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> >        TROPICAL MEDICINE; A CLINICAL AND LABORATORY UPDATE
> >                   Montreal, McGill University
> >                        May 20,21,22

> >This is the 9th time this bi-annual course has been offered, once   again
 bringing together a list of excellent tropical medicine     clinicians from
 North America, with teaching faculty from the McGill    University Centre for
 Tropical Disease. The course objective is a   review of basic and new concepts
 of a range of tropical health subjects. The focus is on the diagnostic and
 therapeutic with a   background of public health. The practice of clinical
 tropical medicine both with and without laboratory resources will be addressed.
> >
> >Subject matter will be:
> >
>  Screening of returning travelers       JD MacLean      McGill U
>  Death, dying and detention abroad      D MacPherson    U MacMaster
>  Typhoid, prevention and treatment      M Levine        U Maryland
>  Investigation of tropical fevers       D Freedman      U Alabama
>  Tuberculosis in Travelers              D MacPherson    U MacMaster
>  New drugs for old worms                D Freedman      U Alabama
>  Cholera troubles                       M Levine        U Maryland
>  A review of recent epidemics           M Libman        McGill U
>  Clinical vignettes
>  Hands-on Laboratory: Helminths         E Kokoskin      McGill U
> >
> >Risk modification: Vitamin A, Zinc     B Ward          McGill U
> >Epidemiology of AIDS in the tropics    R Bollinger     Johns Hopkins
>  Understanding the parasite serologies  B Serhir        McGill U
> >The limits of the O and P              E Kokoskin      McGill U
> >Drug resistance in malaria             K Kain          U Toronto
> >The immunocompromised traveller        R Bollinger     Johns Hopkins
> >African hemorrhagic fevers             B Ward          McGill U
> >Culturing intestinal bacteria          M Libman        McGill U
> >Diagnosing and treating malaria        K Kain          U Toronto
> >Clinical vignettes
> >Hands-on laboratory: Protozoa          E Kokoskin      McGill U
> >
> >Multiple drug resistance in TB         L Poirier       U Montreal
> >Chronic diarrhea                       B Ward          McGill U
> >Tropical dermatology                   JD MacLean      McGill U
> >The science of medical map making      G Lonergan      Public Health
> >Psychologic problems of the uprooted   L Kirmayer      McGill U
> >The global program in vaccines         J Pickering     McGill U
> >Travel on a limited vaccine budget     D Tessier       Hop St Luc
> >Internet resources                     Y Fortin        Hop St Luc
> >Altitude sickness                      L Green         McGill U
> >Clinical vignettes
>  Hands-on Laboratory: Blood parasites   E Kokoskin      McGill U
> > \
> >For further information contact Kelly McCulloch Glover, Postgraduate  Board,
>  Montreal General Hospital, 1650 Cedar Ave, Montreal, Quebec  H3G1A4
> > Telephone-(514)937-6011 (ext. 4173)
> > Fax (514)934-1779
> > E-mail [log in to unmask]
> > Web Site at http://www.mcgill.ca/mgh_pgb