An HIV patient suffers from pneumonia, an opportunistic infection commonly associated with HIV. This type of bacterial pneumonia is often treatable in otherwise healthy individuals, but in HIV patients, the HIV reproduces in T cells - a type of white blood cell, destroying them in the process. Which body systems are most affected by HIV in this patient? O respiratory and digestive excretory and circulatory immune and respiratory O endocrine and immune

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