A patient with advanced HIV infection develops a rapidly progressing brain lesion caused by a eukaryotic parasite. Which of the following is the MOST likely causative agent?

Which of the following disease is caused by the member of retrovirus group?

World health organization has started a number of programmes to prevent spreading of HIV infection

Few such steps include

I. ensuring use of disposable needles and syringes

II. free distribution of condoms

III. advocating safe sex

IV. controlling drug abuse

Which of the steps given above are correct?

Study the given statements about HIV.

i. The primary target cells for HIV are macrophages and helper

T-lymphocytes

ii. HIV is a non-enveloped retrovirus, having two identical molecules of

ss RNA genome

iii. HIV gets attached to the CD8 receptors present on helper T-lymphocytes to gain entry in them

iv. A widely used diagnostic test for AIDS is enzyme linked immune-sorbent assay (ELISA)

v. Treatment of AIDS with anti-retroviral drugs is only partially effective.

How many of the above given statements are correct?

In AIDS, the system which show failure is

In which type of blood cell does HIV primarily replicate and produce progeny viruses?

The term 'window period' in HIV infection refers to:

In which of the following disease there is always a time lag between the infection and appearance of the symptoms of the particular disease?

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)

I. belongs to the group retrovirus

II. has RNA genome enclosed in an envelope

Which of the statements given above are correct?

Which cells of the immune system are primarily targeted and destroyed by HIV?

Expanded from of ELISA is