I'm HIV+ Flashcards
env
is gp160, cleaved into gp120 (CD4 attachment) and gp41 (fusion and entry)
gag
capsid (aka p24)
pol
reverse transcriptase, aspartate protease, integrase
what cells does HIV infect?
CD4 and marcrophages
what does HIV bind to?
Helper T (CD4): CCR5 (early) and CXCR4 (late) Macrophage: CD4 + CCR5
HIV immunity gene
homozygous CCR5 mutation is immune. heterozygous is slower course
how to test for HIV?
1st: ELISA (sensitive)
2nd: Western (specific)
3rd: PCR (test viral load)
how many months may a baby test HIV + after birth from a HIV mother?
two months till the antibodies clear
AIDS definition
Cd4 less than 200 or hiv and defining illness or hiv and ratio 4:8 is less than 1.5
immunocompromised vs AIDS
Ic is cd4 less than 400
Aids is 200
stages of HIV
Four Fs. Flu-like (acute), Feeling good (replication in lymph nodes), Falling count, Final crisis
HIV: low grade fever, cough, hepatosplenomegaly, tongue ulcer. oval yeast cells within macrophages
Histoplasma capsulatum (not just in lungs unlike reg people)
HIV: fluffy white cottage-cheese lesions in mouth or even esophagous if bad. pseudohyphae.
Candida albicans (thrush)
HIV: superficial vascular proliferation, neutrophilic inflammation on skin.
bartonella henselae (angiomas)
HIV: chronic watery diarrhea. acid fast cysts in stool
Cryptosporidium spp.
HIV: encephalopathy. demyelination.
JC virus causing PML
HIV: brain abscess. “ring-enhancing lesions”
Toxoplasma gondii
HIV: meningitis. India ink shows yeast with narrow-based budding large capsule
cryptococcus neoformans