HIV And Retroviruses Practice Test

A 25-year-old woman is diagnosed with HIV infection during a routine prenatal screening. She is started on combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) that includes tenofovir. This drug is a nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI).

A 35-year-old woman with advanced AIDS and a CD4 count of 45 cells/mm³ is hospitalized with Pneumocystis pneumonia. Her physician explains that the virus responsible for her condition must first attach to and fuse with her immune cells to replicate.