[BIO SCI 45] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (36 pages long)
28 Nov 2016
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Include bacteria, fungi, virus(hiv). flu virus(like hiv) mutates rapidly. Hiv positive: antibody to hiv is detected in blood. Aids is a kind of syndrome, a syndrome is a set of sign & symptoms that occur a particular type people have to of illness tell you together during syndrome: sth sign: evident to outsiders. Hiv asymptomatic second stage: the hiv incubation period (variable duration, 10 years on average or more in the absence of medical treatment. ) final stage: aids, a progressive loss of immune system function. Aids loss of immune response: secondary/opportunistic infection death cancer: cancer caused by virus, but body can"t detect the cancer cell. Aids mortality society: undetected transmission (long incubation period asymptomatic) Azt = azidothymidine. an antiviral drug (trade name retrovir) used in the treatment of. Aids cocktail therapy multiple drugs at a time(haart: highly active anti-retroviral therapy)
