title: [Epidemiological investigation of the first case of AIDS detected in a citizen of the USSR].
abstract: The penetration and spread of infection caused by human immunodeficiency virus has been detected in the USSR. The infection was brought by a homosexual who got infected in East Africa in 1982. In the USSR he infected 5 out of his 22 sexual partners who, in their turn, transferred the infection to 3 women in heterosexual intercourse. One of these women gave birth to a seropositive child. As the result of blood transfusion from a donor infected via a homosexual contact, 5 blood recipients got infected.
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Pokrovskiĭ
authors.forename: Z K
authors.initials: ZK
authors.lastname: Iankina
authors.forename: V I
authors.initials: VI
authors.lastname: Pokrovskiĭ
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000635:transmission; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006679:HIV Seropositivity / Q000453:epidemiology; D006716:Homosexuality; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D013997:Time Factors; D065227:Transfusion Reaction; D014586:USSR
vernacular_title: Epidemiologicheskoe rassledovanie pervogo sluchaia SPID, vyiavlennogo u grazhdanina SSSR.