3rd International Day for Fighting Infection
Hospitals and Infectious Patients throughout the Centuries
23 April 2010, Florence, Italy
- Group photo of speakers (click to enlarge)
This 3rd edition was held on St. George's Day and traced the evolution over the centuries of infection control in hospitals and of ad-hoc hospitals for infectious patients. Organized in cooperation with the International Society of Chemotherapy (ISC) and the International Society of Infectious Diseases (ISID), and supported by The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
Scientific material
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Hospitaller services during the crusader period
Charles Savona-Ventura, Malta
The hospital in the medieval Islamic world
Ilber Ortaylı, Turkey
The republic of Venice and its lazarettos as bastions of public health along Mediterranean sea routes
Thalia Sardi, Greece
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Semmelweiss and the childbed fever
Didier Pittet, Switzerland
Florence Nightingale’s impact on infection control and hospital epidemiology
Gilian Gill, USA
From pest-houses to smallpox and fever Hospitals: the development of the London hospital system
David Wright, UK
Flu and hospital
Albert Osterhaus, The Netherlands
TB, sanatoria and ‘Zauberberg’
Dario Olivieri, Italy
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Point-of-care diagnostic and patient management in hospitals
Didier Raoult, France
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Poliomyelitis and the origins of ICUs
Jean Carlet, France
High-level isolation units today
Giuseppe Ippolito, Italy
