Figure-1-: HIV cycle
(From Nature Reviews Microbiology [2008])
fragile equilibrium state between the viral replication
rate and the adaptive immune system response.
later on a ground to cancer clones development, and
increasing the risk of cancer occurrence among the
AIDS patients, especially, lymphomas (Lymphatic tissue
cancers) and sarcomas (connective tissue originating
cancers) which are usually very aggressive and
impossible to cure.
Acquired immune deficiency
syndrome
Ultimately, the virus ends up by destroying the majority
of functional immune system cells, which leads to a total
meltdown and a body vulnerable to all sorts of
endogenous and environmental risks.
Finally, the accumulation of all this effects, leads
eventually to organs failure and a systemic dysfunction
in a domino effect total failure, and so, the inevitable
death of the subject.
Infections are the first to occur, with the particularity of
being more expressive and aggressive, and tend to be
caused by some unusual “opportunistic” agents
considered naturally non-pathogenic, such as
pneumocystis, candidiasis and zona.
Besides, the absence of immune regulation, permits the
accumulation of irregular cells in tissues, which can be
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