Oral Presentaions


The following abstracts have been selected for an oral presentation and are part of the final programme.

Number Title Authors
94 Transferdynamics of the antibiotic resistance plasmid pOXA-48 in a hospital Ricardo León-Sampedro | Javier de la Fuente | Cristina Díaz-Agero | Thomas Crellen | Patrick Musicha | Jerónimo Rodríguez-Beltrán | Marta Hernández García | Nieves López Fresneña | Patricia Ruiz-Garbajosa | Rafael Canton Moreno | Ben Cooper | Alvaro San Millan
95 Characterisationof mcr-5-harbouring plasmids and mobilegenetic elements in Salmonella usingshort-read and long-read sequencing technologies Maria Borowiak | Carlus Deneke | Jennie Fischer | Jens André Hammerl | Simon H. Tausch | Istvan Szabo | Burkhard Malorny
96 Antibioticexposure and impact on the gut microbiome and resistome: A prospective clinicalmetagenomics multicenter cohort study Matthias Willmann | Maria Vehreschild | Lena Maria Biehl | Wichard Vogel | Daniela Dörfel | Axel Hamprecht | Harald Seifert | Ingo B. Autenrieth | Silke Peter
101 High prevalence of vanB in non-enterococcal flora including a novel anaerobic species contributes topersistent outbreaks of vancomycin resistant enterococci in a Norwegianhospital Randi Monsen Nygaard | Kristin Hegstad | Øyvind Kommedal | Paul Christoffer Lindemann
104 Intralaboratorycomparison of the Oxford Nanopore’s MinION sequencing device for microbialapplications Marco Ivens | Bazante Sanders | Miao Miao Zhou | Brian van der Veer | Casper Jamin | Nicole van den Braak | Lieke Van Alphen | Eefje Schrauwen
107 Standardisation of Public Genomic Datasets of E. coli from Food-Animals:A First Step Towards Global Genomic Comparisons João Pires | Jana Huisman | Sebastian Bonhoeffer | Thomas Van Boeckel
114 Genomic analysis explaining long term carriage of ESBL-producing E. coli acquired during international travel Boas van der Putten | Jarne van Hattem | John Penders | Constance Schultsz
117 From sequence types to pathovars: Public health relevance of virulence markers in prospectively sequenced populations Alicia Arnott | Rebecca Rockett | Verlaine Timms | Qinning Wang | Cristina Sotomajor | Vitali Sintchenko
126 Emergence of plasmid-mediated high-level tigecyclineresistance genes in animals and humans Dejun Liu | Tao He | Ran Wang | Huangwei Song | Timothy R. Walsh | Jianzhong Shen | Yang Wang
148 Global Salmonella plasmid population dynamics andassociations with known antimicrobial resistance genes James Robertson | Kyrylo Bessonov | Eduardo Taboada | John Nash
174 Tracking carbapenemase harbouringplasmids by application of long-read sequencing technology: a new dimension of surveillanceof MDR bacteria within the hospital setting Silke Peter | Oberhettinger Philipp | Gross Caspar | Bader Baris | Hoffmann Nadine | Schmidt Annika | Liese Jan | Marschal Matthias | Willmann Matthias | Autenrieth Ingo | Ossowski Stephan
180 Chlamydia trachomatis outbreak: when the virulence-associated genome backbone imports aprevalence-associated major antigen signature Vitor Borges | Dora Cordeiro | Ana Isabel Salas | Zohra Lodhia | Cristina Correia | Joana Isidro | Candida Fernandes | Ana Maria Rodrigues | Jacinta Azevedo | Joao Alves | Joao Roxo | Miguel Rocha | Rita Corte-Real | Luis Vieira | Maria Jose Borrego | João Paulo Gomes
196 The rise of Enterococcus faeciumST117 - a 20 years longitudinal analysis of a successful hospital-adaptedlineage Jennifer Karin Bender | Carola Fleige | Bernd Neumann | Ingo Klare | Guido Werner
203 Genome wide association studies reveals the genetic factors that contribute to the success of Staphylococcus saprophyticus as a uropathogen Opeyemi Lawal | Ons Bouchami | Peder Worning | Mette Damkjaer Bartels | Maria Luisa Goncalves | Paulo Paixão | Cristina Toscano | Elsa Filipa Pasmal De Almeida Goncalves | Henrik Westh | Maria Joao Fraqueza | H. De Lencastre | Maria Miragaia
216 Empowering data sharing for genomics-based public health surveillance using ontologies Emma Griffiths | Damion Dooley | Gurinder Gosal | Ivan Gill | Shannon Russell | Lauren Tindale | Virginia Pichler | Thomas Matthews | Aaron Petkau | Josh Adam | Dan Fornika | Geoff Winsor | Finlay Maguire | Brian Alcock | Andrew McArthur | Robert Beiko | Morag Graham | Fiona Brinkman | Gary Van Domselaar | William Hsiao
217 Genomic investigations into Serratia marcescens causing outbreaks in neonatological intensive care units Sandra Reuter | Swapnil Doijad | Yancheng Yao | Rafael Canton Moreno | Jari Jalava | Gunnar Skov Simonsen | Marek Gniadkowski | Jesus Oteo | Jane Turton | Timothy R. Walsh | Nina Nestorova | Trinad Chakraborty | Hajo Grundmann
228 Transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcusaureus (MRSA) ST398 through the food chain in Portugal Ons Bouchami | H. De Lencastre | Opeyemi Lawal | Maria Joao Fraqueza | Nuno Alexandre Faria | Maria Miragaia
209 Added value of implementing whole genome sequencing – a double-edgedsword Eva Litrup | Susanne Schjørring | Katrine Joensen | Pernille Gymoese | Kristoffer Kiil | Mia Torpdahl
235 Genomics-based risk factoranalysis: identification of drivers associated with the spread of antimicrobialresistance in Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovarHeidelberg in Ontario, Canada Benjamin Hetman | David Pearl | Dillon Barker | James Robertson | John Nash | Richard Reid-Smith | Jane Parmley | Amrita Bharat | Michael Mulvey | Eduardo Taboada
244 FT-IR spectroscopy: an effective method for real-time outbreak investigation Jonathan Lellouche | Nadya Rakovitsky | Sammy Frenk | David Schwartz | Hadas Kon | Shirin Abramov | Polet Elmalih | Yehuda Carmeli
245 Campylobacter plasmids and niche adaptation Aldert Zomer | Linda van der Graaf-van Bloois | Claudia Coipan | Hetty Blaak | Ciska Schets | Miriam Koene | Eelco Franz | Birgitta Duim | Lapo Mughini Gras | Jaap A. Wagenaar
273 Genomic Diversity, Antimicrobial Resistance and Virulence of Klebsiella pneumoniaefrom Animal Carriage: a Comprehensive Analysis in an One Health Perspective Carla Rodrigues | Marisa Haenni | Maxime Bour | Cécile Ponsin | Jean-Louis Pinsard | Virginie Passet | Jean-Yves Madec | Sylvain Brisse
276 MultidimensionalSequence Typing (MDST): a new method to localize particular sequences in the universeof bacterial genomes Miguel D. Fernandez-de-Bobadilla | Alba María Talavera Rodríguez | Fernando Baquero | Teresa Coque | Val Fernandez Lanza
279 Pangenome Analysis TOolkit (PATO): A newintegrative suite to analyze very large numbers of genomes. Alba María Talavera Rodríguez | Miguel D. Fernandez-de-Bobadilla | Fernando Baquero | Teresa Coque | Val Fernandez Lanza
280 Whole genome sequencing of influenza: applications ininfection control and surveillance Dan Frampton | Catherine Houlihan | Jude Heaney | Matt Byott | Paul Grant | Bridget Ferns | Eleni Nastouli
284 ONEIDA-INNUENDO - A bioinformatic platform forthe integration of genomics in surveillance and outbreak detection Bruno Ribeiro Gonçalves | Miguel Machado | Mickael Silva | Diogo Silva | Mirko Rossi | Duarte-Correia Ana | Alexandre P Francisco | Mario N. Ramirez | Joao A. Carrico

Poster Presentations


The following posters have been selected for presentation at IMMEM XII.

Poster Number Title Authors
28 PCR-basedtyping methods for detecting S.pneumoniae serotypes in Bulgarian children Mariya Malcheva | Ivan Simeonovski | Viktoria Levterova | Todor Kantardjiev
31 Streptococcus dysgalactiae a potential source of zoonotic infection in the kitchen Tse Hsien Koh | Nurdyana Abdul Rahman | October Michael Sessions
38 Potential transmission of methicillin resistance genesbetween staphylococcal species on German dairy farms Tobias Lienen | Arne Schnitt | Sven Maurischat | Bernd-Alois Tenhagen
48 The molecular epidemiology of Salmonella Typhimurium in Africa Caisey Victoria Pulford | Blanca Perez Sepulveda | Jessica Bevington | Neil Hall | Francois-Xavier Weill | Melita Gordon | Nicholas Feasey | Kate Baker | Jay Hinton
56 NGS based molecular typing of Staphylococcushaemolyticus - replacing PFGE to increase resolution Fuchs Manuela | Layer Franziska | Bender Jennifer | Thürmer Andrea | Werner Guido | Fuchs Stephan | Birgit Strommenger
59 The bag of tricksof vancomycin variable enterococci:an alternative constitutivevanHAX-promoter, varying copy numbersand transferable resistance Theresa Wagner | Jessin Janice | Audun Sivertsen | Ingegerd Sjögren | Arnfinn Sundsfjord | Kristin Hegstad
