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By Edouard Drouhet, Louis De Repentigny, Jean Latge

3 years in the past while Professor Garry Cole visited our Mycology unit on the Pasteur Institute we mentioned the opportunity of organizing a small foreign Symposium on "Isolation, Purification and Detection of Fungal Antigens" restricted to eight American/Canadian scientists and to eight French contributors. the positioning selected was once the Pasteur Institute as a result of ancient and present value of the Institute as a middle for learn in Immunology and scientific Mycology. The curiosity established by way of all clinical mycolo­ gists we contacted led us to extend the small unique assembly to a world symposium within which all points of antigens of pathogenic and allergenic fungi and actinomycetes regarding guy, animals, or even crops will be mentioned. Our want was once additionally to carry this Symposium within the comparable week because the Anniversary assembly of the French Society of clinical Mycology which used to be based on the Pasteur Institute 30 years in the past with my colleagues Gabriel Segretain and Francois Mariat.