Virco News

Mechelen, Belgium. April 27, 2009 Prakash Sista and colleagues at Virco recently published a report in the Journal of Clinical Virology on the prevalence of calculated phenotypic resistance in the >240,000 samples submitted to Virco for routine clinical testing between 1998 and June of 2007. They report a striking decrease...

Mechelen, Belgium. April 20, 2009 Virco Lab, Inc. is pleased to announce a US collaboration with SmartGene, Inc. a provider of novel services for the management and analysis of genetic data to provide laboratories and physicians with greater insight into HIV drug resistance and to transfer the ordering, viewing and...

Mechelen, Belgium. March 3, 2009 There are more than 5 million people living with HIV across Asia and the Pacific, including 150,000 children. Each year more than 500,000 people are newly diagnosed with HIV in the region and more than 300,000 die from AIDS-related complications. TREAT Asia (Therapeutics, Research, Education...

Mechelen, Belgium. June 31, 2008 Virco BVBA announces that as of today, the Key Mutation List shown on page 1 of the vircoTYPE HIV-1 report has been updated with three additional mutations. NNRTI 138A NNRTI 234I PI 74S This change reflects Virco's ongoing adaptation of the vircoTYPE HIV-1 report...

Mechelen, Belgium. June 12, 2008 Virco BVBA announces 3 posters to be presented at the XV'th International HIV Drug Resistance Workshop (IHDRW) in Sitges. Poster presentations include: "HIV Susceptibility to the Maturation Inhibitor Bevirimat is Modulated by Natural Polymorphisims at Positions 369-371in GAG SP1" by Kurt Van, Baelen et...

Mechelen, Belgium. June 13, 2008 A Virco exclusive ! Check out the latest HIV science, "New Therapies and Mechanisms of Action" . Please note that you must log in (register) to view the information. Check back regularly at Virco's HIV Educational Forum for updated information....

Mechelen, Belgium. March 21, 2008 Virco BVBA announces 4 oral presentations and 10 posters to be presented at the 6'th European HIV Drug Resistance Workshop (EHDRW) in Budapest. Oral presentations include: "Updated Clinical Cut-Offs for the vircoTYPE HIV-1 Resistance Analysis" by Lee Bacheler; Session 5, "Interpretation Approaches", Friday March...

Mechelen, Belgium. February 25, 2008 ARTA, is an acronym for a collaborative project funded by Dutch Development Ministry. It stands for Affordable Resistance Test for Africa. A 3 million euro grant from Dutch Development Ministry was released in Nov. 2007, and the project officially gets underway during February 2008....

Mechelen, Belgium. February 14, 2008 By Deborah Mitchell. BOSTON (Reuters Health) - Although HIV-infected patients in resource-rich and resource-poor countries have comparable rates of compliance and response to first-line highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), there are disparities in the development of viral resistance to treatment. The findings were presented...

Mechelen, Belgium. February 7, 2008 Virco BVBA is sponsoring a resistance seminar at the 12'th Münchner AIDS-Tage - zu Gast in Berlin, 14-16 March 2008, MARITIM Hotel, Stauffenbergstrasse, Berlin. Saturday March 15, 2008, 16.15 - 18.00; Seminar block B 22: Resistenzen (R. Kaiser, H. Walter) Sagt uns der Resistenztest...