Week 2- HIV and the Immune System
Across
- 2. HIV infection in this stage is happening about 1-4 weeks after the virus is transmitted
- 4. When the person's level of HIV in their blood stabilizes
- 5. A rare form of cancer associated with AIDS
- 9. Any substance that triggers a response from the immune system
- 10. This has happened when a person who initially tested negative for HIV later tests positive for HIV
- 12. More than 90% of HIV-1 infection belong to this strain
- 14. Another name for slow-acting virus
Down
- 1. This condition happens to people with AIDS in which they lose more than 10% of their body weight
- 3. During this period of HIV infection the person shows no signs or illness
- 6. The type of white blood cells that HIV attacks
- 7. Another word for an error that can occur when viruses try to copy themselves
- 8. The largest part of the immune system
- 11. A virus that uses RNA as its genetic material is called this
- 13. Substances that can cause infection or disease