Antiviral Chemotherapy 5

by Mills, John; Volberding, Paul; Corey, Lawrence

• ISBN13: 9780306461071
• ISBN10: 0306461072
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: Plenum Pub Corp

Summary

This book is an edited expansion of a conference held in San Francisco in November 1997, at which a faculty of over 40 experts provided a comprehensive overview of the field of antiviral chemotherapy. The text discusses treatment issues and updates regarding HIV, herpesvirus infections, influenza virus, respiratory syncytial virus, hepatitis B virus, and enterovirus infections.

Table of Contents

Overview of HBV Therapy	1	(11)
Mario G. Pessoa
Teresa L. Wright
Lamivudine Therapy of Chronic Hepatitis B	11	(12)
Christine M. Hunt
Nathaniel A. Brown
Marc Rubin
Famciclovir Update: Chronic Hepatitis B	23	(6)
Clarence L. Young
Current Status of Antiviral Therapy for Chronic Hepatitis C	29	(10)
Stanley M. Lemon
Prevention and Treatment of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections	39	(16)
John Mills
Update on Influenza and Rhinovirus Infections	55	(14)
Frederick G. Hayden
Pleconaril: A Broad Spectrum Antipicornaviral Agent	69	(8)
Jon M. Rogers
Guy D. Diana
Mark A. McKinlay
Management of CMV Infections in HIV-Infected Patients	77	(12)
Jennifer Hoy
Management of Cytomegalovirus Infections in Blood and Marrow Transplant Recipients	89	(22)
Michael Boeckh
Cidofovir: Review of Current and Potential Clinical Uses	111	(10)
Sharon Safrin
Julie Cherrington
Howard S. Jaffe
Oral Ganciclovir	121	(8)
Stephen A. Spector
Development of Novel Benzimidazole Riboside Compounds for Treatment of Cytomegalovirus Disease	129	(6)
Jeffrey Chulay
Karen Biron
Laurene Wang
Mark Underwood
Stanley Chamberlain
Lloyd Frick
Steven Good
Michele Davis
Robert Harvey
Leroy Townsend
John Drach
George Koszalka
Famciclovir/Penciclovir	135	(14)
Stephen L. Sacks
Bruce Wilson
Valaciclovir Update	149	(10)
Andrew R. Bell
Therapeutic Approaches to the Management of Herpes Zoster	159	(8)
Richard J. Whitley
John W. Gnann, Jr.
Management of Varicella-Zoster Virus Infections in Children	167	(8)
Ann M. Arvin
Failure of HIV-1 Protease Inhibitors to Fully Suppress Viral Replication: Implications for Salvage Therapy	175	(8)
Steven G. Deeks
New Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors	183	(16)
Suzanne Crowe
HIV Viral Load Monitoring	199	(14)
Douglas Richman
Suzanne Crowe
Katya Harvey
Post-Exposure Prophylaxis for HIV	213	(10)
Julie Louise Gerberding
Mitchell H. Katz
Antiretroviral Therapy in Primary HIV	223	(6)
Lawrence Corey
M. Michelle Berrey
Initial Treatment for HIV Infection: When, Why, and with What?	229	(10)
James O. Kahn
Strategies for Second-Line Antiretroviral Therapy in Adults with HIV Infection	239	(28)
Ann C. Collier
Margot A. Schwartz
Index	267