American Society for Microbiology, General Meeting 2002 (Salt Lake City, 19-23 May 2002)

Useful Internet and Software Resources for Medical Microbiology

Sunday, May 19, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Location: Salt Palace Convention Center

Convener: Dag Harmsen, Inst. Hygiene, Univ. Münster (Germany)

Faculty:

S. A. Berger, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv (Israel); A. Dean, CDC Division of Public Health Surveillance and Informatics, Atlanta (USA); D. Harmsen, Inst. Hygiene, Univ. Münster (Germany); G. S. de Hoog, CBS, Utrecht (The Netherlands), H.D. Nothdurft, Dept. Infectious & Tropical Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians Univ. Munich (Germany)

Synopsis: At the completion of the workshop, participants will be knowledgeable about Internet and software resources useful for bacteriology, mycology and parasitology (covering educational, diagnostic, treatment and taxonomic aspects). They will also become familiar with resources for travel medicine and epidemiology. Especially the following tools will be covered in great detail: EpiInfo, Fit for travel, GIDEON, and RIDOM. Demonstrations of the different resources will be presented and the attendees will be supplied with CD-ROMs.

Objectives: At the end of this workshop the participant will:

apply GIDEON to make differential diagnosis of traveling related infectious diseases
operate EpiInfo and apply epidemiology-related calculations
apply RIDOM to diagnose and differentiate Mycobacterium infections
operate FIT for Travel to propose a vaccination scheme for travels abroad
acquire an overview of other useful Internet and software Resources for Medical Microbiology

Intended Audience: Clinical microbiologists, medical technologists, supervisors, managers, directors, pathologists, physicians, educators, epidemiologists and infectious disease specialists.

Prerequisites: None

Course Level: Beginning

Member Code: W17225

Price: $225

Non-Member Code: W17300

Price $300

Workshop 17, ASM GM 2002 (Salt Lake City, 19-23 May 2002)

"Useful Internet and Software Resources for Medical Microbiology"

Agenda (Sunday, May 19)

8:30 - 8:45 Welcome and Introduction

Dag Harmsen, Inst. Hygiene, Univ. Münster (Germany)

8:45 - 10:15 EpiInfo [http://www.cdc.gov/epiinfo/ei2000.htm]

Andy Dean, CDC Division of Public Health Surveillance and Informatics, Atlanta (USA)

10:15 - 10:45 Break

10:45 - 11:45 RIDOM - Ribosomal Differentiation of Micro-organisms [http://www.ridom.de/]

Dag Harmsen, Inst. Hygiene, Univ. Münster (Germany)

11:45 - Noon Atlas of Clinical Fungi [http://not yet public/]

G. Sybren de Hoog, CBS, Utrecht (The Netherlands)

Noon - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 13:40 Fit for Travel - Travel Medicine [http://www.fit-for-travel.de/en/index.html]

Hans-Dieter Nothdurft, Dept. Infectious & Tropical Medicine, LMU Munich (Germany)

13:40 - 15:05 GIDEON - Global Infectious Diseases & Epidemiology Network [http://www.gideononline.com/]

Stephen A. Berger, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv

15:05 - 15:30 Break

15:30 - 16:15 Overview of useful Internet resources not covered in the workshop

(Nomenclature/Systematics: List of Bacterial Names with standing in Nomenclature [http://www.bacterio.cict.fr/], Bacterial Nomenclature Up-to-date [http://www.dsmz.de/], Index Virum [http://life.anu.edu.au/viruses/Ictv/index.html]; Microbiology: DPDx - Parasites of Public Health Concern [http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/Default.htm], Medical Microbiology book [http://gsbs.utmb.edu/ microbook/], Microbiology Webbed Out [http://www.bact.wisc.edu/MicrotextBook/], Microbiology and Immunology On-Line [http://www.med.sc.edu:85/book/welcome.htm], Doctor Fungus [http://www.doctorfungus.org/thefungi/Description_index.htm]

Dag Harmsen, Inst. Hygiene, Univ. Münster (Germany)

16:15 - 16:00 Discussion & CD-ROM content (Faculty and Participants)

16:30 Evaluation/Adjournment (Participants)