Leishmaniose Canine et Feline

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Leishmaniose Canina e Felina

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Leishmaniosis Canina y Felina

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Sponsors

Sponsors

LeishVet is an independent association supported by donations of sponsors who do not interfere on activities and choices of the group. These are our current sponsors:

RUBY Sponsors

Elanco

Food and companionship enriching life
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RUBY Sponsor 2020-2025

IDEXX

Small Animal Health
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RUBY Sponsor 2017-2025

MSD Animal Health

MSD Animal Health
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RUBY Sponsor 2022-2025

Together, beyond animal health
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RUBY Sponsor 2025

SAPPHIRE Sponsors

LETIPharma

Innovative Solutions for Health and Wellbeing
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SAPPHIRE Sponsor 2020-2025

Ecuphar

Animal Healthcare
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SAPPHIRE Sponsor 2021-2025

We also thank our past sponsors:

Science for a better life
RUBY Sponsor 2008-2020

Virbac, proud sponsors of ALIVE 2, 2024

Virbac, Shaping the Future of Animal Health
SAPPHIRE Sponsor 2011-2018


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Event Information

LeishVet UP!, Update for Practitioners
The First LeishVet UP! in Bled, Slovenia
October 16th and 17th, 2026
Venue: Rikli Balance Hotel, Bled, Slovenia

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Scientific Programme

Scientific Programme

Please find below the provisional program for LeishVet UP! 2026

Friday 16th October, 2026

 LEISHVET UP!, UPDATE FOR PRACTITIONERS
11:00 - 13:45Registration Opens at the Rikli Balance Hotel
12:30 - 13:45Light Lunch
14:00 - 15:00Opening. Plenary Lecture by an Invited Speaker
15:00 - 16:00Keynote Lectures by LeishVet Members on Canine and Feline Leishmaniosis
16:00 - 16:30Coffee Break, Commercial Exhibition
16:30 - 18:00Keynote Lectures by LeishVet Members on Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention of Leishmaniosis
19:30Social Dinner

Saturday 17th October, 2026

 LEISHVET UP!, UPDATE FOR PRACTITIONERS
08:30 - 10:30PART I: 4 Lectures by LeishVet Members
Main Hot Topics: Serology/PCR, Co-Infections, Treatment in Immune-Mediated Diseases, FeL Diagnosis, FeL Clinical Staging/Management, Circulating Immune Complexes Disease Management, Treatment Failure, CanL Uncommon Clinical Presentations, Public Health Considerations

10:30 - 11:00Coffee Break, Commercial Exhibition
11:00 - 13:00PART II: 4 Lectures by LeishVet Members
Continuing with Hot Topics.

13:00 - 14:15Lunch
14:30 - 16:30Clinical Cases. Small Group Discussions
16:30Closing and Coffee Break

This programme is subject to change and will be completed in the near future with further details.
 Research StreamClinical Stream
08:30 - 09:00Opening Ceremony
09:00 - 09:45Plenary Session | Jorge Alvar
Control of visceral leishmaniasis: successes, risks and expectations


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10:00 - 10:45Session 1: “Around the vectors”
Oral Communications
Keynote Speaker - Marta Leiva
Top three ophthalmic challenges in the management of animal leishmaniosis

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10:45 - 11:30Coffee-Break | Poster Session | Commercial Exhibition
11:30 - 12:15Keynote Speaker - Carla Maia
Phlebotomine sand flies – small vectors causing major problems in public and animal health

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Session 2: "Evaluation in the fields"
Oral Communications
12:15 - 12:30Session 1 cont.: “Around the vectors”
Oral Communications
12:30 - 13:15Round Table
Vectorial and non-vectorial transmission
Round Table
The post-treatment management of leishmaniosis (endemic and non-endemic areas)
13:15 - 14:15Lunch
14:15 - 15:00Session 3: "Prospective for control"
Oral Communications
Keynote Speaker - Chiara Noli
Expect the unexpected: usual and unusual skin lesions in canine leishmaniosis

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15:00 - 15:15Session 4: "Immune response, consequences"
Oral Communications
15:15 - 16:00Keynote Speaker - Christopher Fernandez-Prada
Extracellular vesicles and canine leishmaniosis: friends or foes?

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16:00 - 16:45Coffee-Break | Poster Session | Commercial Exhibition
16:45 - 17:30Session 3 cont.: “Prospective for control”
Oral Communications
Session 4 cont.: “Immune response, consequences”
Oral Communications
17:30 - 18:15Round Table
Drug resistance
Round Table
Leishmaniosis and immune mediated diseases: diagnostic and therapeutic challenges
19:15Bus departure for Gala Dinner at the Chagall Museum
 Research StreamClinical Stream
08:00 - 08:45Informal Get Together (young scientists and clinicians breakfast with LeishVet group)
09:00 - 09:45Session 5: "Epidemiology: around the Leishmanias"
Oral Communications
Keynote Speaker - Manolis Saridomichelakis
When should clinicians suspect feline leishmaniosis?

