6 - 8 September 2010, Izmir, Turkey

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Monday 6 September 2010

• Epidemiology of acute purulent meningitis in developed and under developed countries:
  
  • community-acquired - Hakan Leblebicioglu
  • hospital-acquired -  Dilek Arman
• Pathogenesis and pathophysiology of meningitis (including animal models)
  
  • bacterial-host interaction (a microbiologic perspective) - Susanna Ricci
  • mechanisms of immune regulation - Stephen Leib
  • mechanisms of tissue destruction - Uwe Koedel
• Clinical presentation of meningitis
  
  • in adults - Serhat Unal
  • in children - Marceline van Furth
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Tuesday 7 September 2010

• Diagnosis of meningitis - Christian Ostergaard
• Treatment of community-acquired meningitis:
  ID Perspective - Stephen Leib & Stefan Zimmerli
  ICU and neurological perspective - Matthias Klein
  Paediatric Perspective: Modern treatment of Paediatric Bacterial Menegitis - Heikki Peltola
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• Treatment of hospital-acquired meningitis - Oguz Resat Sipahi
• Complications-including short term and long term - Matthias Klein
• Current and future trends in adjunctive therapy of meningitis - Heikki Peltola
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Wednesday 8 September 2010

• Fungal meningitis - Stefan Zimmerli
• Epidemiology & clinical presentation of chronic meningitis - Hakan Erdem
  
• Diagnosis of chronic meningitis - Tanil Kocagoz
• Treatment of chronic meningitis - Hakan Erdem
  

• Dilek Arman, Ankara, TR
• Mehmet Ceyhan, Ankara, TR
• Hakan Erdem, Ankara, TR
• Marceline van Furth, Amsterdam, NL
• Matthias Klein, Munich, DE
• Tanil Kocagoz, Istanbul, TR
• Uwe Koedel, Munich, DE
• Hakan Leblebicioglu, Samsun, TR
• Stephen Leib, Bern, CH
• Christian Østergaard, Copenhagen, DK
• Heikki Peltola, Helsinki, FI
• Susanna Ricci, Siena, IT
• Oguz Resat Sipahi, Izmir, TR
• Sercan Ulusoy, Izmir, TR
• Serhat Unal, Ankara, TR
• Gaye Usluer, Eskisehir, TR
• Stefan Zimmerli, Bern, CH

Oguz Resat Sipahi
Dept. of Infectious Diseases and clinical Microbiology
Ege University
35100 Izmir
Turkey

Phone +90 533 467 7266

Oguz Resat Sipahi 

Course Objectives

This educational course summarizes the contemporary situation in the epidemiology, pathogenesis and treatment of meningitis.

Course Venue

Anemon Otel, Ege University, Faculty of Medicine
Izmir, Turkey

Target Audience

Up to 50 postgraduates or senior trainees of infectious diseases and/or clinical microbiology