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Why doesn't the immune system fight the pathogen that causes aids?
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∙ 12y ago
AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is a diagnosis, not a disease that can be fought.
HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) is the virus that causes AIDS. HIV attacks the cells in the body that fight disease and uses them to reproduce. The body's immune response only serves to benefit the virus.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 12y agoi read somewhere that it has something to trick the receptors into thinking it's not harmful when in fact it truely is. That being said, they don't attack it and allows it to roam the insides of the body and continue to replicate.
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What is immune response?
An immune response is part of the body's defense against pathogens in which cells of the immune system react to each kind of pathogen with a defense targeted specifically toward that pathogen.
How the human immune system fdeals with pathogen?
White Blood Cells
The molecules on pathogens that enable the immune system to distinguish one kind of pathogen from another are called?
The molecules on pathogens that enable the immune system to distinguish one kind of pathogen from another are called antigens. Antibodies destroy pathogens by binding to the antigens on the pathogen.
How does injecting an inactive form of pathogen make a person immune?
the inactive form still has the antigens (protein markers) specific to that pathogen on the surface. the immune system develops specific responses to this pathogen when it is encountered after a vaccination. as it is inactive the person does not suffer the effects of this pathogen, but when an active form is encountered later the immune system is quicker to respond due to the fact that it now recognises those antigens.
A marker molecule on a cell that the immune system uses to recognize a pathogen?
a lymphocyte
Does use of a vaccine to stimulate the immune system to act against a pathogen?
Yes.
What do pathogens do in an HIV-compromised immune system?
They grow and multiply with ease.
What kind of pathogen is crohn's diesase?
Crohn's disease is an auto-immune disorder where the immune system attacks the cells of the small intestines. It is treated by monthly infusions of Remicade, which suppresses the immune system.
Is a virus a prion?
No, although there is a hypothesis that prion diseases are associated with an undetected viral pathogen.
When a person's own immune system produces antibodies in response to the presence of a pathogen that person has?
Immunity.
Do vaccines destroy viruses only?
Vaccines do not destroy pathogens, they give the immune system antibodies so it can destroy a pathogen before it causes an infection. Vaccines do exist for some bacterial infections.
What are the immune system cells that can recognize and commence an attack on a pathogen that has previously infected the individual?
Memory cells
