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Linked by blood : hemophilia and AIDS /
Linked by Blood: Hemophilia and AIDS recounts the factors responsible for the widespread infection of people with hemophilia by Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-contaminated blood and offers a prescription for addressing the challenges of future viral epidemics. The book describes the impact of AI...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Academic Press is an imnprint of Elsevier,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1. The impact of AIDS on hemophilia; Chapter 2. Blood: vital but potentially dangerous; Chapter 3. What is hemophilia?; Chapter 4. The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV); Chapter 5. Blood as a vehicle for the spread of AIDS; Chapter 6. Hemophilia: an affinity for blood; Chapter 7. A full-blown epidemic; Chapter 8. The Institute of Medicine study; Chapter 9. Factors that enabled the epidemic; Chapter 10. Contributions that mitigated the epidemic; Chapter 11. Hemophilia: past and present; Chapter 12. A prescription for safeguarding blood and controlling treatment costs; Each chapter concludes with a list of Key Points and references.