AIDS Pathogenesis

AIDS Pathogenesis

Kluwer Academic Publishers, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands. 282p., illus., bibliog., index. (Immunology and Medicine Series, v. 28). ISBN 0-7923-6196-2. $133.00.
edited by Hanneke Schuitemaker, Frank Miedema. 2000.

This book is a collection of research articles concerned with the development of AIDS in humans or the pathogenesis of AIDS in humans. Each year more and more is known about AIDS. Unfortunately, not enough is yet known to conquer this virus and prevent it from killing thousands and thousands of individuals worldwide. Each researcher in performing his or her research unlocks a small part of the knowledge about the virus and passes that knowledge along to other researchers in the hope that the cumulated knowledge will help to discover a cure or vaccine. The articles in this book are intended to add to what is already known and possibly create more research avenues in the study of this complex virus and all the complications that it creates. The largest number of the articles are by researchers from the Netherlands, but other parts of the world are represented such as Sweden, France, Denmark, United States, Australia, Italy, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

Topics covered in the articles include HIV-1 transmission, biological variability of HIV-1, long-term non-progressive HIV infection, opportunistic infections, AIDS dementia complex, Anti-retroviral therapy and resistance to anti-retroviral drugs, prognostic markers and immunological reconstitution during HIV-1 infection and HIV-viral load. These are important articles that will be of interest to anyone who is doing research on the HIV virus. It is a highly recommended book for all academic and health science libraries.

Keywords: Pathogenesis; Dementia; Therapy)
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