Brucellosis 2003 proceedings - PHIDIAS

Scientific Program - Monday, September 15
EO6- BRUCELLOSIS RISK FACTORS IN SHEEP FLOCKS AT THE SOUTH OF BEIRA INTERIOR,
PORTUGAL.
M. Martins 1 , V. Almeida 2 e I. Neto 2 . (1) Escola Superior Agrária de Castelo Branco, Quinta da Srª de Mércules, 6001-909
Castelo Branco, Portugal. (2) Faculdade Medicina Veterinária, Polo Universitário do Alto da Ajuda, Rua Professor Cid dos
Santos, 1300-477 Lisboa. Portugal.
EO7- HUMAN HEALTH BENEFITS FROM LIVESTOCK VACCINATION FOR BRUCELLOSIS: A
CASE STUDY.
Felix Roth 1 , Jakob Zinsstag 1 , Dontor Orkhon 2 , G. Chimed-Ochir 3 , Guy Hutton 1 , Ottorino Cosivi 4 , Guy Carrin 4 and Joachim Otte 5 .
(1) Swiss Tropical Institute, Swiss Centre for International Health and Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, PO Box,
CH-4002 Basle, Switzerland. (2) Ministry of Public Health, Olympic Street 2, Ulaanbaatar 11, Mongolia. (3) Infectious Disease
Research Centre, PO Box 48, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. (4) World Health Organisation, Avenue Appia 20, 1211 Geneva 27,
Switzerland. (5) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Roma,
Italy.
EO8- DIAGNOSTIC VALIDATION OF BOVINE BRUCELLOSIS SEROLOGICAL TESTS FOR
EPIDEMIOSURVEILLANCE PURPOSES.
F. Boelaert 1 , E. Venoo 1 , D. Verloo 1 , C. Saegerman 2 , G. Maquet 3 , M. Lomba 3 , L. De Meulemeester 4 , J. Wullepit 4 , K. Walravens 1 ,
K. Mintiens 1 , J. Godfroid 1 . (1) Veterinary and Agrochemical Research Center, Brussels, Belgium. (2) Ministry of Health,
Consumer’s Protection and Environment, Brussels, Belgium. (3) Association Régionale de Santé et d’Identification Animales,
Ciney, Belgium. (4) Diergezondheidszorg Vlaanderen, Leefdaal, Belgium.
EO9- DIFFERENCES IN SERUM ANTIBODY RESPONSES BETWEEN PIGS EXPERIMENTALLY
INFECTED WITH Brucella suis BIOVAR 2 AND Yersinia enterocolitica SEROTYPE O:9.
G. Jungersen, V. Sørensen, S. Giese, and U. Riber. Danish Veterinary Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark.
EO10- NEW ANTIBRUCELLOSIS STRATEGY.
P. Ignatov 1 , U. Immomaliev 2 , I. Mamatkulov 2 , A. Fedorov 1 . (1) IGN Corporation, USA. (2) Institute of Epidemiology and
Microbiology of Uzbekistan.
11:15 - 13:00 (Lecture room 3A02)
SESSION II – HUMAN BRUCELLOSIS
SHORT ORAL COMMUNICATIONS
Chairman: J. Ariza. Servicio de Enfermedades Infecciosas. Hospital de Belvitge, Barcelona (Spain)
HO1- SIGNIFICANT REDUCED NUMBER OF Brucella-SPECIFIC IFN-g-PRODUCING CD3 T
CELLS IN HUMAN CHRONIC BRUCELLOSIS.
Alireza Rafiei 1 , Amina Kariminia 2 , Sussan K. Ardestani 3 , Abdolhosein Keyhani 1 , Mino Mohraz 4 , Ali Amirkhani 2 . (1) Department
of Immunology, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. (2) Department of Immunology,
Pasture Institute, Tehran, Iran. (3) Section of Immunology , Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Tehran University, Tehran,
Iran. (4) Department of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
HO2- Brucella IgM AND IgG FLOW ASSAYS FOR THE RAPID SERODIAGNOSIS OF HUMAN
BRUCELLOSIS.
H. L. Smits 1 , T. H. Abdoel 1 , J. Solera 2 , E. Clavijo 3 , and R. Diaz 4 . (1) KIT Biomedical Research, Royal Tropical Institute /
Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen (KIT), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (2) Unit of Infectious Diseases, General Hospital of
Albacete, Albacete, Spain. (3) Microbiology Unit, HCU Virgen de la Victoria, Malaga, Spain. (4) Servicio de Microbiología
Clínica, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
HO3- INTERFERENCE OF RHEUMATOID FACTOR IN THE IgM-BASED SEROLOGICAL
DIAGNOSE OF HUMAN BRUCELLOSIS.
R. Díaz 1 , H. Smits 2 , T. H. Abdoel 2 , M. Rubio 1 , J. Ariza 3 , A. Casanova 3 , E. Clavijo 4 , J. Solera 5 , A. Orduña 6 and I. Dorronsoro 7 . (1)
Departamento de Microbiología, Universidad de Navarra. Pamplona, Spain. (2) KIT Biomedical Research. Royal Tropiocal
Institute. Amsterdam. The Netherlands. (3) Hospital de Bellvitge, Barcelona, Spain. (4) Hospital Virgen de la Victoria. Málaga.
Spain. (5) Departamento de Medicina Interna. Facultad de Medicina. (6) Departamento de Microbiología. Universidad de
Valladolid. Valladolid. Spain. (7) Hospital de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
HO4- RAPID DIAGNOSIS OF HUMAN BRUCELLOSIS BY SERUM QUANTITATIVE REAL-TIME
PCR.
J.D. Colmenero 1 , M.I. Queipo-Ortuño 2 , María E. Pachón 3 , M. Gonzalez 4 , J.Mª. Reguera 1 , G. Baeza 2 , M.A. García-Ordoñez 1 and
P. Morata 2 . (1) U. E. Infecciosas, Hospital Universitario Carlos Haya, Málaga, Spain. (2) Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología
Molecular, Facultad de Medicina, Málaga, Spain. (3) Servicio E. Infecciosas, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Sevilla,
Spain. (4) U. E. Infecciosas, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria, Málaga, Spain.
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