ESCMID Study Group for Mycobacterial Infections - ESGMYC
News & Activities
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe launched jointly the fifth report on surveillance and monitoring of tuberculosis (TB) in Europe.
This year’s report highlights two subsets of TB cases that tend to be neglected by routine surveillance: extrapulmonary TB cases (based on data from The European Surveillance System (TESSy) and prisoners with TB (based on Tuberculosis Monitoring and Evaluation (TME) data).
- Saturday, 27 April 2013
11.00 - 13.00 (Hall 7)
Educational Workshop 13: Infections due to nontuberculous mycobacteria
13.30 - 15.30 (Hall 7)
Presentation in a symposium on chronic meningitis: Tuberculous meningitis (B. Blomberg, Bergen, NO) - Sunday, 28 April 2013
9.00 - 11.00 (Hall A)
Presentation in a symposium on raw genome sequencing: Characterising outbreaks of tuberculosis using WGS (T. Walker, Oxford, UK)
11.30 - 12.30 (Hall E)
Keynote lecture: Mycobacterium tuberculosis: success through dormancy (S.H.E. Kaufmann, Berlin, DE)
14.30 - 15.30 (Hall E)
ESGMYC/European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS) symposium: Hot topics in tuberculosis in HIV-infected patients
18.15 - 19.15 (Salon 13/14)
ESGMYC Business Meeting: All interested persons are cordially invited to join the meeting and plan future ESGMYC activities. - Monday, 29 April 2013
9.00 - 11.00 (Hall F)
ESGMYC symposium: Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: what are we fighting for?
11.30 - 12.30 (Hall F)
ESGMYC/EUCAST symposium: Setting the breakpoints for mycobacteria
14.30 - 15.30 (Hall F)
Symposium: Interferon gamma release assay for tuberculosis
16.00 - 18.00 (Hall F)
Symposium: Respiratory infections due to nontuberculous mycobacteria - Tuesday, 30 April 2013
9.00 -11.00 (Hall B)
Two presentations in symposium "Ancient diseases and modern biology":
Paleomicrobiology of tuberculosis: from past to present (H.D. Donoghue, London, UK)
Proteomic detection of mycobacteria in mummies (A. Corthals, Stony Brook, US)
11.30 - 12.30 (Hall F)
Oral session: Mycobacterial diagnosis: from the high burden country to the molecular lab
For more details, please check the ECCMID programme.
Our ECCMID choice on mycobacterial infections
- 31 March, 11.00-13.00 (Platinum Suite 1/2)
Educational Workshop EW18 "The basis of tuberculosis diagnosis and management of cases" - 1 April, 7.45-8.45 (Capital Suite H)
Meet-the-Expert session "Cost efficient diagnosis of tuberculosis: culture, molecular techniques and immunological markers" - 1 April, 13.00-14.00 (Meeting Room 8)
ESGMYC Business Meeting
All interested persons are cordially invited to join the meeting and plan future ESGMYC activities.2 April, 14.30-15.30 (Capital Suite H)
Oral Session "Mycobacterial infections: science and medicine" - 3 April, 11.30-12.30 (Platinum Suite 3/4)
1-hour Symposium "Developing new antituberculous drugs"
For more details, please check the ECCMID programme.
This handbook consists of nine chapters describing basic techniques in the laboratory diagnosis of tuberculosis. It covers biosafety, quality assurance, latent TB infection, smear microscopy, identification of M. tuberculosis and drug resistance, culture, drug susceptibility testing, and molecular methods.
This first edition is intended to contribute to the harmonisation of diagnostic methods for TB within the EU/EEA.
ESGMYC @ ECCMID/ICC in Milan, IT, May 2011
- 8 May, 12.30-13.30 (Room Yellow 3)
ESGMYC Business Meeting
All interested persons are cordially invited to join the meeting and plan future ESGMYC activities.
For more details about the congress, please check the ECCMID/ICC programme.
