Annual Congress Vienna 2009

Saturday, 12.09.2009
Sunday, 13.09.2009
Monday, 14.09.2009
Tuesday, 15.09.2009
Wednesday, 16.09.2009

Citations should be made in the following way: Authors. Title. Eur Respir J 2009; 34: Suppl. 53, abstract number.

Material from 2009:

4047 Abstracts
652 Slide presentations
300 Webcasts
93 Handouts
2150 e-posters
300 Multimedia files

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PG12 EU FP7 TB PAN-NET: Update in tuberculosis: advances in the management of drug resistant and multi-drug resistent tuberculosis cases

Postgraduate Course
Chairs: G. B. Migliori (Tradate, Italy), P. D. O. Davies (Liverpool, United Kingdom)
Aims: The main target of this course is to update participants on the current advances in knowledge regarding epidemiology and management of drug resistant and multi-drug resistent tuberculosis (TB) cases. At the end of this course participants will be able to: understand the public health consequences of mismanagement of TB cases; interpret the key role of clinicians in TB control; apply international standards of diagnosis and care of TB; discuss the open questions for research in this field.

HERMES syllabus links: B.4: Tuberculosis.
Type of course: Lecture and problem based
Level: Intermediate

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Diagnosing and managing drug-resistant cases P. D. O. Davies (Liverpool, United Kingdom)
Resistance pattern for tuberculosis in Europe D. Cirillo (Milano, Italy)
Case presentation G. B. Migliori (Tradate, Italy)
Common causes of treatment mismanagement J-P. Zellweger (Fribourg, Switzerland)