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Agenda. Workshop on Issues of Resistance: Microbes, Vectors, and the Hosts. Day 1 Print   Email


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Wednesday, February 6, 2002

10:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks
Adel Mahmoud
Chair, Forum on Emerging Infections
President, Merck Vaccines
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10:45 Arms Races with Evolving Diseases: Patterns, Costs, and Containment
Stephen Palumbi, Harvard University
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Session I: Case Studies of Antimicrobial Resistance
Moderator: Carlos Lopez, Eli Lilly

11:15 The Cost of Antimicrobial Resistance
Richard Smith, University of East Anglia
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11:45 Resistant strains of Pneumococci, Staphylococci, and Enterococci
Alexander Tomasz, Rockefeller University
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12:15 Multidrug resistant Tuberculosis
Jim Yong Kim, Harvard University (invited) or
Clifton Barry, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (invited)

12:45 Lunch

1:30 Resistance to HIV-I Drug Therapies
Robert Redfield, The Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland

2:00 Chloroquine Resistant Malaria
Tom Wellems, NIAID
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2:30 Schistosomiasis and Antihelminth Resistance
Charlie King, Case Western University
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3:00 Epitope Escape Variants
Robert Webster, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Studies on the Ecology of Influenza in Animals and Birds
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Session II: Vector Resistance
Moderator: Barry Beaty, Colorado State University

3:30 Pesticide Resistance: Implications for Disease Emergence and Control
Janet Hemingway, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
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4:00 Studies in Antibiotic and Insecticide Resistance: Commonalties, Differences, and New Directions
Steven Peck, BYU
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4:30 Managing the Emergence of Pesticide Resistance in Vectors
William Brogdon, Division of Parasitic Diseases, CDC
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Session III: Discussion Panel

5:00
Moderator: Carole Heilman, NIAID
William Jack, Georgetown University
Lynn Marks, GlaxoSmith Kline
Steve Brickner, Pfizer

6:00 Adjournment of the first day




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