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Confronting AIDS Directions for Public Health, Health Care, and Research (1986) / Chapter Skim
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Pages 353-360

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... Symptoms may include chronic swollen glands, recurrent fevers, unintentional weight loss, chronic diarrhea, lethargy, minor alterations of the immune system (less severe than those that occur in AIDS) , and oral thrush.
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From page 354...
... Refers to day-to-day interactions between HIV-infected individuals and others in the home, at school, or in the workplace. It does not include intimate contact, such as sexual or drug use interactions, and it implies closer contact than chance passing on a street or sharing a subway car.
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... . A nucleic acid found chiefly in the nucleus of living cells that is responsible for transmitting hereditary characteristics.
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... The natural system of defense mechanisms, in which specialized cells and proteins in the blood and other body fluids work together to eliminate disease-producing microorganisms and other foreign substances. lnterferons.
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... Lentiviruses persist in the body by evading natural defense mechanisms; the chronic carrier state in which infected animals do not get sick themselves but can transmit the virus to other animals is com mon. Macrophage.
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... One type of RNA transfers information from the cell's DNA to the protein-forming system of a cell outside the nucleus. Some viruses carry RNA instead of the more familiar genetic material DNA.
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... Western blot analysis is used by some laboratories as a confirmatory test on samples found to be repeatedly reactive on ELISA tests.
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