AIDS Clinical Review 2000/2001

The latest in the crucial series documenting scientific discoveries at the forefront of HIV and AIDS research! This volume updates the most important and controversial issues facing physicians, nurses, microbiologists, pharmacists, and epidemiologists who deal directly with patients suffering from HIV and AIDS, focusing on specific areas in which important new advances have occurred in diagnosis, therapy, and prevention of infection and related complications. Outlines new disease management strategies being tested in prospective clinical trials and observational studies! Combining elements of virology, epidemiology, immunology, oncology, endocrinology, neurology, psychiatry, and the behavioral sciences, AIDS Clinical Review 2000/2001 clarifies substantive advancements in vaccine development, realistically assessing potential efficacy and limitations explores short-term antiretroviral therapy for dramatically reducing the rate of vertical transmission from mother to child evaluates the efficacy of antiretroviral prophylaxis for workers who experience high-risk exposure to HIV-infected blood discusses preservation of HIV specific immunity when antiretroviral therapy is initiated early in the course of acute infection considers complex drug interactions that occur when drugs are used in combination highlights cytokine and other immune-based therapies suggests chronic hepatitis may ultimately be more fatal than HIV for coinfected patients and more! Including results recently presented at scientific meetings but not yet published in peer-reviewed journals, AIDS Clinical Review 2000/2001 is essential reading for infectious disease specialists, epidemiologists, virologists, immunologists, pharmacologists, microbiologists, hematologists, hepatologists, oncologists, neurologists, medical students in these disciplines, and all medical professionals involved in both AIDS research and clinical practice.

Judith A. Aberg, M.D.: Director of HIV Services, AIDS Clinical Trials Unit, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri Mary A. Albrecht, M.D.: Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Division of Infectious Diseases, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts Francesca Aweeka, Pharm.D.: Associate Clinical Professor of Pharmacy, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco Aurelio Cafaro, M.D.: Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Virology, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy David D. Celentano, Sc.D., M.H.S.: Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland Raymond T. Chung, M.D.: Assistant Professor of Medicine and Medical Director, Liver Transplant Program, GI Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts Thomas J. Coates, Ph.D.: Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, and Director, University of California, AIDS Research Institute, San Francisco, California Anke A. Ehrhardt, Ph.D.: Professor of Medical Psychology and Director, Psychiatry and HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University Barbara Ensoli, M.D., Ph.D.: Chief, Retrovirus Division, Laboratory of Virology, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy Rita Fahrner, R.N., M.S., N.P.: Clinical Nurse Specialist, San Francisco General Hospital Occupational Health Service, and Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Physiological Nursing, University of California Lisa M. Frenkel, M.D.: Associate Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington and Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle Arthur Y. Kim, M.D.: Fellow in Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston Bradley W. Kosel, Pharm.D.: Clinical Pharmacology Research Fellow, Drug Research Unit, San Francisco General Hospital, and Department of Clinical Pharmacology, University of California Michael M. Lederman, M.D.: Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland, Ohio Ann J. Melvin, M.D.: Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington and Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle Bruce Polsky, M.D.: Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York Hernan Valdez, M.D.: Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland, Ohio Bruce D. Walker, M.D.: Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Director, Partners AIDS Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital; and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston