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,
- 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
- Dr Bosch x.bosch{at}ico.scs.es
- Accepted 6 December 2000
Abstract
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.
