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Classroom Resource
Topics include: Immunology, HIV immune response and drug development, ELISA, CCR5 co-receptor mutation, vaccine development, dengue fever, and immunological response
Classroom Resource
The poster from the 2010 Holiday Lectures, Viral Outbreak: The Science of Emerging Disease, illustrating the size, geometry, and different classifications of viruses.
Classroom Resource
The poster from the 2007 Holiday Lectures on Science, AIDS: Evolution of an Epidemic. It shows each stage of the HIV life cycle and highlights points in the cycle that have been targeted by anti-retroviral drugs.
Click & Learn
Take this quiz to see how well you understand some of the topics covered in the 1999 Holiday Lectures on infectious disease.
Animation
HIV's reverse transcriptase mistakes AZT for thymidine. Once incorporated, AZT stops reverse transcription.
Click & Learn
Learn about the nature of vector-borne diseases, and the life cycle of the dengue vector mosquito.
Click & Learn
Answer interactive questions to explore the logic of the Virochip microarray design, particularly how evolutionary relationships can be used to detect new viruses.
Click & Learn
A brief discussion of what makes a virus a retrovirus, and how they differ from other types of viruses.
Click & Learn
Problems associated with adherence to antiviral drugs, and a student activity that mimics adherence to a multi-drug regimen.
Classroom Resource
A text transcript of the 1999 Holiday Lectures on Science, 2000 and Beyond: Confronting the Microbe Menace.
Classroom Resource
DVD chapter lists from the 1999 Holiday Lectures on Science, 2000 and Beyond: Confronting the Microbe Menace.
Video Clips
Adam Barrett describes his seven-drug antiretroviral regimen and the importance of adherence.
Video Clips
Adam Barrett, a nurse who is HIV positive, discusses his first symptoms and the challenges of adhering to a drug regimen.
Video Clips
Zinhle Thabethe describes how antiretroviral therapy has changed her life.
Video Clips
Catherine Gaynes, an HIV-positive patients, discusses her HIV diagnosis, how her family reacted, and avoiding HIV infection.
Video Clips
Dr. Beatrice Hahn's research has traced the origin of HIV to chimpanzees in Cameroon.
Video Clips
Dr. Beatrice Hahn discusses how HIV originated in Africa by cross-species transmission from chimpanzees to humans.
Video Clips
Dr. Finlay and Dr. Richard Ganem use physical analogies to compare the size of bacteria and viruses relative to a standard mammalian cell.
Video Clips
Adam Barrett remembers his symptoms of acute HIV infection.
Series
Why has it been so hard to develop a vaccine against HIV? How are new medicines revolutionizing AIDS treatment? Can AIDS be cured?
Lectures
The genesis of AIDS, identifying HIV as the virus that causes AIDS, and the modern global epidemic.
Lectures
The HIV life cycle, and how the virus destroys the immune system's ability to respond to infection.
Lectures
Treating HIV infection with antiretroviral therapy, and HIV's ability to develop drug resistance.
Lectures
The search for an effective HIV vaccine, and advances in genomics that may lead to a breakthrough.
Lectures
A discussion with three students who are helping in the global fight against HIV and AIDS.
