ESCMID Panorama

Role of Anaerobic Bacteria in Infection: ESCMID Postgraduate Education Course

2 - 4 June 2007, Szeged, Hungary

Patronage

The course is organized by the ESCMID Study Group for Antimicrobial Resistance of Anaerobic Bacteria (ESGARAB) and ESCMID Study Group for Clostridium difficile (ESGCD) under the auspices of the Clinical Microbiology Faculty of Medicine Unversity of Szeged, Hungary.

Presentations

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  • Clostridium difficile: disease spectrum, epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment - present and future
    Ian R Poxton (UK)
  • Clostridium difficile: applications of molecular methods for diagnosis and epidemiological studies of C. difficile-associated disease
    Maja Rupnik (Slovenia)
  • Basic requirement from the clinical side and from the laboratory side to be successful in isolation of anaerobes (sample taking, transport, laboratory background)
    Mike Cox (USA)
  • Normal and pathogen flora of the oral cavity. Oral anaerobes as causative agents in local and in distant infections
    Eija Kononen (Finland)
  • Role of anaerobic bacteria as normal flora members and their use as probiotics in clinical medicine
    Carl Eric Nord (Sweden)
  • Diabetic foot; a challenge for the laboratory and a challenge for the clinician
    Elisabeth Nagy (Hungary)
  • Differentiation of anaerobic bacteria; a cost effective approach
    Edit Urban (Hungary)
  • Clinical relevance of blood culture for anaerobes
    Elisabeth Nagy (Hungary)
  • Uncommon anaerobic pathogens in life threatening conditions
    John Brazier (UK)
  • Resistance problems in anaerobes. Antibiotic resistance determination methods for anaerobes. Importance of MIC and breakpoint-determination
    Arne Rodloff (Germany)
  • Imipenem and metronidazole resistance in Bacteroides, an increasing problem in the treatment of severe anaerobic infections
    Jozsef Soki (Hungary)
  • Use of molecular methods in diagnostics and typing of anaerobic bacteria
    Georg Conrads (Germany)
  • Taxonomic changes in anaerobes. Do we need to follow them?
    Eija Kononen (Finland)
  • BV and related infections
    Elisabeth Nagy (Hungary)

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