Acute retroviral Syndrome/ARS

Question 1

What is acute retroviral syndrome?

Answer 1

Acute retroviral syndrome is the first stage of the infection with the human immunodeficinecy virus (HIV)

Question 2

Clinical features of Acute retroviral syndrome and when they occure?

Answer 2

Similar to the flue
- headache
- Nausea
- Diarrhea
- Body aches
- Fever
- Rash (morbiliform)
The symptoms disappear on their own within weeks. They can also be called mononucleosis- like symptoms.

Symptoms occure within 2-4 weeks after someone gets HIV.

Question 3

Treatment of Acute retroviral syndrome

Answer 3

• Antiretroviral drugs (Azidothymidine)
• Nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors
• Non- nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors
• Protease inhibitors
• Entery or fusion inhibitors

Question 4

Diagnosis of Acute retroviral drugs?

Answer 4

CD4 count ( CD4 count will decrease over time as the virus attacks the CD4 cells).

If a persons CD4 count decreases to fewer than 200 cells per cubic millimeter of blood, they’ll receive a diagnosis of stage 3 HIV or AIDS

• Count viral load and drug resistance.