43rd National Immunization Conference (NIC): What’s New with Diagnostics for Mumps and Other Causes of Parotitis?

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B2 What’s New with Diagnostics for Mumps and Other Causes of Parotitis?

This workshop will review various challenges in diagnosing mumps infections, especially in persons who have been previously vaccinated against mumps. New laboratory approaches to identification of mumps or other etiologies for parotitis will be discussed.
Monday, March 30, 2009: 2:00 PM-3:00 PM
Lone Star Ballroom C2
Moderators:
Huong McLean and Charley LeBaron
2:00 PM
Introductory Remarks
2:05 PM
Limitations of Serologic Diagnostic Testing In Individuals Previously Vaccinated against Mumps
Carole Hickman
2:20 PM
Who's Infected, Who's Protected: New Diagnostic Approaches for the Laboratory Identification of Mumps In Previously Vaccinated Individuals
Don Latner
2:35 PM
Testing of Specimens from Sporadic Cases of Parotitis for Etiologies Other Than Mumps
Al Barskey
2:50 PM
Discussion
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