MICROBIO 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Sexually Transmitted Infection, Cell Nucleus, Subtypes Of Hiv

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Microbiology
• Course: MICROBIO 160
• Professor: Wilmore Welby

Document Summary

Lecture 25: high risk behavior and the aids test . Prevention issue: reducing risk of hiv progression, organ, and tissue injury. Factors that lead to risk of non-hiv mortality and risk of aids: The cdc"s definition of aids blood (compared with cd4+ t-cell counts of about 1,400 for healthy people) or . Aids: all hiv-infected people with fewer than 200 cd4+ t-cells per cubic millimeter of. His or her cd4+ cells account are fewer than 14 percent of all lymphocytes. That person has been diagnosed with at least one or more of the two dozen. Aids-associated conditions that result from hiv"s attack on the immune system. 1-2 months following initial infection, the population of hiv in blood peaks at about. 1-2 months following initial infection, population of cd4 t-cells plunges. Hiv in blood stabilizes at a steady state of 1,000 to 10,000/ml. Huge but indefinite numbers of hiv in lymphoid tissue, in latent or proviral form.