6.7 Are there treatments for AIDS and TB?

Question 1

what four antiviral drugs can be used to treat AIDS?

Answer 1

reverse transcriptase inhibitors, protease inhibitors, integrase inhibitors and fusion inhibitors

Question 2

what does reverse transcriptase inhibitors do?

Answer 2

prevent vRNA from making vDNA

Question 3

what do protease inhibitors do?

Answer 3

Inhibit the enzymes that catalyse the construction of new viruses

Question 4

what do integrase inhibitors do?

Answer 4

prevent viral DNA integrating into the host T cells DNA

Question 5

what do fusion inhibitors do?

Answer 5

The inhibitor binds to one or more of the receptors involved with the HIV’s entry into the host cell, preventing entry into the cell

Question 6

how can TB be killed?

Answer 6

antibiotics

Question 7

what are the two types of antibiotics and what do they do?

Answer 7

bactericidal - kills bacteria
bacteriostatic - prevent the multiplication of bacteria

Question 8

why do bacteria evolve quickly?

Answer 8

reproduce quickly, large gene pool and high rate of mutations

Question 9

what is conjugation?

Answer 9

when plasmids are transferred between bacteria cells

Question 10

what can help prevent antibiotic resistance?

Answer 10

only using them when needed, completing the treatment and infection control