‘Aids Factor’

Analysis & Tests the Body’s Immune

Friday, February 26th, 2010

The HIV antibody test ELISA (Enzyme-immunosorbent).
Absolute CD4 lymphocyte count (less than 200 in case of illness).
PCR for HIV.
The test for HIV infection in an individual was created with a technique of “ELISA” (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay). It is done in a few hours and is very sensitive in identifying HIV-positive. Most commercial tests are compared for their quality and reliability with a more sophisticated technique called “Western blot” that characterizes each marker to improve its performance.

Also performed the cell counts to determine the involvement of the immune system, and since 1995 he began to develop a technique (PCR, English acronym Chain Reaction Polymerase) that can measure the amount of HIV virus in the blood , which in turn is a reflection of the amount of virus that exist throughout the body.

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AIDS Treatment

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

In applying PCR for HIV frozen blood samples from 10 or more years before he saw people who had very few viruses (viral load low) only 10% had developed AIDS, while people who were very much virus (high viral load) tests had developed AIDS and died mostly. Were available until 1995 a series of drugs called Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors Viral (Retrovir, Videx, HIVID) which, individually or in combination. had a powerful little effect, and also about HIV transient, making delay the onset of AIDS in an infected person maximum 2 years if used in the delayed phase of AIDS death in 1 or 2 years.

This is because the virus can become resistant to these drugs because this changing (mutating) every time they played (replicates), of course, those who have large amounts of virus have higher rates of replication (and resistance) and the prognosis is worse than in the case of having few viruses. He was also with the previous drugs was achieved on average by 10 or dividing by 50 the amount of virus in the blood, which, in someone who had. for example, 300,000 viruses per milliliter, (more…)

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Additional Symptoms of AIDS

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

Additional symptoms that may associated with this disease

  • Slurred speech.
  • Muscle atrophy.
  • Memory loss.
  • Decline in intellectual function.
  • Overall swelling.
  • Swollen joints.
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