HIV virus and t-cells

HIV is a viral infection caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which can gradually destroy the immune system.

Update Date: 12/6/2011

Updated by: David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc., David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine.

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