Infectious Diseases in Pregnant Women, Fetuses and Newborns, ESCMID Postgraduate Education Course
3 - 7 October 2010, Bertinoro, Italy
Organizers
Jointly organized by the Association of Italian Clinical Microbiologists (AMCLI), the Italian Society of Infectious and tropical Diseases (SIMIT) and ESCMID.
Course Objectives
Provide updated information in an interdisciplinary setting on
- Epidemiology and burden of infectious diseases in pregnancy and in newborns
- Pathogenesis of foetal and neonatal damages
- Pre- and postnatal counselling
- Setting collaborative diagnostic and clinical pathways for management of infections in pregnant women and newborns
- Prevention and therapy of vertical transmitted infections.
The course will be a mix of lectures by expert scientists in the field and interactive group discussions.
Course Venue
University Campus Bertinoro, University of Bologna, Bertinoro, Italy
www.ceub.it
Target Audience
20 - 50 young clinicians (experts in infectious diseases, obstetricians, gynecologists, neonatologists, pediatricians, microbiologists and virologists), biologists or other graduated people involved in the field.
Scientific Contact
Tiziana Lazzarotto
Tiziana Lazzarotto
Valeria Meroni
Valeria Meroni
Francesco Castelli
Francesco Castelli
Administrative Secretariat
Roberta Partisani
Segreteria organizzativa Ce.U.B.
Via Frangipane 6
47032 Bertinoro (FC), Italy
Phone +39-0543 446530 or +39-0543 446500
Fax +39-0543 446557
Roberta Partisani
Course Programme
Sunday 3 October
- Participant registration
- Welcome and Introduction
- Embryogenesis and embryo pathogenesis
- Immunology of pregnant woman and foetus
- Ocular pathology in congenital infections
Monday 4 October
- Toxoplasmosis
- Malaria
- Chagas Disease
- Maternal mortality in developing countries
Tuesday 5 October
- Emerging infections and pregnancy
- HPV
- HIV
- Hepatitis Viruses
- Herpes Viruses
Wednesday 6 October
- CMV
- Rubella Virus
- Parvovirus B19
- Termination of pregnancy: different rules in different countries
Thursday 6 October
- Streptococcus
- Syphilis
- Update on vaccines
- Closing remarks
Course Faculty
- D. Ajzemberg,Limoges, FR
- P. Barreiro, Madrid, ES
- F. Castelli, Brescia, IT
- G. Cornaglia, Verona IT
- L. Keros, Paris, FR
- S. Doyle, Dublin, IE
- G. Fortina, Novara, IT
- T. Frusca, Brescia, IT
- J Garweg, Bern, CH
- D. Hutzli, Friburg, DE
- D. Ionescu, Bucharest, RO
- M.P. Landini, Bologna, IT
- T. Lazzarotto, Bologna, IT
- L. Mandelbrot, Colombes, FR
- A. Marchant, Bruxelles, BE
- D. Marchetti, Bologna, IT
- A. Matteelli, Brescia, IT
- V. Meroni, Pavia, IT
- R. F. Pass, Bermingham, US
- F. Peyron, Lyon, FR
- E. Petersen, Arrhus, DK
- M. G. Revello, Pavia, IT
- N. Rizzo, Bologna, IT
- E. Sagnelli, Napoli, IT
- A. Spinillo, Pavia, IT
- Y. Ville, Paris, FR
