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International Leptospirosis Society Inc. (ILS)

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The International Leptospirosis Society Inc. (ILS) was formed in 1994 to promote knowledge on leptospirosis through the organisation of regional and global leptospirosis meetings.

Linkage to LEPTONET (opens in new window)

 

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. USA
  • Rudy Hartskeerl. Netherlands (immediate past president)
  • Albert Ko. USA

Conferences/Meetings:

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

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Other information and events

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 (Observer) and Renee Galloway (Observer).