CPD POINTS:CEU: 18
Ethics: 12 Programme
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Convention Centre Foyer Venue: Elangeni Hotel Convention Centre Foyer |
| 11h00 - 18h00 | Registration |
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PRE-CONGRESS WORKSHOP - Sponsored by Pfizer - Venue Great Ilanga (EH) |
| 13h00 - 17h00 | 'Izindaba zamagciwane' - Current State of antibiotic resistance |
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Chair: Adrian Brink & Prashini Moodley • Epidemiology - Elizabeth Wasserman • CA-MRSA - Yesholata Mahabeer • Management of MRSA- Adrian Brink • Infection control: Is it worth screening - Prashini Moodley
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| 14h45 - 15h15 | REFRESHMENTS |
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MDR/XDR Gram-negatives in South Africa
• Carbapenemase producers in Enterobacteriacae from bench to the bedside - Patrice Nordmann (France) • Carbapenem resistant K.pneumoniae in South Africa - Jennifer Coetzee • Management of MDR/XDR Gram-negative infections- Adrian Brink • Using a Stewardship Team to improve the management of MDR infections - Debra Goff (USA) |
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FIDSSA OFFICIAL OPENING CEREMONY - GREAT ILANGA (EH) |
| 18h00 - 18h15 |
Welcome - Marc Mendelson (FIDSSA
President) Opening welcome - Dr Sibongile Zungu - Department of Health KZN |
| 18h15 - 19h00 | The Art and Science of Tuberculosis - Why Sopranos are Dying When the Tenors Really Deserve It - James Todd (USA) |
| 19h00 - 21h00 | Welcome Function & Trade Preview - TRADE EXHIBITION HALLS |
Friday 9 September
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07h15 - 08h15 |
Pro Gen Breakfast Symposium • Rapid molecular detection of drug resistant organisms - David H Persing (USA) • Implementation of rapid diagnostic tests and use of medical apps. by antibiotic stewardship teams - Debra Goff (USA) |
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PLENARY SESSION I - Great Ilanga (EH) |
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08h30 - 10h30 |
Chair: Prashini Moodley • Reducing mortality from severe malaria - Nick White (Thailand) • Emerging antibiotic resistance; update 2011 - Patrice Nordmann (France) • Surveillance and reporting of nosocomial infections - Theresa Horan (USA) • Toxic Shock Syndrome - Evolution of an emerging disease - James Todd (USA) |
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10h30 - 11h00 |
REFRESHMENTS - EXHIBITION HALL |
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PARALLEL SESSION I |
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Great Ilanga (EH) |
Tugela (NB) |
Congela (NB) |
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| 11h00 - 13h00 |
TUBERCULOSIS Chair: Wim Sturm & Bavesh Kana |
NEGLECTED & EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES Chair: Marc Mendelson |
TOP 5 PAPERS OF 2010-11 Chair: Graeme Meintjes |
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• Emergence of drug resistant Tuberculosis:
A comedy of errors
- Rob Warren • Remodelling the mycobacterial cell wall for better TB drugs - Bavesh Kana • Mycobacterial metabolism and human disease - Digby Warner • Phage based diagnostics for the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis - Mantha Makume Oral Presentations - 4 x 10 min • Lost MDR-TB cases in SA: the contribution of underdiagnoses - Martie van der Walt • Culture-confirmed multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in children: clinical features, treatment and outcome - Simon Schaaf • A field evaluation of a chemiresitive sensor array as a rapid, point of care diagnostic for pulmonary tuberculosis - Mischka Moodley • Variation in sequence and expression profiles of esx genes in mtb clinical & laboratory isolates - Melisha Sukkhu |
• HTLV-1: NTD with complex clinical disease with impact in different
countries - Eduardo Gotuzzo (Peru) • Hantaviruses in Africa; an unrecognised menace? - Wolfgang Preiser • Schistosomiasis - a sinister shadow - John Frean • Neglected diseases or neglected people? Doctors Without Borders experience in southern Sudan - Prinitha Pillay Oral Presentations - 4 x 10 min • Drug resistant parasite circulation and migration in southern African development communities - Inbarani Naidoo • Prevalence of Pneumocystis jirovecii DHPS mutations in HIV patients from Gauteng, South Africa - Bhavani Poonsamy • Increased risk of death amongst HIV-infected persons hospitalized with influenza-confirmed illness in South Africa 2009-2010 - Cheryl Cohen • Parenteral artesunate access initiative - Elsime Visser Kift |
