Learning Objectives

• Understand the diagnostics of Hep B and the link to stages of clinical disease
• Correlate HIV diagnostic tests with stages of disease progression
• Correlate the principles of viral replication with the therapeutic drugs used for HIV
• Differentiate between the pathogenesis of Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C

HIV

• how does HIV enter a cell?
• why does HIV have a high mutation rate?
• how is HIV transmitted?
• how long does seroconversion take?
• how is HIV diagnosed?
• is point-of-care testing available?

HTLV

• what cells does HTLV infect?
• what are the complications of HTLV infection?
• how is HTLV-1 transmitted?
• what 3 types of conditions does HTLV-1 cause?
• how is HTLV-1 diagnosed?
• how is HTLV-1 treated?