TITLE:
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome in Man and Animals—A Review
AUTHORS:
Maduike C. O. Ezeibe, Ijeoma J. Ogbonna
KEYWORDS:
HIV, In Vitro Test, Prospect of Vaccine, A Potential Cure
JOURNAL NAME:
World Journal of AIDS,
Vol.5 No.1,
March
26,
2015
ABSTRACT: The paper defined acquired immune
deficiency syndrome (AIDS) as a hematological abnormality rather than a
clinical abnormality. Viruses that cause AIDS in man and animals are reviewed.
Suggestion that human immune deficiency virus (HIV) which causes HIV/AIDS in
man is a mutant of simian immune deficiency virus (SIV) which causes SIV/AIDS
in nonhuman primates is also re-viewed. For a simple test to enable researchers
in the developing countries which have the highest incidences of HIV/AIDS, join
the global search for more effective treatment for the pandemic, direct passive
hemagglutination test has been developed for in vitro testing of drugs, herbs
and minerals that may have antiretroviral effects. Also reviewed are the
similarities in pathogenesis of HIV infection in man and pathogenesis of infectious bursa disease virus (IBDV) in chicks to assess possibility of
developing vaccine for HIV/AIDS. Finally, antiretroviral effects of medicinal
synthetic aluminum-magnesium silicate as cure for HIV/AIDS were reviewed.