The 65th Annual James Steele Conference on Diseases in Nature Transmissible to Man
May 20-22, 2015
San Luis Resort, Spa, and Conference Center, Galveston, Texas
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
7:00
Registration Table Opens – Grand Ballroom Foyer
7:00
Meeting Room Opens – Grand Ballroom
7:30-8:30
Continental Breakfast – Grand Ballroom Foyer
7:55
Call to Order and Announcements
Bonny C. Mayes, MA, Department of State Health Services, Austin, TX
Pamela Wilson, LVT, MEd, MCHES, Department of State Health Services, Austin, TX
8:10
Welcome Remarks
Speaker TBD
8:30-10:00
Session I: Rabies
Moderator: Pamela J. Wilson, LVT, MEd, MCHES, Department of State Health Services, Austin, TX
8:30
Canine Rabies in a Central Texas Animal Shelter Adoption Ward
Melissa Maass, LVT, Department of State Health Services, Temple, TX
9:00
Reducing Rabies Transmission Potential Within Animal Impoundment Facilities
Beverlee Nix, DVM, MPH, Department of State Health Services, Temple, TX
9:30
South-Central Skunk Rabies in a Dog in Harris County, Texas
Dipa Brahmbhatt, VMD, MPH, MS, Harris County Public Health and Environmental Services,
Houston, TX
10:00
Refreshment Break – Grand Ballroom Foyer
10:30-12:00
Session II: Bacterial Zoonoses I
Moderator: Jeffrey M.B. Musser, DVM, PhD, DABVP-Dairy, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
10:30
Clinical Update on Chlamydophila pneumoniae Encephalitis in a Colony of Endangered Houston
Toads (Anaxyrus houstonensis)
Lauren Howard, DVM, Dipl. ACZM, Houston Zoo, Houston, TX
11:00
Tularemia in a Group of Falconers
Veronica Fialkowski, MPH, Michigan Department of Community Health; CDC/CSTE
11:30
Novicidemia vs. Tularemia: Fatal Novicidemia and Bronchopneumonia in a 68-year-old Male
Ronald Tyler, DVM, MS, Department of State Health Services, Harlingen, TX
12:00-1:30
Lunch On Your Own
1:30-3:30
Session III: Vectorborne Zoonoses
Moderator: Ken Waldrup, DVM, PhD, Department of State Health Services, El Paso, TX
1:30
Onchocerca lupi Infection Presenting as an Orbital Mass in a Healthy Boy
Jill E. Weatherhead, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
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The 65th Annual James Steele Conference on Diseases in Nature Transmissible to Man
May 20-22, 2015
San Luis Resort, Spa, and Conference Center, Galveston, Texas
2:00
Cardiac Manifestations of Chagas Disease and Clinical Presentation in Dogs
Ashley Saunders, DVM, Dipl. ACVIM (Cardiology), Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
2:30
Evaluation of the Importance of VlsE Antigenic Variation for the Enzootic Cycle of Borrelia
burgdorferi
Artem Rogovskyy, DVM, MS, PhD, DACVM, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
3:00
Geographic Distribution of Ornithodoros turicata (Argasidae) in the United States: Bioclimatic
Variation, Host Diversity and Distribution, and Human Relapsing Fever Case Histories
Taylor Donaldson, MS, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
3:30
Refreshment Break – Grand Ballroom Foyer
4:00-5:30
Session IV: Public Health Surveillance
Moderator: Bob Garrison, DVM, MS, Department of State Health Services, Houston, TX
4:00
Shelter Trends in Zoonotic, Vector-borne, and Parasitic Diseases Across Texas
Sarah Hamer, MS, PhD, DVM, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
4:30
Hepatitis E Seroprevalence in Canines, Smith County, Texas; Confirmation of IgG Results
Andrea Grzybowski, MS, University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX
5:00
Small Mammal Assemblage Structure Can Predict Hantavirus Seroprevalence Worldwide
Matthew Milholland, MS, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
Thursday, May 21, 2015
7:30
Registration Table Opens – Grand Ballroom Foyer
7:30
Meeting Room Opens – Grand Ballroom
8:00-9:00
Continental Breakfast – Grand Ballroom Foyer
8:25
Call To Order and Announcements
8:30 – 10:00 Session V: Ebola
Moderator: Thomas J. Sidwa, DVM, MPH, Department of State Health Services, Austin, TX
8:30
Quarantine of a Dog Exposed to a Human Case of Ebola Virus Disease
(Panel Presentation/Discussion)
Shelley Stonecipher DVM, MPH, DACVPM, Department of State Health Services, Arlington, TX
Max Dow, DVM, MPH, Texas Animal Health Commission, Fort Worth, TX
Casey Barton Behravesh, MS, DVM, DrPH, DACVPM, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
Atlanta, GA
Catherine McManus, VMD, MPH, DACVPM, Dallas Animal Services, Dallas, TX
Jody Jones, Dallas Animal Services, Dallas, TX
Deb Zoran, DVM, PhD, DACVIM, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Wesley Bissett, DVM, PhD, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Eleanor M. Green, DVM, DACVIM, DABVP, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
10:00
Refreshment Break – Grand Ballroom Foyer
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The 65th Annual James Steele Conference on Diseases in Nature Transmissible to Man
