International Leptospirosis Society (ILS)

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

The ILS gratefully acknowledges the generous continuing support of PanBio

• Executive Officers
• Terms of Reference
• Conferences, Meetings
• Membership
• Other information and events
• The ILS List Server
• 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, download theApplication Form(RTF format), fill it in and send it as an email attachment to the ILS Secretary.

The ILS List Server

Download information on the ILS List Server (rtf format) Please subscribe to this if you joining ILS. It is the principle form of communication between members. Remember to keep your email address up to date.

Executive Officers

• Rudy Hartskeerl - President, WHO/FAO/OIE/RIVM Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Leptospirosis

E-mail : r.hartskeerl@kit.nl
Telephone: +31 20 566 5441 or 5438
Facsimile: +31 20 697 1841
Postal Address: KIT (Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen/Royal Tropical Institute), KIT Biomedical Research, Meibergdreef 39, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands

• Joe Vinetz - Secretary
• Ben Adler - Adjunct Secretary,

Executive members:

• Rod Chappel (President Elect)
• Paul Cullen
• David Haake
• Subash Sehgal
• Yupin Suputtamongol
• Gabriel Trueba

Conferences/Meetings:

• ILS 2009 Scientific Meeting, Cochin, India    

Terms of Reference  The terms of reference of the ILS are:

1. To stimulate international leptospirosis research meetings worldwide mainly through liaison and collaborating with other microbiological groups either in leptospirosis or other fields of microbiology.
2. To maintain an executive committee to plan, monitor and guide future meetings.
3. To organise a meeting of the ILS every third year or as appropriate.
4. To provide up-to-date epidemiological information on leptospirosis to international and national health authorities as requested.
   

Links to other Lepto places

• 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

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 file).
• Download the 2007 ILS Business Meeting Minutes (pdf, 50kb)
• Spanish version of the WHO/ILS publication "Human Leptospirosis: Guidance for Diagnosis, Surveillance and Control" (pdf, 1.2 MB)
   

Taxonomic Subcommittee

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) and Richard Zuerner

• Minutes of TSC Meeting, November 2005 (pdf)
• Minutes of TSC Meeting, September 2007 (pdf)