What is the port of entry for HIV?


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HIV is contracted through the bloodstream. So an open wound anywhere on your body would be susceptible to contracting HIV if someones bodily fluids that contained the virus came into contact with your open wound.
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it attaches to the cell membrane and though a few proteins makes a hole and enters the cell to infect it.

it breaks down glycoproteins to make that hole.
T-Lymphocytes.

Cells that have receptors for the virus are ports of entry for HIV.
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