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

Club A
Oral Sessions
Scientific Programme Monday, May 3, 2004
Molecular epidemiology and management of
nosocomial outbreaks
Chairpersons: Petra Gastmeier (Hannover, D)
Leonid Stratchounski
(Smolensk, RUS)
O184 Czech epidemic strain of Burkholderia
10:00 cenocepacia does not belong to ET12 lineage
S. Vosahlikova, H. Reitzova, O. Cinek, P. Drevinek
(Prague, CZ)
O185 Genetic diversity of penicillin-non-susceptible
10:12 clinical strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae
isolated in Russia: results of a nationwide
study
R.S. Kozlov, I.S. Palagin, M.V. Edelstein,
L.S. Stratchounski (Smolensk, RUS)
O186 Relationships between virulence factors of
10:24 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
and clonal types
V. Chini, G. Dimitracopoulos, I. Spiliopoulou
(Patras, GR)
O187 DNA fingerprinting of Mycobacteria using
10:36 automated repetitive sequenced-based PCR
M. Lising, T. Bittner, K. Reece, D. Walton,
K. Shah, M. Healy (Houston, USA)
O188 Molecular epidemiological analysis of
10:48 Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates reported
in England in 1998
A. Gibson, K. Gopaul, J. Anderson, F. LeBrun,
R. Pitman, Z. Fang, J. Watson, F. Drobniewski
(London, UK)
O189 Use of statistical process control for early
11:00 detection of hospital-acquired outbreak of
alarm bacteria
M. Walberg, P. Jenum (Rud, N)
O190 Failure of classical surveillance strategy to
11:12 detect a large hospital-wide outbreak of a
multidrug-resistant Enterobacter cloacae
M.A. Leverstein-van Hall, H.E.M. Blok, A. Paauw,
E.M. Mascini, J. Verhoef, A.C. Fluit (Utrecht, NL)
O191 Investigation of the association between
11:24 the MRSA colonisation pressure and the
occurrence of nosocomial MRSA infections
in 75 German intensive care units
P. Gastmeier, C. Geffers, M. Behnke, D. Sohr,
H. Rüden (Hannover, Berlin, D)
O192 Pseudo-outbreak of Stenotrophomonas
11:36 maltophilia bacteraemia related to non-sterile
blood collection vials
J. Sampaio, S. Sinto, C. Oplustil, J. Amarante,
M. Biancalana, S. Leao, C. Kiffer, C. Mendes
(Sao Paulo, BR)
O193 Compliance with hand disinfection in
11:48 intensive care units (ICU): the Hawthorne effect
T. Eckmanns, F. Schwab, R. Wettstein,
M. Behnke, P. Gastmeier, H. Rüden
(Berlin, Hannover, D)
Chamber
Hall
Communicable infections: surveillance
systems and public health issues
Chairpersons:Jan Galsky (Melnik, CZ)
Stef Bronzwaer (Luxembourg, LUX)
O194 Assessing cases for SARS in the Netherlands
10:00 A. Timen, G.J.J. van Doornum, M. Schutten,
M.A.E. Conyn-van Spaendonck, J.W.M. van der
Meer, A.D.M.E. Osterhaus, J.E. van Steenbergen
(Utrecht, Rotterdam, Bilthoven, Nijmegen, NL)
O195 The current health and economic burden of
10:12 varicella in Germany
P. Wutzler, S. Wagenpfeil, T. Hammerschmidt,
H. Bisanz, K. Banz, A. Neiss (Jena, Munich, D;
Basle, CH)
O196 StAKoB - The German working group of
10:24 centres for the management of highly
contagious diseases as part of a preparedness
network responding to biological hazards
T. Grünewald, R. Fock, K. Fleischer, G.D. Burchard,
R. Kurth, B.R. Ruf – German working group of
centers for the management of highly contagious
diseases (StAKoB)
O197 Evidence of shiga-like toxin (stx1, stx2),
10:36 intimin (eaeA), and hemolysin (hlyA) positive
E. coli in private and public drinking water
supplies in Upper Austria – an emerging issue
of public health?
M. Halabi, D. Orth, K. Grif, M. Wiesholzer-Pittl,
J. Schoeberl, M. Kainz, F. Allerberger,
R. Wuerzner (Ried im Innkreis, Innsbruck, Vienna, A)
O198 Bacterial meningitis in Denmark. Discrepancy
10:48 between laboratory registered and notified
cases
C.N. Meyer, H.C. Schønheyder, I.S. Samuelsson,
M. Galle, J.M. Bangsborg, X. Nielsen, N. Høiby
(Hellerup, Aalborg, Copenhagen, Herlev, DK)
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