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Relating Numbers of Foodborne Pathogens to Human Illness: Program

Food Safety Initiative Technical Workshop:

Relating Numbers of Foodborne Pathogens to Human Illness

Introduction | Program | Talks | Abstracts | Qs & As | Slides | Biographies

Tuesday, August 4, 1998
Atrium, Stamp Student Union
University of Maryland
College Park, MD

PROGRAM

Welcome and Introductory Overview
Welcome
Fred R. Shank, PhD
Food and Drug Administration, Office of the Commissioner, Rockville, MD

Introduction (Abstract)
Wes Long, PhD
Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Washington, DC

Session 1
Chair, David W. Gaylor, PhD
Food and Drug Administration, National Center for Toxicological Research, Jefferson, AR

Why Relate Numbers of Foodborne Pathogens to Human Illness (Abstract)
James D. Wilson, PhD
Resources for the Future, St. Louis, MO

Limitations of Current Dose-Response Data and Models: Information Needs for Microbiological Risk Assessors (Abstract)
Margaret Coleman
US Department of Agriculture, Office of Public Health and Science, Washington, DC

Session 2
Chair, Dennis Kopecko, PhD
Food and Drug Administration, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Bethesda, MD

Mechanisms of Pathogenesis of Salmonellae: Linking in vitro, Animal and Human Studies (Abstract)
James Slauch, PhD
Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

Correlating Host Resistance and Susceptibility with Biomarkers from in vitro, ex vitro and Animal Models (Abstract)
H. Kirk Ziegler, PhD
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Session 3
Chair, Myron M. Levine, MD, DTPH
Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

Use of Epidemiological Data in Dose-Response Models (Abstract)
Kirk Smith, DVM, PhD
Minnesota Department of Health, Minneapolis, MN

Enumeration of Salmonella enteritidis in an Outbreak Associated with Ice Cream (Abstract)
Sita Tatini, PhD
Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 

Suitability of Small Human Clinical Studies to Measure Pathogenesis of Foodborne Pathogens (Abstract)
David Tribble, MD
Enteric Diseases Program, Naval Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, MD

Open Discussion
Moderator, Dennis Lang, PhD
National Institutes for Health, NIAID, Bethesda, MD

Summary

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