INNOVATIONS FOR THE DIAGNOSIS & TREATMENT OF MULTIDRUG RESISTANT BACTERIAL INFECTIONS
Organized by the Spanish Society of Infectious Diseases & Clinical Microbiology (SEIMC)
Thursday, September 29th (15h00-16h30)
Room B
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Multiresistant bacteria infections are a threat to global health, because of their frequency and the current shortage of antimicrobial active, causing high morbidity and mortality. This led the WHO declared a global alert on this issue in 2014.
The session will: i) to demonstrate the ability of our country to develop new methods of diagnosis and treatment for infections by multidrug-resistant bacteria, through two of the papers, also showing a multidisciplinary approach, since its development participating organic chemists, microbiologists, biologists and physicians; ii) interaction with scientists of international recognition, as evidenced by the third paper.
Moderator:
José Miguel Cisneros Herreros: VicePresident, SEIMC /
Director, Clinical Unit of Infectious Diseases, Microbiology and Preventive
Medicine, University HOSPITALS VIRGEN MACARENA & VIRGEN DEL ROCÍO of Sevilla
(Spain)
Speakers:
- Laurent Poirel: Medical and molecular Microbiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Science, UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG (Switzerland). “Rapid biochemical and culture-based techniques for detecting multidrug resistance in Gram-negative bacteria”
- José María Marimón Ortiz de Zárate: Respiratory Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance, Department of Microbiology, Hospital of Donostia, INSTITUTE OF SANITARY RESEARCH BIODONOSTIA (Spain). “From the hospital to the biotech companies: collaborative development of a new system for characterization of Streptococcus pneumoniae”
- Jerónimo Pachón: Infectious Diseases Research Group, Institute of Biomedicine of Seville, UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL VIRGEN DEL ROCIO / CSIC / UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE (Spain). “Inhibitors of outer membrane protein A for the treatment of severe infections by Gramnegative bacilli”.