Medical Microbiology
Programme sponsor
Tuesday 23 September
9am
EUCAST susceptibility testing
9.30am
Integrating microbiology with clinical teams in low- and middle-income countries through the Commonwealth Partnerships for Antimicrobial Stewardship
10.30am
Introducing the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC) Global Antimicrobial Stewardship Accreditation Scheme (GAMSAS): Saving the world one visit at a time
Wednesday 24 September
9am
Changes in fungal taxonomy: Mycological rationale and clinical implications Prof. Andy
9.30am
Update on anaerobes with focus on Fusobacterium necrophorum
10.30am
An infection prevention and control scientist’s perspective on outbreak management
11am
The use of simulation and physical mock-ups to study the colonisation and spread of pathogens within the indoor environment
3pm
Challenges posed by Cryptosporidium in the 21st century and the changing face of clinical cryptosporidiosis
Thursday 25 September
9.40am
Terbinafine-resistant Trichophyton indotineae: challenges in diagnosis and management
12.45pm
Meet the Experts - The future is now: How do we move to metagenomics for Microbiology?
2.30pm
Partnership pipelines: Integrating next-generation sequencing into diagnostic services
3pm
Respiratory metagenomics implementation in the clinical laboratory, a unifed method for detection of bacteria, viruses and fungi
Opening and Closing Plenary programmes