• Adult ID - Gary Maartens • Paed ID - Mark Cotton • IPC - Adriano Dusé • Microbiology - Mark Nicol |
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13h00 - 14h30 |
LUNCH - EXHIBITION HALLS, POSTER VIEWING - UPPER POOL DECK Level 2 |
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PARALLEL SESSION II |
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Great Ilanga (EH) |
Tugela (NB) |
Congela (NB) |
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| 14h30 - 16h00 |
KEY TOPICS IN PAEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES - ANSWERING THE
QUESTIONS Chair: Raziya Bobat |
SASCM: BEST ABTRACTS Chair: Inge Zietsman & Rob Warren |
BITES AND STINGS; LAND AND SEA Chair: David Hyams |
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• PICC or PO - Do serious bacterial infections really need intravenous
antibiotics? - James Todd (USA) • Outbreaks of neonatal septicaemia in public hospitals - have we learnt anything? - Theunis Avenant • Chronic suppurative otitis media - Ute Hallbauer Oral Presentations - 3 x 10 min • Organism profile of chronic suppurative otitis media in children in the Free State Province - Madeleine Pieters • Advances in childhood immunisation in South Africa - where to now? - Charles Wiysonge • Management of low birth weight neonates with TB exposure in a setting with high HIV prevalence - Adrie Bekker |
Oral Presentations - 9 x 10 min • Incorrect reporting of Vibrio cholerae O1 initiates an outbreak response - Anthony Smith • The assembly and RNA-binding of Hepatitis B virus core protein - J. Zachary Porterfield • An emerging HIV-associated opportunistic infection: cryptococcus gattii infection in South Africa, 2005-2009 - Jaymati Patel • Establishing the Microbiol Aetiology of CAP in a Johannesburgbased academic hospital using PrimeStore - Parastu Meidany • Comparison of susceptibility testing methods for the detection of Staphylococcus aureus with reduced susceptibility to Vancomycin (SRSV) - Ranmini Kularatne • PCR detection of invasive pneumococcal serotypes from culture-negative samples, South Africa, 2010 - Victoria Magomani • Atypical Staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec elements in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from hospitals in Cape Town - Melissa Jansen van Rensburg • The isolation and detection of low amounts of Mycobacterium tuberculosis transrenal DNA in urine - Veronica Allen • Digital image analysis for determining malaria parasite density in thick blood smears - John Frean |
• Dangers of the sea: forewarned is forearmed - Phil Cohen • Snake bite: A personal encounter - Peter Vincent • Snake bites - a sensible approach for the traveller - Phil Cohen |
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16h00 - 16h30 |
REFRESHMENTS - EXHIBITION HALL |
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PARALLEL SESSION II CONTINUED |
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16H30 - 17H30 |
PAEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES - BREAKAWAY SESSION Chair: Raziya Bobat -
VENUE: GREAT ILANGA (EH) • Case Discussion - Mo Archary & Helena Rabie |
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16h30 - 17h30 |
IDSSA AGM |
ICSSA |
STDSSA AGM |
SASCM |
SASTM |
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17h30 - 18h30 |
FIDSSA AGM - GREAT ILANGA (EH) |
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19h30 |
INVITED FACULTY DINNER |
DELEGATES EVENING AT LEISURE |
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Saturday 10 September
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TUGELA (NB) |
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07h15 - 08h15 |
Pfizer Breakfast Symposium
Apex: The ethics of Antibiotic Stewardship -
Adrian Brink |
Meet the Professor -
Nick White (Thailand) |
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PLENARY SESSION II - GREAT ILANGA |
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08h30 - 10h30 |
Chair: Albie de Frey
