They are caused by sexual contacts
and for AIDS specifically it can also be caused by mixing of blood, by contacting the blood of an infected person, or by mother's blood transfered to feotus
it can also be transmitted by sharing of syringes or needle s
According to Koch's postulates, the major flaw in their experimental process was that t<span>hey didn't isolate pure cultures of the suspected infectious agent.
This is the reason why they couldn't determine the cause of the disease in the first patient, given that they didn't fully conduct the experiment. Had they done everything according to Koch's postulates, they would have understood this in terms of microbiology much better.
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