Acknowledgements

The Organizing Committee expresses its thanks and appreciation to all who are generously contributing to the success of the 20th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases:

Platinum Medal Sponsor

Pfizer

Gold Medal Sponsors

Astellas Pharma Europe
Schering-Plough
Novartis Pharma AG

Silver Medal Sponsors

Abbott Molecular
Bayer Schering Pharma AG
Bruker Daltonik
bioMérieux
Cepheid
DiaSorin
Gilead Sciences Europe
GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals
Janssen-Cilag
Luminex
MSD
Roche Molecular Diagnostics
Teva

 

 

The ECCMID Programme Committee is proud to acknowledge the scientific input from the following organizations in setting up joint workshops and symposia:

 

ECMM, European Confederation of Medical Mycology
Latest trends from the molecular laboratory for studying fungal pathogens and invasive fungal infections

 

EORTC, European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer
Educational Workshop 10: The ins and outs of diagnostic tests

 

ERS, European Respiratory Society
GRACE Educational Workshop 7: Viruses and the respiratory tract – current and future issues

 

EUCAST, European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing
Educational Workshop 8: Antimicrobial susceptibility testing – practical implementation of the EUCAST breakpoints and methods

 

Reporting ß-lactam susceptibility tests on Enterobacteriaceae

 

EUCAST AFST, EUCAST Subcommittee on Antifungal Susceptibility Testing
Educational Workshop 2: Antifungal agents: new topics on resistance, therapeutic drug monitoring and pharmacoeconomy / jointly organized with EFISG

 

ASM, Programme Committee of the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC)
Microbial colonization of respiratory tract: does it always predict a nasty outcome?

 

IDSA, Infectious Disease Society of America
Clinical Grand Rounds

 

ISAP, International Society of Anti-Infective Pharmacology
Educational Workshop 9: Optimizing treatment using a pharmacodynamic approach: an interactive workshop using clinical cases / jointly organized with EPASG

 

ISC, International Society of Chemotherapy
Nocardia infections

 

ISF, International Sepsis Forum
ISF Symposium and Presentation of International Sepsis Forum Award

 

MOSAR, European Network Mastering Hospital Antimicrobial Resistance in Europe
Educational Workshop 13: Microbiological methods for screening of MRSA, VRE and ESBL / jointly organized with ESGARS