HIV

Question 1

What is the difference between HIV and AIDS

Answer 1

HIV is the virus, AIDS is the condition as a result of the virus

Question 2

How does HIV infect the body

Answer 2

– Once inside body cells, reverse transcriptase is used to make a complementary strand of DNA
from the RNA template
- Host DNA polymerase used to make complimentary double strand.
- double-stranded DNA is then
inserted into the human DNA
- The DNA remains latent in white blood cells
-DNA codes for viral proteins that make new Viruses.
-These eventually burst out of the cell
-invade and destroy other white blood cells

Question 3

What does it mean when HIV is latent in cells

Answer 3

between initial invasion and replication of the virus, when it is dormant

Question 4

Why is it hard to treat HIV

Answer 4

-HIV virus replicates within
CD4, white blood cells
-HIV drugs cannot destroy the
virus when it is inside body cells/get to viral DNA in human genome
-HIV virus changes rapidly,
difficult to create a treatment that will work