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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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