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Combination Therapy of AIDS
. Ed(S): de Clercq, Erik; Vandamme, Anne-Mieke
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Description for Combination Therapy of AIDS
Hardback. Offers an extensive assessment of combination therapy of AIDS. In this book, the main focus is put on the Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) but other therapies like salvage therapy are also discussed. It also includes chapters that cover efficacy, treatment, causes of treatment failure, clinical care, guidelines, pharmacology. Editor(s): De Clercq, Erik; Vandamme, Anne-Mieke. Series: Milestones in Drug Therapy. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MJCJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 532.
HIV infection has been a greater challenge to current medicine than any other viral disease ofmodem times. HIV leads to a persistent infection and the virus has an immense genetic flexibility under selective pressure. During its replica tive cycle in patients, HIV accumulates mutations at such a high rate that the selective pressure inflicted on the immune system, or generated by antiviral drugs rapidly triggers the appearance of escape mutants. Currently available drugs, when used singly, are not capable of suppressing virus replication in patients to such a level that the generation of mutations, from which a variant resistant to ... Read more
HIV infection has been a greater challenge to current medicine than any other viral disease ofmodem times. HIV leads to a persistent infection and the virus has an immense genetic flexibility under selective pressure. During its replica tive cycle in patients, HIV accumulates mutations at such a high rate that the selective pressure inflicted on the immune system, or generated by antiviral drugs rapidly triggers the appearance of escape mutants. Currently available drugs, when used singly, are not capable of suppressing virus replication in patients to such a level that the generation of mutations, from which a variant resistant to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Birkhauser Verlag AG Switzerland
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
Series
Milestones in Drug Therapy
Number of Pages
243
Place of Publication
Basel, Switzerland
ISBN
9783764366001
SKU
V9783764366001
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