62 Completegenome sequence of Salmonella enterica subsp.diarizonae serovar 61:k:1,5,(7), isolate16-SA00356, a serovar associated with sheep Laura Uelze | Maria Borowiak | Carlus Deneke | Cécile Jacobs | István Szabó | Simon H. Tausch | Burkhard Malorny
67 The global phylogeography of a recently emerged Neisseria gonorrhoeae ST in Norway Vegard Eldholm | Magnus N Osnes | Dominique A. Caugant | Kristian Alfsnes
74 Genome-basedbacterial identification system improves the taxonomic identities of the genomesequences in the public database Sung-min Ha | Mauricio Chalita | Jongsik Chun
81 Genomic analysis of Staphylococcus aureus along a pork production chain and in the community, Shandong Province, China Chengtao Sun | Baoli Chen | Anette Hulth | Stefan Schwarz | Lennart Nilsson | Shizhen Ma | Qiang Sun | Zhenwang Bi | Congming Wu | Stefan Börjesson
80 Coregenome MLST investigation on MRSA spatype t172 isolates in a low-prevalence area, Southwest Finland, 2007-2016 Jaakko Silvola | Kirsi Gröndahl-Yli-Hannuksela | Jenna Junnila | MRSA -study group: Kari Auranen, Anu Harttio-Nohteri, Tiina Hirvioja, Laura Lindholm, Harri Marttila, Kaisu Rantakokko-Jalava, Esa Rintala | Jaana Vuopio
82 In vivo structural alterationsof a blaNDM-1 carryingIncA/C2 plasmid and complete sequence of its IncHI2-IncA/C2 co-integrate megaplasmidderivative generated during gastrointestinal passage in a broiler infectionstudy Jennie Fischer | Sead Hadziabdic | Maria Borowiak | Burkhard Malorny | Angelina Bloch | Katharina Juraschek | Annemarie Käsbohrer | Beatriz Guerra | Istvan Szabo
85 The impact of different MRSA typing methods on infection prevention and control strategies - a single-centre experience Monika Malecki | Frauke Mattner | Andreas Friedrich Wendel
88 Ciprofloxacin-resistant non-typhoid Salmonella isolated from food animals in South Korea Suk-Kyung Lim | Dong-Chan Moon | Su-Jeong Kim | Bang-Hun Hyun
89 Globalspread of three multidrug-resistant lineages of Staphylococcus epidermidis: incidence in blood cultures in theNetherlands. Artur Sabat | Erik Bathoorn | Viktoria Akkerboom | Christina Brühwasser | Alexander W. Friedrich
91 Genome-based pathogen surveillance: an use case of the new BIOMÉRIEUX EPISEQ®CS web-based software Bruno Muller | Patrick Mollon | Emmanuelle Santiago-Allexant | Marilyne Rumigny | Caroline Mirande
93 bifrost: a platform for data analysis of collections with a start in quality control Martin Basterrechea Salido | Kim Ng | Sharmin Baig | Marc Stegger | Paal Skytt Andersen
97 Metagenomic profiling using curated reference genome database revealed hitherto unrecognized species in the genus Streptococcus. Mauricio Antonio Chalita Williams | Sung-min Ha | Jongsik Chun
99 Pseudomonas aeruginosa transmission efficacy determination by a novel algorithm based on whole genome sequencing in combination with patient data Matthias Willmann | Madeleine Desch | Silke Peter | Jan Liese
106 Comparative genomics of Escherichia coli from 13 European ICUs Janetta Top | Nienke Leonie Plantinga | Ad Fluit | Jelle Scharringa | Rob Willems
109 LA-MRSAin German pigsty workers- Recolonization or persistence? Natalie Effelsberg | Sergej Udarcev | Hannah Müller | Iris Kobusch | Marc Boelhauve | Robin Köck | Mellmann Alexander
110 Helicase helPas prognostic biomarker in patients with Pseudomonasaeruginosa bloodstream infection Matthias Willmann | Stephan Göttig | Daniela Bezdan | Boris Macek | Ana Velic | Matthias Marschal | Wichard Vogel | Ingo Flesch | Uwe Markert | Annika Schmidt | Pierre Kübler | Mumina Javed | Benedikt Jentzsch | Thomas Moritz | Philipp Oberhettinger | Monika Schuetz | Erwin Bohn | Stephan Ossowski | Ingo B. Autenrieth | Silke Peter
111 Genome-based analyses of Klebsiella pneumoniae to detect possiblehost- associations, host-adaptation and effects on virulence Kathleen Klaper | Lena Heinrich | Walter Steffi | Roman Gerlach | Stephan Fuchs | Yvonne Pfeifer | Guido Werner
112 Molecular evidence for persistence and adaptationof a vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faeciumST-203 clone in a central European tertiary care hospital Mathilde Boumasmoud | Tiziano Angelo Schweizer | Vanina Dengler-Haureiter | Lilly Meyer | Denise Kühnert | Kati Seidl | Anne Holzmann-Bürgel | Peter W. Schreiber | Stefan P. Kuster | Roger Kouyos | Annelies Zinkernagel
113 Burkholderia cepacia complex infections caused by contaminated mouthwashsolutions in German hospitals in 2018 Jennifer Karin Bender | Sebastian Haller | Michael Hogardt | Klaus-Peter Hunfeld | Andrea Thürmer | Markus Werner | Bernd Kunz | David Eisenberger | Niels Pfennigwerth | Volkhard Kempf | Guido Werner | Tim Eckmanns | Yvonne Pfeifer
103 Genome-based Surveillance for Rational Autogenous Vaccine Design to Control Campylobacter Infection in Poultry Jessica Kate Calland | Ben Pascoe | Samuel K. Sheppard
115 Developing novelepidemiological marker scheme for Klebsiellapneumoniae based on MLST, capsule synthesis type and lipopolysaccharideserotype Andrew Shelenkov | Yulia Mikhaylova | Yuri Yanushevich | Valeria Fomina | Mikhail Zamyatin | Dmitriy Shagin
123 Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-ToF MS) for epidemiological analysis of mastitis-associated pathogens in sheep flocks Kate Bamford | Kevin Purdy | Andrew Bradley | Laura Green
128 A sentinel testing survey of plasmid-mediated(transferable) colistin resistance among Enterobacteriaceaein tertiary-care hospital. Jan Tkadlec | Eva Smelikova | Marie Cabrnochova | Otakar Nyc | Pavel Drevinek | Marcela Krutova
130 Emergenceof a new KPC-3 variant in the high-risk clone ST307-K.pneumoniaeafter ceftazidime-avibactam exposure in a Tertiary Hospital in Madrid Marta Hernández García | Javier Sánchez López | Manuel Ponce-Alonso | Maria Isabel Morosini Reilly | Rafael Canton Moreno | Patricia Ruiz-Garbajosa
135 Whole genomesequencing of Campylobacter jejunistrains isolated from human, broiler chicken and wild bird faecal samples Elisenda Miró | Yaidelys Iglesias-Torrens | Teresa Llovet | Pedro Guirado | Carmen Muñoz | Cristina Madrid | Carlos Balsalobre | Ferran Navarro
138 Epidemiology of carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in a Portuguese hospital: surveillance over a6-year period (2013-2018) Marta Aires De Sousa | Jose Manuel Ortiz de la Rosa | Maria Luisa Goncalves | Ana Luísa Pereira | Patrice Nordmann | Laurent Poirel
139 International occurrence of an OXA-48 encoding plasmid infour European countries. Casper Jamin | Lieke van Alphen | Marjolein Kluytmans-van den Bergh | Stefanie van Koeveringe | Natascha Perales Selva | Jan Kluytmans | Herman Goossens | Christian Hoebe | Paul Savelkoul | I-4-1-Health Study Group
133 The swansong of MLST: Comparative analysis of the two Acinetobacter baumannii schemes Stefano Gaiarsa | Gherard Batisti Biffignandi | Eliana Pia Esposito | Michele Castelli | Keith Adrian Jolley | Sylvain Brisse | Davide Sassera | Raffaele Zarrilli
140 Pathogenwatch: A Global Platform for Genomic Surveillance Richard Goater | Silvia Argimón | Khalil Abudahab | Ben Taylor | Corin Yeats | David Aanensen
144 Comparisonof wgMLST (BioNumerics) vs mapping and core-genome SNPs approach for theepidemiological investigations of Pseudomonasaeruginosa Dominique S. Blanc | Bárbara Magalhães | Laurence Senn
146 Integrated Aquaculture Contributes to the Transfer of mcr-1 between Animals and Humans Via theAquaculture Supply Chain Yingbo Shen | Ziquan Lv | Lu Yang | Dejun Liu | Jianzhong Shen | Junjie Xia | Yuebin Ke | Yang Wang
147 Usefulness of wholegenome sequencing in the investigation of discordant phenotypes and genotypesin paired Staphylococcus aureus blood culture isolates Isabella Tickler | Richard Goering | Scott Dewell | Victoria Le | Anne Obradovich | Fred C. Tenover
154 A Nosocomial Respiratory Infection Outbreakof Carbapenem-non-susceptible Escherichiacoli ST131 with multiple transmissible blaKPC-2carrying plasmids Li Juan | Jinxing Lu | Xia Chen
155 Evaluationof Staphylococcus aureus subtypingmodule for MRSA detection basedon MALDI-TOF MS Yanyan Hu | yonglu huang | yangzi lizhou | jiaping li | Rong Zhang
156 Evolutionary Snapshot of AustralianMethicillin-resistant Staphylococcusaureus (MRSA) bacteraemia isolates in 2015-2017 Stanley Pang | Denise Daley | Yung Thin Lee | Geoffrey Coombs
157 Molecularcharacteristics of the van operon in vancomycin resistant E. faecium blood stream infection isolates in Australia Terence Lee | Stanley Pang | Sam Abraham | Geoffrey Coombs
159 Rapid prospective strain typing to identify unsuspectednosocomial transmission of MRSA and VRE Matthew O'Sullivan | Marc Ramsperger | Cecilia Li | Marion Yuen | Vijay Errappa | Miechelline Magallanes | Kathryn O'Donnell | Patricia Ferguson
158 Colistin resistant Escherichia coli isolated from a mixedfarm (bovine, swine and the farmer): a One-health study applying Nanoporesequencing for metagenomics. Joaquim Vines | Olga Francino | Anna Cusco | Sebastian Napp | Judith Gonzalez | Ana Perez de Rozas | Lourdes Migura-Garcia
162 Use of MLVA and WGS based approaches for investigation of outbreak causedby monophasic Salmonella Typhimurium Sandra Janezic | Alenka Storman | Tatjana Frelih | Eva Grilc | Marija Trkov | Maja Rupnik
163 Characterisation of Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates using acore-genome MLST scheme Paul G Higgins | Julia Wille | Harald Seifert
161 Increased prevalence oflinezolid resistance among clinical enterococci in Norway mainly due to spreadof optrA E. faecalis Jessin Janice James Peter | Joachim Hegstad | Ellen Josefsen | Kristin Hegstad | Arnfinn Sundsfjord
165 Mapping Antimicrobial Resistance in Livestock in Low-and Middle-Income Countries Thomas Van Boeckel | João Pires | Reshma Silvester | Cheng Zhao | Julia Song | Marius Gilbert | Sebastian Bonhoeffer | Ramanan Laxminarayan
168 Three genotyping methodsto assess diversityof pathogenic Yersinia enterocolitica in its reservoir, the pig. Emilie Esnault | Raymond Pierre | Houard Emmanuelle | Hirchaud Edouard | Denis Martine
171 Characterisation of a vancomycin-resistantand a vancomycin-susceptible Enterococcusfaecium isolate from the same blood culture Kyriaki Xanthopoulou | Julia Wille | Janine Zweigner | Kai Lucassen | Thorsten Wille | Harald Seifert | Paul Higgins
172 Combination of epidemiological andNext-generation sequencing data to determine the contribution of the aqueousenvironment for Pseudomonas aeruginosacolonization of high-risk haemato-oncology patients Liese Jan | Bender Viviane | Grashorn Sebastian | Hoffmann Nadine | Bader Baris | Silke Peter
175 Antimicrobial resistance and virulence factors incephalosporin resistant E. coli from retail meat Ewelina Iwan | Magdalena Zając | Aleksandra Giza | Arkadiusz Bomba | Dariusz Wasyl
169 Within-host evolutionof Streptococcus pneumoniae amongchildren attending a day-care center Tiago Touret | Hermínia de Lencastre | Raquel Sá-Leão
173 Retrospectivegenome analysis of Acinetobacterbaumannii to investigate local population structure Andrea Groß | Sandra Reuter | Winfried Ebner | Julia Rauch
177 A double multi-fragment recombination eventoriginated the Streptococcus pneumoniaeserotype 11A-PMEN3 clone that is spreading in Southwest Europe. Aida González Díaz | Miguel Machado | Jordi Càmara | Jose Yuste | Emmanuelle Varon | Miriam Domenech | Maria Del Grosso | Jose Maria Marimon Ortiz de Zarate | Emilia Cercenado | Nieves Larrosa | María Dolores Quesada | Dionisia Fontals | Meritxell Cubero | João Carriço | Sara Marti | Mário Ramirez | Carmen Ardanuy Tisaire
143 Surveillance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by standard molecular typing and deciphering of unusual carriage in a maternity ward by whole genomesequencing Elisabeth Wehrle | Vera Portillo | Sylvain Meylan | Lisa Brockhaus | Marianne Burr | Luce Bertaiola Monnerat | Charly Nusbaumer | Bruno Grandbastien | Dominique S. Blanc
179 Preliminary study ofthe transmission potential of AMR and virulence genes in the E.coli wild boars isolates Aleksandra Giza | Magdalena Zajac | Ewelina Iwan | Łukasz Pruss | Dariusz Wasyl
185 A story of success: rmtB methylase gene, pHN7A8 plasmid and Escherichia coli ST1196 in Waste WaterTreatment Plants José Francisco Delgado Blas | Cristina Martinez Ovejero | Irene Sanchez-Mendez | Sophia David | Maria Pilar Garcillan | Fernando De La Cruz | David Aanensen | Muniesa Maite | Bruno Gonzalez-Zorn
186 Completegenome sequencing: a new standard for typing of molluscumcontagiosum virus isolates? Tomaž Mark Zorec | Lea Hošnjak | Mario Poljak
189 Intestinal colonization of Leclercia adcarboxylata carrying mcr-4.3 and blaIMP-4 bearing plasmids Qiaoling Sun | Ning Dong | Sheng Chen | Rong Zhang
