Clinical

Wednesday, 10 September 2008 15:00 - 16:30, Halls B, C and D

Prevalence of carriership and antibiotic resistance of Staphylococcus aureus in HIV infected persons in rural Zambia
  • Femke Mollema, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Prevalence and determinants of S. aureus and S. pneumoniae carriage in HIV infected persons compared to healthy controls
  • Femke Mollema, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Excess mortality from Staphlococcus aureus bacteraemia (SAB) in a tropical setting necessitates the development of a management algorithm for resource-limited countries
  • Emma Nickerson, Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit and University of Oxford, Thailand
EARRS-Seqnet surveillance of S. aureus associated with bacteraemia in the UK during 2006
  • Matthew Ellington, Centre for Infections, Health Protection Agency, United Kingdom
Community- and healthcare-associated Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia: 10-year review
  • Owen Robinson, Royal Perth Hospital and Gram-positive Bacteria Typing and Research Unit, School of Biomedical Sciences, Curtin University, Australia
Mortality associated with bacteraemia caused by Staphylococcus aureus: a cohort analysis with follow up beyond hospital discharge from the BURDEN study group
  • Peter Davey, University of Dundee, United Kingdom
Outcomes of Staphylococcus aureus vascath-related bacteraemias in an Australian institution, 2000-2006
  • Hong Foo, Concord Hospital, Australia
ANZCOSS – the first 2000 cases
  • Despina Kotsanas, Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne, Australia
Knowing MRSA colonisation status increases empiric use of glycopeptide in MRSA bacteremia and may reduce mortality
  • Owen Robinson, Royal Perth Hospital and Gram-positive Bacteria Typing and Research Unit, School of Biomedical Sciences, Curtin University, Australia
Persistence of bacteraemia with Staphylococcus epidermidis; resistance phenotype of the strains
  • Peter Ward, Microbiology Austin Health, Australia
Staphylococci and Intravascular devices (IVDs): A review
  • Li Zhang, Griffith University, Australia
Characteristics of Staphylococcus aureus strains from 5 outbreaks of pemphigus neonatorum in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
  • Petr Petras, National Institute of Public Health, Srobarova 48, 100 42 Prague, Czech Republic, Czech Republic
  • Roman Pantucek, Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk university, Kotlarska 2, 611 37 Brno, Czech Republic, Czech Republic
The etiologic agents of community-acquired pneumonia in Jeju, Korea: A diagnostic application of PCR methods
  • Jaechun Lee, Cheju National University, Korea
Bullous impetigo due to community-acquired meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus hemolyticus
  • Sang Yop Shin, Department of Intenal medicine, Cheju National University Hospital, Cheju National University School of Medicine, Korea
Staphylococcus lugdunensis: Identification and epidemiology in the community
  • Robert Skov, Staphylococcus Laboratory, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark, Denmark