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. It includes 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, and practical therapeutics and the global impact of HIV and AIDS.
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Topics Include Epidemiology of HIV and AIDs Epidemiology of Pediatric HIV Infection The Genetic Diversity and Global Molecular Epidemiology of HIV Introduction to Retroviruses The Neuropathogenesis of HIV-1 Infection Viral Cofactors in the Immune Pathogenisis and Clinical Manifestations of HIV Infection Virologic and Biologic Features of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 2 (HIV- 2) Laboratory Detection of Human Retroviral Infection
