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Papillomavirus research update: highlights of the Barcelona HPV 2000 international papillomavirus conference

F X Bosch, T Rohan, A Schneider, I Frazer, H Pfister, X Castellsagué, S de Sanjosé, V Moreno, L M Puig-Tintore, P G Smith, N Muñoz and H zur Hausen

Servei d'Epidemiologia i Registre del Càncer, Institut Català d'Oncologia, Av Gran Via KM 2,7, E.08907 L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York NY–10461, USA
Department of Gynaecology, Friedrich Schiller University D–07743, Jena, Germany
Centre for Immunology and Cancer Research, University of Queensland, 4102 Brisbane, Australia
Institute of Virology, University of Koln, D–50935 Koln, Germany
Secció de Ginecologia Oncològica ICGON, Hospital Clínic Universitari, E–08036 Barcelona, Spain
Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1E 7HT, UK
Unit of Field and Intervention Studies, International Agency for Research on Cancer, F–69372 Lyon, France
Deutsche Krebsforschungs- zentrum, D–69120 Heidelberg, Germany

Correspondence to:
Dr Bosch x.bosch{at}ico.scs.es

The 18th international papillomavirus conference took place in Barcelona, Spain in July 2000. The HPV clinical workshop was jointly organised with the annual meeting of the Spanish Association of Cervical Pathology and Colposcopy. The conference included 615 abstracts describing ongoing research in epidemiology, diagnosis/screening, treatment/prognosis, immunology/human immunodeficiency virus, vaccine development/trials, transformation/progression, replication, transcription/translation, viral protein functions, and viral and host interactions. This leader summarises the highlights presented at the conference (the full text of the abstracts and lectures can be found at www.hpv2000.com). Relevant material in Spanish can be found at www.aepcc.org.

Key Words: papillomavirus • epidemiology • immunology • biology • screening

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