Preface

The 7th International Veterinary Immunology

Symposium (7th IVIS)

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The 7th IVIS took place on July 25–30, 2004, in the

Convention Centre of Quebec City, Canada. The

papers included here are a sample of the 61 invited

presentations that comprised the program of 5 Plenary

and 10 Concurrent sessions as well as some of the

contributions to the 6 Species Sessions and 15

Workshops of the 7th IVIS.

The 7th IVIS was the most recent in the series

which began with the 1st IVIS in Guelph, Ont.,

Canada, on July 2–4, 1986, and has been held every 3

years with symposia in Hannover 1988, Budapest

1992, Davis 1995, Ludhiana 1998 and Uppsala 2001.

The 8th IVIS will take place in Ouro Preto, Brazil, on

August 5–10, 2007. Each IVIS has been held in

proximity to the International Congress of Immunol-

ogy (ICI) and has been organized under the auspices of

the Veterinary Immunology Committee (VIC) of the

International Union of Immunological Societies

(IUIS). The 7th IVIS also benefited from organiza-

tional and material assistance from the 6th IVIS. Both

Local (Byram Bridle, Angela Crawley, John Lumsden,

Bonnie Mallard, John Prescott, Claudine Raymond,

Suminder Sawhney, Shayan Sharif and Patricia

Shewen) and International (Cynthia Baldwin, J.

Robert Duncan, Caroline Fossum, Philip Griebel,

Wayne Hein, Chris Howard, Chieko Kai, Paul Lunn,

Ivan Morrison, Mike Murtaugh, George Mutwiri, Jan

Naessens, Klaus Nielsen, Mohinder Oberoi, Reinhard

Pabst, John Reynolds, Victor Rutten, Armin Saal-

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mueller, Jean-Pierre Scheerlinck, Gary Splitter, Falko

Steinbach and Federico Zuckermann) Advisory

Committees made very useful suggestions on the

scientific and non-scientific framework of the 7th

IVIS. Conference management was the key respon-

sibility of Mr. Pierre Lamoureux of the National

Research Council of Canada. The Quebec City

Conference Centre proved to be an efficient and

congenial venue which reflected the abundant regional

hospitality.

Contributions to the 7th IVIS were made by Gold

Sponsors, Merial, Pfizer Animal Health and Silver

Sponsors, Fort Dodge and Bioniche. Support was also

received from exhibitors Serotec, Pierce Biotechnol-

ogy Inc., Cedarlane Laboratories Ltd., VMRD Inc.

and Stemcell Technologies Inc.

Special gratitude is due to the Chairs and Co-chairs

of Plenary, Concurrent, Species and Workshop

sessions since the excellent scientific program of

the 7th IVIS to a considerable extent reflects their

efforts in engaging speakers and organizing the topical

contributions. The organizers wish to thank speakers

and contributors to Poster, Workshop and Species

sessions for creating a high quality program, some of

which is reflected in these proceedings.

The success of 7th IVIS was ensured by the

participation of some 400 registrants from 35

countries who took part enthusiastically in the social

and scientific program.

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We thank all who participated in the 7th IVIS

and look forward to the continuing success of the

series.

Sincerely,

Bruce N. Wilkie

7th IVIS Chairman

Michael Ratcliffe

7th IVIS Vice Chairman

Bruce N. Wilkiea,�

Michael Ratcliffeb

aDepartment of Pathobiology, University of Guelph

Ontario Veterinary College, Guelph, Ont.

Canada N1G 2W1

bDepartment of Immunology, University of

Toronto, Medical Sciences Building, Toronto

Ont. Canada M5S 1A8

�Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 519 824 4120

fax: +1 519 767 0809

E-mail address: bwilkie@uoguelph.ca

(B.N. Wilkie)