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1 online resource (174 pages). |
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text file |
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Atlas: HIV
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Atlas ; HIV.
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| Summary |
In this new work, authors based at one of London's leading centres for the study and treatment of HIV present a comprehensive visual introduction to the disease. Topics covered include epidemiology and pathogenesis, HIV virology (including management of ART resistance), HIV and the immune system, therapies for HIV infection and their side effects, as well as treatment of the numerous systemic and metabolic diseases that accompany, or result from, HIV infection such as cardiovascular disease, liver disease, neurologic disorders, opportunistic infections and malignancies. The authors also addre. |
| Contents |
Contributors -- Abbreviations -- 1. : Introduction -- 2. : Pathogenesis of HIV infection -- HIV virology -- HIV and the immune system -- 3. : Treatment of HIV infection -- Antiretroviral drug resistance -- Appendices to Chapter 3: -- 4. : 61Clinical management issues in HIV patients -- Haematological abnormalities -- Liver disease and viral hepatitisco-infections -- HIV and the central nervous system -- Metabolic complications -- 5. : HIV and opportunistic infections -- 6. : HIV and malignancies -- Haematological malignancies and HIV -- 7. : Reproduction and prevention HIV and pregnancy -- Conception in HIV serodiscordant couples -- Post-exposure prophylaxis of HIV infectionfollowing sexual and occupational exposure. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
HIV infections -- Diagnosis -- Atlases.
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HIV infections -- Diagnosis. |
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HIV infections. |
| Genre/Form |
Atlases.
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Electronic books.
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Scientific atlases.
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Atlases.
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| Added Author |
Mahungu, Tabitha W.
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Johnson, M. A.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rodger, A.J. HIV/AIDS : an atlas of investigation and management. Oxford ; Ashland, OH : Clinical Pub., 2011 9781904392903 (OCoLC)755056448 |
| ISBN |
9781846926297 (electronic book) |
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1846926297 (electronic book) |
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