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The National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, is the world's largest medical library. The Library collects materials and provides information and research services in all areas of biomedicine and health care.
The virus that causes human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, the most common sexually transmitted infection. There are two groups of HPV—types that can cause genital warts and types that can cause cancer. HPV is the most frequent cause of cervical cancer. In women with HIV, invasive cervical cancer is an AIDS-defining condition.
Industry:Health care
Therapy given when the standard treatment for a disease or condition is no longer effective and when treatment options are limited. HIV salvage therapy is designed for people with treatment failure on more than one HIV treatment regimen and with extensive HIV drug resistance.
Industry:Health care
Therapy given when the standard treatment for a disease or condition is no longer effective and when treatment options are limited. HIV salvage therapy is designed for people with treatment failure on more than one HIV treatment regimen and with extensive HIV drug resistance.
Industry:Health care
Threatening to health or life, such as a malignant disease. Malignant may also refer to the uncontrolled, invasive growth of cells, such as in a malignant tumor.
Industry:Health care
To produce a copy or duplicate. The HIV life cycle describes the 7-step process by which HIV replicates.
Industry:Health care
Total or near-total absence of gamma globulins in the blood. Gamma globulins are a class of blood proteins that include most antibodies. Agammaglobulinemia may be due to certain genetic diseases or to acquired diseases such as HIV/AIDS.
Industry:Health care
Toxic damage to the liver. Drugs, including antiretroviral (ARV) drugs, can cause hepatotoxicity.
Industry:Health care
Toxic or destructive to the kidneys. Certain antiretroviral (ARV) drugs can have nephrotoxic effects.
Industry:Health care
Transmission of HIV, or other infectious disease, from one person to another, except from parent to child (vertical transmission). Horizontal transmission of HIV can occur during sex or needle sharing as the result of contact with the semen, vaginal fluid, or blood of an HIV-infected partner.
Industry:Health care
Transmission of HIV, or other sexually transmitted infection, from one individual to another as the result of sexual contact.
Industry:Health care
