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. 2019 Oct 8;5(4):95. doi: 10.3390/jof5040095
08:00–08:45 Meet the Expert Sessions 6–10
08:00 M06 Hematology—hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Nikolai Klimko, FECMM, Russia & Tony Pagliuca, UK
08:00 M07 Molecular Diagnostics
Maurizio Sanguinetti, Italy & Dieter Buchheidt, FECMM, Germany
08:00 M08 Surgery/Transplantation
Patricia Munoz, Spain & Paolo Grossi, Italy
08:00 M09 Neonates
Thomas Walsh, FECMM, USA & Emmanuel Roilides, FECMM, Greece
08:00 M10 Meet Mr. and Mrs. Fungus
Cornelia Lass-Flörl, FECMM, Austria & Neil Gow, FECMM, UK
08:50–09:50 Plenary Session 4—Top 10 papers in Mycology
Chairs: Maiken Arendrup, Denmark & Malcolm Richardson, FECMM, UK
08:50 PS4.1 The Clinical and Translational Perspective
Don Sheppard, FECMM, Canada
09:20 PS4.2 The Microbiology Perspective
Katrien Lagrou, FECMM, Belgium
ECMM Academy and Excellence Centers: A Story of Success
Chair: Martin Hoenigl, FECMM, Austria
09:50 ECMM Academy
Katrien Lagrou, FECMM, Belgium
09:55 ECMM Excellence Centers
Cornelia Lass-Flörl, FECMM, Austria
10:30–11:30 Plenary Session 5—ICU—Candida Infections/Breaking News from Hematology and ICU
Chairs: Johan Maertens, FECMM, Belgium / Maricela Valerio, Spain
10:30 PS5.1 Abdominal Candidiasis in ICU Patients
Philipp Köhler, FECMM, Germany
10:45 PS5.2 Are the New Management Strategies Useful?
Arnaldo Colombo, FECMM, Brazil
11:00 PS5.3 CNS Infections
Anna Candoni, Italy
11:15 PS5.4 CMV and Aspergillosis in HSCT Patients
Johan Maertens, FECMM, Belgium
11:30–12:30 Poster Session 2
11:30 Video Session
11:30 V01 Subcutaneous Nodule Caused by Phaeoacremonium fuscum in a Non-Immunocompromised Patient
Sofie Colman, Belgium
11:40 V02 Trichosporon Diagnosis—The Right Path
Thayanidhi Premamalini, India
11:50 V03 Disseminated Rhinosporidiosis with Different Morphological Lesions Involving Various Anatomical Sites
Jagdish Chander, India
14:15–15:45 Parallel Symposia 15–19
Symposium 15 Aspergillus in the ICU
Chairs: Katrien Lagrou, FECMM, Belgium & Alessandro Pasqualotto, FECMM, Brazil
14:15 S15.1 Influenza
Joost Wauters, Belgium
14:35 S15.2 Invasive Aspergillosis in Patients with Underlying Liver Cirrhosis
Juergen Prattes, Austria
14:55 S15.3 Renal Failure
Riina Richardson Rautema, FECMM, UK
15:15 S15.4* Fungal Pneumonia in Critically Ill Cirrhotics: Spectrum, Outcomes, Comparison of Diagnostic Methods and Biomarkers
Pratibha Kale, India
15:25 S15.5* IPAFLU Survey: Invasive Aspergillosis among Patients with Severe Influenza in Intensive Care Units
Joost Wauters, Belgium
15:35 S15.6* Trend of Candidemia with Bloodstream Infection in Intensive Care Units from 2006 to 2017: Results from the Korean National Healthcare-Associated Infections Surveillance System
Young Hwa Choi, Korea
Symposium 16 Dermatology
Chairs: Valentina Arsic Arsenijevic, ECMM, Serbia & Sevtap Arıkan Akdagli, FECMM, Turkey
14:15 S16.1 Cutaneous Aspergillosis, Is It So Rare?
Sevtap Arıkan Akdagli, FECMM, Turkey
14:35 S16.2 Is Resistance a Problem for Dermatophytosis?
Pietro Nenoff, Germany
14:55 S16.3 Phaeohyphomycosis
Teresa Martin, Spain
15:15 S16.4 Blastomycosis
Ilan Schwarz, Canada
15:35 S16.5* Galleria mellonella as a Novelty Model to Study Host—Pathogen Interaction in Malassezia furfur CBS 1878
Adriana Marcela Celis Ramírez, Colombia
Symposium 17 HIV-Associated Cryptococcal Meningitis
Chairs: John Perfect, USA & Olivier Lortholary, France
14:15 S17.1 Screening in Low-Resource Areas
Elvis Temfack, Cameroon
14:35 S17.2 Current Therapeutic Strategies
Olivier Lortholary, France
14:55 S17.3 Towards Having Antifungal Drugs in Low-Resource Areas
Ida Kolte, UK
15:15 S17.4 Early versus Delayed Antiretroviral Treatment in HIV-Positive People with Cryptococcal Meningitis
Tihana Bicanic, FECMM, UK
15:35 S17.5 Current and Future Clinical Trials on HIV-Associated Cryptococcal Meningitis
Tom Harrison, UK
Symposium 18 Antifungal Stewardship in the Era of Resistance
Chairs: Paul Verweij, FECMM, The Netherlands & Souha Kanj, FECMM Lebanon
14:15 S18.1 Antifungal Stewardship: A Practical Experience in a Tertiary Care Institution
Maricela Valerio, Spain
14:35 S18.2 Stewardship and Azole-Resistant Aspergillosis: A Challenge for Farmer or Physician?
