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Rethinking AIDS : the tragic cost of premature consensus / Robert S. Root-Bernstein
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Rethinking AIDS : the tragic cost of premature consensus / Robert S. Root-Bernstein

by Robert Root-Bernstein

This critical review of AIDS research challenges the conventional HIV hypothesis, presenting alternative multifactorial and autoimmune models that analyse the disease as the result of multiple synergistic, controllable insults to the immune system.

Accession 16906 ISBN 9780029269053 Publisher Free Press
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