NordicAST Workshop 2022
Day 1: Tuesday 24 May
09:30 - 10:45 Meet the expert sessions:
A Meeting room Torpet 31 (at Eriksbergshallen, opposite the hotel):
Basic methodology for disk diffusion and broth microdilution (Erika Matuschek and Jenny Åhman)
B Auditorium/Teatern:
Selection of AST method: disk diffusion, broth microdilution, gradient test and agar dilution (Kaisu Rantakokko-Jalava and Gunnar Kahlmeter)
10:45 - 11:00 Pause
11:00 - 11:15 Welcome (Barbara Holzknecht)
11:15 - 12:30 Session 1: Disk diffusion and other AST methods (Chair: Barbara Holzknecht)
Quality problems in AST (Jenny Åhman)
Verification: What to do when implementing a new AST method in your lab (Annika Wistedt, Anna-Karin Smekal and Erika Matuschek)
12:30 -13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:50 Session 2: MDR Gram-negative bacilli (Chair: Kaisu Rantakokko-Jalava)
Detection of carbapenemases in A. baumannii (and P. aeruginosa) (Anna-Karin Smekal)
Difficulties when screening for CPE (Ørjan Samuelsen)
MDR cases (Anna-Karin Smekal)
14:50 - 15:20 Coffee
15:20 - 16:10 Session 3: Phage therapy (Chair: Christian Giske)
Basics of phage therapy and susceptibility testing for microbiologists (Ran Nir-Paz)
16:15 – 17:30 Session 4: Anaerobes (Chair: Nathalie Friberg)
Anaerobic bacteria: clinical significance and current knowledge on antimicrobial resistance (Ulrik Stenz Justesen)
The EUCAST disk diffusion method for anaerobes (Erika Matuschek)
What to do when the agent or the anaerobic species is without guidance in the breakpoint tables (Gunnar Kahlmeter)
19:00 – Dinner
Day 2: Wednesday 25 May
08:30 - 09:10 Session 5: A neglected bug (Chair: Ulrik Stenz Justesen)
Helicobacter pylori: clinical picture, AST, PCR, treatment (Nathalie Friberg)
09:10 - 10:00 Session 6: Indication-specific breakpoints (Chair: Ingvild Haugan)
The EUCAST perspective and the laboratory perspective (Gunnar Kahlmeter and Barbara Holzknecht)
10:00 - 10:45 Coffee + posters
10:45 - 12:00 Session 7: MDR in the Nordic countries (Chair: Anna-Karin Smekal)
CPE – Molecular epidemiology and WGS investigations of hospital outbreaks in Denmark (Henrik Hasman)
MRSA (Ingvild Haugan)
VRE – an update (Barbara Holzknecht)
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13:00 - 13:40 Session 8 (Chair: Robert Skov)
MRSA, Hedgehogs and Dermatophytes (Anders Rhod Larsen)
13:40 - 14:50 Session 9: EUCAST (Chair: Barbara Holzknecht)
News from EDL (Erika Matuschek and Jenny Åhman)
Breakpoints in brackets (Christian Giske)
14:50 -15:00 Goodbye for this year and see you next year (Barbara Holzknecht)
15:00 - Coffee and departure