2000 LDF Conference Agenda -- Farmington, Ct.

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Keynote

Attorney General of the State of Connecticut - Richard Blumenthal

 

West Nile virus: Epicenter to epidemic and expectations in 2000

McNamara

West Nile virus in Connecticut

Anderson

Overview of human ehrlichioses and Rocky Mountain spotted fever in the US Padduck

Coinfections

Magnorelli

 

Lyme disease in the South

Oliver

 

Analysis of Southern Borrelia

James

 

Babesiosis

Krause

 

Preliminary in vitro and in vivo findings of hyperbaric oxygen treatment in experimental Borrelia burgdorferi infection

Pavia

 

Immunity against host-adapted Bb in the rabbit

Miller

 

Immunologic aspects of Vlse, a Bb antigenic variation protein

Norris

An Immunodominant peptide of Bb Vlse: Role in diagnosis and pathogenesis Philipp

Antibiotic treatment of Lyme borreliosis: A review of results with dogs

Staubinger

 

A Borrelia burgdorferi repetitive antigen that confers protection against experimental Lyme disease Skare o Use of borreliacidal assay in the serodiagnosis of Lyme disease

Schell

 

Lyme neuroborreliosis: Role of PCR and culture in the diagnosis and in the confirmation of relapse after antibiotic treatment

Oski

Laboratory testing panel

Tilton, Shah, Schell, Golightly, Mordechai

 

 

Sunday, March 26, 2000

 

Keynote

Willy Burgdorfer, PhD, MD

 

Characterization of an immune evasion system in Lyme disease spirochetes Marconi

Environmental regulation of gene expression in Bb

Samuels

Matrix metalloproteinases in Lyme disease pathogenesis

Perides

Interleukin-10 regulation during acute Lyme arthritis in dogs

Staubinger

T-cell response

Marques

Protection against tick-transmitted LD in dogs vaccinated with a multiantigenic vaccine

Frey

 

OspA vaccine update, including serology and EM rashes

Parenti

Atypical EM and acute Lyme disease

Masters

 

Neurologic Lyme disease in adults

Coyle

Neurologic Lyme disease in children and adolescents

Pietrucha

 

Cognitive deficits in children with chronic Lyme and the public health and educational implications

Rissenberg

Neuroimaging in neuropsychiatric Lyme disease: Uses, abuses, and the future

Fallon

Pharmacologic properties of antibiotics and their relevence to Lyme disease

Donta

Treatment Roundtable

Fein, Leigner, Donta, Pietrucha, Burrascano

 

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