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Sunday, March 25, 2007 - 8:30 AM, Manchester D - F
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- Chagas Disease and Tuberculosis: The Past and the Present
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Moderators:
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Jeannette Guarner, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Atlanta, GA and Marvin J. Allison, Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA
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| 8:30 | Paleopathology of Chagas Disease - Marvin J. Allison, Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA |
| 9:15 | Chagas Disease Today - Roberto Badaro, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil, University of California, San Diego, CA |
| 10:00 | Break |
| 10:30 | Paleopathology of Tuberculosis - Enrique Gerszten, Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA |
| 11:15 | Tuberculosis Today - Antonino Catanzaro, Univ. of California, San Diego, CA |
| Paleopathology Posters: | - Histological Analysis of Tissues from the Egyptian Mummies of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Athens, Greece
- Paleopathology in a Chiribaya Excavation
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| Diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases is constantly changing, particularly as bacteria acquire resistant to antibiotics or when infections are acquired through transplantation. Members of the education committee chose tuberculosis and Chagas disease as examples that fall into the above described categories. Knowledge of historical information, including paleoppathology research, clinical aspects of these diseases, and new advances in basic research should help pathologists better understand pathobiology and will aid in timely diagnosis and treatment of these diaseses. |
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