1. 3.2 How HIV produces immune deficiency
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Ronald Penny, Graeme J. Stewart, Jay A. Levy, and Rosemary A. Ffrench
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education.field_of_study ,animal diseases ,Population ,chemical and pharmacologic phenomena ,General Medicine ,biochemical phenomena, metabolism, and nutrition ,Biology ,medicine.disease ,Virology ,Virus ,Pathogenesis ,Immune system ,Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) ,Immunopathology ,Immunology ,medicine ,bacteria ,Viral disease ,education ,Homeostasis - Abstract
Initially, the immune system controls HIV infection, but over time the virus depletes the population of CD4+ T cells and disturbs the homoeostasis and function of other cells in the immune system. Extensive destruction of the immune system eventually leaves the body defenceless.
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- 1996
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