193 Whole genome sequencing gives n“ewe” insights into therole of Dichelobacter nodosus in the pathogenesis of footrot in sheep Zoe Willis | David Aanensen | Julian Parkhill | Sara Frosth | Martin Ganter | Marianne Gilhuus | Rose Grogono-Thomas | Judith Rohde | Kevin Purdy | Laura Green
195 Whole Genome Sequencing for cluster detection and characterization of Salmonella Rissen isolates from Portugal Leonor Silveira | Miguel Pinto | Joana Isidro | Ângela Pista | Patrícia Themudo | Luís Vieira | Jorge Machado | João Paulo Gomes
194 Clinical Enterococcus faecalis isolates resistant to tigecycline Iwona Gawryszewska | Dorota Żabicka | Waleria Hryniewicz | Ewa Sadowy
200 Typingand monitoring of emerging group B Streptococcus strain types using MALDI-TOF-MS in Hong Kong. Dulmini Nanayakkara | Julian Rothen | Carmen Li | Claudia Daubenberger | Frederic Foucault | Valentin Pfluger | Margaret Ip
201 MBL-producingnon-aeruginosa Pseudomonas spp. inPoland in 2003-2016 – population structure and resistome Paweł Urbanowicz | Radosław Izdebski | Anna Baraniak | Dorota Żabicka | Waleria Hryniewicz | Marek Gniadkowski
204 The AFROStrepRegistry: Report of the prevalence of pharyngeal group A streptococcal emm-types in Cape Town, South Africa Mogamat Taariq Salie | Kelin Engel | Kimona Rampersadh | Dylan Barth | Babu Muhammed | James Dale | Mark Engel
206 Genome – based surveillance of Clostridioidesdifficile ribotype 017 sublineages circulating in Portugal Andrea Santos | Joana Isidro | Vitor Borges | João Paulo Gomes | Mónica Oleastro
207 CombiningWGS, epidemiological data and contact network-based analyses to disclosetransmission events and population changes of VRE within a hospital setting Bernd Neumann | Jennifer Karin Bender | Ulrich Vogel | Benjamin Maier | Alice Wittig | Dirk Brockmann | Lothar H. Wieler | Guido Werner
210 Comparing SNP- and cgMLST- based analyses of Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis Bernd Neumann | Jennifer Karin Bender | Stephan Fuchs | Guido Werner
211 Genetic basis forantimicrobial resistance (AMR) and population structure of Campylobacter jejuni isolated from broilers and turkeys in Italy Manuela Iurescia | Patricia Alba | Virginia Carfora | Daniele Ballaro' | Francesco Bottoni | Fiorentino Stravino | Tania Tagliaferri | Anna Vanni | Alessia Franco | Antonio Battisti
214 Virulence and antibiotic resistance plasticityof Arcobacter butzleri: insights on thegenomic diversity of an emerging human pathogen Joana Isidro | Susana Ferreira | Miguel Pinto | Fernanda Domingues | Mónica Oleastro | João Paulo Gomes | Vitor Borges
213 StrengtheningMycobacterium tuberculosissurveillance through culture-independent whole-genome sequencing Rita Macedo | Joana Isidro | Miguel Pinto | Vitor Borges | João Paulo Gomes
215 Canada’s Integrated Rapid Infectious Disease Analysis Platform (IRIDA) Tom Matthews | Franklin Bristow | Aaron Petkau | Josh Adam | Jeffrey Thiessen | Sukhdeep Sidhu | Peter Kruczkiewicz | Damion Dooley | Emma Griffiths | Dan Fornkia | Geoff Winsor | Amogelang R. Raphenya | Morag Graham | Andrew G. McArthur | Eduardo Taboada | Robert Beiko | Fiona Brinkman | William Hsiao | Gary Van Domselaar
218 Time-resolved evolution and host association of mammal associated Campylobacter fetus Birgitta Duim | Aldert Zomer | Torey Looft | Arjen Timmerman | Jaap A. Wagenaar | Linda van der Graaf-van Bloois
221 Use ofwhole genome sequencing for analysis of Staphylococcusaureus transmission from mother`s milk to infant: a case report. Sandra Janezic | Ana Cencic | Jernej Dolinsek | Maja Rupnik
225 MRSA in the age of migration:data from the German National Reference Centre for Staphylococci andEnterococci 2014 - 2017 Franziska Layer | Regina Selb | Sabine Albert-Braun | Birgit Strommenger | Guido Werner
224 WGS - based analysis of SalmonellaNewport and Bardo strains isolated from different sources Magdalena Zajac | Magdalena Skarzynska | ewelina kamińska | Anna Lalak | Renata Kwit | Aleksandra Smialowska-Weglinska | Łukasz Pruss | Arkadiusz Bomba | Dariusz Wasyl
226 ESBL Escherichia coli diversity amongst meat and meat sellers in North-Western Tanzania Jeremiah Seni | Nyambura Moremi | Vitus Silago | Stephen Mshana | Louise Matthews | Ruth Zadoks | Katarina Oravcova
222 In-hostgenetic diversity and persistence of ESBL-producing Enterobacteriales overtime Lisandra Aguilar Bultet | Isabelle Vock | Adrian Egli | Tanja Stadler | Sarah Tschudin-Sutter
229 MRSAin bloodstream infections in Portugal: diversification and dissemination patternsof the EMRSA-15 clone Nuno Alexandre Faria | Maria Miragaia | H. De Lencastre
231 Analysis of NGS reads for surveillance andclonality: an example with ESBL-producing K. pneumoniae Neris Garcia-Gonzalez | Rosario Moreno | Susana Sabater | barbara gomila sard | Fernando Gonzalez-Candelas
234 Prevalenceand contribution of mobile genetic elements and virulence genes inextended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Klebsiellapneumoniaeoutbreaks inthree parallel neonatal intensive care units Sammy Frenk | Nadya Rakovitsky | Jonathan Lellouche | Vered Schechner | Regev Cohen | Bat Sheva Kloyzner | Mitchell Schwaber | Ester Solter | Shoshana Cohen | Sarit Stepansky | Svetlana Paikin | Yehuda Carmeli
237 Implementation of Next generation sequencing for routine surveillance and characterizationof Listeria monocytogenes in Israel, 2016-2019 Analia Veronica Ezernitchi | Elizabeth Sirotkin | Jacob Moran-Gilad | Lea Valinsky | Assaf Rokney
238 Whole genome sequence characterization of DSA-Shigellain Israel Analia Veronica Ezernitchi | Elizabeth Sirotkin | Dana Danino | Vered Agmon | Lea Valinsky | Assaf Rokney
243 PulseNetUSA experience with the implementation of whole genome sequencing (WGS) for foodborne disease surveillance Heather Carleton | Peter Gerner-Smidt
236 Development of strain nomenclature for outbreak surveillance based oncore genome MLST for Salmonella enterica Heather Carleton | Sung Im | Beth Tolar | Grant Williams | Hannes Pouseele | Peter Gerner-Smidt
247 Application of Wholegenome sequencing for typing and surveillance of Clostridioides difficile in Denmark Søren Persson | Mark Østerlund | Katrine Joensen | Gitte Sørensen | Eva Moller Nielsen
250 Nation-wide outbreak of Klebsiellapneumoniae ST11 NDM-1 in Poland, 2012-2018, analysed by the WGS approach Radosław Izdebski | Michał Sitkiewicz | Sylvain Brisse | Marek Gniadkowski
251 A long-term MRSA t5147/ST88 outbreak among iv drug abusers and homeless peoplein Copenhagen Mette Damkjaer Bartels | Mona KA Holm | Peder Worning | Uffe Vest Schneider | Henrik Thiesen | Henrik Westh
246 Taxonomic vote: a new method to assign taxonomy after similarity searches Neris Garcia-Gonzalez | Fernando Gonzalez-Candelas
248 Whole genome sequencingdata analysis pipelines for definition of clonality, genetic distances, genecontent, and phylogeny of bacterial pathogens Migle Gabrielaite | Rasmus Marvig
254 High comparability despite use of different laboratory and analysis approachesfor Listeria monocytogenes clusteridentification by Whole Genome Sequencing. Susanne Schjørring | Gitte Sørensen | Kristoffer Kiil | Taina Niskanen | Eva Moller Nielsen
258 Geneticanalysis of plasmid-encoded mcr-1 mediatedresistance in Enterobacteriaceae Bazante K. Sanders | Miaomiao Zhou | Nicole P.W.C.J. van den Braak | Danny Duijsings | Jan A.J.W. Kluytmans | Eefje Schrauwen
261 Development and application of a whole genome MLST scheme for Cutibacterium acnes Nikolaos Strepis | Willemien H.A. Zandijk | Nelianne J. Verkaik | Corné H. Klaassen
262 BARiSTA: A framework for Bayesian allele recovery in sequence typing analysis Dillon Barker | Eduardo Taboada
241 Hepatitis C virus subtyping in a clinicalsetting with Next Generation Sequencing provides additional information now andin the future. Martin Schou Pedersen | Lone Gilmore | Jens Bukh | Kristian Schønning
263 Molecular diagnosticsreveals persistence of serotype 3 as the main cause of pediatric complicatedpneumonia in Portugal despite extensive PCV13 use Catarina Silva-Costa | Marcos Daniel Pinho | Ana Friães | Joana Gomes-Silva | Soraia I Guerreiro | Maria Joao Brito | Mario N. Ramirez | José Melo-Cristino
266 SOLIDNESS - Surveillance Of mobiLome meDiated aNtibiotic rEsiStance Spread Natacha Couto | John Rossen
267 Characterization of the genetic lineages responsiblefor pediatric invasivepneumococcal disease in Portugal (1999-2015) Joana Gomes-Silva | Catarina Silva-Costa | Mario N. Ramirez | José Melo-Cristino
