AIDS Chien-Ming Li MD, Ph.D
Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) Is an RNA virus Causes AIDS: incurable Multiplies inside CD4+ cells Kills CD4 cells finally Risk factors: Man-to-man sex, heroin abuser
Life cycle of HIV Binding and Fusion Reverse Transcription Integration Assembly Budding
Stages of HIV infection Acute infection Flu-like symptoms Clinical latency Free of symptom Reproduces at very low level May last 10 years or so AIDS CD4+ cells < 200 per cubic milliliter Survives 3 years, without treatment
Anti-HIV drugs NRTI: nucleoside analogue reverse transcriptase inhibitor NNRTI: non-NRTI PI: protease inhibitor II: integrase inhibitor FI: fusion inhibitor CCR: chemokine coreceptor