Anaerobes in Health and Disease; How to Isolate, Identify and Look for Resistance in a Cost-Effective Way, ESCMID Postgraduate Technical Workshop
3 - 8 June 2012, Szeged, Hungary
Organisers
- ESCMID Study Group for Anaerobe Infections (ESGAI)
- ESCMID Study Group for Clostridium difficile (ESGCD)
Course Coordinators
- John Degener, Groningen, NL
- Elisabeth Nagy, Szeged, HU
Course Objectives
The aim of this course is to give an overview of the importance of anaerobic bacteria in human diseases and to teach techniques which may help to isolate and identify these slow growing bacteria. Using modern techniques, such as molecular genetic methods and MALDI-TOF MS, help to speed up these processes. The detection and the genetic background of emerging resistances in anaerobic bacteria will also be discussed. An extensive practical part will give participants the opportunity to work with many different, clinically relevant anaerobic bacterial isolates.
Course Venue
Institute of Clinical Microbiology
University of Szeged
Semmelweis street 6
6725 Szeged, Hungary
Target Audience
Up to 20 clinical microbiologist in training or already working with anaerobes, interested in theoretical and technical aspects of anaerobic infections and their diagnostics.
Registration closed
If you have questions, please contact the Administrative Secretariat or the Contact Person directly.
Course Programme
Monday, 4 June 2012
09.00 Opening of the course?
09.10 Introduction: the role of anaerobes in infections
?09.30 Role of anaerobes in health (anaerobes in the normal flora)
?10.00 What we need to be successful in isolation and maintenance of anaerobic bacteria
10.30 Coffee break
10.45 Taxonomic changes in anaerobes: general outlines and focus on Gram-negatives?
11.30 Clinically relevant Gram-positive anaerobic cocci (GPAC), new names and their antibiotic susceptibility
12.15 Lunch
13.15 Practical in the laboratory
Tuesday, 5 June 2012
09.00 Oral infections involving anaerobes and their consequences from adverse pregnancy outcomes to brain abscesses
09.45 Upper and lower respiratory tract infections involving anaerobes
10.30 Coffee break
10.45 Intra-abdominal infections, anaerobic bacteraemia; do we have new data?
11.30 Female genital tract infections involving anaerobes and their possible consequences
12.15 Lunch
13.15 Practical in the laboratory
Wednesday, 6 June 2012
09.00 Anaerobic skin infections and problems associated with diabetic foot infection
09.45 What is new in C. difficile infections – in epidemiology, diagnostics and therapy?
10.30 Coffee break
10.45 Classical and rare presentations of actinomycosis. Why anaerobe labs deal with diagnostics?
11.30 Value of molecular genetic methods in diagnostics of anaerobes. (species determination, typing, detection of un-culturable bacteria in mixed communities)
12.15 Lunch
13.15 Practical in the laboratory
Thursday, 7 June 2012
09.00 New methods in clinical microbiology. The value of MALDI-TOF and SELDI-TOF MS in species determination and typing of anaerobic bacteria
09.45 Effects of antibiotics on the normal bacterial flora. The value of new antibiotics in treatment of anaerobic infections
10.30 Coffee break
10.45 Antibiotic resistance determination in anaerobic bacteria: agar-dilution for
surveillance, E-test or disc diffusion for routine testing?
?11.30 Antibiotic resistance trends in anaerobic bacteria
12.15 Lunch
13.00 Are multi-resistant anaerobes responsible for failure in clinical outcome? Review of the literature
14.00 Practical in the laboratory
Friday, 8 June 2012
09.00 Case presentations of the participants
11.00 Anaerobe Educator. Easy ways to diagnose anaerobic bacteria
12.00 Lunch and evaluation of the course
Course Faculty
- Georg Conrads, Aachen, DE
- ?Mike Cox, Morgan Hill, CA, USA
- John Degener, Groningen, NL
- Maria Hedberg, Umea, SE?
- Ulrik Justesen, Odense, DK?
- Eija Könönen, Turku, FI?
- Elisabeth Nagy, Szeged, HU
- ?Carl Erik Nord, Stockholm, SE
- Riina Richardson, Manchester, UK
- Haroun Shah, London, UK
- ?József Sóki, Szeged, HU?
- Gabriella Terhes, Szeged, HU
- ?Edit Urbán, Szeged, HU
- ?Linda Veloo, Groningen, NL?
- Gjalt Welling, Groningen, NL