269 Food origin and gut human carriage of Enterobacter spp. isolates harbouring the rare extended-spectrum beta-lactamase SFO-1. Silvia García-Cobos | John Rossen | Natacha Couto | Erwin G. Raangs | Jan A. J. W. Kluytmans | Alexander W. Friedrich
270 Methicillin-resistantStaphylococcus pseudintermedius (MRSP) surveillance with nanopore long reads: Whole Genome Sequencing, antimicrobial resistance and within-hostvariability in infection Olga Francino | Joaquim Vines | Anna Cusco | Lourdes Migura-Garcia | Armand Sanchez | Lluis Ferrer
268 Agenome-wide epidemiological study on Pseudomonasaeruginosa distribution and circulation in Northeast Italy Irene Bianconi | Olivier Jousson
272 Extensively drug-resistant Salmonella typhi in a pregnant travelerreturning from Pakistan to Denmark, 2019 Sarah Mollerup | Peder Worning | Martin Schou Pedersen | Henrik Torkil Westh | Uffe Vest Schneider | Anne Line Engsbro
275 Comparative genomics analysis of optrA-carrying Enterococcusfaecalis strains: new insights on clonal and genetic hotspots for optrA acquisition Ana Raquel Freitas | Ana P. Tedim | Carla Novais | Luisa Maria Vieira Peixe
281 Analysis of the intestinal resistome of Amerindians from the French Guiana and individuals from European countries Miguel D. Fernandez-de-Bobadilla | Fernando Baquero | Jose Luis Martinez | Antoine Andremont | Etienne Ruppe | Val Fernandez Lanza | Teresa Coque
282 Metagenomictools comparison on16S rRNA Sequences Alba María Talavera Rodríguez | Laura Judith Marcos-Zambrano | enrique carrillo de santa pau | sergio serrano villar | Val Fernandez Lanza
285 Validation of Fourier-Transform Infrared spectroscopy for cost-effective detection of nosocomial outbreaks Ângela Novais | Raquel Duro | Paulo Andrade | Filipa Ceia | Claudia Teixeira | Edgar Botelho-Moniz | Yuliana Eremina | Maria Ribeiro | Luisa Maria Vieira Peixe
286 Identification and typing of dengue virusesdirectly from patient samples with DEN-IM Catarina Mendes | Erley Lizarazo | Miguel Machado | Diogo Silva | Adriana Tami | Mario N. Ramirez | Natacha Couto | John Rossen | Joao A. Carrico
287 An outbreak of Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in a regional teaching hospital Yi-Ching Huang
289 Introductionand clonal spread of vanB E. faecium in Copenhagen, Denmark 2019 Mette Pinholt | Peder Worning | Sarah Mollerup | Kristian Schønning | Henrik Westh
290 Genomicanalysis of Enterococcus faecium isolates causing bacteremia inMadrid, Spain. Alba María Talavera Rodríguez | Ana P. Tedim | Fernando Baquero | Val Fernandez Lanza | Teresa Coque
296 Clonal contamination of laying hens farm by Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis responsible for a multi-annual outbreak demonstrated through phylodynamic reconstruction Erika Scaltriti | Luca Bolzoni | Chiara Bracchi | Laura Soliani | Marina Morganti | Stefano Pongolini
300 I-4-1-Health: Multi-centre surveillance of multidrug resistant Enterobacteriaceae reveals strong host specificity and no spread between livestock and humans. Casper Jamin | Lieke van Alphen | Francisca Velkers | Tijs Tobias | Arjan Stegeman | Marjolein Kluytmans-van den Bergh | Jan Kluytmans | Christian Hoebe | Paul Savelkoul
301 Molecular characterization and genomic epidemiology of Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase-Producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae isolated from children in Qatar Kin Ming (Clement) Tsui | Patrick Tang | Mohammad Rubayet Hasan | Andres Perez-Lopez
302 Ongoing outbreak of OXA-244 carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales in Germany is driven by clonal expansion of E. coli ST38 Joerg B. Hans | Rolf Kramer | Katrin Kremer | Niels Pfennigwerth | Sebastian Haller | Annicka Reuss | Yvonne Pfeifer | Guido Werner | Tim Eckmanns | Sören G. Gatermann
303 A genus-wide genomics survey of antibiotic resistance in Klebsiella species recovered from multiple human, animal and environmental niches within a single town in northern Italy Harry Thorpe | Edward Feil
305 Lyb-2-4, a unique genomic region of carbapenem-resistantAcinetobacter baumannii associated with fatal outcome Wei Huang | Min Zhang
306 Rapid identification of Hypervirulent Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii from the outbreaks Wei Huang