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AIDS CLINICAL REVIEW 1989

AIDS Clinical Review 1989. Volberding P and Jacobson MA, eds. New York, Marcel Dekker, 250 p., 1989.. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE ICDB/90659408
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Abstract: This is the first in a series of yearly volumes that will focus on important advances in the epidemiology, diagnosis, therapy, and prevention of HIV infection and HIV-associated complications. Authors critically examine the latest clinical research on their topics, especially articles and abstracts published in the past year; discuss results of their own recent investigations; and review new unpublished data. Issues addressed in this volume include the prevalence of HIV infection in the general population, the risk of occupational HIV infection, and the latest research on AIDS risk reduction. The accuracy of HIV-antibody tests, the proper use of these tests, and problems encountered in HIV-serology testing are described. Current knowledge about the natural history of HIV infection and about predictors of disease progression is reviewed; and information gathered in West Africa on HIV-2, another AIDS-causing retrovirus, is also presented. Opportunistic infections (OIs) and other AIDS-associated complications are discussed, including the therapy and management of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, prophylaxis of AIDS-related OIs, HIV-related CNS disease, lymphomas, and the evaluation and treatment of pruritus. The clinical experience gained with zidovudine, the only antiretroviral therapy currently approved in the US, is summarized.
Keywords: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/PREVENTION & CONTROL/*THERAPY *Disease Outbreaks Human HIV/*PATHOGENICITY Opportunistic Infections/THERAPY Risk Factors MONOGRAPHKWDacquiredimmunodeficiencysyndrome/prevention&control/KWDtherapyKWDdiseaseoutbreakshumanhiv/KWDpathogenicityopportunisticinfections/therapyriskfactorsmonograph
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