Straubing / Germany, January 2008
Dear Friends,
Firstly, I would like to update you on an exciting international collaboration undertaken by the ISC Working Group on Urinary Tract Infections. Secondly, we are about to enter the start of a new conference season and I would like to draw your attention to the meetings highlighted below.
The ISC Working Group on Urinary Tract Infections has collaborated with a number of other international bodies to publish guidelines in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents. The paper is entitled: European and Asian guidelines on management and prevention of catheter-associated urinary tract infections.
For further details and to download a copy of the paper, go to the UTI working group website: http://www.ischemo.org/02_WG_Urinary.html
Update on Fungal Infections. Madrid, 29 February – 1 March 2008
ISC, FESCI and the Spanish Society of Chemotherapy have jointly organised this meeting which is chaired by Prof. Juan J. Picazo of Madrid. Programme sessions include:
Candideamia in the critically ill patient.
Fungal infections in Immunocompromised patients and transplant recipients
Management of the patient with invasive fungal infection
Invasive fungal infection in the haematological patient
Update on the prevention of invasive fungal infections in oncohaematological patients
Current topics in fungal infection in critically ill and transplant patients
Further information may be requested from info@fungal2008.com
2nd ISC European Conference on Bloodstream Infections,
Sitges, Spain 17 – 18 April, 2008
Sitges is just 35km from Barcelona and easy to reach. This meeting will take place immediately prior to ECCMID which will be held in Barcelona 19 – 20 April – so why not combine the two meetings in one trip!
The faculty is truly international, having been drawn from eight different countries. It is chaired by José M. Miró (Spain) and Christoph K. Naber (Germany)
For further information go to www.isc-bsi.org
The 13th ICID will continue the pattern of overwhelming successes in recent years in Lisbon, Cancun, Singapore, and Buenos Aires.
The meeting in Kuala Lumpur, hosted by the Ministry of Health, Malaysia will again welcome delegates from over 100 countries. The scientific program for the congress is nearly complete and there is an outstanding line up of speakers and topics that will be of interest to anyone active in the fields of infectious and emerging diseases. The deadline for abstract submissions to the 13th ICID is February 15. You are asked to submit your abstract as soon as possible and take advantage of reduced registration fees by registering on or before April 15, 2008. Please visit http://www.isid.org/13th_icid for complete information including Congress registration, hotel reservation and abstract submission instructions.
Other ISC Meetings 2008
For details please go to www.ischemo.org/08_Meetings.htm
27-30 March 2008, Almaty. Kazakhstan
2nd International Congress of Central Asia Infectious Diseases1-4 April 2008, Prince Wales Hospital, Hong Kong
Viral Phylogenetics & Bioinformatics Workshop10 April 2008, Manila, Philippines
Meningitis Disease Management Symposium13-14 March 2008, Samara, Russia
IACMAC Volga Region Conference on Antimicrobial Therapy8-11 May 2008, Varna, Bulgaria
18th Annual Assembly of IMAB & 3rd National Congress of Immunology18-19 June 2008, Phom Penh, Cambodia
2nd Symposium on Infectious Diseases in Areas of Disaster / Catastrophe7-10 September 2008, Cairns, Australia
International Symposium for Staphylococci and Staphylococcal Infection26-27 September 2008, Leipzig, Germany
ISC International Conference on New Views on Clostridium difficile Infections8-11 November 2008, Istanbul, Turkey
9th European Congress of Chemotherapy and 16th Mediterranean Congress of Chemotherapy29 November – 3 December, Taipei
11th Western Pacific Congress on Chemotherapy and Infectious Diseases (WPCCID)
Professor Kurt G. Naber
President of ISC
kurt.naber@nabers.de