HIV is a virus which reduces people's resistance to illness and can cause AIDS. HIV is an abbreviation for (缩略=) 'hu-man immunodeficiency virus'.
PHRASE
艾滋病病毒检测呈阳性的/阴性的
If someone is HIV positive, they are infected with the HIV virus, and may develop AIDS. If someone is HIV negative, they are not infected with the virus.
英英词典释义
Noun
1. infection by the human immunideficiency virus
2. the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS); it replicates in and kills the helper T cells