Past Symposiums

2007

CIDM Public Health Education 27/04/2007

New approaches to antibiotic resistance and infection control in critical care.

Programme & registration form

This one-day symposium is designed for all those who deal with bacterial infection in the critically ill.

The first session will provide an overview of sepsis (including nutritional and other aspects of managing sepsis and septic shock), new antibiotics, an ABC of antibiotic resistance and ICU microbiology. This is designed as an update which should appeal to intensivists, advanced trainees facing examinations and microbiology / infectious diseases practitioners dealing with critical care.

The speakers in the following sessions include active researchers who will introduce promising new systems and approaches to the difficult area of sepsis in the critically ill. We will be focusing on rapid diagnostics, antibiotic resistance, and new approaches to old problems.

CIDM Biosecurity 15/08/2007

  • Program
  • Preparing for an influenza pandemic in a sea of uncertainty (PDF)
  • Laboratory testing at the State Level (PDF)
  • Current issues in global influenza pandemic preparedness (PDF)
  • Liberty and protection, fear and security: Ethics and the uncertain threat of infectious diseases (PDF)
  • CBRN Data Centre opens at Weston (PDF)
  • Influenza and Pandemic Planning the uncertainty principle; are we ready? The national perspective (PDF)

2008

CIDM Public Health Diagnostics Workshop 29/2/2008 - 1/3/2008

  • Multiplex PCRs For Fungal Diagnostics (PDF)
  • Developments In Nucleic Acid Extraction Methods (PDF)
  • Detection Of Respiratory Viral Infections By Real-Time PCR (PDF)
  • PCR - Past Present Future (PDF)
  • Real-Time Identification And Surveillance Of Antimicrobial Resistance (PDF)
  • Neuraminidase Inhibitor Resistance Testing (PDF)
  • Real Time PCR Techniques And Laboratory Workflows (PDF)
  • Climate Change And Mosquito-Borne Disease (PDF)
  • Rapid Molecular Techniques For Detection And Typing Of MRSC (PDF)
  • Antiviral Resistance Testing In A Clinical Laboratory (PDF)