24th Annual Meeting of the Scandinavian Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Tampere, Finland, September 6-9, 2007

 

THURSDAY, 6 SEPTEMBER

15.00-18.00 SSAC Mini-course: Respiratory infections – a changing landscape

Chairman and Introduction: Terho Heikkinen (5 min)

Emerging detection techniques for emerging respiratory viruses, Matti Waris, Finland (25+5 min)

The role of viruses in recurrent wheezing in children, Tuomas Jartti, Finland (25+5 min)

Interaction between viruses and bacteria in respiratory infections, Ville Peltola, Finland (25+5 min)

(Coffee break)

Otitis media: not a sole bacterial infection any more, Terho Heikkinen, Finland (25+5 min)

Pneumococcal vaccination of children - for the benefit of children or the elderly?

Harri Saxén, Finland (25+5 min)

 

FRIDAY, 7 SEPTEMBER

12.30-12.35 Opening of the SSAC meeting

Terho Heikkinen, Finland (5 min)

 

12.35-14.10 Session 1: HIV after 25 years – where do we stand?

Chairpersons: Lars Östergaard and Asko Järvinen

State-of-the-art: HIV, Matti Ristola, Finland (30+5 min)

HIV in the Baltic area, Pauli Leinikki, Finland (25+5 min)

Problems related to HIV treatment, Ole Kirk, Denmark (25+5 min)

 

14.45-15.30 Honorary lecture: Microbes and man – from unexpected to unknown

Pentti Huovinen, Finland (40 min)

Introduction: Ville Valtonen (5 min)

 

15.45-17.15 Session 2: Most important recent papers in…

Chairpersons: Niels Frimodt-Möller and Juha Salonen

Clinical infectious diseases, Jukka Lumio, Finland (20 min)

Antimicrobials, Inga Odenholt, Sweden (20 min)

Bacteriology, Gunnar Skov Simonsen, Norway (20 min)

Virology, Court Pedersen, Denmark (15 min)

Mycology, Malcolm Richardson, Finland (15 min)

 

SATURDAY, 8 SEPTEMBER

 

8.30-10.00 Session 3: New diagnostic methods for infectious diseases: real advances or unfulfilled promises?

Chairpersons: Karl Kristinsson and Harri Marttila

Gene amplification in diagnostic microbiology, Simo Nikkari, Finland (25+5 min)

New immunological assays for detection of tuberculosis infection,

Pernille Ravn, Denmark (25+5 min)

Use of PCR in central nervous system infections, Tytti Vuorinen, Finland (25+5 min)

 

10.45-12.00 Session 4: Invited young scientists

Chairpersons: Marianne Jertborn and Jukka Nikoskelainen

Antimicrobial resistance and serotype distribution among Salmonella spp. in pigs and poultry in Iceland, 2001-2005, Thorunn R. Thorsteinsdottir, Iceland (12+3 min)

Preventing pelvic inflammatory disease and epididymitis by using mailed home-obtained samples for Chlamydia trachomatis screening in the general population: a randomized 1-year follow-up study,

Berit Andersen, Denmark (12+3 min)

Penicillin-resistance of invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae increased among the elderly in Finland in 2005-2006, Lotta Siira, Finland (12+3 min)

Prevalence and epidemiology of ESBL-producing E. coli and K. pneumoniae in the county of Östergötland during 2002-2006, Åse Östholm Balkhed, Sweden (12+3 min)

Clinical impact of antimicrobial resistance in pediatric bloodstream infections in Tanzania,

Björn Blomberg, Norway (12+3 min)

 

13.00-14.30 Session 5: Interactive session

Moderators: Jussi Mertsola, Asko Järvinen, Risto Vuento

 

15.15-16.45 Session 6: Free papers

Chairpersons: Ann Söderström and Jukka Lumio

Carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae among children attending day-care centres in Norway,

Didrik F. Vestrheim, Norway (12+3 min)

Incidence of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in the elderly, Arto Palmu, Finland (12+3 min)

Entecavir selects for HIV-1 M184V mutation in HBV/HIV-1 co-infected patient after 6 months of treatment, Martin Roelsgaard Jakobsen, Denmark (12+3 min)

The rates of CD4+ T cell loss in chronic HIV infection are better predicted by the pathogenic factor programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) than by HIV RNA and CD38, Malin Holm, Norway (12+3 min)

A large outbreak of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis O:1 infection from domestic carrots in southern Finland, Ruska Rimhanen-Finne, Finland (12+3 min)

Improving hand hygiene: Creating focus by an E-learning hand hygiene course and audits Elsebeth Tvenstrup Jensen, Denmark (12+3 min)

 

SUNDAY, 9 SEPTEMBER

 

10.30-12.00 Session 7: Oh, my Gut! Emerging threats and problems

Chairpersons: Björn Erik Kristiansen and Risto Vuento

Clostridium difficile, Marlene Wullt, Sweden (25+5 min)

Norovirus, Carl-Henrik von Bonsdorff, Finland (25+5 min)

ESBL, Otto Cars, Sweden (25+5 min)