At this stage, the patient has been infected for a substantial time and almost all of the manifestations of the disease are now present in his or her body. A medical condition caused by the infection of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus. This virus substantially weakens the body's immune system. A minute, parasitic organism that depends on nutrients inside cells to live. These organisms cause a variety of infections and diseases and simulate production of antibodies which would normally combat viruses.
Antibiotic medications are usually effective to destroy bacteria.
However, they normally have no effect on viruses. A person becomes infected with a disease organism such as a virus or bacterium. A breakdown of certain portions of the immune system resulting in a greater likelihood that the infected person will acquire certain diseases which would normally not affect a healthy individual. A group of symptoms and diseases that together characterize a specific medical condition. Through intimate sexual contact from an infected person to his or her sexual partner, when semen, blood, or vaginal fluids are exchanged.