The 1983 recovery of a human retrovirus from a patient at risk of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is regarded as one of the major medical discoveries of the 20th century. Many will recall the original name for HIV in North America was human T-cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV) type III, raising the question of what happened to HTLV types I and II.

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HTLV-1：静默的影响显现出来。

1983年从有获得性免疫缺陷综合症风险的患者身上恢复人类逆转录病毒被认为是20世纪的主要医学发现之一。许多人会记得，在北美，HIV的原始名称是人类T细胞淋巴病毒（HTLV）III型，这引发了关于HTLV I和II型发生了什么的问题。