Description : What is the current treatment given to AIDS ?
Last Answer : Current treatment given to AIDS is HAART (highly active anti retroviral therapy).It is a combination therapy.
Description : How AIDS is caused ?
Last Answer : It is caused by the infection of HIV 1 i.e. human immunodeficiency virus.
Description : What is the full form of AIDS ?
Last Answer : Full form of AIDS is acquired Immunodeficiency syndrome.
Description : What is an agretope ?
Last Answer : The region of an antigenic peptide, which binds to MCH molecule, is known as agretope.
Description : What is agglutination ?
Last Answer : Clumping of particles or cells is called agglutination.
Description : What is an agglutinin ?
Last Answer : A substance can mediate clumping of the cells or particles.
Description : What is adoptive transfer ?
Last Answer : The ability to participate in the immune response by the process of transplantation of cells is adoptive transfer.
Description : What is an abzyme ?
Last Answer : It is a monoclonal antibody, which has catalytic activity.
Description : How viral load can be measured ?
Last Answer : Viral load is measured by PCR based techniques.
Description : What does HAART do ?
Last Answer : HAART will lower the viral load and improves the health of the patients who are suffering with AIDS.
Description : What are major successful vaccines ?
Last Answer : Major successful vaccines are live attenuated and heat killed vaccines.
Description : What do most vaccines function as ?
Last Answer : Most of the vaccines prevent disease but not infection.
Description : What does myeloid immunodeficiency cause ?
Last Answer : Myeloid immunodeficiency causes phagocytic function, which is impaired. Those who are affected with this will suffer with increase in susceptibility to bacterial infection.
Description : What does immunodeficiency results ?
Last Answer : Immunodeficiency results in failure of one or more components of immune system.
Description : What does HIV results ?
Last Answer : HIV results in impairment of immune function by depletion oh CD4+ T cells.
Description : What is the treatment for HIV ?
Last Answer : Anti-retroviral drugs are given. They lower the viral load and gives relief from infection, but it is not permanent it is temporary relief i.e. it cannot cure.
Description : How HIV infection is mainly spread ?
Last Answer : It is mainly spread by sexual contact, blood transfers and from HIV infected mother to child.
Description : What is a provirus ?
Last Answer : It is the DNA representing, the genome of virus that has been integrated into the DNA of the host.
Description : What is a retrovirus ?
Last Answer : It is a class of viruses having RNA genome and reverse transcriptase enzyme within virus cuspid.
Description : Why purified macromolecules are used as vaccines ?
Last Answer : To avoid the risk associated with attenuated and killed whole organism vaccines. 80.Name some purified macromolecules derived from pathogens. They are capsular polysaccharides, inactivated exotoxins and recombinant microbial antigens.
Description : What is a toxoid ?
Last Answer : Inactivating the toxin with formaldehyde is toxoid.
Description : Normally at what age vaccination of children begins ?
Last Answer : Vaccination of children begins at the age of 2 months.
Description : How is active immunity acquired ?
Last Answer : Active immunity is acquired through vaccines, attenuated organisms, toxoid, natural infection, cloned microbial antigens, etc.
Description : How passive immunity is acquired ?
Last Answer : Passive immunity is acquired through natural maternal antibodies, antitoxin, and immunoglobulin.
Description : What happens when cutaneous exposure occurs ?
Last Answer : Cutaneous exposure results in skin lesions.
Description : What happens when gastrointestinal exposure occurs ?
Last Answer : Gastrointestinal exposure results in bloody diarrhea, ulcers in ileum or cecum and sepsis and it is very difficult to diagnosis.
Description : What is the disease caused by influenza ?
Last Answer : A’ subtype H9N2? New strain of human influenza
Description : What is the disease caused by TSE causing agents ?
Last Answer : New variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Description : What is the disease caused by Human herpes virus ?
Last Answer : 8? It is associated with Kaposi sarcoma in AIDS patients.
Description : What is the disease caused by Bartonella henselae ?
Last Answer : Cat scratch disease
Description : What is the disease caused by Legionella pneumophilia ?
Last Answer : Legionnaire’s disease
Description : What is the disease caused by Campylobacter jejuni ?
Last Answer : Enteric diseases
Description : What is the disease caused by Human T-lymphotrophic virus II ?
Last Answer : Hairy cell leukemia
Description : What is the disease caused by Vibrio cholerae 0139 ?
Last Answer : New strain of epidemic cholerae
Description : What is the disease caused by Escherichia coli 0157 ?
Last Answer : H7? Haemorrhagic colitis
Description : What is the disease caused by Human T-lymphotrophic virus-I ?
Last Answer : T-cell lymphoma
Description : What is the disease caused by Encephalitozzon hellem ?
Last Answer : Conjunctivitis, disseminated disease
Description : What is the disease caused by Guanarito virus ?
Last Answer : Venezuelan haemorrhagic fever
Description : What is the disease caused by Helicobacter pylori ?
Last Answer : Peptic ulcers
Description : What is the disease caused by Hantavirus ?
Last Answer : Haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome
Description : What is the disease caused by Cryptosporidium parvum ?
Last Answer : Acute chronic diarrhea
Description : What is the disease caused by Borrelia burgdorferi ?
Last Answer : Lyme disease
Description : What is the disease caused by Hepatitis E ?
Last Answer : Enteric Non-A, Non-B hepatitis
Description : What is the disease caused by Nipah virus and West Nile virus ?
Last Answer : Encephalitis
Description : What is the disease caused by Influenza A subtype H5N1 ?
Last Answer : Avian influenza
Description : What is the disease caused by HIV ?
Last Answer : The disease caused by HIV is AIDS
Description : What is the disease caused by toxin producing strains of Staphylococcus aureus ?
Last Answer : Toxic shock syndrome
Description : What is the disease caused by Hepatitis C ?
Last Answer : Non-A, Non-B hepatitis are commonly transmitted via transfusion.
Description : What is the disease caused by Ebola virus ?
Last Answer : Ebola haemorrhagic fever
Description : What is the disease caused by Sabia virus ?
Last Answer : Brazilian haemorrhagic