Margaretha Isaacson Lecture
-Introduction and Biography of Margaretha Isaacson -
John Frean
Typhoid fever: still important disease in
developing countries - Eduardo
Gotuzzo (Peru)
Counselling in the Management of STIs, including HIV infection. When and
Why? -
Francis Ndowa (Switzerland) |
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10h30 - 11h00 |
REFRESHMENTS - EXHIBITION HALL |
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PARALLEL SESSION III |
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Great Ilanga (EH) |
Tugela (NB) |
Congela (NB) |
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11h00 - 13h00 |
CURRENT STATE OF "izindaba zamagciwane" CANDIDA IN AFRICA Chair: Prashini Moodley |
OUTBREAK AFRICA Chair: Juno Thomas & Marc Mendelson |
NEW INSIGHTS INTO OLD SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES Chair: Frans Radebe & David Lewis |
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• Epidemiology of invasive Candida in the public sector (TRAC-SA) - Nelesh Govender • Epidemiology of invasive Candida in the private sector (TRAC-SA) - Inge Zietsman • Management of Candidaemia: For & against the Echinocandins - Jennifer Coetzee • Management of Candidaemia: For & against the triazoles - Mervyn Mer • Roundtable Discussion: Implications of the changing epidemiology of candida infections on therapeutic options |
• Rift Valley Fever - Bob Swanepoel • Rift Valley Fever in humans - Juno Thomas • Yellow Fever on the move - Albie de Frey • The under-estimated E.coli - how an outbreak of shiga-toxigenic Escherichia coli O104 taught us what we don’t know - Karen Keddy Oral presentations - 4 x 10 min • Viral meningitis outbreak - Mpumalanga, 2011 - Nevashan Govender • Human rabies in South Africa with special focus on recent outbreaks - Jacqueline Weyer • The Haiti cholera outbreak strain: Do South African strains compare? - Husna Ismail • Outbreak investigation of disease mimicking viral Hemorrhagic Fever - Johannesburg, 2010 - Nevashan Govender |
• New insight into the pathogenesis of LGV - Wim Sturm • Incidence and prevalence of STIs among school students in the Eastern Cape - Vanessa Maseko • Mycoplasma genitalium-passenger or pathogen - Anwar Hoosen • Treponema pallidum: Macrolide resistance and molecular subtyping of strains from South Africa - Neetha Bhojraj Sewpershad • The immunological aspects of STI/HIV Co-infections - Jo-Ann Passmore • Update on antimicrobial resistance in STIs - Francis Ndowa (Switzerland) Oral presentations - 3 x 10 min • HPV genotyping in histologically reviewed penile biopsies from Dr George Mukhari Hospital, South Africa - Ramokone Lisbeth Lebelo • A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of male circumcision status on HIV acquisition by men through sex with men - Charles Wiysonge • Knowledge, attitudes and behaviours of STI patients in relation to STI, pregnancy, contraceptive utilisation and substance abuse in the Mbeqweni and Civic Health Care Centers in Mthatha, Eastern Cape, South Africa - Sandeep Vasaikar |
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13h00 - 14h30 |
LUNCH - EXHIBITION HALLS, POSTER VIEWING - UPPER POOL DECK Level 2 |
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PARALLEL SESSION IV |
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Great Ilanga (EH) |
Tugela (NB) |
Congela (NB) |
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14h30 - 16h30 |
CONTROVERSIES IN HIV Chair: Francois Venter & Prakash Jeena |
NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF MALARIA Chair: Karen Barnes & Nick White |
INFECTION PREVENTION & CONTROL Chair: Adriano Dusé |
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• Exploding myths about lipodystrophy; dogma and evidence - Gary Maartens • Is orogenital sex safe between discordant couples? - Francois Venter • Transplanting an HIV-infected kidney into an HIV-negative recipient; a step too far or equity personified? - Marc Mendelson Oral presentations - 2 x 10 min • Chronic, recurrent Isospora belli infection despite immune reconstitution in adults with HiV - a case series - Tom Boyles • Efavirenz dose reduction in HIV-infected paeients - Sandro Vento • Debate: A critical analysis of Tenofovir as a vaginal microbiocide • Protagonist - Linda-Gail Bekker • Antagonist - Tom Boyles • Panel [Graeme Meintjes, Gary Maartens, Francois Venter, Yunus Moosa] & Audience discussion |
