Labels:text | art OCR: Resident and Staff Physician Patient Education Chart AIDS Weakens the Immune System * AIDS virus enters the T cells and macrophages, the same cells sent to destroy the virus. 00 * It reproduces inside the cells. * The virus bursts out of the cell, killing it. Reprinted with permission from Resident and Staff Physician (c) 1991-92, 1993 by Romaine Pierson Publishers, Inc.