Immunodeficiency

HSV-1 and HSV-2 replication is reduced in rhesus macaque fibroblasts: The aim behind this experiment was to check whether rhesus monkey cells are more effective against the HSV-1 and HSV-2 replication than Human TRIM5. Rhesus Macaque fibroblast cell lines and HeLa cell lines were infected with HSV-1 KOS and HSV-2 186 syn+ strains at MOI=3 PFU/cell and harvested at different time points post infection. The viral load at these time points are shown the Figure 1. From the figure we understand…

In conclusion, the overall aim of our project was to research the mathematical modelling of HIV and then create our own simulation. Obviously with our simulation, and in fact any simulation, we faced various difficulties. In definition, a simulation is an imitation or representation of a system using another system. (Dictionary.com) Thus by definition it will never be truly accurate to real life, the goal is to make it as accurate as possible and to take into account the margin of errors in the…

Tenvir-EM vs Truvada Truvada and Tenvir-EM are two drugs that are categorized as Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis or PrEP for short. PrEP is a medication that prevents the contraction of HIV. It is most commonly prescribed to individuals who are at high risk for contraction, mainly gay men. PrEP is only prescribed to people who are healthy and do not have HIV. PrEP is not a treatment, only a preventative measure. PrEP has been shown to reduce the risk of contracting HIV by 92%. Tenvir-EM is the…

In this assignment we are looking at the physical development and characteristic of young adulthood and how HIV/AIDS is contracted, and the effect it has on the person living with it and those close or living with the person and how we can prevent it. 2. MAIN CONTENT 2.1 The physical development and the health of the young adulthood Physical development According to Zastrow, C. (2010). Hands and fingers decreases after mid-30s, muscular strength is attained between age 25 and 30 and begin…

HIV Infection Stages HIV infection can be transmitted through few ways such as sexual contact and blood transfusion. Once a person gets infected, he will normally interact with three stages of infection which are known as acute, chronic (the latent or asymptomatic) and finally AIDS (1). When there is no treatment, HIV infection will progress from one stage to another and weaken the immune system during this process until it finally reaches AIDS. However, HIV medicines and antiretroviral therapy…

Rabies Virus Rabies is a virus that causes many problems with the central nervous system and everything else in the body (Rabies, Eden). It is a bullet shaped cell with a tail that causes many symptoms. The only way to live from rabies is a vaccine and the only way to be less likely to get it is a pre-exposure vaccine (Rabies, Eden). The Rabies Virus affects the central nervous system, which is the brain, spinal cord, and the nerves that attach to the spinal cord. The central nervous system…

Hepatitis virus C (HCV) is an enveloped positive-strand RNA virus widely distributed in the world, once nearly 200 million people are contaminated with the pathogen. The HCV virus is responsible for developing a chronic infection in the patient, leading to different degrees of liver disease and it is also able to cause systemic syndromes, even causing damages in the central nervous system (CNS). Signals and symptoms include fatigue, tiredness, impaired memory (“brain fog”), and they can even…

1. One of the sets of people that have allelic variation are Long Term Survivors who are homozygous for a 32 base-pair deletion in their genome. The deletion is for CCR5, a chemokine receptor which functions as a HIV co-receptor. Due to the deletion of CCR5, the ability of the virus to fuse with the host cells is impaired and those people can be exposed however they will not become infected. Another subgroup of Long Term Survivors are referred to as elite controllers. These individuals are…

In the 1980s, a mysterious epidemic swept the nation. This pandemic, later identified as AIDS, caused many deaths and shattered families. This disease caused a distinct homophobia amongst some Americans and destroyed a generation of people. The AIDS epidemic in the 80s was an event that affected the lives of millions of people and still shapes our world today. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome plagued the world in the 1980s and still does to this day. Humans haven't always had the disease AIDS…

A strain of the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, is said have originated in West African chimpanzees. Humans would hunt monkeys for food, causing them to come into contact with the infected blood. As the virus jumped from one host to another, it mutated into the HIV we know today. It is believed that HIV has existed since the 1800s, but these cases were not able to be tested due to lack of blood or tissue samples (History of HIV). The first case of HIV to ever be completely documented dates…