EUCAST Workshop Cork

We cordially invite you to a EUCAST Workshop with Gunnar Kahlmeter, Professor of Clinical Bacteriology and EUCAST technical data coordinator:
Venue: River Lee Hotel, Cork, on Wednesday, May 31st

Topics for discussion include (but not limited to):

Colistin testing
New fluoroquinolone breakpoints - what happened?
AST of Haemophilus influenza - which agents, how do you differentiate between different resistance mechanisms and which affect the different β-lactam agents
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New breakpoints to detect methicillin resistance in coagulase negative staphylococci
How to deal with antimicrobials with different breakpoints for different situations (eg. general breakpoints and separate breakpoints for meningitis) - how common is this? Will it increase over time?

 Fosfomycin AST
 AST of anaerobes
 Intermediate - what does it really mean?
 MDROs - up the creek without a paddle?

Registration and refreshments @ 17:30 hrs. EUCAST Workshop 18:00 – 20:00 hrs.

Please RSVP to TCunningham@bonsecours.ie by Friday, May 26th

ACCREDITED 2 CPD POINTS AS AN EVENING EVENT