ESCMID Panorama

ESCMID Study Group for Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance - ESGARS

News & Activities

  • Sunday, 28 April 2013
    13.15 - 14.15 (Hall 9)
    ESGARS Business Meeting
    : All interested persons are cordially invited to join the meeting and plan future ESGARS activities.
    16.00 - 18.00 (Hall D)
    ESGARS Symposium: Resistance to non-beta-lactam antibiotics in Gram-negative bacilli

For more details, please check the ECCMID programme.

ECCMID programme

  • 31 March, 16.30-18.30
    2-hour Symposium "Surveillance of resistance in Europe"
    Arranged with ESGARS and the European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST).
  • 1 April, 9.00-11.00
    2-hour Symposium "Resistance to anti-Gram-positive agents in Europe"
  • 2 April, 16.00-18.00
    2-hour Symposium "Non-MBL carbapenemases in Gram-negative bacilli"
  • 2 April, 13.00-14.00 (Meeting Room 10)
    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 programme.

ECCMID programme

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.

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.

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Last update: 11 April 2013

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