Drug Resistance Workshop (June 2004) summaries available.The XIII XIII - 13 (Roman numeral) International HIV Drug Resistance drug resistance, condition in which infecting bacteria can resist the destructive effects of drugs such as antibiotics and sulfa drugs. Drug resistance has become a serious public health problem, since many disease-causing bacteria are no longer susceptible to previously effective drug therapies. Workshop took place this year in Tenerife, Canary Islands Canary Islands, Span. Islas Canarias, group of seven islands (1990 pop. 1,589,403), 2,808 sq mi (7,273 sq km), autonomous region of Spain, in the Atlantic Ocean off Western Sahara. They constitute two provinces of Spain. Santa Cruz de Tenerife (1990 pop. 770,627), 1,239 sq mi (3,209 sq km), includes Tenerife, Palma, Gomera, and Hierro. Las Palmas (1990 pop. 818,776), 1,569 sq mi (4,064 sq km), includes Grand Canary, Lanzarote, and Fuerteventura., Spain, June 8-12, 2004. An excellent report by AIDS writer Mark Mascolini appears at http://www.informedhorizons.com/resistance2004/ (click on "Rapid Report"). Posters and abstracts will also be available at that site (but as of June 29, 2004 they are still from last year's HIV Drug Resistance Workshop in Mexico). Another detailed summary of the science presented at the meeting, by David Margolis, M.D., appears on the National AIDS Treatment Advocacy Project Web site, at http://www.natap.org/2004/HIVDRW/hivdrw_24.htm Also see http://ww w.natap.org/2004/HIVDRW/hivdrw.htm for more reports from NATAP NATAP - National AIDS Treatment Advocacy Project NATAP - North American Trade Automation Prototype and others. All these reports are technical. Mascolini's is less difficult to read because it gives the reader more perspective on how the details fit into larger pictures. |
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