Research Catalog

Title

Antiviral chemotherapy 5 : new directions for clinical application and research / edited by John Mills, Paul A. Volberding, and Lawrence Corey.

Publication

New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, c1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mills, John, 1940-
• Volberding, Paul
• Corey, Lawrence
• Conference on Antiviral Chemotherapy (5th : 1997 : San Francisco, Calif.)

Description

viii, 271 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; v. 458

Uniform Title

Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; v. 458.

Alternative Title

Antiviral chemotherapy five

Subject

• Antiviral agents > Congresses
• Virus Diseases > drug therapy
• Antiviral Agents > therapeutic use

Note

• "Proceedings of the Fifth Triennial Symposium on New Directions in Antiviral Chemotherapy, held November 13-15, 1997, in San Francisco, California"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Overview of HBV Therapy / Mario G. Pessoa and Teresa L. Wright -- 2. Lamivudine Therapy of Chronic Hepatitis B / Christine M. Hunt, Nathaniel A. Brown and Marc Rubin -- 3. Famciclovir Update: Chronic Hepatitis B / Clarence L. Young -- 4. Current Status of Antiviral Therapy for Chronic Hepatitis C / Stanley M. Lemon -- 5. Prevention and Treatment of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections / John Mills -- 6. Update on Influenza and Rhinovirus Infections / Frederick G. Hayden -- 7. Pleconaril: A Broad Spectrum Antipicornaviral Agent / Jon M. Rogers, Guy D. Diana and Mark A. McKinlay -- 8. Management of CMV Infections in HIV-Infected Patients / Jennifer Hoy -- 9. Management of Cytomegalovirus Infections in Blood and Marrow Transplant Recipients / Michael Boeckh -- 10. Cidofovir: Review of Current and Potential Clinical Uses / Sharon Safrin, Julie Cherrington and Howard S. Jaffe -- 11. Oral Ganciclovir / Stephen A. Spector --
• 12. Development of Novel Benzimidazole Riboside Compounds for Treatment of Cytomegalovirus Disease / Jeffrey Chulay, Karen Biron and Laurene Wang [et al.] -- 13. Famciclovir/Penciclovir / Stephen L. Sacks and Bruce Wilson -- 14. Valaciclovir Update / Andrew R. Bell -- 15. Therapeutic Approaches to the Management of Herpes Zoster / Richard J. Whitley and John W. Gnann, Jr. -- 16. Management of Varicella-Zoster Virus Infections in Children / Ann M. Arvin -- 17. Failure of HIV-1 Protease Inhibitors to Fully Suppress Viral Replication: Implications for Salvage Therapy / Steven G. Deeks -- 18. New Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors / Suzanne Crowe -- 19. HIV Viral Load Monitoring / Douglas Richman, Suzanne Crowe and Katya Harvey -- 20. Post-Exposure Prophylaxis for HIV / Julie Louise Gerberding and Mitchell H. Katz -- 21. Antiretroviral Therapy in Primary HIV / Lawrence Corey and M. Michelle Berrey --
• 22. Initial Treatment for HIV Infection: When, Why, and with What? / James O. Kahn -- 23. Strategies for Second-Line Antiretroviral Therapy in Adults with HIV Infection / Ann C. Collier and Margot A. Schwartz.

ISBN

0306461072

LCCN

99010159

OCLC

• ocm40674918
• SCSB-4787016

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries