Final Programme
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Final Programme
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Scientific <strong>Programme</strong> Saturday, April 1, 2006<br />
Educational Workshops *<br />
Méditerranée 3 Current control measures for Toxoplasma<br />
W1 13:30– infection in pregnant women and newborn<br />
15:30 children<br />
Convenor: Eskild Petersen (Aarhus, DK)<br />
Faculty:<br />
Eskild Petersen (Aarhus, DK)<br />
Rodolphe Thiébaut (Bordeaux, FR)<br />
Ruth Gilbert (London, UK)<br />
Topics:<br />
Efficacy of pre- and postnatal treatment<br />
The SYROCOT study:<br />
a meta-analysis of 2000 Toxoplasma infected<br />
pregnant women and their children<br />
The size of the problem in Europe and how do<br />
we control Toxoplasma infections in the future?<br />
Is there a role for Toxoplasma-free food?<br />
ESCMID Study Group on Toxoplasmosis (ESGT)<br />
Athena Practical and theoretical aspects of sequence-<br />
W2 13:30– based typing: the paradigms of Staphylococcus<br />
15:30 aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes<br />
Convenor: Alexander Friedrich (Munster, DE)<br />
Faculty:<br />
Alexander Friedrich (Munster, DE)<br />
Wofgang Witte (Wernigerode, DE)<br />
Shona Neal (London, UK)<br />
Alexander Mellmann (Munster, DE)<br />
Topics:<br />
spa typing of S. aureus<br />
stability of DNA repeats<br />
nucleotide differences occurring within repeats –<br />
and how these affect interpretation of types<br />
SCCmec typing of MRSA<br />
emm typing of S. pyogenes<br />
DNA sequence chromatogram editing<br />
nucleotide differences vs. amino-acid differences<br />
definition of identical vs. non-identical isolates<br />
ESCMID Study Group on Epidemiological<br />
Markers (ESGEM)<br />
* All Educational Workshops are subject to separate registration.<br />
Méditerranée 2 Management of nosocomial infections –<br />
W3 13:30– learning from clinical cases<br />
15:30 Convenor: Christian Ruef (Zurich, CH)<br />
Faculty:<br />
Marc Bonten (Utrecht, NL)<br />
Christian Ruef (Zurich, CH)<br />
Andrej Trampuz (Basel, CH)<br />
Topics:<br />
Infections associated with intravascular devices<br />
Surgical site infections after implant surgery<br />
Ventilator-associated pneumonia<br />
ESCMID Study Group on Nosocomial<br />
Infections (ESGNI)<br />
Méditerranée 1 Quality control and standardisation in<br />
W4 13:30– molecular diagnostics<br />
15:30 Convenor: Margareta Ieven (Antwerp, BE)<br />
Faculty:<br />
Hubert G.M. Niesters (Rotterdam, NL)<br />
Paul Wallace (Glasgow, UK)<br />
Anton M. van Loon (Utrecht, NL)<br />
Topics:<br />
International standards: the use and utility of<br />
standardisation<br />
QC within the clinical molecular microbiology<br />
laboratory: controls, compliance & traceability<br />
Improving molecular diagnostics through<br />
international EQAS: a review of progress<br />
over the last decade<br />
Alternative approaches to QC and improving<br />
molecular diagnostics in the routine clinical<br />
diagnostic laboratory<br />
ESCMID Study Group on Molecular Diagnostics<br />
(ESGMD) and QCMD<br />
www.escmid.org/eccmid2006 page 27
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