Chapter 11: HIV and AIDs

Question 1

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDs)

Answer 1

illness resulting in a deficiency within the immune system, with a number of manifestations, rather than a single disease. Caused by HIV.

Question 2

highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART)

Answer 2

most commonly use treatment for AIDs that involves many different anti-HIV drug that keep the virus from replicating

Question 3

human immunodeficiency virus

Answer 3

HIV is the virus responsible for causing AIDs

Question 4

opprotunistic infections

Answer 4

infections caused by organisms that cannot induce disease in people with normal immune systems, but take the opprotunity to flourish in people with HIV infection

Question 5

psychneuroimmunology

Answer 5

a field of study that evolved out of the disciplines of biology and psychology and is dedicated to understanding the interplay between these disparate systems

Question 6

clinical latency

Answer 6

the state or period of HIV living or developing in a host without producing clinical symptoms. It is also called period of asymptomatic HIV, or chronic HIV.

Question 7

conditioned immunity

Answer 7

when the body produces an immune response with exposure a pathogen b/c it comes in contact with something associated with that pathogen