PBHL 1106 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Herpes Simplex Virus, Hpv Vaccines, Opportunistic Infection
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Exam #4 study sheet: stds, stis & hiv. This exam was based solely on the 3 lectures given by moriah zimmerman, dr. sarah. Bass and dr. claira haignere: you can get tested for hiv on which day of the week (@ tu) Window period: time of infection to production of antibodies, usually 2-12 weeks. Some experience flu-like symptoms as they seroconvert : the gay plague and hiv. It was a derogatory idea saying that only gay people got hiv: the region of the world with the highest hiv rates . Africa & russia& south east asia: the relationship of circumcised males and hiv is . The time before the symptoms of a viral infection appear is called the incubation period. Retroviridae is a family of enveloped viruses that replicate in a host cell through the process of reverse transcription. A retrovirus is a single-stranded positive-sense rna virus with a dna intermediate and, as an obligate parasite, targets a host cell.