Abstracts
The abstracts of the ECCMID/ICC 2007 are displayed on the Wiley-Blackwell website where you can search for abstracts according to subject and author.
Educational Workshops 2007
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- EW01: Case studies in clinical virology: laboratory choices and challenges in detecting and monitoring viral infections (ASM)
- EW02: Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of anti-infective agents (ISAP)
- EW03: Non-invasive tests for diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori infection (EHSG)
- EW04: Diagnosis and follow-up in lower respiratory tract infections (ESPRIT)
- EW05: The burden of Toxoplasma gondii infections: congenital or acquired? (ESGT)
- EW06: Healthcare-associated infection and antimicrobial resistance – a challenge for organisation and management (IPSE)
- EW07: Infections in the intensive care unit (ISC Working Group "Infections in the ICU")
- EW08: Infection control – starting from zero (ESGNI)
- EW09: Ways to improve the quality of antimicrobial therapy (ESGAP)
- EW10: Interaction of bacterial biofilms with defence mechanisms and foreign bodies (ESGB)
- EW11: Management of chronic fungal diseases (EFISG)
Conventional and rapid diagnostic approaches to respiratory tract infections in support of more targeted therapy
2nd GRACE Postgraduate Course
Conveners: Margareta Ieven, Edegem, BE & Francesco Blasi, Milan, IT
First session – Diagnostic approaches
- Current microbiological diagnostic investigations
Mats Kalin, Stockholm, SE - The place of semi-quantitative and quantitative cultures in the diagnosis of VAP
Jean Chastre, Paris, FR - Rapid diagnostics of LRTI inlcuding molecular methods
Margareta Ieven, Edegem, BE - Biomarkers of diagnosis and response to treatment
Beat Müller, Basel, CH
Second session – Targeted therapy
- Acute tonsillo-pharyngitis: the place of antigen detection and the importance of antibiotic resistance
Paul Little, Southampton, UK - Monotherapy vs. combination therapy in pneumococcal pneumonia
Javier Garau, Barcelona, ES - Rapid diagnosis and treatment of MRSA pneumonia
Peter Hawkey, Birmingham, UK - Modern management of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii pneumonia
Joan Ramon Badia, Barcelona, ES