Paul Verweij, FECMM, The Netherlands
14:55 S18.3 Rapid Diagnosis of Fungal Infections: Impact on Stewardship
Souha Kanj, FECMM, Lebanon
15:15 S18.4 Mycology Laboratory Diagnostic Capabilities in Different Areas of the World
Alessandro Pasqualotto, FECMM, Brazil
15:35 S18.5* Optimising Antifungal Stewardship: An Evaluation of Candidaemia Guideline Compliance and Clinical Outcome
Laura Cottom, UK
Symposium 19 Pneumocystis
Chairs: Enrique Calderon, Spain & Stephane Bretagne, FECMM, France
14:15 S19.1 Diagnosis
Alexandre Alanio, FECMM, France
14:40 S19.2 Pneumocystosis in HIV and Non-HIV Patients
Joseph Kovacs, USA
15:05 S19.4 Pneumocystosis in Neonates
Enrique Calderon, Spain
15:30 S19.5* Evaluation of a Novel Commercial Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP) Assay for Rapid Detection of Pneumocystis jirovecii
Dirk Schmidt, Germany
16:15–17:45 Parallel Symposia 20–24
Symposium 20 Candida auris
Chairs: Nelesh Govender, FECMM, South Africa & Anuradha Chowdhary, FECMM, India
16:15 S20.1 Schizophrenic Gram-Negative Yeast Conquering the World
Jacques Meis, FECMM, The Netherlands
16:35 S20.2 In the US
Tom Chiller, USA
16:55 S20.3 Outbreak Control
Alba Ruiz, Spain
17:15 S20.4 In Resource-Limited Countries
Anuradha Chowdhary, FECMM, India
17:35 S20.5* Understanding Echinocandin Activity towards Candida auris
Milena Kordalewska, USA
Symposium 21 Immunotherapy for Opportunistic Fungal Infections
Chairs: Carol Garcia-Vidal, Spain & Dimitrios Kontoyiannis, FECMM, USA
16:15 S21.1 CAR-T Cells, NK Cells
Dimitrios Kontoyiannis, FECMM, USA
16:35 S21.2 WBC Transfusions
Livio Pagano, FECMM, Italy
16:55 S21.3 Cytokines
George Chamilos, Greece
17:15 S21.4* Novel Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cells for Invasive Aspergillosis Immunotherapy
Michelle Seif, Germany
17:25 S21.5* Comparison of Circulating Lymphocyte Populations CD4+ and CD8+ T Cells, B and NK lymphocytes According to the Favorable or Worsening Evolution of Patients with Pneumocystosis
Eléna Charpentier, France
17:35 S21.6* Glucosylceramides from Lomentospora prolificans Induce Cytokines Production and Increase the Microbicidal Activity of Macrophages
Mariana Ingrid Dutra Silva Xisto, Brazil
Symposium 22 NGS and Mycobiota
Chairs: Laurence Delhaes, France & Jean-Pierre Gangneux, FECMM, France
16:15 S22.1 Bacterial–Fungal Interactions at the Airway Mucosa and Implications for Chronic Rhinosinusitis
Emily Cope, USA
16:35 S22.2 Respiratory Mycobiome—A Clinical Perspective
Robert Krause, FECMM, Austria
16:55 S22.3 Characterization of Indoor Dust Microbiota in Homes of Asthma and Non-Asthma Patients
Jean-Pierre Gangneux, FECMM, France
17:15 S22.4 Understanding the Role of the Gut Mycobiome in Health and Disease
Maria Vehreschild, FECMM, Germany
17:35 S22.5* An ECMM-ESCMID Survey on Goals and Practices for Mycobiota Characterization Using Next-Generation Sequencing in European Laboratories
Jean-Pierre Gangneux, FECMM, France
Symposium 23 The Funny Life of C. albicans in the Oral Tract
Chairs: Marie-Elisabeth Bougnoux, France & Anna Maria Tortorano, Italy
16:15 S23.1 Within-Host Genomic Diversity of Candida albicans in Healthy Carriers
Marie-Elisabeth Bougnoux, France
16:35 S23.2 Activation of Oral Immune Responses by C. albicans
Julian Naglik, UK
16:55 S23.3 Modulation of the Fungal–Host Interaction by the Intraspecies Diversity of C. albicans
Dominique Sanglard, Switzerland
17:15 S23.4 Intestinal Th17 Drives Airway Inflammation in ABPA
Petra Bacher, Germany
17:35 S23.5* Persistence of Clonal Azole-Resistant Isolates of Candida albicans from a Patient with Chronic Mucocutaneous Candidiasis in Colombia
Andres Ceballos-Garzon, Colombia
Symposium 24 Fungal Neglected Tropical Diseases
Chairs: Flavio Queiroz-Telles, Brazil & Leila Lopes Bezerra, Brazil
16:15 S24.1 Mycetoma
Wendy van de Sande, FECMM, The Netherlands
16:35 S24.2 Chromoblastomycosis
Flavio de Queiroz-Telles, FECMM, Brazil
16:55 S24.3 Sporotrichosis
Leila Lopes Bezerra, Brazil
17:15 S24.4 Novel Diagnostic and Treatment Strategies for the Southeast Asian Fungus Talaromyces marneffei
Thuy Le, USA
17:25 Discussion