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| Abbreviation for pneumocystis pneumonia |
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| one celled organism P. jiroveci causes lung infection. Pathogen is found in air, water, soil, and carried by animals. |
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| parasitic infection involving the central nervous system--pathogen acquired by eating uncooked lamb or pork, unpasteurized dairy products, and raw eggs or vegetables |
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| What is the abbreviation for cryptococcal infection? |
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| What is the abbreviation for histoplasmosis? |
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| What is the abbreviation for toxoplasmosis? |
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| bacterial disease involving the lungs, brain, and other organs--signs and symptoms include fever, cough, loss of weight, anorexia, and blood in sputum |
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| cancer arising from the lining cells of capillaries that produces dark purplish skin nodules |
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| condition of weight loss, decrease in muscular strength, appetite, and mental activity |
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| a person that has been exposed to HIV and now have antibodies in their blood against this virus |
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| reverse transcriptase inhibitor |
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| second class of anti-HIV drugs that inhibit a viral enzyme called protease |
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| highly active antiretroviral therapy |
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| What does HAART stand for? |
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| abnormal hypersensitivity acquired by exposure to an antigen |
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| combined form meaning other |
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| malignant tumor of lymph nodes and lymph tissue |
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| malignant tumor of bone marrow cells |
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| Waldenström macroglobulinemia |
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| tumor of malignant B cells, where they produce large quantities of IgM |
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| a globulin of high molecular weight mass produced in Walenström macroglobulinemia |
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| malignant tumor of the thymus gland |
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| substance capable of causing a specific hypersensitivity reaction in the body, a type of antigen |
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| exaggerated or unusual hypersensitivity to foreign protein or other substances |
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| hypersensitive or allergic state involving an inherited predisposition |
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| Helper T cells that carry the CD4 protein antigen on their surface |
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| A cell that HIV binds to its protein antigen and infects and kills T cells using this protein--cell AIDS patients have an inadequate number of |
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| malignant tumor of lymphoid tissue in spleen and lymph nodes...Reed-Sternberg cell often is found on microscopic analysis |
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| human immunodeficiency virus |
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| retrovirus that causes AIDS |
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| group of malignant tumors involving lympoid tissue--examples are follicular lymphoma and large cell lymphoma |
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