1st ESCMID School of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 2002
6 - 12 July 2002, Lausanne, Switzerland
Organized by the ESCMID Education Commitee.
Summer School Director
- Dr Giorgio Zanetti, Division of Infectious Diseases, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland
Educational Programme
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Antimicrobial chemotherapy and vaccines
- New drugs for resistant Gram-positive bacteria. L. Martinez-Martinez (ES)
- New therapeutic options for Aspergillus infections. J. Bille (CH)
- Immunomodulation in chronic viral infections. Applications for treatment of HIV infection and viral hepatitis. G. Pantaleo (CH)
- Conjugate anti-pneumococcal vaccine. K. Muehlemann (?)
Microorganisms and pathogenesis
- VRE: mechanism of resistance, origin, and dissemination. T. Coque (ES)
- S. aureus : virulence factors, fitness cost of resistance. P. Moreillon (CH)
- Intracellular pathogenesis (Listeria sp, Shigella sp, mycobacteria). G Tran Van Nhieu (FR)
- Mechanisms of latency in herpes viridae. P. Meylan (CH)
Major clinical syndromes : diagnostic and management strategies
- Place of the determination of geno- or phenotypic resistance in the treatment of HIV infection. A. Telenti (CH)
- Impact of resistance on malaria prophylaxis. B. Taylor (?)
- New diagnostic techniques: real time PCR, multiplex PCR, automation in clinical microbiology. M. Altwegg (CH)
- Non-antibiotic management of severe sepsis. T. Calandra (CH)
- Corticosteroids in meningitis: evidence-based or consensus?. R. Nau (DE)
- Bacteriuria and candiduria in specific populations. P. Munoz (ES)
Immunocompromised hosts
- Prophylaxis in solid organ transplant recipients. I. Hoepelman (NL)
- Epidemiology of P. carinii infection. P. Hauser (CH)
- Ventilator-associated pneumonia: management strategies. J.Y. Fagon (FR)
- Use of antifungal drugs in granulocytopenic cancer patients. P. Verweij (NL)
Epidemiology, Public Health
- Optimal use of antibiotics in the community. C. Carbon (FR)
- Optimal use of antibiotics in the hospital. G. Zanetti (CH)
- Emerging diseases: European systems of alarm and management of public health crises. P. Sudre (CH)
- Re-emerging disease: multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. F. Drobniewski (UK)