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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:

Glossary

metabolism

The physical and chemical reactions that produce energy for the body. Metabolism also refers to the breakdown of drugs or other substances within the body, which may occur during digestion or elimination.

lipodystrophy

A disruption to the way the body produces, uses and distributes fat. Different forms of lipodystrophy include lipoatrophy (loss of subcutaneous fat from an area) and lipohypertrophy (accumulation of fat in an area), which may occur in the same person.

chemotherapy

The use of drugs to treat an illness, especially cancer.

resistance testing

Laboratory testing to determine if an individual’s HIV strain is resistant to anti-HIV drugs. 

- 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

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