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

The 18th international papillomavirus conference took place in Barcelona, S pain in July 2000. The HPV clinical workshop was jointly organised with the annual meeting of the Spanish Association of Cervical Pathology and Colpos copy. The conference included 615 abstracts describing ongoing research in epidemiology, diagnosis/screening, treatment/prognosis, immunology/human im munodeficiency virus, vaccine development/trials, transformation/progressio n, replication, transcription/translation, viral protein functions, and vir al and host interactions. This leader summarises the highlights presented a t 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.