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a serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles
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| AIDS |
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (ah-KWY-erd im-YOON-o-de-FISH-en-see SIN-drome). A disease caused by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). People with AIDS are at an increased risk for developing certain cancers and for infections that usually occur only in individuals with a weak immune system.
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| AIDS |
The most severe manifestation of infection with HIV. The CDC lists numerous opportunistic infections and neoplasms (cancers) that, in the presence of HIV infection, constitute an AIDS diagnosis. In 1993, the CDC expanded the criteria for an AIDS diagnosis to include CD4 cell count at or below 200 cells/mm?in the presence of HIV infection. In persons (age 5 and older) with normally functioning immune systems, CD4 cell counts usually range from 800 to 1,500 cells/mm? ...
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| AIDS wasting syndrome |
Involves involuntary loss of 10% of baseline body weight plus either chronic diarrhea (two loose stools per day for more than 30 days) or chronic weakness and documented fever (for 30 days or more, intermittent or constant) in the absence of a concurrent illness or condition other than HIV infection that would explain the findings.
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| AIDS |
a fatal disease caused by a virus that destroys the immune system's ability to fight off infection, capable of being transmitted from mother to fetus.
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