Target audience
Primary care and hospital physicians, researchers and public
health specialists interested in better management of
community-acquires LRTI.
Educational aims
The GRACE project is designed around the broad theme of
controlling antibiotic resistance in the context of community
respiratory infections, since these are the major targets for much
antibiotic prescribing. The complex nature of lower respiratory
tract infections is reflected in the various diseases, syndromes,
microbial pathogens and host responses. As such, these infections
are responsible for much morbidity and the use of healthcare
resources which in turn have significant economic implications.
This workshop provides in a shared session an overview on
host-pathogen interactions in the lung and focuses subsequently in
two parallel sessions either on the bacteriology of respiratory
tract infections or on the epidemiology and the economic impact of
common respiratory infections.