(ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME (AIDS

  • Definition :

   AIDS actually refers to the clinically evident late and end stage of  HIV disease, but in lay terms is often used as an equivalent of HIV infection.

Cause:

  Caused by Human Immunodeficiency Virus (H.I.V) which is a Lentivirus, a subgroup of retroviruses. These have the ability to transcribe their RNA genome to DNA one