May 20-22, 2015
San Luis Resort, Spa, and Conference Center, Galveston, Texas
10:30-12:00
Session VI: International Public Health
Moderator: Ronald Tyler, DVM, MS, Department of State Health Services, Harlingen, TX
10:30
One Healthy Village at a Time: Improving Interdisciplinary Ecosystem Health in Nicaragua and
Haiti
Rosina C. Krecek, PhD, MBA, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Ruth Bush, MD, JD, MPH, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
11:00
Investigation of an Outbreak of Unexplained Kidney Disease in Sugarcane Workers in Nicaragua
Kristy Murray, DVM, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
11:30
Staphylococcus aureus Carriage in HIV-Infected and Uninfected Children in Botswana
Rebecca S.B. Fischer, MPH, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
12:00 – 1:45 J.V. Irons Memorial Luncheon and Lecture
Moderator: Kristy Murray, DVM, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
12:00
Buffet – Mainsail Room, 2nd Floor
12:45-1:45
J.V. Irons Keynote Lecture
Ebola—The Saga Continues
James W. Le Duc, PhD
Director, Galveston National Laboratory, Galveston, TX
Professor, Microbiology and Immunology, UT Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
2:00 – 3:30
Scientific Poster Session
Conference Center Foyer
2:00
Desserts and Beverages Served
3:30 – 5:00
Session VII: Foodborne Zoonoses
Moderator:
3:30
The Epidemiology of Fecal Salmonella Shedding Among Feral Pigs Throughout Texas
Kevin J. Cummings, DVM, PhD, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
4:00
The Epidemiologic Investigation of the Fourth Case of Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD)
in the United States
Michael Fischer, MD, MPH&TM, Department of State Health Services, Austin, TX
4:30
The Creature from the Black Lagoon at Your Dinner Table: Gnathostomiasis as a Foodborne
Parasitic Zoonosis Associated with Consumption of Asian Swamp Eel (Monopterus spp.)
Bob Garrison, DVM, MS, Department of State Health Services, Houston, TX
5:00
Adjourn
Friday, May 22, 2015
7:30
Registration Table Opens – Grand Ballroom Foyer
7:00
Meeting Room Opens – Grand Ballroom
7:30-8:30
Continental Breakfast – Grand Ballroom Foyer
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The 65th Annual James Steele Conference on Diseases in Nature Transmissible to Man
May 20-22, 2015
San Luis Resort, Spa, and Conference Center, Galveston, Texas
7:55
Call To Order and Announcements
8:00 – 9:30
Session VIII: Arboviral Diseases
Moderator: Kristy Murray, DVM, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
8:00
A Model to Predict What Areas of Texas are at Risk for Chikungunya: A Collaboration of DSHS
and the University of Texas
Nedialko Dimitrov, PhD, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
David Florin, PhD, Department of State Health Services, Austin, TX
8:30
Arbovirus Surveillance and Control: Predictive Approaches to quantifying the risk of Dengue
Fever, Chikungunya, and West Nile Virus in Texas
Lauren Castro, BS, MS, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Xi Chen, BS, MS, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
9:00
Is West Nile virus (WNV) Disease in Humans Associated with Increased Numbers of Positive
Mosquito Pools? A Geospatial Analysis of Human and Mosquito Surveillance Data in Harris
County and the City of Houston, Texas, in 2014
Diana Martinez, PhD, Harris County Public Health and Environmental Services, Houston, TX
9:30 – 11:30 Session IX: Bacterial Zoonoses II
Moderator:
9:30
Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus pseudointermedius
Sara D. Lawhon, DVM, PhD, DACVM, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
10:00
Lyme disease and STARI in Texas: The Quest for Answers
Steven J. Norris, PhD, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX
10:30
Refreshment Break – Grand Ballroom Foyer
11:00
Mycobacterium bovis Infection in a Large Texas Panhandle Dairy Herd
David Finch, DVM, Texas Animal Health Commission, Amarillo, TX
James Alexander, DVM, MPVM, DACVPM, Department of State Health Services, Canyon, TX
11:30 – 1:00 Session X: Public Health Response
Moderator: Laura E. Robinson, DVM, MS, Department of State Health Services, Austin, TX
11:30
Controlling Exposure to, Reducing Contamination by, and Neutralizing High Levels of Especially
Dangerous Pathogenic Infectious Agents in Work Areas Under Adverse Field Conditions
Johnathan L. Kiel, DVM, PhD, DACVM, BioAnalysis Consulting LLC, Universal City, TX
12:00
Chagas Disease as an Emerging Health Threat and Collaborative Public Health Effort in the San
Antonio Area
Thomas L. Cropper, DVM, MVPM, DACVPM, U.S. Air Force, San Antonio, TX
12:30
Fifty Years of Fighting the Bite: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Chris Fredregill, Harris County Public Health and Environmental Services, Houston, TX
1:00
Adjourn
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