When is a patient with HIV considered to have progressed to AIDS?
a. Two or more opportunistic infections are diagnosed.
b. Kaposi sarcoma appears.
c. CD4 cell level drops to 200.
d. Patient tested positive for enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).
C
A person with an HIV infection is not diagnosed with AIDS until the CD4 count falls to 200 . Other AIDS markers exist as well.
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a. Freud c. Piaget b. Erikson d. Kohlberg
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