weakened immune system
weakened immune system
HIV/AIDS is a disease that affects the immune system and because these people have weak immune systems, they often get sick.
Pneumocystis jirovecii causes pneumonia in people with AIDS. This pathogen was formerly known as Pneumocystic carinii.
Weakens their immune systems
The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) causes AIDS.
HIV is a virus. AIDS is a diagnosis. HIV is contagious and causes a person to develop AIDS. AIDS is not contagious and only occurs in people who are HIV+.
The virus that causes AIDS (HIV) is not the organism that causes the symptoms of AIDS, instead HIV destroys a significant part of the immune system leaving the body open to uncontrolled infections by many other organisms (e.g. bacteria, fungi) and to certain cancers (e.g. Kaposi's Sarcoma) which produce the symptoms of AIDS.
HIV is the Human Immunodeficiency Virus which attacks human cell and can make people susceptible to incur various diseases and causes AIDS. On the other hand AIDS is the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome which is the last stage of the HIV infection.
By gradually destroying a person's immune system.HIV causes aids by destroying the immune system. It leaves your body defenceless, you catch diseases easily and can die from one illness or the other.
It is a disease that causes aids. it kills cells and causes other life threatening diseases called opportunistic infections because of bacteria that doesn't make healthy people sick
HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. Hence, HIV in the virus and AIDS is the disease that results from the virus.
The HIV virus causes AIDS. HIV stand for Human Immunodeficiency Virus.