Past ICID Resources

How to Manage Antimicrobial Resistance

• Update – Management of Drug-resistant Gram Negative Infections – Y. Morinaga (Japan)
• Update – Management of Drug-resistant Gram Positive Infections – L. Grayson (Australia)
• Antimicrobial Stewardship Across the Surgical Pathway in LMICs – E. Charani (UK)
• National Action Plans on Antimicrobial Resistance – H. Kawamura (Japan)

New Approaches to Vaccines for Pneumonia

• Pneumococcal Vaccines – G. Rodgers (USA)
• RSV Vaccine – F. Polack (Argentina)
• Group B Streptococcus (GBS) Vaccine – S. Madhi (South Africa)
• A Universal Influenza Virus Vaccine Strategy Targeting the Conserved Stalk Domain of the Hemagglutinin – F. Krammer (USA)

Hot Topics in Travel Medicine

• Update on Travel Vaccines – L. Visser (The Netherlands)
• Building Travel Medicine Networks in South America – A. Lepetic (Argentina)
• Emerging Infectious Diseases and International Travelers – A. Wilder-Smith (Singapore)
• GeoSentinel – A Surveillance Network of Returning Traveler and Migrants – D. Hamer (USA)

• New Antiretroviral Treatment Options – R. Arduino (Argentina)
• Novel Strategies for Antiretroviral Treatment – P. Cahn (Argentina)
• Management of HIV-Hepatitis B Co-infection – A. Gadano (Argentina)

Successful Behavior Interventions in the Hospital – E. Castro-Sanchez (UK) E. Charani (UK)

Evolutions in Global Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness – Gaya Gamhewage (Switzerland)

Gorgas Lectures and Case Discussions in Clinical Tropical Medicine I

• Typhoid fever: Global Perspective; HTLV-1: A Neglected Disease with Enormous Clinical Impact; Clinical Case Discussions – E. Gotuzzo (Peru)

HIV – Hot Topics

• Prospects for Cure of HIV – P. Tebas (USA)
• HIV+/HCV+ Donor Transplantation – C. Durand (USA)
• Taking on the Challenges of an Ageing HIV-Infected Population – B. Powderly (USA)

• HIV Among Indigenous Populations: A Regional Perspective – M. E. Gutierrez Pimentel (Panama)
• Meningitis & HIV in Africa – R. Heyderman (UK)
• Emerging Infectious Diseases in the Americas – T. Mancero (Argentina)

• The Role of the ‘A’ Team in the Hospital Near You – G. Levy Hara (Argentina)
• Non-specialist Pharmacists as Stewardship Champions – D. van den Bergh (South Africa)
• Nursing Leadership in AMS Interventions: Lessons Learnt Worldwide – E. Castro-Sanchez (UK)

New Outbreaks of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis and Management

• Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Outbreaks and Management – O. Salomón (Argentina)
• Cutaneous Leishmaniasis: Treatment Needs and Combination Therapies – B. Arana (Switzerland)

Clinical Applications of Whole Genome Sequencing

• Whole Genome Sequencing for Diagnosing Infectious Diseases – P. Brown (Jamaica)
  
• Genome Sequencing to Contain Viral Epidemics – M. Kraemer (USA)

Hot Topics in Infection and Prevention Control

• The World Health Organization (WHO) Clean Care is Safer Care promotion campaign, 2005-2018 – D. Pittet (Switzerland)
• Hand Hygiene Promotion in Argentina – E. G. Andion (Argentina)
• The Train-the-Trainers Concept Applied in Brazil and Mexico – F. Bellissimo Rodrigues* (Brazil), H. Marquez (Mexico)

New World Arenaviruses

• Epidemiology and Virology of New World Arenaviruses – A. Sinchi (Argentina)
• Mechanisms of Candid #1 Vaccine Attenuation – T. Manning (USA)
• Clinical Management of Arenavirus Infections – D. Bausch (UK)

• Medical Considerations Before International Travel; Infections in Returning Travelers; Clinical Cases – D. Freedman (USA)

