An essay about AIDS:epidermiology, causes, pathology and symptoms

Title: An essay about AIDS:epidermiology, causes, pathology and symptoms
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An essay about AIDS:epidermiology, causes, pathology and symptoms

1.INTRODUCTION         In June 1981, the centers for The Disease Control of the United States reported that five young homosexual men in the Los Angels area had contracted Pneumocystis Carinii pneumonia( a kind of pneumonia that is particularly found in AIDS patient). 2 of the patients had died. This report signalled the begninning of an epidemic of a viral disease characterized by immunosuppression associated with opportunistic infection( an infection caused by a microrganism that does not normally produce …showed first 75 words of 1066 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1066 total…a rapid decline in host defenses manifested by low CD4+ counts, is also recognized as full brown AIDS which include features of loss of weight, diarrhea, opportunistic infections, spectrum of bacterial infections, secondary neoplasm and neurologic involvement. With AIDS, the 5-year mortality rate is 85% and with longer intervals the rate approaches 100%. Anyone with HIV infections and CD4+ t-cell count less than 200 cells/ ul may also consider having AIDS even if no clinical features are present.                           

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