23 - 24 March 2013, Limassol, Cyprus

Course Objectives

• To increase awareness of infectious diseases endemic in the Mediterranean region
• To increase knowledge about the epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment of these endemic and emerging infections
• To describe the problem of resistance and antibiotic usage in this area and to compare the differences between the European and non-European countries

Course Venue

Mediterranean Beach Hotel
71 Amathus Avenue
4533 Agios Tychonas
Limassol, Cyprus

Phone +357 25 55 9999
Fax +357 25 32 4754
P.O. Box 56767
3310 Limassol, Cyprus
Mediterranean Beach Hotel

Target Audience

Up to 50 – 90 epidemiologists, infectious diseases specialists, microbiologists, internal medicine doctors, pediatricians and PhD students.

Prof George L. Petrikkos
Athens, Greece

Phone +30 210 583 1989-90
Fax +30 210 532 6446
petrikos[at]med.uoa.gr
petrikos[at]hol.gr

Administrative Secretariat

Georgia Samona
The MASTERMIND Group
Marathonomahon Street 26
151 24 Marousi-Athens
Greece

Phone +30 210 682 7405
Fax +30 210 682 7409
Georgia Samona
www.tmg.gr

Presentations are availabe in the ESCMID Online Lecture Library.

Saturday, 23 March 2013

Bacterial resistance in the Mediterranean countries
Chairpersons: G. Daikos, Y. Carmeli

• Antibiotic policies and resistance in the Mediterranean countries.
  Atef M. Shibl
• Gram-positive resistance (MRSA, VRE, S. pneumoniae R). Stefania Stefani
• Changing epidemiology of ESBLs producing Enterobacteriaceae. Maria Souli
• Screening for carriage of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae. Why? Whom to screen? And how to screen? Yehuda Carmeli
• MDR and therapeutic options. George Daikos
• Coffee break

Special lecture
Chairperson: G. Petrikkos

• MDR tuberculosis. George Daikos

Zoonoses
Chairpersons: D. Raoult, G. Petrikkos

• Brucellosis. Anna Skiada
• Rickettsiosis. Didier Raoult
• New therapies for visceral leishmaniasis. Anna Skiada
• Leptospirosis. Diamandis Plachouras
• Lyme’s disease. Souha Kanj
• Lunch break

Viral infections
Chairpersons: S. Declich, S. Tsiodras

• Epidemiology of West Nile fever in the Mediterranean basin. Sotiris Tsiodras
• Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever. Diamantis Plachouras
• Chikungunya, Dengue and West Nile fever. The Italian situation.
  Silvia Declich
• Lessons from the 2009 influenza pandemic. Sotiris Tsiodras
• Viral hepatitis in the Mediterranean countries. George Potamitis
• Coffee Break

SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM
The problems of resistance in Greece and the national plan “Prokroustis”
Chairpersons: G. Petrikkos, Th. Papadimitriou

• Epidemiology of MDR Gram negatives (K. pneumoniae, P. aeruginosa, A. baumanii). Sotiris Tsiodras
• How to face the problem. George Daikos

Comments: Y. Carmelli

Sunday, 24 March 2013

Special lecture
Chairperson: D. Plachouras

• PK-PD of antimicrobial drugs used in the endemic and emerging Mediterranean infections. Andrea Novelli

Emerging fungal infections
Chairpersons: S. Kanj, M. Alexandrou

• Mucormycosis. George Petrikkos
• Fusariosis. Anna Skiada
• Coffee break

Parasitoses
Chairpersons: G. Potamitis, S. Kanj

• Malaria. Sotirios Tsiodras
• Hydatidosis in the Mediterranean countries. Allal Dakkak

Special lecture
Chairperson: G. Petrikkos

• Paediatric infections endemic in the Mediterranean countries. Maria Koliou

Closing remarks
George Petrikkos

• Maria Alexandrou, Limassol, Cyprus
• Yehuda Carmeli, Tel-Aviv, Israel
• George L. Daikos, Athens, Greece
• Allal Dakkak, Rabat, Morocco
• Silvia Declich, Rome, Italy
• Souha Kanj, Beirut, Lebanon
• Maria Koliou, Nicosia, Cyprus
• Andrea Novelli, Florence, Italy
• Theodoros Papadimitriou, Athens, Greece
• George Petrikkos, Athens, Greece
• Diamantis Plachouras, Athens, Greece
• George Potamitis, Nicosia, Cyprus
• Didier Raoult, Marseille, France
• Atef M. Shibl, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• Anna Skiada, Athens, Greece
• Maria Souli, Athens, Greece
• Stefania Stefani, Catania, Italy
• Sotiris Tsiodras, Athens, Greece