• Progress towards malaria elimination in South Africa - Bridget Shandukani • Rapid diagnostic tests for malaria - Dean Goldring • Changing mosquito vector distribution in southern Africa - Lizette Koekemoer • Antimalarial drug resistance and its impact on treatment policy - Jaishree Raman • An update on malaria prophylaxis: a case-based discussion - Lucille Blumberg & Lee Baker |
• The value of UVGI in preventing nosocomial transmission of TB - Peta
de Jager • IP in anaesthetic practice - Reena Dhilraj • Use of checklists in IPC - Yolanda Walsh • How to improve hand hygiene compliance - Michelle Osborne Oral presentations - 4 x 10min • An outbreak of multiple drug resistant pseudomonas aeruginosa bloodstream infection among patients admitted to the haematology ICU of a Tertiary Academic Hospital in Western Cape, South Africa, January 2010 to January 2011 - Colleen Bamford • Virus-inhibiting surgical glove to reduce the risk of contamination by HIV - Pierre Hoerner • An infection control audit in 10 primary healthcare facilities in the Western Cape Province of South Africa - Matsie Mphahlele • Adherence to and usage of the N95 respirator mask as a TB control measure in healthcare facilities in the Tshwane district - William Malebati |
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16h30 - 17h00 |
REFRESHMENTS - EXHIBITION HALLS |
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ETHICS SESSION - EXHIBITION HALLS |
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17h00 - 18h00 |
Convergent ethical issues in HIV, TB and Malaria prevention trials - Zaynab Essack Panel Discussion/Debate (Francois Venter / Alex Pym / Nick White - Thailand) |
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19h30 |
FIDSSA CELEBRATION DINNER - MOYO USHAKA |
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Sunday 11 September
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PLENARY SESSION III - GREAT ILANGA |
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08h00 -10h00 |
Chair: Andrew Whitelaw | ||
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• The changing face of Tuberculosis - Wim Sturm • Hospital design & TB infection control - Geoff Abbott • Failure to detect acute HIV infection; a missed opportunity for HIV prevention - David Lewis • An update on anti-fungal therapy in children - Mark Cotton |
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10h00 - 10h30 |
REFRESHMENTS |
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PARALLEL SESSION V |
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Great Ilanga (EH) |
Tugela (NB) |
Congela (NB) |
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10h30 -12h30 |
TREATMENT OF HIV - THE CHANGING FACE OF ART IN 2011 Chair: Linda-Gail Bekker & Mark Cotton |
VACCINES - WHAT NEXT FOR THE EPI? Chair: Anwar Hoosen & Jeff Mphalele |
IPC - INTERVENTIONS, IMPROVEMENTS, MEASUREMENTS Chair: Andrew Whitelaw |
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• Debate: Preventative therapy for TB - ready for prime time? • Protagonist - Gary Maartens • Antagonist - Francois Venter • Panel & audience discussion • The new face of salvage therapy in 2011 - Graeme Meintjes • Debate: Genotyping and a 3rd line therapy option must be available in the state sector. • Protagonist - Gert van Zyl • Antagonist - Francois Venter • Panel & audience discussion |
• A missed shot in the arm - adolescent and adult vaccines - Lee Baker • The Hepatitis A and B combination vaccine: controversies - Albie de Frey/Lee Baker • Combination vaccines: Pros and cons - Anwar Hoosen • Paediatric Vaccines - Phil LaRussa • Pneumococcal vaccination: surveillance data - Anne von Gottberg • Impact of Rotavirus vaccination - Jeff Mphahlele |
• Best Care… Always (BCA) - shifting infection prevention paradigms -
Dena van den Bergh • Impact of BCA bundles - Joy Cleghorn • BCA antibiotic stewardship - Potential role of the clinical pharmacist - Danie Kruger • Measurement for improvement versus scientific measurement - Theresa Horan (USA) • Current status of IPC training - Teke Apalata |
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12h30 |
CONGRESS CLOSES |
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