National Symposium on Zoonoses Research 2011
More than 350 national and international scientists met in Berlin on 6 and 7 October 2011 for this year's National Symposium on Zoonoses Research. The focus was on zoonoses, infectious diseases transmissible between humans and animals, in their entire range. The spectrum of species covered ranged from mosquitoes, rodents, bats, hawks, pets and farm animals to humans. In 62 lectures and 100 posters, new research results on the diagnosis, therapy, monitoring and risk assessment of zoonoses were presented from Germany as well as from Switzerland, the Middle East, Asia and West Africa. Due to