The International Leptospirosis Society Inc. (ILS) was formed in 1994 to promote knowledge on leptospirosis through the organisation of regional and global leptospirosis meetings.
Vale Chris Everard
It is with great sadness that we share the news that Chris Everard passed away in June 2012, a short while after his 80th birthday. Chris was born in India and educated in England, but he spent much of his adult life working in the tropics as an external staff member of the U.K. Medical Research Council. Chris was a zoologist by training and worked first in Nigeria, then from 1968 in Trinidad, Grenada and finally in Barbados. Chris was a fixture for many years in the leptospirosis community and his role in the understanding of leptospirosis in the southern Caribbean was fundamental. His enthusiasm was well known and his colleagues in Barbados were never surprised when he arrived at the lab with fresh road kill for culture! MRC rules for overseas staff required Chris to retire from active research at the age of 60, long before he was ready. Unfortunately Chris and Jenny’s plans for their retirement were much constrained by Jenny’s illness, and they did not travel to many of the recent meetings. We have lost another good friend. Our condolences are with his family.
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- Membership
- Executive Officers
- Conferences, Meetings
- Objectives of the Society
- Links
- Other information and events
- Taxonomic Subcommittee
Membership of the Society is open to everybody interested in leptospirosis.
There are no costs involved with membership of the Society. To join the society, join the ILS Google Group http://groups.google.com/group/international-leptospirosis-society?hl=en This group is the principle means of communication between ILS members.
Executive Officers
- Roderick Chappel – President, (Australia)
E-mail : roderick@nrl.gov.au
Telephone: +61 3 9418 1115
Facsimile: +61 3 9418 1155
Website: NRL (opens in a new window)
Postal Address: 4th Floor, Healy Building, 41 Victoria Parade, Fitzroy, VIC 3065,
Australia
- Alejandro de la Peña Moctezuma – Secretary (Mexico)
Email: delapema@unam.mx
Telephone: +52 414 291 8100
Facsimile: +52 414 291 8105
Postal address: Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Km 8.5 carretera Tequisquiapan - Ezequiel Montes, Tequisquiapan, 76750, Querétaro, México - David Haake – President Elect (USA)
- Ben Adler – Adjunct Secretary (Australia)
Executive members:
- Joe Vinetz. USA
- Subash Sehgal. India
- Bibiana Brihuega. Argentina
- Mathieu Picardeau. France
- Jarlath Nally. Ireland
- Claudia Muñoz-Zanzi. USA
- Eric Bertherat. Switzerland
- Guilherme Ribeiro. Brazil
- Gabriel Trueba. Ecuador
- Ashutosh Verma. St Kitts and Nevis
- Rudy Hartskeerl. Netherlands (immediate past president)
- Albert Ko. USA
Conferences/Meetings:
- The ILS 2011 Scientific Meeting was held in Mérida, Yucatán, México, 19 to 22 September 2011
- The ILS 2013 Scientific Meeting will be held in Fukuoka, Japan, 8 to 11 October 2013
Objectives of the Society
a) To create awareness about leptospirosis among medical and veterinary professionals, scientists, health planners, policy makers and the general public in different parts of the world;
b) To organise an international scientific meeting of the Society, biennially or as appropriate;
c) To facilitate communication among people with an interest in leptospirosis;
d) To provide up-to-date epidemiological information on leptospirosis to international and national health authorities as requested;
e) To provide or support internationally available services, as appropriate, that will assist the diagnosis of leptospirosis, research into leptospirosis, or the control or treatment of leptospirosis
Links to other Lepto places
- Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, UK
- Leptospira Molecular Biology Home Page, Institut Pasteur
- Monash University, Microbiology Department, Leptospira Laboratory
- Leptospira Reference Laboratory, Brisbane
- University of Trieste Spirochaete Laboratory
- Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of Lisbon
- Leptospira Reference Laboratory, Amsterdam
- Leptospira library at KIT
Other information and events
- MLST data on Leptospira and other bacterial species
- For information on the International MAT Proficiency Testing program
- Download information on the book "Leptospira and leptospirosis", Faine et al. (2000)
- The WHO/ILS publication "Human Leptospirosis: Guidance For Diagnosis, Surveillance And Control" (pdf)
- Download the 2007 ILS Business Meeting Minutes (pdf 50 KB)
- Spanish version of the WHO/ILS publication "Human Leptospirosis: Guidance for Diagnosis, Surveillance and Control" (pdf 1.2 MB)
Taxonomic Subcommittee
At its 2002 meeting, the Committee on the Taxonomy of Leptospira of the International Union of Microbiological Societies approved the following nomenclature for serovars of Leptospira. Genus and species must of course be italicized, with the serovar name not italicized and with an upper case first letter. Members are requested to adhere to this official nomenclature and to insist upon it in all papers they review.
For example:
Leptospira interrogans serovar Icterohaemorrhagiae
L. borgpetersenii serovar Hardjo
- Committee on the Taxonomy of Leptospira
Membership: Ben Adler, Roderick Chappel, Rudy Hartskeerl, Paul Levett (Secretary), Lee Smythe (Chairman), Richard Zuerner, Mathieu Picardeau and Renee Galloway.
- Minutes of TSC Meeting, November 2005 (pdf)
- Minutes of TSC Meeting, September 2007 (pdf)
- Minutes of TSC meeting, September 2009 (pdf)
- Minutes of TSC meeting, September 2011 (pdf)
