Notice to Readers
International Symposium
on Tuberculosis Vaccine Development and Evaluation
The 1998 International Symposium on Tuberculosis Vaccine
Development
and Evaluation will be held August 26-28, 1998, in San Francisco,
California. The symposium, cosponsored by CDC's National Vaccine
Program
Office, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
the
American Lung Association, the World Health Organization, the
American
Thoracic Society, and the International Union Against Tuberculosis
and Lung
Disease, is for scientists, public health practitioners, infectious
disease
and pulmonary physicians, other health-care providers, vaccine
manufacturers and distributors, and biotechnology firms. Symposium
topics
will include public health implications of tuberculosis (TB), the
status of
TB vaccine development, preclinical obstacles for TB candidate
vaccines,
challenges in TB vaccine evaluation, strategies for overcoming
barriers for
field testing, and criteria for field site selection. Information
on the
symposium is available from CDC's National Vaccine Program Office,
telephone (404) 639-4168.
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