The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a viral pathogen that replicates inside specific host cells of the human immune system during its active replication cycle.
Which type of immune cell is directly targeted, infected, and destroyed when these newly formed viral particles egress from them?
B-lymphocytes
CD4+CD4^+CD4+ helper T-lymphocytes
Phagocytic macrophages
CD8+CD8^+CD8+ cytotoxic T-lymphocytes
