Biennial Symposium on H.ducreyi Pathogenesis and Chancroid

引起生殖器溃疡的杜热氏嗜血杆菌被认为是人类疾病的一个重要原因，直到20世纪80年代的S，当时发现下巴是艾滋病毒异性传播的主要辅助因素。1991年，在国际性病研究学会(ISSTDR)国际会议的同时，举行了两年一次的杜氏杆菌致病和软骨病国际研讨会系列会议中的第一次。会议的目的是促进在可治愈性方面取得进展，以便迅速了解这种被忽视的病原体的生物学和流行病学，并制定根除软下巴的战略。杜雷伊研讨会是ISSTDR的一个卫星研讨会，每两年举行一次，在北美和欧洲之间轮流举行。这一具体建议是为了请求资金 协助赞助H.ducreyi研讨会，特别是承担研究生、博士后研究员和教师讲师参加会议下三次迭代的部分旅费。第八届和第九届国际研讨会将分别在阿姆斯特丹和西雅图举行，第十届会议的地点尚未确定。研讨会的主要目的是提供一个交流有关软骨软骨病研究的临床和基础方面的信息的论坛，并为学生、博士后研究员和新的研究人员提供机会介绍他们对这种微生物的研究。通过将H.ducreyi研讨会与ISSTDR会议联系起来，我们为与会者提供了与 在广泛的性病研究领域工作的临床医生、流行病学家、公共卫生人员和基础科学家。会议还促进了来自美国的调查人员与来自下巴下垂流行的发展中国家的调查人员之间的互动。我们的目标是鼓励在致病机制、宿主反应、疫苗开发、HIV和H.ducreyi相互作用、流行病学和根除疾病等领域的杜氏嗜血杆菌和软下巴生物学的基础和临床研究。 NIAID的Melton Hernandez博士的批准函可在本申请的第33页找到。

Haemophilus ducreyi, which causes the genital ulcer disease chancroid, had been overlooked as a significant cause of human disease until the 1980's, when chancroid was found to be a major co-factor in the heterosexual transmission of HIV. In 1991, the first in a series of biennial International Symposia on H. ducreyi Pathogenesis and Chancroid was held in conjunction with the International Society for STD research (ISSTDR) International Meeting. The purpose of the meeting was to promote progress in curability to rapidly to understand the biology and epidemiology of this neglected pathogen and to devise strategies to eradicate chancroid. The H. ducreyi symposium is a satellite symposium of the ISSTDR, which meets every two years, alternating between North America and Europe. This specific proposal is to request funds to assist in sponsoring the H. ducreyi symposium, specifically to partially underwrite the expense of travel of graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty presenters to the next three iterations of the meeting. The 8th and 9th International Symposia will be held in Amsterdam and Seattle respectively; the venue for the 10th meeting has not been determined. The major objective of the Symposium is to provide a forum for exchange of information on clinical and basic aspects of chancroid research, and to provide the opportunity for students, post-doctoral fellows and new investigators to present their research on this organism. In tying the H. ducreyi symposium to the ISSTDR meeting, we provide participants the ability to interact with clinicians, epidemiologists, public health personnel and basic scientists who work in the broad area of STD research. The meeting also fosters interaction between investigators from the United States with those from developing countries where chancroid is endemic. Our goal is to encourage basic and clinical research in the biology of H. ducreyi and chancroid in the areas of pathogenesis, host responses, vaccine development, HIV and H. ducreyi interactions, epidemiology, and disease eradication. An approval letter from Dr. Melton Hernandez, from the NIAID can be found on page 33 of this application.