HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
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HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS VERIFIED
What subjective information is important to get for an HIV patient?
Past health history: Route of infection. Hepatitis, other sexually transmitted infections, tuberculosis. Frequent viral, fungal, and/or bacterial...
Why are people with HIV more susceptible to infections that people normally
control through immune response?
Because HIV is a retrovirus that causes immunosuppression
What population is HIV most prevalent in?
Men who have sex with Men (MSM)
How is HIV transmitted?
- Infected Blood (Sexual intercourse or exposure)
- Semen
- Vaginal secretions
- Breast milk
*All of them have lymphocytes that may contain HIV
How is HIV NOT transmitted?
- Hugging
- Dry kissing
- Shaking hands
, - Sharing eating utensils
- Sharing toilet seats or casual encounters in any setting.
*It is not spread by tears, saliva, urine, emesis, sputum, feces, sweat, respiratory
droplets, or enteric routes
At what level of CD4 cells/uL do immune problems begin in HIV?
- Below 500 CD4 cells/uL
- Severe problems develop with less than 200 CD4 cells/uL
*Generally the immune system remains healthy with more than 500 CD4 cells/uL
What allows opportunistic infections to occur in HIV?
A point is eventually reached at which so many CD4 cells have been destroyed that not
enough are left to regulate immune responses.
What is the normal CD4 count?
Normal CD4 count is 800-1200
What kind of symptoms present in Acute Infection of HIV?
Mononucleosis-like syndrome
- Fever
- swollen lymph nodes
- Sore throat
- Headache
- Malaise
- Nausea
- Muscle and joint pain
- Diarrhea
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