Jerry, a 28-year-old white male, was diagnosed as having acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) about one year ago. Jerry has recently come down with a respiratory infection. He has had increased difficulty breathing, chest pains, coughing, and fever. Jerry knows that because he has AIDS he is more susceptible to infectious disease and cancers than the average person. Jerry did not hesitate in see Dr. Smith, an internist at St. Luke’s Hospital who has been treating Jerry since he was diagnoses with AIDS. The health team caring for Jerry took appropriate precautions during Jerry’s stay at the hospital. Rubber gloves (double gloved), face masks, goggles or eye glasses, and gowns were worn to protect the health care team from possible infection. Dr. Smith ordered a chest X-ray, sputum staining for microbes, and blood drawn for microbial culturing. The chest X-ray showed diffuse lung infiltrates. The blood cultures would not be available for 24 hours, so the doctor started Jerry on an intravenous drip of a broad spectrum antibiotic. The sputum stain came back from the lab with a report of no pathogenic bacteria visualized. a. What is the name of the microbe that leads to AIDS? b. What is the primary damage that the AIDS virus causes? What cell type(s) does the AIDS virus harm? c. Based on the case presentation, what do you think Jerry is afflicted with? Explain you reasoning. d. If Jerry’s conditions continued to worsen despite antibiotic therapy, and if the blood cultures came back the next day as negative for bacteria, would this strengthen or weaken your presumptive diagnosis as given in question c?