Staphylococcal Small-Colony Variants (SCVs) as Emerging Pathogens

Sunday, 7 September 2008 10:00 - 12:00, Meeting Room 2

Chairperson Georg Peters Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital of MuensterGermany
When should we consider spacial efforts to search for SCVs? The impact and clinical significance of staphylococcal SCVs
  • Richard Proctor, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin, School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, United States
What did we learn from defined mutants displaying the SCV phenotype? Insights into the pathogenesis of infections due to SCVs
  • Christof von Eiff, University Hospital of Muenster, Institute of Medical Microbiology, Germany
How do we find SCVs? Phenotypic methods to recover and to identify SCVs in the clinical microbiological laboratory
  • Barbara Kahl, University Clinics Muenster, Germany
The Janus face of SCVs – how do we define clinical SCVs? Advanced approaches to define and to trace the SCV phenotype and to test its susceptibility to antimicrobial agents
  • Karsten Becker, University Hospital of Muenster, Institute of Medical Microbiology, Germany