The Association of State & Territorial Public Health Laboratory
Directors announces the 12th Annual Conference on Human Retrovirus
Testing, February 25-28, 1997 at Stouffer's Renaissance Hotel,
Houston, Texas. Poster abstracts will be welcomed; deadline for
receipt of abstracts is January 31, 1997. Tentative schedule includes
plenary session, variants panel discussion, clinical and diagnostic
dilemmas panel discussions, and exhibits by vendors. Registration fee
is $185 by February 1, 1997 and $225 after February 1, 1997. For more
information, please contact Anne Ulm at ASTPHLD at (202) 822-5227.