Mtg Announcement: Int Conf on Diseases in Nature Communicable to Man

Forwarded from ProMED-mail, Id: 20050503.1227
Date: 3 May 2005
From: Kevin Fonseca <K.Fonseca@provlab.ab.ca>

60TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DISEASES IN NATURE COMMUNICABLE TO MAN
  (INCDNCM)
August 7-9, 2005
The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

2nd Call for Abstracts and Meeting Announcement

Call for Abstracts
Abstracts as oral presentations or posters are invited for the 60th
meeting of INCDNCM. The conference is multidisciplinary in scope and
covers infectious agents such as viral, bacterial, parasitic,
prion-related diseases acquired by humans from natural sources,
including animals (wild or domestic), contaminated water or food
supplies, arthropod vectors and other sources. Invited speakers will
open a symposium followed by presentations related to that theme.

Conference themes include:
- Avian influenza
- West Nile virus
- BSE
- Zoonotic bacterial, viral and parasitic diseases

Conference, registration and abstract information is available at
<http://secure.provlab.ab.ca/bugs/incdncm>

or by contacting:
Kevin Fonseca or Reeta Padamsey
Provincial Laboratory for Public Health (Microbiology)
3030 Hospital Drive NW
Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
T2N 4W4
<k.fonseca@provlab.ab.ca>
<r.padamsey@provlab.ab.ca>
<http://www.provlab.ab.ca/>

--
Dr. Kevin Fonseca, PhD  D(ABMM)
Clinical Virologist, Provincial Laboratory for Public Health
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
<k.fonseca@provlab.ab.ca>
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