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chapter 24,
Question | Answer |
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STD | infections spread from person to person through sexual contact |
asymptomatic | individuals show no symptoms or the symptoms are mild and disppear after onset of the infection |
antibiotic | a class of chemical agents that destroy disease-causing microogranisms while leaving the patient unharmed |
HPV vaccine | a vaccine that acan prevent cervical cancer, pre-cancerous genital lesions and genital warts caused by genital HPV infection |
HIV | a virus that attacks the immune system |
AIDS | a disease in which the immune system is weakened |
EIA | a test that screens foe the presence of HIV antibodies in the blood |
Western blot | a test that detects HIV antibodies and confimrs the result of earlier EIA tests |
rapid test | an HIV test that produces results in only 20 minutes |