Quinolones: from Bench to Bedside
ESGARS organised this ESCMID PGEC in Santander, Spain, 5 - 7 October 2011.
- 7 May, 8.45-10.45
Educational Workshop EW08 "Anti-TB drug resistance" - 7 May, 13.30-15.30
Symposium "Surveillance of resistance in M. tuberculosis and potential impact of epidemiological cut-off values" - 9 May, 9.00-10.00 (Room Yellow 3)
ESGARS Business Meeting
All interested persons are cordially invited to join the meeting and plan future ESGARS activities.
For more details, please check the ECCMID/ICC programme.
Research Project
Retrieval of antimicrobial susceptibility data from invasive infections, urinary tract infections and lower respiratory tract infections - a pilot project involving Turkey and Israel. The project has received funding by ESCMID (EUR 30'000) and the aim for 2011 is to establish an interactive database.
Project lead: Christian Giske
Giske CG, Cornaglia G; on behalf of the ESCMID Study Group on Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance (ESGARS)
Drug Resist Updat. 2010 Aug-Oct;13(4-5):93-8
Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing and Surveillance: from Laboratory to Clinic - the EUCAST and ESGARS Perspective
ESGARS organised this ESCMID PGEC in collaboration with EUCAST in Madrid, Spain, 27 - 30 September 2010.
Miriagou V, Cornaglia G, Edelstein M, Galani I, Giske CG, Gniadkowski M, Malamou-Lada E, Martinez-Martinez L, Navarro F, Nordmann P, Peixe L, Pournaras S, Rossolini GM, Tsakris A, Vatopoulos A, Cantón R.
Clin Microbiol Infect. 2010 Feb;16(2):112-22
Carmeli Y, Akova M, Cornaglia G, Daikos GL, Garau J, Harbarth S, Rossolini GM, Souli M, Giamarellou H.
Clin Microbiol Infect. 2010 Feb;16(2):102-11
CMI Theme Section
The emerging threat of acquired carbapenemases in Gram-negative bacteria
Inspired by and based on an ESGARS experts meeting on carbapenemases held in Athens, Greece, December 2008.
CMI contents are freely available for ESCMID members. Please log in or register.
EARSS collaboration
ESGARS is permanently represented in the Advisory Board of the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System (EARSS). EARSS, funded by DG SANCO of the European Commission and coordinated by the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), is a European network of national surveillance systems, which collects comparable and validated antimicrobial resistance data for public health purposes.
The present ESGARS representative is Fernando Baquero.
Further ESGARS Officers sitting in the EARSS Advisory Board have been Giuseppe Cornaglia (still present, acting as the ESCMID EC representative), Waleria Hryniewicz (Warsaw, Poland) and Helmut Mittermayer (Linz, Austria).
Vincent Jarlier (Paris) and Alkiviadis Vatopoulos (Athens, Greece) joined the EARSS Advisory Board during 2006.
