AIDS Question And Answers

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Oral Medicine Aids Important Notes

1. Drugs used in the management of AIDS

  • Azidothymidine
  • Pentamidine
  • Didanosine

2. Hairy leukoplakia

  • It is HIV associated oral lesion
  • It is nonmalignant
  • The site involved: lateral border of the tongue
  • It appears as vertical white folds

Oral Medicine Aids Short Essays

Question 1. Oral manifestations of HIV.
Answer: Oral manifestations of HIV

  • Candidiasis
    • Erythematous
    • Hyperplastic
    • Pseudomembranous
    • Oesophageal
  • Herpes Simplex infection
  • Herpes Zoster infection
  • Hairy leukoplakia
  • Kaposi’s sarcoma
  • Angular cheilitis
  • HIV-gingivitis
  • HIV-periodontitis
  • Necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis
  • Necrotizing stomatitis
  • Major aphthae
  • Vesiculobullons lesion
  • Parotitis

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  • Toxoplasmosis
  • Purpura
  • Osteomyelitis
  • Acute non-specific ulcers
  • Cytomegalo virus infection
  • Human papillomavirus infection
  • Squamous cell carcinoma
  • Lymphoma
  • Xerostomia
  • Facial palsy
  • Trigeminal neuropathy
  • Submandibular cellulitis
  • Delayed wound healing
  • Tuberculous ulcers
  • A typical oropharyngeal ulceration
  • Bacillary angiomatosis
  • Addisonian pigmentation
  • Unilateral or bilateral swelling of the salivary gland.

Oral Medicine Aids

Question 2. Laboratory diagnosis of HIV.
(or)
Two investigations into HIV infections

Answer:

1. Elisa (Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay):

  • It is a color reaction test

Method:

  • A serum containing antibodies is developed from the patient’s blood sample
  • It is added to the ELISA plate
  • Wash off the inactive antibodies
  • A second layer of antibodies, called a conjugate is added
  • Excess antibodies are again washed off
  • A substrate (chromogen) is added to it.

Result:

  • Color becomes a darker positive test
  • No color change – Negative test

2. Western Blot:

Method:

  • Viral proteins from the patient’s blood sample are passed through a gel
  • The separated proteins are then passed through an electric current
  • Human serum is added
  • A chromogen is added to it

Result:

  • A specific band of viral protein is detected.

Oral Medicine Aids Viva Voce

  1. An initial opportunistic infection in AIDS patients is pneumocystis carinii pneumonia
  2. AIDS patients become susceptible to infection when the T4 lymphocyte count is below 50 mm3
  3. A major target of HIV infection are the immune system and central nervous system
  4. Kaposi sarcoma is the most common neoplastic disease of AIDS
  5. Non-Hodgkin’s disease is the most rapidly increasing malignant disease of AIDS

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