| Antibody tests | Negative AIDS cases | Non ICL | General |
| Detection of IgG antibodies to lymphadenopathy-associated virus in patients with AIDS or lymphadenopathy syndrome. |
| Brun-Vezinet F, Rouzioux C, Barre-Sinoussi F, Klatzmann D, Saimot AG, Rozenbaum W, Christol D, Gluckmann JC, Montagnier L, Chermann JC |
| | Montagnier et al. diagnosed HIV in four out of eight AIDS patients |
| | The Lancet i, 1253-1256, 1984 | 1984 |
| Serological Analysis of a Subgroup of Human T-Lymphotropic Retroviruses (HTLV-III) Associated with AIDS. |
| SchŸpbach J et al. |
| | “Antibodies to the structural proteins of HTLV, notably p24 and p19 are not detectable in most AIDS patients” |
| | Science. 1984 May 4;224:503-505. | 1984 |
| Serological detection of antibodies to HTLV-III in sera of patients with AIDS and pre-AIDS conditions. |
| Gallo RC et al. |
| | “Of 49 clinically diagnosed AIDS patients, 43 (88%) showed serum reactivity in this [ELISA antibody] assay” |
| | US Patent Office. 1985 May 28;4,520,113. | 1985 |
| Selective tropism of lymphadenopathy associated virus (LAV) for helper-inducer T lymphocytes. |
| Klatzmann D et al. |
| | “The results provide evidence for the involvement of LAV [HIV] in AIDS...Specific antibodies against [HIV] have been detected in approximately 70% of patients with persistent lymphadenopathy and 40% of AIDS patients studied.” |
| | Science. 1984 Jul 6;225:59-63. | 1984 |
| Antibodies to the core protein of lymphadenopathy-associated virus (LAV) in patients with AIDS. |
| Kalyanaraman VS et al. |
| | “Antibody to LAV [HIV] p25 [p24] was found in the serum of 51 of 125 AIDS patients...” |
| | Science. 1984 Jul 20;225(4659):321-3. | 1984 |
| Screening test for HTLV-III (AIDS agent) antibodies: specificity, sensitivity, and applications. |
| Weiss SH et al. |
| | “Among the 88 patients with AIDS tested, the HTLV-III [HIV] ELISA indicated a positive result in 72 cases (82%)” |
| | JAMA. 1985;253(2):221-5. | 1985 |
| Detection of human anti-HTLV-III antibodies by indirect immunofluorescence using fixed cells. |
| Sandstrom EG et al. |
| | “All but one of the 18 AIDS patients, a man with Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS) was found to be positive by IFA. He was also negative by ELISA and Western blot. A heterosexual man with KS [not considered AIDS, perhaps because only gay men are expected to get KS] also scored negative in all three tests” |
| | Transfusion. 1985;25:308-12. | 1985 |