AIDS: The Biological BasisRevised and updated to meet the needs of students, academics and AIDS professionals, this book has critical, up-t-date information on AIDS and HIV, including: the physiology of the HIV-T-cell relationship; the spread of AIDS throughout Africa and Asia; new insights into needle exchange programs; how the viral load has become a key diagnostic tool for tracking HIV infection; the use of zidovudine to control pediatric AIDS; work on the AIDS vaccine; and the use of HAART to control AIDS in adults. |
Contents
Origin of the AIDS Epidemic | 13 |
The First Decades and Beyond | 21 |
Viruses and HIV | 30 |
Replication of Viruses and HIV | 36 |
The HIV Genome | 48 |
The Immune System and HIV | 58 |
Antigens | 64 |
HIV and the Immune System | 71 |
HIV Testing and Diagnosis | 184 |
Treating HIV Infection and AIDS | 212 |
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors | 220 |
Other Therapeutic Agents | 230 |
Treating Opportunistic Diseases | 245 |
An AIDS Vaccine | 260 |
A WholeVirus Vaccine | 272 |
Vaccine Trials | 279 |
Defining and Recognizing AIDS | 84 |
AIDSRelated Complex | 90 |
Pediatric AIDS | 108 |
The Epidemiology of AIDS | 114 |
How AIDS Is Not Transmitted | 142 |
Preventing HIV Transmission | 152 |
Protecting Health Care Workers | 162 |
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