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

Scientific Programme Tuesday, May 4, 2004
Meet-the-Expert Sessions
Small Hall How to prepare and deliver scientific
E317 communication effectively?
07:15 Experts: Ethan Rubinstein (Tel-Hashomer, IL)
Achim Schwenk (London, UK)
Objectives:
To discuss how to prepare and communicate:
Do I have a novel message?
What ingredients are novel?
Is my message novel and important?
Who will be my readership/ audience?
What consequences do I expect from my
message (publication, collaboration,
preparation for grant submission, etc?
Will it satisfy the most rigorous reviewer?
To discuss how to deliver a communication:
How do I make a preliminary plan for the
introduction, material and methods, results
and most important discussion?
What is the content of each section?
How do I construct the discussion, and put the
results into prospective?
Club A New developments in the diagnosis of
invasive mycoses
E318 Experts: Olivier Lortholary (Paris, F)
07:15 Jacques Bille (Lausanne, CH)
Objectives:
To critically assess the value, limits, pitfalls and
clinical benefit of new diagnostic approaches
(antigenic and molecular) of selected invasive
mycoses, using clinical examples.
Meeting MDR tuberculosis: risk factors and
Hall IV management
E319 Experts: Serguei Popov (Moscow, RUS)
07:15 Francis Drobniewski (London, UK)
Objectives:
To understand the scale of MDRTB in the
world today; the main reasons for the
development of MDR TB; the professional
and hospital cross-infection risks of MDRTB;
the clinical and social management of MDRTB.
To discuss implementation of effective MDR
TB Control Programmes.
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Meeting Cost-effective use of the clinical microbiology
Hall V laboratory
E320 Experts: Barth Reller (Durham, USA)
07:15 Vincent Jarlier (Paris, F)
Objectives:
To critically assess the traditional and new
diagnostic methods for their cost-effectivness,
and clinical relevance
Chamber Clonal analysis of bacterial populations
Hall Experts: Mark Achtman (Berlin, D)
E321 Ed Feil (Bath, UK)
07:15
Objectives:
To discuss what are the advantages (and
disadvantages) of MLST over other methods.
To examine how these approaches are
validated for phylogenetic analysis?
To examine if alternative approaches exist.
To understand how bacterial infection and
aid our understanding of epidemic spread,
the distribution of virulence factors and
antibiotic resistance.
Conference Diagnosis and management of chronic Lyme
Hall
disease
E322 Experts: Gary Wormser (New York, USA)
07:15 Franc Strle (Ljubliana, SI)
Objectives:
To discuss diagnostic modalities, treatment
and long-term outcome of Lyme borreliosis.