CONFERENCE ON OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS IN AIDS

肠道感染（OI）是发病的重要原因， 艾滋病患者的死亡率 综合征（艾滋病）。 化学方法仅部分地 成功地减少了这些开放式倡议的影响， 病 感染艾滋病的主要病原体包括 卡氏肺孢子虫、鸟支原体和结核、弓形虫， 隐孢子虫、微孢子虫、CMV和几种真菌和酵母。这些 病原体侵入大范围的宿主器官引起肺炎， 腹泻和脑炎 这次会议将组织第一次 时间为那些研究OI的科学家提供一个论坛， 将允许确定发病机制中的重要相似之处， 免疫系统对这组明显不同的病原体的反应。 要考虑的个别主题包括结构和分子 生物学，宿主细胞的附着和侵入，毒力，先天性 耐药性、宿主免疫反应和化疗。 的意图 会议是为了确定任何明显的共同线索或明显的巨大 这些生物体在宿主寄生虫相互作用方面的差异。

Opportunistic infections (OI) are a significant cause of morbidity and death in those individuals affected with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Chemotherapeutic approaches have been only partially successful in reducing the impact of these OI during the course of illness. The major pathogens afflicting those with AIDS include Pnuemocystis carinii, Mycobactertium avium and tuberculosis, Toxoplasma, Cryptosporidium, Microsporidia, CMV and several fungi and yeast. These pathogens invade a wide range of host organs causing penumonia, diarrhea, and encephalitis. This meeting will organize for the first time a forum for those scientists studying OI to share information that will allow for determining important parallels in the pathogenesis and immune response to this apparently diverse group of pathogens. Individual topics to be considered include structural and molecular biology, attachment and invasion of host cells, virulence, innate resistance, host immune response and chemotherapy. The intent of the meeting is to identify any obvious common threads or apparent vast differences among these organisms in the host parasite interaction.