AIDS and other manifestations of HIV infection

• Other Authors: Wormser, Gary P. (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: San Diego, Calif. Amsterdam Elsevier Academic 2004
• Edition: Fourth Edition
• Subjects: HIV Infections; HIV > pathogenicity
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• Item Description: Previous ed.: Philadelphia, Pa.: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1998.
• Physical Description: xix, 1076 pages illustrations 29 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9780127640518; 0127640517

Extensively revised and updated, the new edition of AIDS and Other Manifestations of HIV Infection is an essential reference resource providing a comprehensive overview of the biological properties of this etiologic viral agent, its clinicopathological manifestations, the epidemiology of its infection, and present and future therapeutic options. Expanded section on clinical manifestations includes new chapters on cardiovascular, renal and dermatologic manifestations of HIV infection Additional chapters on molecular diagnostic techniques, the role of host genetic variation in HIV infection and its manifestations, the discovery and development of new HIV medicines, analysis of HIV dynamics using mathematical models, toxicities of antiretroviral therapy, HIV drug susceptibility testing, practical therapeutics and the global impact of HIV and AIDS