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

Poster Sessions Sunday, May 2, 2004
P689 Detection of carbapenemases in
Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates
resistant to imipenem
E. Sevillano, M.J. Canduela, A. Umaran,
F.E. Calvo, L. Gallego (Bilbao, E)
P690 Non-enzyme-mediated imipenem resistance
in a clinical isolate of Citrobacter freundii
from Trondheim, Norway
M. Castanheira, B. Haldorsen, A. Sundsfjord,
T. Jacobsen, J. Afset, T. Walsh
(Bristol, UK; Tromso, Trondheim, N)
P691 Extended spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)
producers among enterobacteriaceae from
patients in Bulgarian hospitals
R. Markovska, E. Keuleyan, M. Sredkova,
D. Ivanova, B. Markova, P. Sotirova, E. Dragijeva,
T. Kostyanev, I. Mitov
(Sofia, Pleven, Stara Zagora, BG)
P692 Temporal trends of Streptococcus
pneumoniae isolates with dual resistance to
beta-lactam and macrolide antibiotics
J. Fuller, J. Powis, P. Tang, K. Green, D. Low
and the Canadian Bacterial Surveillance Network
P693 CdeA of Clostridium difficile, a new multidrug
efflux transporter of the MATE family
J. Tankovic, L. Dridi, F. Barbut, D. Decré,
J.-C. Petit (Paris, F)
P694 First appearance of the CfiA metallo-betalactamase
gene in Norway and its association
with a novel insertion element
M. Toleman, A. Sundsfjord, A. Onken,
B. Haldorsen, T. Walsh
(Bristol, UK; Tromso, Oslo, N)
P695 Molecular analysis of linezolid resistance in
Staphylococcus aureus
T.A. Wichelhaus, S. Besier, V. Brade, A. Ludwig
(Frankfurt am Main, D)
P696 Characterisation of the first CTX-M14producing
Salmonella enterica serotype
Enteritidis isolate
L. Romero, L. López, L. Martínez-Martínez,
B. Guerra, J.R. Hernández, A. Pascual
(Seville, E; Berlin, D)
P697 OmpK37 and reduced susceptibility to
imipenem and meropenem in Klebsiella
pneumoniae
H. Segal, B.G. Elisha (Cape Town, ZA)
P698 In vitro sequential development of gene
mutations in fluoroquinolone-resistant
salmonellae
J.M. Ling, Y. Jin (Hong Kong, HK)
P699 Biochemical characterisation of IMP-16,
a novel IMP variant harboured in a class I
integron of a Pseudomonas aeruginosa
clinical isolate from Brazil
R.E. Mendes, M.A. Toleman, H.S. Sader,
R.N. Jones, T.R. Walsh
(Bristol, UK; North Liberty, USA)
13:00–14:00
Molecular bacteriology: detection and
identification of agents
P700 Pyrosequencing at the Health Protection
Agency, UK
C. Arnold, S.E. Gharbia (London, UK)
P701 Universal 16S rDNA PCR and sequencing in
the diagnosis of infective endocarditis directly
from heart valve tissue
M. Marín, P. Muñoz, M. Rodriguez-Créixems,
L. Alcalá, J. Silva, E. Bouza –
Endocarditis Study Group, Madrid, Spain
P702 Clinical importance of PCR diagnosis in
bacterial meningitis and sepsis
S. Plisek, L. Pliskova, V. Dostal, V. Stepanova,
E. Pozlerova, J. Blazkova (Hradec Kralove, CZ)
P703 A new scoring method for molecular
diagnostic kit users
H. Staines, P. Wallace, R. Pogathota, E. Buultjens
(Dundee, Glasgow, UK)
P704 Application of TaqMan probes in end-point
fluorimetry for detection of pathogenic
bacteria by polymerase chain reaction
K. Oravcová, E. Kaclíková, T. Kuchta (Bratislava, SK)
P705 Usefulness of the MicroSeq 500 16S rDNAbased
method for identification of bacterial
isolates unidentified by commercial
automated systems
C. Fontana, M. Favaro, M. Pelliccioni,
E.S. Pistoia, C. Favalli (Rome, I)
P706 Facts, feasibility and future of bacterial load
of bloodstream infections
R.P.H. Peters, T. Schuurman, R.F. de Boer,
A.M.D. Kooistra, S.A. Danner,
C.M.J.E. Vandenbroucke-Grauls,
M.C.J. Persoons, A.A. van Zwet,
P.H.M. Savelkoul, M.A. van Agtmael
(Amsterdam, Groningen, NL)
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