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Scientific programme
Wednesday 25 May | ||
| 9.00 - 15.30 | Registration at conference site, AGES, Spargelfeldstraße 191, 1220 Vienna | |
| 13.00 - 14.45 | Workshop: Risk for Legionella at waste water treatment plants (II) (Chair: J. Kusnetsov) | |
| 15.00 - 15.15 15.15 - 15.45 15.45 - 16.00 16.00 - 16.15 16.15 - 16.30 16.30 - 16.45 | Opening of Meeting Session 1: Introduction to selected aspects of Legionnaire’s disease (Chair: D. Schmid, G. Wewalka) Invited Speaker:Legionnaire’s disease in Taiwan - Chuen-Sheue Chiang, Taiwan Legionella isolates from patients in Japan - Fumiaki Kura, Japan Evaluation of the contribution of amoebic co-culture in the diagnosis of Legionnaire’s disease: retrospective analysis over a period of 32 months - Sophie Jarraud, France Utility of SBT and Nested-PCR SBT in the Legionnaire’s disease outbreak in Madrid, Spain - Carmen Pelaz, Spain Recurrent cases of Legionnaire’s disease associated with a cruise ship, Oct 2008-Aug 2010 - Sebastian Crespi, Spain | |
| 16.45 - 17.00 | Coffee break | |
| 17.00 – 18.00 | Workshop: Future of EWGLI (Chair: C. Joseph, F. Allerberger) | |
| 18.30 | Bus transfer to Welcome dinner at Heuriger | |
Thursday 26 May | ||
09.00 - 09.20 09.20 - 09.35 09.35 - 09.50 09.50 - 10.05 10.05 - 10.20 | Session 2: Surveillance (Chair: R. Cano Portero, M.C. Rota) Epidemiology of Legionnaire’s disease in Europe, 2010 - Birgitta de Jong, Sweden Legionnaires’ disease in Italy: is an increasing incidence good news? - Maria Cristina Rota, Italy Travel-associated Legionnaire’s disease (TLD) in Greece during 2003-2007 - Emmanuel N. Velonakis, Greece Clusters of Travel associated Legionnaire’s disease in France, 2001-2010 - Christine Campese, France Harmonization of the surveillance and prevention of legionellosis in the Russian Federation in accordance to international standards. - Igor S. Tartakovskiy, Russia | |
| 10.20 - 11.05 | Coffee break – Poster Session I | |
11.05 - 11.20 11.20 - 11.35 11.35 - 11.50 11.50 - 12.05 12.05 - 12.20 12.20 - 12.35 12.35 - 12.50 | Session 3: Environmental aspects and risk assessments (Chair: G. Allestam, J. Kusnetsov) Outbreak of legionellosis in Norway 2005 and 2008. Part I: Dissemination routes for transmission of Legionella from a biological treatment plant - Janet Martha Blatny, Norway Outbreak of legionellosis in Norway 2005 and 2008. Part II: Dispersion and transport of aerosols from a biological treatment plant - Bjorn Anders Reif, Norway Czech trains as ideal settings for Legionella colonization: a risk assessment study. - Vladimir Drasar, Czech republic Big system size and warm water temperature associated with increased growth of Legionella at the industrial wastewater treatment plants - Jaana Kusnetsov, Finland Developing a new fluorimetric assay for on-site detection of Legionella pneumophila in water samples - Sophie Courtois, France Development of a quantitative loop-mediated isothermal amplification (qLAMP) to detect Legionella pneumophila in water samples - Valeria Gaia, Switzerland A novel CARD-FISH protocol for quantification of Legionella pneumophila and its application in two hospital cooling towers - Alexander K.T. Kirschner, Austria | |
| 12.50 - 14.15 | Lunch and Poster Session II | |
14.15 - 14.45 14.45 - 15.15 15.15 - 15.30 | Session 4: Outbreaks and case reports (Chair: C. Campese, S. Uldum) Legionella lipopolysaccaride: a virulence factor and the genetic base for rapid identification - Carmen Buchrieser, France Summer increase of legionellosis in The Netherlands in 2010 - Petra Brandsema, The Nederlands Dissemination of Legionella pneumophila SG 1 from a biological treatment plant caused an outbreak in Sweden during 2010 - Görel Allestam, Sweden | |
| 15.30 - 16.15 | Coffee break – Poster Session III | |
| 16.15 - 16.30 16.30 - 16.45 16.45 - 17.00 17.00 - 17.15 | A community outbreak of Legionnaire’s disease in South Wales, UK - Meirion Evans, United Kingdom An Outbreak of Legionnaire’s Disease linked to a swimming pool with aerosol producing attractions, Austria 2010-2011 - Daniela Schmid, Austria Legionellosis outbreaks in Spain from 1999 to 2009 - Rosa Maria Cano Portero, Spain Cases of dual infections with different Legionella strains - Günther Wewalka, Austria | |
