Glossary

myocardial infarction (MI) is the medical term for a heart attack.

Tmax – the time taken for a drug to reach the highest (maximum) concentration.

What happens when you take a drug?

seroreversion – the word for when the baby born to an HIV-positive mother, no longer has the mother’s antibodies to HIV.

base – (also called nucleotide) – the building blocks in DNA that form amino acids. There are four bases represented by the letters A (adenine), T (thymine), C (cytosine) and G (guanine). In RNA the T is replaced by U (uricil).

Genetics, HIV structure and life cycle

cryptococcus (crypto) – a fungal infection. Can cause meningitis.