New Approaches for the Diagnosis of Invasive Infections

• Etiological Diagnosis of Bloodstream Infection: Direct Molecular Diagnosis from Blood – M. van der Brand (The Netherlands)
• Blood Culture Pellets Coupled to MALDI TOF &Gram Staining to Improve Fast and Accurate Microbial Diagnosis of Bloodstream Infections – O. Opota (Switzerland)
• Metagenomics for the Diagnosis of Exotic Infections – R. Schlaberg (USA)
• Improving the Outcome of Invasive Fungal Diseases: Early Diagnosis of Invasive Aspergillosis – M. Nucci (Brazil)

Diagnosis and Management of Difficult to Treat Fungal Infections

• Molecular Tools for the Detection of Azole Antifungal Drug Resistant Phenotypes in Aspergillus Species – G. Garcia Effron (Argentina)
• C. auris: What Do We Know about the Emergence of this Multidrug Resistant Yeast? – R. Vitale (Argentina)
• Epidemiology of Fusarium, a Significant Emerging Group of Human Opportunistic Infections – M. Nucci (Brazil)
• Current Trends and Future Perspectives in the Treatment of Emerging Yeasts and Molds – J. Afeltra (Argentina)

Enteric Infections in Under-resourced Countries – From Research to Clinical Practice – Gagandeep Kang (India)

A Planetary Health Approach to Emerging Infectious Diseases

• How Climate, Species Interactions, and Global Change Drive Infectious Disease Dynamics – J. Caldwell (USA)
• Modeling the Impact of Environmental Change on Infectious Diseases – R. Lowe (UK)
• Anthropogenic Global Defaunation and its Consequences for Planetary Health – S. Morand (Thailand)

• HCV- Global Challenges – M. Silva (Argentina)
• Affordable Treatment Approaches for HCV with Sofosbuvir plus Ravidasvir Combination – G. Diap (Switzerland)
• Addressing IP Barriers To The Elimination of HCV As A Public Health Problem in Latin America – F. Viegas Neves da Silva (Brazil)

• Applicability of Infections and Prevention Control Guidelines in Low- and Middle-Income Countries – S. Mehtar (South Africa)
• Contact Isolation for Endemic Pathogens: Universal versus Selective Isolation – G. Bearman (USA)
• Round Table Discussion – L. Grayson (Australia)

• Innovative Disease Surveillance – J. Brownstein (USA)
• Critical Care Considerations and Pandemic Preparedness – P. Tambyah (Singapore)

• Parasitic Infections in Solid Organ Transplant – W. Clemente (Brazil)
• Emerging Viral Infections in Transplantation – L. Pierrotti (Brazil)
• Viral Respiratory Infections in BMT – A Common Cold is not Just a Cold in Transplant Recipients – O. de la Cruz (USA)

• New Diagnostic Techniques Applied to Infection Control – F. Pasteran (Argentina)
• New and “Recycled” Antimicrobials – M. Stryjewski (Argentina)
• Therapeutic Efficacy of Antimcrobials in Critically Ill Patients – E. Nannini (Argentina)

Zika: Regional Experiences in Neurological Diseases and Severe Cases

• Neurological Complications of Zika Virus: Experience in French Polynesia – D. Musso (French Polynesia)
• Zika Congenital Syndorme: Experience in Brazil – K. Luz (Brazil)
• Severe, Atypical and Fatal Cases of Zika Virus Infection: Experience in Colombia – A. Rodriguez-Morales (Colombia)
• Risk Factors, Comorbidities and Coinfections with Zika Virus Infection – J. Cardona-Ospina (Colombia)

New Frontiers in our Approaches to Antimicrobial Resistance – Alison Holmes (UK)

Dengue, Chikungunya and Yellow Fever

• The Human Antibody Response in Dengue and Zika Virus Infection – G. Screaton (UK)
• Drivers of Spread of Aedes aegypti-borne Infections in Latin America – J. Torres (Venezuela)
• Yellow Fever – P. Vasconcelos (Brazil)

Malaria – Hot Topics

• Plasmodium vivax: It is Complicated – A. Siqueira (Brazil)
• Update on the Management of Multidrug Resistant falciparum Malaria – E. Ashley (Myanmar)
• Correlates of Protection from Controlled Human Malaria Infections (CHMI) in Semi-immune Kenyan Adults – F. Osier (Kenya)