Open AccessHIV infection
Author(s) -
Vadim Pokrovsky
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
kazanskij medicinskij žurnal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2587-9359
pISSN - 0368-4814
DOI - 10.17816/kazmj99907
Subject(s) - human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , immune system , virology , medicine , immunology , immunodeficiency , virus , disease , immunopathology , pathology
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is a slowly progressive disease with long-term multiplication of the virus in lymphocytes, macrophages, and nerve tissue cells, causing impaired immune and neurological regulation of the body, which leads to the death of the patient from secondary lesions associated with increasing immunodeficiency (AIDS).