14th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious ...

Meeting
Hall I
Keynote Lectures
Scientific Programme Monday, May 3, 2004
Interaction between two genomes:
mapping the co-evolution of man and
Helicobacter pylori
Chairperson: Francis Mégraud (Bordeaux, F)
K169
08:30 Mark Achtman (Berlin, D)
Forum
Hall
Global pandemics: how well is the global
village prepared to deal with emerging
infectious diseases
Chairperson: Claude Carbon (Paris, F)
K170
08:30 Guénaël Rodier (Geneva, CH)
South
Hall
Shooting the messenger:
harnessing RNA interference for therapy
Chairperson: Ragnar Norrby (Stockholm, S)
K171
08:30 Judy Lieberman (Boston, USA)
Panorama
Hall
Official Symposia
The changing faces of S. aureus
Chairpersons: Marc Struelens (Brussels, B)
Pavla Urbásˇková (Prague, CZ)
S172 The threat of glucopeptide-resistant S. aureus
10:00 Fred C. Tenover (Atlanta, USA)
S173 The worldwide emergence of hyper virulent
10:30 MRSA in the community
Jérome Etienne (Lyon, F)
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S174 MRSA incidence and control in European
11:00 hospitals
Pavla Urbásˇková (Prague, CZ)
S175 Small colony variants of S. aureus – clinical
11:30 significance and detection challenges
Barbara Kahl (Munster, D)
Meeting
Hall IV
Diarrhoeal diseases
Chairpersons: Cynthia L. Sears (Baltimore, USA)
Elisabeth Nagy (Szeged, HUN)
S176 Toxigenic Bacteroides fragilis: a commensal
10:00 launches a diverse attack on the gut
Cynthia L. Sears (Baltimore, USA)
S177 Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli
10:30 Helge Karch (Munster, D)
S178 Enteroaggregative E. coli infections in children
11:00 Edward Dudley (Baltimore, USA)
S179 Therapeutic issues, taking into consideration
11:30 resistance
Michael Bennish (Mtubatuba, ZA)
Meeting
Hall I
Joint symposium arranged with the
Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA)
New technologies for microbiological
diagnostics
Chairpersons: Sascha Sauer (Brussels, B)
Franklin R. Cockerill (Rochester, USA)
S180 Advances in the microbiological diagnosis of
10:00 Aspergillus infection – galactomannan detection
Johan Maertens (Leuven, B)
S181 Advances in the microbiological diagnosis of
10:30 Streptococcus pyogenes pharyngitis
Franklin R. Cockerill (Rochester, USA)
S182 Advances in the microbiological diagnosis of
11:00 endocarditis
Didier Raoult (Marseille, F)
S183 Advances in the microbiological diagnosis of
11:30 biofilm-associated infections
Robin Patel (Rochester, USA)
Joint session arranged with the
ICAAC Program Committee