Life Cycle with AIDS

The HIV virus’s life cycle begins as it is born in a host cell. The virus exits the cell through its cell membrane, and searches for a new T-cell to infect. The virus can identify the cell it wishes to find, the CD4+ T-cell, because they have CD4 molecules on their surface. Once the virus reaches a victim, it attaches itself to the CD4 molecules that make up its surface, and the virus’s outer envelope merges with the cells and becomes one.

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