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Polymerase Chain Reaction is used to detect |
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Describe Aids Dementia Complex |
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Memory Loss, Difficulty Concentrating, Euphoria, Lethargy |
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Most accurate and inexpensive method to Test for HIV |
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Screening with an immune-assay (EIA & ELISA) followed by Western Blot if the assay is positive |
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attaching to surface protein on the viral surface to special receptors on the CD4+ T cell |
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blood, semen, vaginal secretions |
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Hiv is NOT transmitted by |
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Most common respiratory opportunistic disease in persons who die with aids |
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Pneumonocytis carinii pneumonia |
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Endemic in West Africa (rarer in other parts of the world) |
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time between infection and detectable antibody levels |
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Symptoms at the point in which the immune system is compromised by HIV |
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malignancies, opportunistic infections, dormant infections surface |
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Symptoms of the acute primary infection and primary phase of HIV |
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momonucleus like syndrom with fever, myalgias, malaise, sore throat, nausea, lethargy, photophobia and lymphadenopathy |
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Infections from normal. harmless organisms in people with compromised immune sysytems |
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A positive antibody test in an infant |
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prinatally exposed infant with maternal antibodies |
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Inflammatory mediators that contribute to swelling, redness, heat, and pain |
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Acute phase response during an infection |
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fever, skeletal muscle catabolism, increased erythrocyte sedimentation rate (not leukopenia) |
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big eaters that capture and engulfantigens before presenting them to lymphocytes |
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White Blood Cell that has the greatest rate of increase during a bacterial infection |
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HIV virus directly affects |
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the attration of leukocytes to an injurous agent |
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