Retrovirology Commentary BioMed Central Open Access A historical reflection on the discovery of

Retrovirology Commentary BioMed Central Open Access A historical reflection on the discovery of human retroviruses Anders Vahlne Address: Clinical Virology and Division of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden Email: Anders Vahlne - anders.vahlne@ki.se Published: 1 May 2009 Retrovirology 2009, 6:40 doi:10.1186/1742-4690-6-40 Received: 3 April 2009 Accepted: 1 May 2009 This article is available from: http://www.retrovirology.com/content/6/1/40 © 2009 Vahlne; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract The discovery of HIV-1 as the cause of AIDS was...