Dear XXXXXXXXX:
The 41st annual ICAAC meeting in Chicago was blessed with good weather and was generally well attended. Attendance did seem down from previous years--we're told that there were about 9,000 scientific attendees. But, given the circumstances surrounding this year's conference one can conclude that, all-in-all, the show was a success.
We would like to thank all of you who stopped by the doctorfungus booth (you know who you are), and were delighted to hear your words of praise and suggestions for improvement. Especially rewarding was your willingness to lend a hand and become part of the online community doctorfungus seeks to nurture.
We are particularly eager to expand our visual offerings of clinical images, slides, and videos. These are extremely popular and helpful to all of us. >> Contribute images now<<
Happy 2002!
John Rex, Mike McGinnis &
the entire doctorfungus team
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| UPCOMING EVENTS |
20th Annual UC Davis Infectious Disease Conference
February 8-9, 2002
Sacramento, CA
5th International Conference on Cryptococcus and Cryptococcosis
March 3-8, 2002
Adelaide, Australia
ASM 102nd General Meeting
May 19-23, 2002
Salt Lake City, UT
XIV International AIDS Conference
July 7-12, 2002.
Barcelona, Spain
IDSA 40th Annual Meeting
October 24-27, 2002
Chicago, IL
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In other news, licensure of Pfizer's voriconazole by the FDA appears imminent. If you missed it, Raoul Herbrecht presented key new data at ICAAC 2001 as abstract J-680. In this landmark comparison of voriconazole with conventional amphotericin B as therapy for aspergillosis, voriconazole demonstrated superior efficacy, superior safety, and reduced mortality.
With this new dataset, the range of options for therapy for aspergillosis now includes the amphotericin B preparations, itraconazole, voriconazole, and caspofungin. That's three classes of agents, all with strong activity and, in some cases, good potential for use in combination.
Pretty exciting!
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Name that Fungi!
At doctorfungus.org we have detailed data on approximately 80 genus of fungi. You can view them here. In addition, our genus-species database provides nomenclature information on more than 1400 species from almost 400 genera. You can access this part of the website here
Got a Link?
Doctorfungus has over 100 links to various on-line resources that we considered potentially useful to you. Are there any that we missed? Do you have one that you believe we should add?
See our list of on-line resources here, and let us know what you'd like us to add!
Quick Quiz!
Which species name has been associated with the most different genera? Give up? Find the answer here.
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This extensive collection of downloadable images searchable by numerous criteria is every mycologist's dream come true!
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The purpose of the doctorfungus slide bank is to give you and your colleagues a repository for sharing, exchanging and collaborating on medical/scientific mycology-related pre-formatted PowerPoint slides.
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A detailed susceptibility database that provides a way to search selected data from many different papers.
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To sort out all those crazy fungal names, we've created this index. It currently contains data on ~1,000 species from ~400 different genera!
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Keep yourself and your colleagues up-to-date on upcoming industry events with the doctorfungus mycological events calendar. You can even post events that we may have missed.
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