The 38th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial
Agents and Chemotherapy takes place from September 24-27 in San Diego.
Comprehensive daily reports are available at
href="http://207.226.163.175/hiv/confs/ICAAC98/">http://207.226.163.175/hiv/confs/ICAAC98
each day. HIV highlights are likely to include:- new data on lipodystrophy and metabolic disorders related
to HAART (more than 30 poster presentations)
- more data on viral resistance testing
- more data on slvage therapy
- how soon can long-term viral load responses be
predicted?
- longer-term data on the durability of protease-sparing
regimens
- fitness and infectivity of multi-drug resistant HIV- how
big an epidemic can be expected?
- HAART and prophylaxis
- twice daily regimens vs three times daily
regimens