RSS Feeds
Possible Female-to-Female Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus
- MICHAEL MARMOR, Ph.D.;
- LEE R. WEISS, M.D.;
- MARGARET LYDEN, R.N., M.P.H.;
- STANLEY H. WEISS, M.D.;
- W. CARL SAXINGER, Ph.D.;
- THOMAS J. SPIRA, M.D.; and
- PAUL M. FEORINO, Ph.D.
- New York University Medical Center; New York, NY 10010-2598
- National Cancer Institute; Bethesda, MD 20892
- Centers for Disease Control; Atlanta, GA 30333
Excerpt
To the editor: A case of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in a lesbian without any recognized risk factors was reported in 1984 (1). Consistent with that observation, we report the apparent female-to-female sexual transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
Patient 1, a 25-year-old white woman and a parenteral drug abuser, presented in November 1981 with unexplained weight loss. She had cervical lymphadenopathy and subsequently became chronically ill and developed anergy to skin-test antigens. In July 1984 a biopsy sample of the left axillary lymph node disclosed Kaposi's sarcoma, and antibodies to HIV were found by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and
