Current Issue
Vol. 6, No. 6
Sep-Oct 2000
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Conference Summary
3rd Conference on New and Reemerging Infectious Diseases
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The 3rd Conference on New and Reemerging Infectious Diseases was hosted on April 20-21, 2000, by the Department of Veterinary Pathology at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Topics included chloroquine resistance in malaria; exotic pathogens, illustrated by West Nile virus; effects of exposure to heat and acid pH on
Leishmania donovani amastigotes; method for purification of polar tube proteins of Microsporidia; zoonotic spread of rotaviruses and caliciviruses;
unforeseen effects of pathogen eradication programs; and panzootic outbreaks of morbillivirus infection in marine mammals and viral and fungal
diseases in amphibians.
This year's conference was dedicated to the memory of parasitologist Norman D. Levine, who was a professor at the University of Illinois for more
than 45 years. Next year's conference is planned for April 19-20, 2001.
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