The sixth volume in the annual update series focusing on specific areas in which important new advances have occurred in the epidemiology, diagnosis, therapy, and prevention of HIV infection and HIV-associated complications. All chapters in the current review were written within nine months of publication, an interval comparable to that for a review published in a major medical journal. The authors are clinical investigators, and they examine the latest relevant clinical research, their own recent investigations, and new, unpublished data. Among the topics in ten chapters: gene therapy and HIV disease; bacterial infections in HIV disease; Mycobacterium avium complex infections in AIDS; and update on epidemiology of AIDS in Asia. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.