4th ESCMID Summer School 2005


25 June - 2 July 2005, Szeged, Hungary

Organized by the ESCMID Education Commitee.

Summer School Director

  • Elisabeth Nagy, Szeged, Hungary

Educational Material

The presentations are available in the ESCMID Online Lecture Library

  • Welcome and overview of the school. Elisabeth Nagy
  • Dosing and clinical outcome  during antibacterial  chemotherapy. Endre Ludwig
  • Evidence-based best practice in clinical microbiological  laboratories. Andrea Rita Horváth
  • Changing  epidemiology of infections preventable by vaccination. Zsofia Mészner
  • New approaches in vaccine development against viral infections. Christian Jassoy
  • Emerging problem of macrolide resistance in streptococci. Guiseppe Cornaglia
  • Factors affecting the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance. Sebastian Amyes
  • Urinary tract E. coli infections; investigations on evolution of virulence with practical applications. Levente Emödy
  • Tickborn bacterial infections, clinical and laboratory diagnosis. András Lakos
    Presentation not available
  • Intraabdominal anaerobic infections. Diagnostics and therapy. Elisabeth Nagy
  • Bacterial biofilms; implication for pathogenesis of infectious diseases. Luis Martínez Martinez
  • Resistance of anaerobic bacteria  to old and new  antibiotics.  Can we find any clinical impact. Luc Dubreuil
  • Viral hepatitis: the causative agents, diagnosis and monitoring of chronically infected patients. Mario Poljak
  • Cytomegalovirus infection in newborn infants  and immunocompromised patients. Rozália  Pusztai
  • Infections in the high-risk neutropenic host and the strategies of the antimicrobial therapy. János Sinkó
  • Double trouble - HIV and Tuberculosis co-infection. Achim Schwenk
  • Infectious diseases in patients with primary  immunodeficiency disorders. László Maródi
    Presentation not available
  • Diagnostics, epidemiology of diarrhoeal diseases of viral origin; vaccination against Rota-virus infection. Krisztián Bányai
  • An interactive approch to the discovery/diagnosis of a new disease. George Schmid
  • Present and future molecular methods, which can be used  in epidemiological investigation and diagnostics of infectious disease. Jordi Vila
  • IV catheter related infections. Types of infection, clinical and microbiologic diagnosis, treatment and prevention, with emphasis in infection control measures. Javier Garau
  • Are hospitals dangerous? Geoff Scott
  • Antibiotics promote colonization by resistant bacteria & development of resistantce during therapy. Elisabeth Nagy