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प्रश्न
Explain the mode of transmission of HIV.
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उत्तर
Modes of transmission of AIDS:
- Unsafe sexual contact: Including oral, vaginal and anal sex.
- Blood: Through blood transfusions or needle sharing.
- From mother to child (Transplacental): A pregnant woman can transmit the virus to her foetus through their shared blood circulation, or a nursing mother can transmit it to her baby from her breast milk.
संबंधित प्रश्न
- What precaution(s) would you recommend to a patient requiring repeated blood transfusion?
- If the advise is not followed by the patient, there is an apprehension that the patient might contract a disease that would destroy the immune system of his/her body. Explain with the help of schematic diagram only how the immune system would get affected and destroyed.
Match the following
| Column I | Column II |
| a. AIDS | i. Antibody production |
| b. Lysozyme | ii. Activation of B-cells |
| c. B-cells | iii. Immunoglobulin |
| d. T-helper cells | iv. Tears |
| e. Antibody | v. Immunodeficiency |
When the ELISA test was conducted on an immune-suppressed person, he tested positive for a pathogen.
- Identify the disease the patient is suffering from.
- Name the causative entity.
- Mention the cells of the body that are attacked by the pathogen.
Which of the following is correct regarding HIV, hepatitis B, gonorrhoea and trichomoniasis?
Which one of the following groups includes sexually transmitted diseases caused by bacteria only?
A sexually transmitted disease symptomised by the development of chancre on the genitals is caused by the infection of ______.
Some human diseases are transmitted only when the blood of a patient comes in close contact with the blood of a healthy person. In one such disease, there is a progressive decrease in the WBC of the patient.
- Name the disease and its causative agent.
- Name the type of WBC affected during infection.
- How does the blood of a patient come in contact with the blood of a healthy patient?
- Suggest three methods that help in preventing such infection.
Which of the following sexually transmitted diseases is NOT completely curable?
Give two examples of sexually transmitted diseases.
The following pairs represent diseases with their respective diagnostic tests.
Choose the pair that is correctly matched.
