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conférer (ici)

English translation: confer (to)

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French term or phrase:conférer
English translation:confer (to)
Entered by: PFB (X)

17:40 Oct 9, 2005
French to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Genetics / FRE Canadian/transcript of a meeting on the treatment of CMV in transplant patients
French term or phrase: conférer (ici)
Ou des tests génotypiques qui consistes à amplifier des gènes viraux qui sont impliqués dans la résistance et à les séquencer, pour voir si il y a des mutations conférents la résistance, la même approche que l’on fait pour le VIH en ce moment

I don't quite understand the meaning of 'conférer' in this sentence. Could it be that the person who was doing the transcript misunderstood the word said?

whadda ya'll think?

(sick of my questions yet?)
Sandra C.
France
Local time: 06:44
conférant = conferring?
Explanation:
the word is conférant
Selected response from:

PFB (X)
Local time: 06:44
Grading comment
thanks!
3 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +9conférant = conferring?
PFB (X)
3 +10confer
Ford Prefect
5 +3see note
Georges Tocco


Discussion entries: 3





  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +9
conférer (ici)
conférant = conferring?


Explanation:
the word is conférant

PFB (X)
Local time: 06:44
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 3
Grading comment
thanks!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Georges Tocco
7 mins
  -> Ah je savais bien que j'avais pas tout faux! Il faut le dire à Sarah ;-) Merci Georges
agree  Rachel Fell
21 mins
  -> Thanks Rachel
agree  Diantha Guessous: Grammar errors in the source text sure don't help! ( another verb form error in line 1). In any case, confer/(ring) is often used in such contexts. Lots of hits in Pubmed See also.http://www.aegis.com/conferences/hivdrw/2002/41.html
31 mins
  -> Thanks Diantha
agree  Richard Benham: With Diantha. The transcription is terrible!
58 mins
  -> Thanks Richard
agree  mwatchorn
1 hr
  -> Thanks mwatchorn
agree  df49f (X): typo pour conférant du verbe conférer: can be found in any dictionary
1 hr
  -> Merci df49f
agree  Dr Sue Levy (X)
1 hr
  -> Merci Sue
agree  Linda 969
2 hrs
  -> Thanks Linda
agree  Lúcia Lopes: conferring, yesss!!! :-)
3 hrs
  -> thanks Maria
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +10
conférer (ici)
confer


Explanation:
In the sense of mutations conferring resistance to (probably - context required) some kind of treatment. If anything is wrong with the source it maybe should read "mutations qui conférents la resistance"

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Note added at 6 mins (2005-10-09 17:47:18 GMT)
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"sequencing was used to determine if there were any mutations conferring resistance..."

Ford Prefect
Burkina Faso
Local time: 04:44
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  PFB (X)
6 mins
  -> Thanks Philippe
agree  Georges Tocco
7 mins
  -> Thanks Georges
agree  Rachel Fell: "mutations qui conférent la resistance" (sorry,can't do the right accent there!) or "conférant"\\I understand - didn't mean to nit-pick!
21 mins
  -> Thanks Rachel - "conférents" was copied from the original question - I should have highlighted the change (qui)
agree  Anne McKee
31 mins
agree  Diantha Guessous: second the comment in Rachael's agreement
37 mins
agree  Richard Benham: Well done, Dr James. Good to see you branching out into other language pairs!
56 mins
agree  df49f (X): typo pour conférant du verbe conférer: can be found in any dictionary
1 hr
agree  Dr Sue Levy (X)
1 hr
agree  Linda 969
2 hrs
agree  Lúcia Lopes: yeah! :-)
3 hrs
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +3
conférer (ici)
see note


Explanation:
the mutation renders the virus resistant to ganciclovir that is only targetted to some forms of the virus. That is why they wnat to sequnce the virus in order to know if it is of the variety that will be targetted by the drug. If not it would be useless to use this drug against that mutated virus



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Note added at 7 mins (2005-10-09 17:48:50 GMT)
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so indeed the mutation confers resistance (to the drug) in this case.

Georges Tocco
Italy
Local time: 06:44
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 7

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  sarahl (X)
0 min
agree  PFB (X)
5 mins
agree  Rachel Fell
14 mins
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