 5 - March 2010, Rome, Italy
1st European Conference on MRSA disease
ISC Consensus Conference / Disease Management Series |
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In collaboration with ESCMID, the ISC is co-organising this two day European Consensus meeting in Rome for a group of European Experts.
The aims of the meeting were for a group of Experts to meet and arrive at Consensus in 3 difficult areas of MRSA infection that we feel need clarification. These are:
- MRSA Admission Screening
- Staff Screening
- Treatment of Serious Infections.
Conference organisers are:
Dr Ian M. Gould
i.m.gould@abdn.ac.uk
Prof. Evelina Tacconelli
etacconelli@rm.unicatt.it
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9 – 12 March 2010, Miami, Florida, USA
14th International Congress of Infectious Diseases (ICID) |
Website: www.isid.org/14th_icid/ |
The ISC organised the following symposium:
Carbapenemase Producing Bacteria: The Threat of "Panresistance"
• Detecting Carbapenemase Producers in the Clinic
C. Giske (Sweden) 14thICID_Giske.pdf (951 KB)
• Clinical Impact and Current Epidemiology of Carbapenemase producers
K. Thomson (USA) 14thICID_Thomson.pdf (136 KB)
• Controlling the Spread of Carbpenemase Resistant Bacteria
M. Schwaber (Israel) 14thICID_Schwaber.pdf (1.1 MB)
• Treatment Options for Carbapenenam Resistant Infections
G. Daikos (Greece) 14thICID_Daikos.pdf (2.4 MB) |
6 – 9 May 2010, Varna, Bulgaria
1st Southeast European Conference of Chemotherapy and Infection |
This was the first conference of Southeast European and neighbouring countries covering both infectious diseases and cancer topics. It was co-organised by the ISC, FESCI and IMAB. |
6 May, Welcome party: Prof. Kurt Naber (ISC Past President), Prof. Teresita Mazzei (ISC President), Prof. Andrea Novelli (FESCI President) and Prof. Krassimir Metodiev (President of IMAB and Secretary General of FESCI).
To view the meeting programme please click here.
Abstracts and posters from the meeting were published in Journal of IMAB (2010) ( http://www.journal-imab-bg.org/en/vol-16_book-1B.htm) |
27 – 28 May 2010 , Hotel Divani-Caravel, Athens, Greece
4th European Conference on Bloodstream Infections |
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The 4th European Conference on Bloodstream Infections is organized by the International Society of Cardiovascular Infections in collaboration with the Working Group on Endocarditis and Bloodstream Infections of the International Society of Chemotherapy, Infection and Cancer.
Scientific Secretariat :
Symposium Chair : Evangelos J. Giamarellos-Bourboulis , MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, 4th Dept of Internal Medicine
University of Athens, Medical School, Greece
Telephone : +30-210-5831994
Mobile : +306945521800
Email: giamarel@ath.forthnet.gr
Further information may found at www.sepsis.gr/bsi.html
Organising Secretariat
Vanna Antonopoulou
Imagine Congress and Travel
9, Kolokotroni street
105 62 Athens,
Greece
Tel: 0030 210 3252520
E-mail: v.antonopoulou@otenet.gr |
19 – 23 September 2010, Palazzo Feltrinelli, Gargnano, Italy
Summer School on Anti-Infective Pharmacology |
For further information, contact
PROF. FRANCESCO SCAGLIONE
francesco.scaglione@unimi.it
Phone: ++39-0250317073
Fax: ++39-0250317050
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The Italian Society of Chemotherapy in conjunction with the ISC and FESCI organised this summer school.
Programme topics included
- Introduction into PK/PD of anti-infectives -
- Models of Infection: In vitro vs. in vivo
- Tissue pharmacokinetic
- Appropriate dosing of antiifective drug
- Pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic modelling
- PK/PD in special population
- Dosing and emergence of resistance
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22 – 26 September 2010. Taiwan
5th Asian Congress of Paediatric Infectious Diseases |
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The ISC MRSA Working Group organised a symposium during this congress as follows:
- Community Associated MRSA - Epidemiology and Consequence for Containment of MRSA. Robert Skov (Denmark)
- MRSA in Asian Countries: Current Epidemiology and Treatment Issues. Doo-Ryeon Chung (Korea)
- Panton-Valentine Leukocidin and Other Staphylococcal Toxins. Graeme R Nimmo (Australia)
New Antibiotics for Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) Infections. Ian M. Gould (UK)
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24 – 25 November 2010 , Calcutta, India
Disease Management Series (DMS) on Fungal Infections |
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The meeting was organised by the ISC Working Group on Fungal Infections and will take place in conjunction with the annual conference of the Indian Association Of Medical Microbiologists(IAMM).
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2 – 5 December 2010 , Shangri-la Hotel, Singapore
12th Western Pacific Congress on Chemotherapy and Infectious Diseases |
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The congress is organised by the Society of Infectious Diseases Singapore in collaboration with the International Society of Chemotherapy and the Western Pacific Society of Chemotherapy.
Congress Secretariat:
Medicomms Asia (S) Pte Ltd
27 Foch Road
#02-08 Hoa Nam Building
Singapore 209264
Tel: (65) 6293-8220
Fax: (65) 6293-8230 |
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