| 19.30 | Gala dinner | |
Friday 27 May | ||
09.00 - 09.15 09.15 - 09.30 09.30 - 09.45 09.45 - 10.00 10.00 - 10.15 10.15 - 10.30 10.30 – 10.35 | Session 5: Clinical aspects, virulence factors and diagnosis (Chair: T. Harrison, Ch. Lück) Virulence regulation in Legionella pneumophila - Thomas Sahr, France Role of fatty acid composition of Legionella pneumophila on the activity of warnericin RK, an anti-Legionella peptide - Yann Héchard, France Modelling the predation of Legionella by eukaryotic cells - Mahmoud A. Halablab, Lebanon Legionella pneumophila LPS acts as co-factor for modulating of monocytic host cells – phenotypic evidences and conclusions - Jürgen H. Helbig, Germany SBT of Legionella pneumophila: strengths and weaknesses - Beatriz Baladron, Spain Occurrence and significance of Legionella pneumophila strains with unique SBT types strains restricted to Germany or selected areas in Germany - Christian Lück, Germany EWGLI Meeting 2012 - Christian Lück, Germany | |
| 10.35 - 11.00 | Coffee break – Posters accessible | |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | Invited Speaker: Looking into the black box: Functional single cell analysis of uncultured microbes - Matthias Horn, Austria | |
11.30 - 11.45 11.45 - 12.00 12.00 - 12.15 12.15 - 12.30 12.30 - 12.45 12.45 - 13.00 13.00 - 13.10 13.10 - 13.15 | Session 6: Prevention and Control (Chair: J. Lee, S. Crespi) The ÖNORM B5019 ("Legionella-standard") – the Austrian approach of prevention of Legionella infections - Milo Halabi, Austria Sensitivity of Legionella pneumophila and amoeba to water treatments - Yann Héchard, France Monochloramine efficacy in controlling water L. pneumophila contamination in a big hospital - Paola Borella, Italy Prevention of Legionella with long term use of ClO2 and its impact on pipework - Karin Jacobson, Sweden Biocide treatment regimes for controlling amoeba amplified Legionella in cooling towers - Jana Rajan, USA Comparison of chlorine dioxide and hydrogen peroxide-Ag+ activities against Legionella pneumophila both in-vitro assays and in real-scale treatments of hospital water systems - Maria Luisa Ricci, Italy. Report from workshop: Risk for Legionella at waste water treatment plants (II) - Jaana Kusnetsov, Finland Closing remarks | |
| 13.15 | Lunch | |
Poster sessions
The optimal poster format is A0 and it should not be bigger than 90 x 120 cm.
All posters should be fixed befor start of poster session I (26th May 2011, 10:20 a. m.)
| Poster No | Title and presenting author |
| P 1 P 2 P 3 P 4 P 5 P 6 P 7 P 8 P 9 P 10 P 11 P 12 P 13 P 14 P 15 P 16 P 17 P 18 P 19 P 20 P 21 P 22 P 23 P 24 P 25 P 26 P 27 P 28 P 29 P 30 P 31 P 32 P 33 | Legionella and Amoeba culture from water samples and Acanthamoeba identification - Laura Franzin, Valerio Demarie, Claudio Avanzini The microbial composition of biofilms maintaining Legionella pneumophila in cooling towers and autonomous water systems - Voronina O.L., Kunda M.S., Bitkina V.V., Lunin V.G., Gintsburg A.L. Enhanced isolation of Legionella species from composted material - S. McCabe, A. Brown, G F S Edwards and D Lindsay Occurrence of Legionella in biological treatment plants in Norway - Vidar Lund, Wenche Fonahn, Jens Erik Pettersen, Dominique Caugant, Eirik Ask and Åse Nysaeter Detection of Legionella pneumophila in Water Distribution Systems in the Slovak Republic - Daniela Ocipova, Zuzana Vranayova, Ondrej Sikula Public transports as possible reservoir for Legionella - M. Miglietta, S.Ponsetto, M.V. Vallana, M. Manzini, L. Ferrara, M. Cavallaro, L. Lo Baido, E. Cadum, M Stefanetti, M. Scaturro,S. Fontana, M. L Ricci Legionella spp. in a dental clinic environment: results of a surveillance in Southern Italy - Christian Napoli, Roberta Iatta, Teresa Cuna, Silvia Lattarulo, Giovanna Da Molin, Maria Teresa Montagna Occurrence of Legionella pneumophila in two hospital water supplies; re-examination after 7 years - Katarzyna Pancer, Renata Matuszewska, Marta Bartosik, Krzysztof Kacperski, Anna Zabost, Ewa Augustynowicz-Kope, Boena Krogulska Legionella species prevalence in hot water samples from Long Term Care Facilities - Pecorari M, Grottola A, Leoni E, Forbicini G, Magnani R, Cristino S First data of