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09:45 - 10:00Session 6: "Monitoring"
Oral Communications
10:00 - 10:45Keynote Speaker - Christine Petersen
Dogma, ecology, and potential reservoirs for Leishmania donovani in Bihar, India

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10:45 - 11:30Coffee-Break | Poster Session | Commercial Exhibition
11:30 - 12:15Session 5 cont.: "Epidemiology: around the Leishmanias"
Oral Communications
Session 6 cont.: "Monitoring"
Oral Communications
12:15 - 13:00Round Table
Leishmaniases: many diseases, One Health
Round Table
Coinfections
13:00 - 14:00Lunch
14:00 - 14:45Session 7: "One Health"
Oral Communications
Keynote Speaker - Lluís Ferrer
The conundrum of clinical relapses in canine leishmaniosis

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14:45 - 15:00Session 8: "Diagnosis"
Oral Communications
15:00 - 15:45Keynote Speaker - Filipe Dantas-Torres
Other Leishmania species infecting dogs: zoonotic and clinical significance

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15:45 - 16:30Coffee-Break | Poster Session | Commercial Exhibition
16:30 - 17:00Session 7 cont.: "One Health"
Oral Communications
Session 8 cont.: "Diagnosis"
Oral Communications
17:00 - 17:30Closing Ceremony

ΛΕΪΣΜΑΝΙΩΣΗ ΤΟΥ ΣΚΥΛΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΤΗΣ ΓΑΤΑΣ

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Welcome to LeishVet

LeishVet UP!

Update for Practitioners
REGISTER NOW | 16 & 17 OCTOBER, 2026

Organized by:

LeishVet

LeishVet Sponsors:

Why join us:

  • Scientific event fully dedicated to Veterinary professionals
  • Two days of interactive sessions to discuss the latest news on canine and feline leishmaniosis
  • Focus on diagnostic approach, clinical cases, treatment and preventive measures
  • Topics discussed from real clinical cases
  • Internationally recognised speakers available for discussion with you!
  • Wonderful location, affordable registration, economic accommodation available close to the event site
  • Interesting social program!

LeishVet UP!

Update for Practitioners
SAVE THE DATE | 16 & 17 OCTOBER, 2026

Organized by:

LeishVet

LeishVet Sponsors:

Why join us:

  • Scientific event fully dedicated to Veterinary professionals
  • Two days of interactive sessions to discuss the latest news on canine and feline leishmaniosis
  • Focus on diagnostic approach, clinical cases, treatment and preventive measures
  • Topics discussed from real clinical cases
  • Internationally recognised speakers available for discussion with you!
  • Wonderful location, affordable registration, economic accommodation available close to the event site
  • Interesting social program!

Our Vision. Our Mission

LeishVet, a non profit scientific association

LeishVet is a scientific association founded in 2005 during Worldleish 3 forum held in Palermo (Italy) by veterinarians from academic institutions of different countries focusing their research and clinical activity on leishmaniosis in veterinary medicine.

Since 2008 LeishVet is officially registered in Spain at the National Register of Associations for non profit effects.

LeishVet activities are devoted to:

Offer to practitioners, researchers, students and human health authorities a consensus statement on the clinical management of veterinarian leishmaniosis up to date with the current evidence based knowledge on the disease.

Standardize criteria for the diagnosis of veterinarian leishmaniosis.

Develop initiative actions and research on leishmaniosis.

Two streams will be organized:

  • Clinical practice oriented stream
  • Research oriented stream

ALIVE congress topics will include the following subjects from companion animals to wildlife:

  • Epidemiology: vectorial and non-vectorial transmission, Leishmania geographic distribution, infectiousness, etc.
  • Basic to clinical immunology.
  • Genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics of leishmaniosis, susceptibility and resistance to infection and disease.
  • Pathogenesis.
  • Clinical and diagnostic aspects.
  • Treatment, prognosis and monitoring: old and new treatments, drug resistance, drug development, immunotherapy, new monitoring and prognostic tests.
  • Preventative tools: targeting phlebotomine sand flies, host immune response (vaccines, immunomodulators), etc.
Welcome to Alive 2, 2024

A presential and online event, bringing together the latest clinical practices and research material on animal leishmaniosis

A presential and online event, bringing together the latest clinical practices and research material on animal leishmaniosis

SAVE THE DATE | 16 & 17 October, 2026

If you want to keep up with the latest news about the event or participate in a more active way, please fill in your details below.

If you want to keep up with the latest news about the event or participate in a more active way, please fill in your details below.

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