HIV Chemotherapy: A Critical Review

Edited by Salvatore T. Butera. Caister Academic Press, Norwich, UK. Printed by Cromwell Press. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data. ISBN 0-9542464-9-7. HIV Chemotherapy: A Critical Review is a multi-authored book covering a variety of subjects that are essential for clinical management of HIV-positive patients. In such a book one would expect, in addition to an adequate historic review, a complete overview of the current treatment strategies with definitions of timely gold-standard chemotherapeutic regimens. The historic aspects are excellently covered by well-known authors: detailed descriptions of historic patient management protocols, assessment of the relevance of drug resistance, implementation of treatment in developing countries. In the remaining chapters, novel antiviral procedures and compounds and their implications for future treatment are, again, well explained. The only historic features that are not fully described are those concerning therapeutic trials in the various animal …