Is Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Genetic?

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U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

The Evidence That HIV Causes AIDS

Background The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) was first recognized in 1981 and has since become a major worldwide pandemic. AIDS is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). By leading to the destruction and/or functional impairment of cells of the immune system, notably CD4+ T cells, HIV progressively destroys the body's ability to fight infections and certain cancers. An HIV-infected person is diagnosed with AIDS when his...

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Acquiring HIV

My wife had a stillbirth at 26 weeks this past summer. We were overseas at the time so proper diagnosis was not possible. My wife needed an HIV test for a visa that came back positive. She took another test that came back negative. The clinic...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello BT,If your wife has had essentially no HIV risk exposures, then there is no way she could be HIV infected. Her intermittently positive ELISA and Western Blot tests most likely are the result of nonspecific cross-reacting antibodies that can be... Read more »

Genetic sequence

Doc, If a person in not on any medications/treatment, does this mean if they infect you because of the wild type, you (being infected) will most likely not have any drug mutations contained in it's genetic sequence? ...

Response from David Wohl, M.D.

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Transmission of antiretroviral resistant strains of HIV has become an increasing concern following the detection of such drug resistant virus in a minority of recently HIV infected individuals.Certainly, the risk of acquiring a drug resistant... Read more »

Brugada Syndrome

After one episode of syncope in July, I was recently diagnosed with Brugada Syndrome, which causes ventricular tachycardia and often sudden cardiac death. This is thought to be a hereditary disease, but sudden cardiac death does not run in my...

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

Good question. Brugada syndrome is felt to be mostly genetic in origin. I am not familiar with an acquired form that has been linked to protease inhibitors. Protease inhibitors can occasioanlly cause cardiac conduction abnormalities. Atazanavir... Read more »

resistance as a treatment option

dear MDCould a drug be found or even exist that could suppress the hiv virus but if it broke through and became resistant, the mutation would make it unable to replicate.We know that some mutations render the virus 'less fit' ie M184V but...

Response from Benjamin Young, M.D., Ph.D.

Rocky Mountain CARES

There are data that suggest that viruses that are less replicatively fit may cause less immunological damage-- but if I were to balance the benefits of having a potent drug vs less fit, I vote for the potent drug.Either way, virus that is less fit... Read more »

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