Textbook-atlas of intestinal infections in AIDS /

Transmission from animals to humans.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Dionisio, Daniele
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Milano ; New York : Springer, 2003.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Intestinal parasitoses : a history of scientific progress and endemic disease in society
  • Natural history of HIV infection
  • Immunopathogenesis of AIDS
  • Advances in the knowledge of HIV-related impairment of mucosal immunity
  • Effects of HIV infection on gastrointestinal function
  • Cryptosporidiosis, microsporidiosis, isosporiasis, cyclosporiasis, leishmaniasis, pneumocystosis and toxoplasmosis
  • From animal to man : reservoirs and ways of transmission
  • An introduction to mycobacterial taxonomy, structure, drug resistance, and pathogenesis
  • Worldwide epidemiology and risk for international travelers
  • Oral infections
  • Gut infections : etiopathogenetic and clinical remarks
  • Pathology
  • Ultrastructural pathology
  • Sonographic features of intestinal infections in AIDS
  • Imaging of intestinal manifestations of AIDS
  • Bacteria
  • Mycobacteria
  • Microsporidia
  • Leishmania, Cryptosporidium, Amoebae, Giardia, Blastocystis
  • Isospora belli and Cyclospora cayetanensis
  • Fungal infections of the gastrointestinal tract
  • Strongyloides stercoralis
  • Human herpesviruses
  • Enteric viruses
  • Latest advances and trends in PCR-based diagnostic methods
  • Changing patterns of prophylaxis and treatment of bacterial and treatment of bacterial and viral intestinal infections
  • Treatment and prophylaxis of opportunistic parasitic intestinal infections in HIV-infected patients
  • Parasites commonly associated with recognized agents of AIDS-related chronic diarrhea in developing countries
  • Epidemiology and comprehensive management of HIV-related diarrhea in Africa
  • Unique clinical problems in Latin America
  • Gut infection in HIV : past, present and future