New book on HIV from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

December 15, 2011 in HIV & AIDS

New book on HIV from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

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Taken from the painting "Miracle of Hope ll," by David Putnam, the cover depicts a battle within a single human cell between retroviral drugs (blue dots) and the protease enzyme of HIV (black dots). Credit: ©2012 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

The worldwide AIDS epidemic makes research on HIV, the disease processes it induces, and potential HIV therapies among the most critical in biomedical science. Furthermore, the basic biology of HIV infections provides a model for a more general understanding of retroviruses and their hosts.

Written and edited by experts in the field, "HIV: From Biology to Prevention and Treatment" provides a comprehensive review of HIV research, covering everything from the pathogenesis of to prevention. Contributors explore the origins and evolution of HIV, the cycle, host-virus interactions, host immune responses, and HIV transmission. Vaccines, cell and gene therapies, antiretroviral drugs, microbicides, and behavioral strategies for the treatment and prevention of HIV infections are also explored.

This volume, which includes discussions of social and economic factors that affect HIV transmission and treatment, is an essential reference for virologists, cell and molecular biologists, and immunologists, as well as epidemiologists, physicians, and other public health professionals.

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