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Assignment on Pathophysiology and Pharmacology

   

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Running Head: PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGYPathophysiology and pharmacologyName of the StudentName of the University Author Note
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1PATHOPHYSIOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGYIntroduction The paper deals with the differential diagnosis of three similar diseases to HIV includingAIDS, Syphilis and Systemic lupus erythromatoses (SLE). Differential diagnosis refers to theprocess of distinguishing between different diseases that manifest as similar symptoms. Similar disease symptoms HIV is caused by human immunodeficiency virus that suppresses immune system. It isspread by unprotected sex and the later stage of HIV is known as Acquired immunodeficiencysyndrome (AIDS). HIV is infection and AIDS is syndrome. On the contrary, syphilis is thebacterial infection, which is also spread through sexual contact. Both HIV and syphilis aretransmitted by childbirth, anal and vaginal sex. Unlike HIV, syphilis is curable and can be treatedwith antibiotics (Seña et al. 2015). SLE is a representative of autoimmune disease and is initiatedby virus. Both HIV and SLE is caused by retroviruses (Kao et al. 2014). The early symptoms of HIV are flu like symptoms, fever, sores and skin rash and arefollowed by many years where there are no symptoms. Symptoms of AIDS are similar todamaged immune system caused by infection and are manifested after severe infection from HIV(ElKalmi et al., 2015). Primary syphilis symptoms also manifest as sores around mouth, genitalsand rectum. Secondary syphilis symptoms include severe skin rash and sores. However, there areno flu like symptoms. Both HIV and syphilis can infect anywhere on the body (Seña et al. 2015).The similarity between HIV and SLE comes from symptoms including abnormalities in T cell,i.e, CD4‡ and CD8‡ T cell dysfunction. Both the diseases lead to changes in the cytokines andchemokines and polyclonal B cell activation. Skin rashes and ulcers in mouth are also common
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