aquired immunodefienciey

Question 1

What is AIDS?

Answer 1

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

Question 2

what does AIDS cause ?

Answer 2

Profound immunosuppression, Associated opportunistic infection, Malignant tumors, Central nervous system degeneration

Question 3

what does HIV do?

Answer 3

HIV infects primary cells of the immune system (eg. CD4+ cells, macrophages, and dendritic cells.)

Question 4

what family group is the HIV a member of?

Answer 4

lentivirus family of animal retroviruses

Question 5

what are the two types of HIV?

Answer 5

HIV 1 (common cause of AIDS) and HIV 2 ( differs genomic structure and cause a from of AIDS with slower progression)

Question 6

whats the structure of HIV?

Answer 6

two identical strands of RNA.
* Packaged within a core of viral proteins and surrounded by a phospholipid bilayer envelope

Question 7

what is the pathogensis of HIV?

Answer 7

HIV starts of as an acute infection

Question 8

what treatment isused for HIV?

Answer 8

early diagnosis - reduces spread of diseases
Anti-retroviral treatment is effective, but once it is started it is lifelong.