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In Their Own Words: NIH Researchers Recall the Early Years of AIDS
  AIDS Virus  
   
  The virus that causes AIDS is shown budding out of a human immune cell, which the virus infects and uses to replicate.  
     
  The virus that causes AIDS is shown emerging from a human immune cell, which the virus infects and uses to replicate  
     
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