Upcoming Scientific Meetings:

• The International Leptospirosis Society Scientific Meeting has been postponed until November 2022 and will take place at Chulalongkorn University & King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital (KCMH) in Bangkok, Thailand.

• The Biology of Spirochetes Gordon Research Conference will be held February 20 - 25, 2022, in Lucca, Italy. "The Science of Spirochetology and Spirochete Disease Pathogenesis".

• The 4th ELS Scientific meeting on leptospirosis and other rodent borne haemorrhagic fevers will take place ~May, 2022 in Belgium.  

Leptospirosis in Europe:

• Increase in leptospirosis infections in humans and dogs in the Netherlands, 2014.

• European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control Annual Epidemiological Report 

Reference Centre for Leptospirosis: The Netherlands

Reference Centre for Leptospirosis: France

The International Leptospirosis Society

OIE reference laboratories for leptospirosis

WHO link to information on leptospirosis

CDC link to information on leptospirosis

DISCONTOOLS: Research gaps for improving infectious disease control in animals

Past ELS Scientific Meetings:

• The 3rd ELS Scientific meeting on leptospirosis and other rodent borne haemorrhagic fevers took place May 24-26, 2018 in Alghero, Italy.

• The 2nd ELS Scientific meeting on leptospirosis and other rodent borne haemorrhagic fevers took place April 16-18, 2015 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

• The inaugral ELS Scientific meeting on leptospirosis and other rodent borne haemorrhagic fevers took place May 30-June 2, 2012 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. 

Is leptospirosis re-emerging?

Number of Diagnoses = Z x N x L

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Z = the incidence of the disease

N = the number of persons at risk

L = number of leptospirologists in the area