Legionella spp. isolation from private houses in Greece during 2004-2010 - E. N. Velonakis, A. Flountzi ,Z. Katsipi, E. Kavoussanou, C. Koutis, A.Vatopoulos Water aerosol from industrial cooling tower and risk of legionellosis - Špaleková M., Šimonyiová D. The proximity of cooling towers and the risk of Legionnaires’ disease in the Netherlands - Christel Gazenbeek, Sjoerd Euser, Jeroen den Boer Comparison of qPCR with culture method for detection of Legionella spp. in environmental samples - Alberta Stenico, Paola Blasior, Mariarosaria Mupo, Elisa Romanin, Margit Seeber, Gaby Spitaler Investigation of Legionnaires’ disease cluster in a hospital in central Greece - Mouchtouri V.A., Katsiaflaka A., Plakokefalos E., Tselikas A., Nakoulas B., Kolokythopoulou F., Hadjichristodoulou C. Retrospective distinction of Legionella pneumonia cases during pseudo-outbreak caused by L. pneumophila - Katarzyna Pancer, Justyna Mierzejewska, Aleksandra Kucharczyk, Karina Jahnz-Róyk Update on legionellosis in Campania: report of the year 2010 - D'Arienzo Rosaria, Di Leo Francesca, Lucibello Trofimena, Pagano Mariangela, Coppola Antonio, Dente Giacomo, Petrosino Antonio, Rossi Anna Maria Terpinen-4-ol: a promising and innovative antimicrobial agent against Legionella pneumophila - F. Mondello, S. Fontana, A. Girolamo, M. Scaturro, A. Stringaro, M. Colone, F. Pinci, M.L.Ricci Critical Contamination Control in a Hospital Setting – Lessons Learned - Dean Thomas Sequence based typing (SBT) of Legionella pneumophila sero-group 3 clinical and environmental isolates from Denmark, 2006-2010 - Rikke R. Aarup, Søren A. Uldum Preliminary data on genotyping of Legionella pneumophila sg.1 isolated from the water system of a hospital in Southern Italy during a three-year monitoring programme (2008-2010) - Iatta R, Napoli C, Cuna T, Fontana S, Ricci ML, Como D, Montagna MT Monoclonal subtyping of clinical and environmental Legionella strains in epidemiological investigations of legionellosis cases - Laura Franzin, Valerio Demarie, Claudio Avanzini Sero- and subgroup distribution of Legionella pneumophila strains isolated from potentially dangerous water systems in Russia during 2007-2011 - Dronina Yu., Lueck P.C., Helbig J.,Sadretdinova O., Karpova T., Tartatakovskiy I.S. Legionella species identification by MALDI-TOF-MS - C. W. Svarrer and S. A. Uldum Evaluation of Whole Cell MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry (WCMS) fingerprinting for rapid subtyping of Legionella pneumophila strains - Valeria Gaia, Cinzia Benagli, Simona Casati and Mauro Tonolla Correlation of a four fold rise in antibody titre to an equivalent change in OD ratio measured by ELISA - Christina Wiid Svarrer, Charlotte S. Jørgensen, Bjørn Kantsø and Søren A. Uldum Improved diagnosis of Legionnaires’ disease by use of a new lateral flow test – ImmuViewTM Legionella Blood - Pernille L. Elverdal, Søren A. Uldum, Ian C. Skovsted, Charlotte S. Jørgensen, Christina W. Svarrer Evaluation of the ImmuView Legionella Blood test for detection of IgM antibodies to serogroup 1 and 3 - Christian Lück, Katarzyna Pancer, Vladimr Drasar, Tim Harrison Design of real time PCR assay for detection of Legionella DNA in clinical samples - Scaturro M, Ricci ML, Pinci F, Fontana R, De Vecchi E, Pernigo R, Pegoraro M, Fontana S For certain sequence types of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 the differentiation between the Philadelphia and the Allentown/France subgroups are difficult - Søren A. Uldum Legionella pneumophila encodes a specific arylamine N-acetyltransferase (NAT) probably involved in detoxification - Kubiak X, Dervins-Ravault D, J Dairou, F Busi, Jean-Marie Dupret, Buchrieser C and F Rodrigues-Lima In vitro characterization of quinolon-resistant mutants of Legionella pneumophila Serogroup 1 -Tetyana Koshkolda, Daniel Jonas, Christian Lück Determination of key factors that determine release of protozoan Legionella-containing vesicles - Paulina Georgieva, Solange Michel, Maxime Misséri, Christian Lück, Terhi Yli-Pirilä, Claude-Olivier Sarde, André Pauss The development of an artificial microcosm-biofilm-modell to analyze the influence of different external influences under nearly natural conditions - C.Unger, L. Löser, C.Lück |
