HIV disrupts homeostasis in the host by targeting and destroying CD4+ T cells, which are crucial for the immune system's ability to regulate and mount responses to infections. This depletion weakens the immune system, leading to opportunistic infections and diseases that the body would typically control. Additionally, HIV can cause chronic inflammation and dysregulation of various immune responses, further destabilizing the body's internal balance and contributing to systemic health issues. Overall, HIV's impact on immune function creates a cascade of effects that compromise homeostasis.
HIV has devised clever strategies that allow it to persist for many years in an infected person. HIV splices its genes into those of the host, so it is intimately associated with a variety of cells. The virus hides in certain reservoirs in the body that are not easily reached by current drugs. Moreover, as HIV spreads in an infected individual, it undergoes changes. Thus, many variants of HIV can exist even within a single person. This variation allows HIV to escape from the patient's immune system or from some antiviral drugs. We're not treating one virus, but many thousands of slightly different viruses, each tenaciously integrated into host cells. A realistic goal for the treatment of HIV-infected individuals is not to totally rid the body of HIV, but to suppress it so that it does not cause disease and is not efficiently transmitted to anyone else.
HIV
Some viruses, such as HIV, contain RNA as their genetic material instead of the more typical DNA. Specifically, HIV is a retrovirus, meaning it uses reverse transcription to convert its RNA into DNA after entering a host cell. This DNA then integrates into the host's genome, allowing the virus to replicate and persist within the host.
HIV is a retrovirus as it transcribed mRNA into DNA. It invades a host cell and uses the cells machinery to copy its own genetic material. This produces multiple copies of the virus within the host cell, which then ruptures releasing the virus and the process is repeated.
HIV targets the immune system's CD4 cells, which are crucial for fighting off infections, leading to a weakened immune system over time. Additionally, HIV can integrate its genetic material into the host cell's DNA, making it difficult to eradicate from the body. These characteristics make HIV unique compared to other viruses.
By exchange of body fluids.
Definitely the answer to this is an emphatic NO. If you have HIV then you are a host for HIV and vice versa. You cannot be one without the other.
Yes, infection with HIV occurs by the transfer of blood, semen, vaginal fluid, pre-ejaculate or breast milk.
the forms in which hiv hides in the host cell is retrovirus
HIV stands for Human Immune-deficiency Virus. It affects the body by making your immune system less efficient than normal, and so you are more vulnerable if a disease comes along. HIV is the cause for AIDS. AIDS stands for Acute Immune-deficiency Syndrome, which is more affecting than HIV.
HIV prevents the body from maintaining homeostasis by disrupting the body's ability to fight disease. When a person's immune system is healthy and functioning, it is able to ward off many pathogens, virtually unnoticed. Our skin, saliva, tears, mucous membranes, all parts of the immune system, are effective barriers against many bacteria, virus and other microorganisms. However, when the immune system is damaged in some way, in this case by the HIV virus, that balance between pathogens in the environment and our ability to fight them off effectively, is destroyed. Ultimately, the body's immune system is depleted. Disease sets in. The body can no longer fight disease off, and the person begins a decline that will eventually result in death.
No. HIV needs a host. It does not live long, outside the body.
HIV is only transmitted by five bodily fluids: blood, semen, preseminal fluid, vaginal fluid, and breast milk. Any of those fluids from an infected host getting into the body of another person can transmit HIV. No other fluids (saliva, urine, etc.) from the body transmit HIV.
As of June 2014, Arsenio Hall does not have HIV or AIDS.
The role integrase plays in HIV is that it fuses viral DNA with host DNA.
If you have HIV antibodies then you are infected with HIV. The only exception to this is if you are a newborn. Newborns carry mothers IgG antibodies to HIV and the half life of IgG is approximately 21 days.
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