Symposium 2 - Staphylococcal Virulence and Resistance

Monday, 8 September 2008 14:00 - 15:30, Hall A

Co-Chair Neville Firth University of SydneyAustralia
Co-Chair Francois Vandenesch   
Staphylococcus aureus RNAIII and other non coding RNAs in gene regulation
  • Pascale Romby, Centre National de Référence des Staphylocoques, France
Adhesion of PVL-positive isolates to extracellular matrix
  • Francoise Vandenesch, Université de Lyon, France
The two-component system arlRS positively regulates mecA in CA-MRSA strains and that the regulation is independent of blaIR
  • Guido Memmi, Dartmouth Medical School, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, United States
The mobility of the multiresistance gene cfr is mediated by IS21-558 insertion sequences
  • Corinna Kehrenberg, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Institute of Farm Animal Genetics, Neustadt-Mariensee, Germany