Four Years After Seroconversion,an HIV-Infected Patient Has a CD4⁺ T-Cell

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Multiple Choice

Four years after seroconversion,an HIV-infected patient has a CD4⁺ T-cell count of 800 per microlitre and a low viral load.What does the nurse recognize at this time?

• A) The patient is at risk for development of opportunistic infections because of CD4⁺ T-cell destruction.
• B) The patient is in a clinical and biological latent period during which very few viruses are being replicated.
• C) The body currently is able to produce an adequate number of CD4⁺ T cells to replace those destroyed by viral activity.
• D) Anti-HIV antibodies produced by B cells enter CD4⁺ T cells infected with HIV to stop replication of viruses in the cells.

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