Moderator:
Prof. Debadatta Panigrahi, Vice Dean and Chairman of Department of Clinical Sciences, Professor of Clinical Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE |
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Session 1:
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| 10:00 |
Recent Advances in Laboratory Disgnosis of Mycoplasma and Ureaplasma Infections
Prof. Meera Sharman, Prof. and Chairperson, Department of Medical Microbiology, Postgraduate Medical Institute, Chandigarh, India |
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| 10:30 |
Screening of MRSA before Hospital Admission - Does Screening Work?
Dr. Nihar Dash, Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE |
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| 11:00 |
Community MRSA - An Evoloving Problem in the UAE
Dr. Martin Pitout, Section Head of Microbiology, Shiekh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE |
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| 11:30 |
Coffee Break |
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Session 2:
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| 12:00 |
Next Generation Sequencing Genome Based Epidemiology and Diagnostics of Tuberculosis
Dr. Stefan Niemann, Head Molecular Mycobacteriology Group, National Reference Centre for Mycobacteria, Borstel, Germany |
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| 12:30 |
Lifting the Lid of the Petri Dish- Full Microbiology Lab Automation: A Response to a Rapidly Changing Healthcare Environment
Professor Dr. Ulf B, Gobel, Institution of Microbiology and Hygiene Charity, University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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| 13:00 |
Polymyxins Revisted: New use for old Antibiotics
Dr. Ashok Rattan, Chairman, Laboratory Medicine, Medanta Medicity, Gurgaon, India |
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| 13:30 |
Lunch Break |
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Session 3:
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| 15:00 |
Invasive Fungal Infections in ICPS - Diagnostic Challenges
Prof. Arunalok Chakrabarti, Professor of Medical Mycology and In-charge of Mycology Section, Department of Medical Microbiology, Postgraduate Medical Institute, Chandigarh, India |
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| 15:30 |
Tricks in Identifying the Newly Emerging Resistance Mechanism in the Laboratory
Dr. Agnes Sonnevend, Assistant Professor, Consultant Clinical Microbiologist, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, FMHS-UAE University, Al Ain, UAE |
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| 16:00 |
Emerging Transferable Multi-Drug Resistance in GNB
Dr. Tibor Pal, Prof. of Microbiology and Immunology, FMHS-UAE University, Al Ain, UAE |
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| 16:30 |
Closing of Track B |
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