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AIDS: The Biological Basis


Edition: 4th
Author(s): Weeks, Benjamin S.
ISBN10:  0763737143
ISBN13:  9780763737146
Format:  Paperback
Pub. Date:  3/20/2006
Publisher(s): Jones & Bartlett

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Table of Contents
Preface ix
The AIDS Epidemic
2(28)
Looking Ahead
2(1)
Introduction
2(1)
The Early Years
3(4)
The First Observations
3(4)
The Breakthrough
7(6)
Another AIDS Virus
10(2)
A Pandemic
12(1)
Origin of the AIDS Epidemic
13(8)
The Origin of HIV
14(2)
The Jump to Humans
16(2)
Out of Africa
18(1)
Entry into the United States
19(2)
The First Decades and Beyond
21(5)
Twenty-Four Years of AIDS
21(2)
AIDS in the Twenty-First Century
23(3)
Looking Back
26(4)
Viruses and HIV
30(28)
Looking Ahead
30(1)
Introduction
30(1)
Structure of Viruses and HIV
31(5)
Replication of Viruses and HIV
36(11)
Adsorption
36(5)
Penetration and Infection
41(1)
Lysogeny of HIV
42(2)
HIV Activation and Release
44(1)
Cell Destruction
45(2)
The HIV Genome
47(3)
Nine Genes
47(2)
Three Groups of HIV
49(1)
Inhibiting Viruses
50(2)
Looking Back
52(6)
The Immune System and HIV
58(26)
Looking Ahead
58(1)
Introduction
58(2)
Overview of the Immune System
60(4)
Antigens
64(1)
The Immune Process
64(8)
Cell-Mediated Immunity
66(2)
Antibody-Mediated Immunity
68(4)
HIV and the Immune System
72(7)
The Focus of HIV
72(5)
The Effects of HIV
77(2)
Looking Back
79(5)
Defining and Recognizing AIDS
84(30)
Looking Ahead
84(1)
Introduction
84(1)
The Case Definition
85(1)
HIV Infection
86(5)
AIDS-Related Complex
91(2)
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
93(15)
The CDC Stages of Disease
95(1)
The Walter Reed Classification System
95(2)
Tissue Specific HIV-Associated Diseases
97(5)
Opportunistic Diseases
102(6)
Pediatric AIDS
108(3)
Looking Back
111(3)
The Epidemiology of AIDS
114(38)
Looking Ahead
114(1)
Introduction
114(1)
AIDS and the Epidemiologist
115(2)
The Spreading Epidemic
117(25)
The Fragility of HIV
120(1)
AIDS in Homosexual Men
121(3)
AIDS in Injection Drug Users
124(1)
AIDS in Heterosexuals
125(4)
AIDS in Women
129(2)
AIDS in Newborns
131(4)
AIDS in Africa
135(3)
AIDS in the World
138(3)
Other Transmission Methods
141(1)
How AIDS Is Not Transmitted
142(2)
Improbable Transmissions
142(1)
The Mosquito Connection
143(1)
AIDS in Schools and Colleges
144(3)
Looking Back
147(5)
Preventing HIV Transmission
152(32)
Looking Ahead
152(1)
Introduction
152(1)
Personal Protection
153(9)
Safer Sex Practices
155(4)
For Injection Drug Users
159(3)
Protecting Health Care Workers
162(10)
Universal Precautions
163(1)
Invasive Procedures
164(1)
Dentistry
165(1)
Autopsy and Embalming
166(1)
Medical Laboratories
167(1)
Decontamination Procedures
168(2)
Exposures to HIV
170(2)
Protecting Public Safety Workers
172(5)
Fire and Emergency Medical Services
173(2)
Law Enforcement Officers
175(2)
AIDS Education in the Schools
177(3)
Looking Back
180(4)
HIV Testing and Diagnosis
184(28)
Looking Ahead
184(1)
Introduction
184(1)
HIV Antibody Tests
185(10)
Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA)
186(1)
Western Blot Analysis
187(3)
False Positives and Negatives
190(2)
Other Antibody Tests
192(1)
Home and Simplified Tests
193(2)
HIV Antigen (Viral Load) Tests
195(7)
Gene Probes
196(1)
The Polymerase Chain Reaction
197(1)
Advantages of the Viral Load Test
198(3)
Protein and T-Lymphocyte Tests
201(1)
Implications of HIV Testing
202(5)
Mandatory Testing
203(2)
Voluntary Testing
205(2)
Looking Back
207(5)
Treating HIV Infection and AIDS
212(48)
Looking Ahead
212(1)
Introduction
213(1)
General Principles of AIDS Treatment
214(6)
Objectives of Therapeutic Drugs
214(2)
Approaches to Drug Therapy
216(2)
Mutations and Other Considerations
218(2)
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
220(9)
Azidothymidine (AZT)
221(6)
Other Dideoxynuclcosides
227(2)
Nonnucleoside Analogs
229(1)
Other Therapeutic Agents
229(15)
Protease Inhibitors
230(4)
Fusion Inhibitors
234(2)
Entry Inhibitors
236(2)
Interleukin-2
238(1)
Antisense Molecules
238(2)
Miscellaneous Therapeutic Agents
240(3)
Postexposure Prophylaxis
243(1)
Treating Opportunistic Diseases
244(2)
Pentamidine Isethionate
244(1)
Other Drugs
245(1)
Drug Development and Testing
246(4)
Drug Trials
247(2)
Key Questions about Drug Testing
249(1)
Alternative Therapies
250(5)
Bone Marrow Transplants
251(1)
Gene Therapy
252(1)
Thinking Well
253(2)
Looking Back
255(5)
An AIDS Vaccine
260(28)
Looking Ahead
260(1)
Introduction
260(2)
General Vaccine Strategies
262(3)
Types of Vaccine
263(2)
AIDS Vaccine Strategies
265(10)
Sterilizing and Therapeutic Immunities
266(1)
AIDS Subunit Vaccines
267(4)
Viable-Vector Vaccines
271(1)
A Whole-Virus Vaccine
272(2)
DNA Vaccines
274(1)
Problems in Vaccine Development
275(4)
Complexity of HIV
275(1)
Economic Issues
276(1)
Lack of Animal Models
277(2)
Vaccine Trials
279(5)
Issues to Consider
280(2)
The Race to Vaccine
282(2)
Looking Back
284(4)
AIDS in Perspective
288(28)
Looking Ahead
288(1)
Introduction
288(1)
AIDS and Society
289(15)
AIDS in the Workplace
291(3)
Legal Issues
294(6)
Economic Issues
300(3)
AIDS and Medical Professionals
303(1)
Caring for the AIDS Patient
304(4)
Education and Terminology
307(1)
Home Care
307(1)
The Future of AIDS
308(5)
The Complexity of AIDS
309(1)
The Lessons of AIDS
310(3)
Looking Back
313(3)
Appendix A Answers to Review Questions 316(1)
Appendix B A Suggested Format for a 10-Session Course: The Biological Basis of AIDS 317(2)
Pronunciation Guide 319(2)
Glossary 321(7)
Index 328

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