Prescott's Microbiology
Prescott's Microbiology
10th Edition
ISBN: 9781259281594
Author: Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood Adjunt Professor Lecturer, Christopher J. Woolverton Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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To determine: The two characteristics of AIDS that make it difficult to detect, prevent, and treat.

Introduction: AIDS is termed as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. It is a type of viral disease, caused due to the infection of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). AIDS gets transmitted from an infected person to a healthy person when the healthy person comes in direct contact with infected blood, semen, or vaginal secretions.

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To determine: Differentiate between AIDS, polio, and smallpox.

Introduction: Viruses cause infectious diseases such as flu, warts, Ebola, smallpox, and HIV/AIDS. Viruses can be transmitted to humans through contaminated food, close contact with an infected person, and other similar routes.

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