HIV and the new viruses / [edited by] Angus Dalgleish and Robin Weiss.

Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
2nd ed
Published/​Created
San Diego, Calif. : Academic, c1999.
Description
ix, 554 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

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Notes
Previous ed.: published as AIDS and the new viruses. 1990.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Ch. 1. HIV-1: control of gene expression by the viral regulatory proteins Tat and Rev-- Ch. 2. Viral evolution and variation in the HIV pandemic-- Ch. 3. Biological properties of HIV-1 and their relevance for AIDS pathogenesis-- Ch. 4. HIV dynamics: lessons from the use of antiretrovirals-- Ch. 5. The cytotoxic T lymphocyte response to the immunodeficiency viruses-- Ch. 6. T helper cells specific for retroviral epitopes
  • Ch. 7. Molecular control of programmed cell death in HIV infection: contribution to the dysregulation of T cell homeostasis and to CD4 T cell depletion-- Ch. 8. The relationships between cytokines, complement and HIV infection-- Ch. 9. Chemokine receptors and HIV-1 pathogenesis: a viral fatal attraction-- Ch. 10. HLA and HIV-1 infection-- Ch. 11. The potential role of HLA mimicry in the pathogenesis of AIDS-- Ch. 12. The impact of antiviral therapy on HIV disease-- Ch. 13. HIV-1 and HIV-2 molecular diagnosis
  • Ch. 14. HIV resistance to antagonists of viral reverse transcriptase-- Ch. 15. Non-lentiviral primate retroviruses-- Ch. 16. Genetic diversity and molecular epidemiology of primate T cell lymphotrophic viruses: human T cell leukaemia/lymphoma viruses types 1 and 2 and related simian retroviruses (STLV-1, STLV-2 pan-p and PTLV-L)-- Ch. 17. Human herpesvirus 6-- Ch. 18. Kaposi's sarcoma and human herpesvirus 8-- Ch. 19. Pathogenesis and cell biology of Kaposi's sarcoma
  • Ch. 20. Hepatitis B and delta viruses-- Ch. 21. Hepatitis C and G viruses- old or new?-- Ch. 22. Endogenous retroviruses-- Ch. 23. New viruses and diseases of the human central nervous system-- Ch. 24. Emerging viruses: their diseases and identification.
ISBN
0122007417 (alk. paper)
LCCN
98083211
OCLC
40927183
RCP
N - S

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