The main objective of this annual symposium is to promote the development and advancement of the study of immunology, infectious diseases and vaccinology, as life and health sciences, as well as to disseminate the development of novel approaches in diagnosis and therapeutics of diseases that involv...

Conference Report

Comunicación presentada en el VI Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Infecciones Cardiovasculares (SEICAV) celebrado en Barcelona en septiembre de 2017.

The enteric protozoan parasites Cryptosporidium spp. and Giardia duodenalis are major contributors to the burden of gastrointestinal diseases globally. Both pathogens primarily affect children living in resource-poor settings with limited or no access to clean water and sanitation facilities, but a...

HIV disease progression is very variable among infected patients. Using classical statistical methods based on a selected number of markers, Casado et al [1] identified a number of host and viral genetic correlates for the clinical definitions of HIV-1 disease progression: elite controllers, long t...

The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) encodes the 110 amino acid-pleiotropic nuclear transcriptional activator Tat that is not only essential for efficient elongation of viral transcripts, but also regulates both cellular protein and gene expression. Tat encoding gene consists of two spli...