Table of Contents

Emerging and re-emerging viral pathogens, Ulrich Desselberger. Infections of the respiratory tract: influenza - the virus and the disease and its control, Thorsten Wolff and Rene Snacken; respiratory syncytial virus, Philip R. Wyde and Pedro A.Piedra; rhinovirus, Ronald B. Turner and Frederick G. Hayden; herpes simplex virus, Kimberly A. Yeung-Yue, Mathijs H. Brentjens, Patricia C. Lee and Stephen K. Tyring; varicella-zoster virus, Jashin J. Wu, Kimberly A. Yeung-Yue, Mathijs H. Brentjens andStephen K. Tyring; human papillomaviruses, Guy Hewlett, Philip Stephen Shepherd and Jenny C. Luxton. Infections of the liver: hepatitis A virus, Verena Gauss-Muller and Reinhart Zachoval; hepatitis B virus, Guido Gerken and C. Jochum; hepatitis C virus,Miriam Kerstin Huber, Ulrike Sarrazin and Stefan Zeuzem. Human immunodeficiency virus: HIV infection - epidemiology, pathogenesis and principles of antiretroviral therapy, Reinhold Welker and Helga Rubsamen-Waigmann; diagnosis and management of HIVinfection using immunoassays and molecular technologies, Rainer Ziermann, Charlene E. Bush-Donovan and David A. Hendricks nucleoside/nucleotide inhibitors of HIV reverse transcriptase, Erik De Clercq; non-nucleoside inhibitors of HIV reversetranscriptase, Matthias Gotte and Mark A. Wainberg; HIV protease inhibitors, Richard Ogden; emerging therapies for HIV infection, Julie M. Strizki. Systemic herpesvirus infections and the immune-compromised host: human cytomegalovirus - diagnosis,pathophysiology and treatment, Hermann Einsele and Gerhard Jahn; Epstein-Barr virus - pathogenesis and treatment, Nancy Raab-Traub and Shannon C. Kenney; HHV6,7,8, Dharam V. Ablashi.

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