Program

Welcome and Introductory Overview 
Welcome 
Fred R. Shank, PhD 
Food and Drug Administration, Office of the Commissioner, Rockville, MD

Introduction (Abstract)
Wes Long, PhD 
Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Washington, DC

Session 1 
Chair, David W. Gaylor, PhD 
Food and Drug Administration, National Center for Toxicological Research, Jefferson, AR

Why Relate Numbers of Foodborne Pathogens to Human Illness (Abstract)
James D. Wilson, PhD 
Resources for the Future, St. Louis, MO

Limitations of Current Dose-Response Data and Models: Information Needs for Microbiological Risk Assessors (Abstract) 
Margaret Coleman 
US Department of Agriculture, Office of Public Health and Science, Washington, DC

Session 2 
Chair, Dennis Kopecko, PhD 
Food and Drug Administration, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Bethesda, MD

Mechanisms of Pathogenesis of Salmonellae: Linking in vitro, Animal and Human Studies (Abstract) 
James Slauch, PhD 
Department of Microbiology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

Correlating Host Resistance and Susceptibility with Biomarkers from in vitro, ex vitro and Animal Models(Abstract) 
H. Kirk Ziegler, PhD 
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Session 3 
Chair, Myron M. Levine, MD, DTPH 
Center for Vaccine Development, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

Use of Epidemiological Data in Dose-Response Models (Abstract) 
Kirk Smith, DVM, PhD 
Minnesota Department of Health, Minneapolis, MN

Enumeration of Salmonella enteritidis in an Outbreak Associated with Ice Cream (Abstract)
Sita Tatini, PhD 
Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 

Suitability of Small Human Clinical Studies to Measure Pathogenesis of Foodborne Pathogens (Abstract)
David Tribble, MD 
Enteric Diseases Program, Naval Medical Research Institute, Bethesda, MD

Open Discussion 
Moderator, Dennis Lang, PhD 
National Institutes for Health, NIAID, Bethesda, MD

Summary

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