carol A. PY - 2016 T2 - Principles and Practice of Pain Medicine, 3e AB - The older of the coauthors (DBC) was a medical trainee when five previously healthy young men in Los Angeles were reported to have developed an unusual pneumonia caused by Pneumocystis carinii (now termed Pneumocystis jiroveci), which was fatal in two. Reported in the June 5, 1981, issue of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports, these are now taken as the index cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), a worldwide epidemic unequalled in human history. Several years later, after the causative agent was identified as human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1), banked serologic specimens from a handful of isolated earlier cases of undiagnosed catastrophic acute illness retroactively tested positive for the same agent. However, 1981 is the reference date for the current catastrophe, subsequent voluminous epidemiologic analyses, and recent (2011) reflections on AIDS reaching age 30 years.1 SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - neurology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1131935623 ER -