Multidrug Resistant High Risk Clones (MDR-HiRiC): Features, Epidemiology and Detection
5 -6 June 2012, Barcelona, Spain
Organisers
- Translational Research on Combating Antimicrobial Resistance (TROCAR)
- European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Disease (ESCMID)
- Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS)
Conference Objectives
This conference will address the most up-to-date knowledge on surveillance, epidemiology and molecular features of multidrug resistant high risk clones (HiRiC) currently disseminating over Europe. The conference aims to provide the scientific basis for an early warning system when specific isolates or mobile genetic elements of a particular epidemicity appear in the community and nosocomial settings.
Conference Venue
Esther Koplowitz Centre (Esteve Auditorium)
Rosselló Street, 149-153
08036 Barcelona
Spain
Target Audience
The conference is targeted to approximately 100 participants including microbiologists, basic research scientists, infectious disease physicians and epidemiologists.
Registration Procedure
Please download the registration form (see link on the right) and return it to the conference administrative secretariat by 18 May 2012.
8 May 2012: Registration is already closed since the maximum number of participants have registered. There is the possiblity to be put on a waiting list, if you send an email to trocar[at]escmid.org.
Registration Fee
There is no registration fee. Travel and hotel accommodation will be the responsibility of each individual participant.
Attendance Grants
ESCMID provides a number of attendance grants for ESCMID “young scientist members” covering up to 400 EUR for travel and accommodation costs. Please submit your application until 20 April 2012 online on this website (follow the link on the right). Applicants will be informed about their acceptance by 2 May 2012 by e-mail.
Please note that attendance grant application does not include registration for the conference. Please register separately with the form supplied on the right.
CME Accreditation
The organiser of the conference will apply for European CME accreditation through EACCME.
Scientific Secretariat
Prof. Jordi Vila
Department of Clinical Microbiology
Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS)
Hospital Clinic of Barcelona
Villarroel, 170,
08036 Barcelona, Spain
Phone: +34 93 227 55 22
Fax: +34 93 227 93 72
jvila[at]ub.edu
Ignasi Roca, Ph.D
Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS)
Hospital Clinic of Barcelona
Rosselló 149-153,
08036 Barcelona, Spain
Phone: +34 93 227 57 07
Fax: +34 93 312 94 10
igroca[at]clinic.ub.es
Administrative Secretariat
Karin Werner
ESCMID Executive Office
P.O. Box 214
4010 Basel
Switzerland
Phone +41 61 5080 157
Fax +41 61 5080 151
trocar[at]escmid.org
Conference Programme
5 June 2012 | |
13:30 - 14:00 | Registration and welcome |
14:00 - 14:30 | Introduction to TROCAR project |
14:30 - 15:00 | Population dynamics of High Risk Clones: how network approaches help unravel their epidemiology at continental scales. |
15:00 - 15:30 | Clonal replacement of epidemic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains in Europe over time. |
15:30 - 16:00 | Methicillin-resistant S. aureus harbouring a mecA homologue |
16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee-break |
16:30 - 17:00 | Enterococcus faecium, the shift from a commensal bacterium to an opportunistic pathogen. |
17:00 - 17:30 | Genetics of carbapenemase producers in Enterobacteriaceae; from bench to the bedside. |
17:30 - 18:00 | Repertoire of clones in the emergence and spread of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in Europe. |
18:00 - 19:00 | Short presentations |
6 June 2012 | |
09:00 - 09:30 | The complexity of the carbapenemase epidemiology. The Greek experience. |
09:30 - 10:00 | Multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa: evolution, epidemiology and clinical implications. |
10:00 - 10:30 | Nosocomial Acinetobacter pathogens: keys to persistence and resistance. |
10:30 - 11:00 | Identification and detection of bacterial resistance: molecular and phenotypic approaches in Gram-negatives. |
11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break |
11:30 - 12:00 | Whole genome sequence analysis: principles and applications. |
12:00 - 12:30 | How next-generation sequencing can inform on the transmission and microevolution of bacterial pathogens. |
12:30 - 13:00 | Infection control measures. |
13:00 - 13:40 | Short presentations |
13:40 - 14:00 | Final discussion and end of Conference |
Conference Faculty
- Rafael Cantón, Madrid, Spain
- Yehuda Carmeli, Tel-Aviv, Israel
- Edward Feil, Bath, UK
- Hajo Grundmann, Groningen, Netherlands
- Mark Holmes, Cambridge, UK
- Roland Leclercq, Caen, France
- Herminia de Lencastre, Lisbon, Portugal
- Thierry Naas, Paris, France
- Patrice Nordmann, Paris, France
- Laurent Poirel, Paris, France
- Gian Maria Rossolini, Siena, Italy
- Patricia Ruiz-Garbajosa, Madrid, Spain
- Alkiviadis Vatopoulos, Athens, Greece
- Jordi Vila, Barcelona, Spain
