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Day 1 (April 22, 1985) Session I-Rapid Diagnosis
Rapid Viral Diagnosis; Its Role in Patient’s Care’, G.D. Hsiung, Yale University School of Medicine and VA Medical Center, West Haven, Connecticut
Immunofluorescence Assays’, C. George Ray, University of Arizona
Immunoenzyme Assays in the Diagnosis of Enteric Viruses’
Robert Yolken, Johns Hopkins University
Diagnosis of Hepatitis Viruses’
Mario Escobar, Medical College of Virginia
Biotin–Avidin for Enhancing Viral Diagnosis’
John Sever and Lata Neuurka, National Institute of Health
DNA and RNA Probes
Charles van der Horst, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill



Day 2 (April 23, 1985) Session II-Clinical Aspects of Viral Infections
‘Diarrhea Viruses in Infants, Children and their Families’
Carl B. Brandt, Children’s Hospital, National Medical Center and George Washington University
HTLV’, Leukemia, and AIDS
Phyllis Kanki, Harvard School of Public Health
‘Human Parvoviruses’
John Kelleher, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA
‘Papillomaviruses’
Keerti Shah, John Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health



Day 3 (April 24, 1985) Session III-‘Prevention and Therapy in Virus Infections’
‘Antiviral Chemotherapy for Herpesviruses’
Richard Whitley, University of Alabama in Birmingham
‘Interferon’s as Antiviral Agents’ William E. Stewart II, University of South Florida, College of Medicine
‘Herpesvirus Vaccine (CMV, VZV, HSV)’
Stanley Plotkin, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania
‘Hepatitis Viruses’
James Maynard, Center for Disease Control
‘Development of a Rotavirus Vaccine for Infant Gastroenteritis’
Albert Kapikian, National Institute of Health