Pre-Congress Program

Monday, Ocotber 14, 2019

8:00-9:00 am

Registration open

9:00-12:00 am

Lecture Session

 

Trinh Thanh Trung, Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam

A simple culture algorithm for detection of Burkholderia pseudomallei from clinical specimens

 

Shivani Dharmaraja, InBios International, Inc., USA

Antigen detection using InBios International’s Active Melioidosis DetectTM Rapid Test

Break

Narisara Chantratita, Mahidol University, Thailand

Rapid Immunochromatography for serodiagnosis of melioidosis (Rapid ICT), ELISA and latex agglutination test

12:00-1:30 pm

Lunch

1:30-4:30 pm

Practical Session

 

Group 1

  • Demonstration of B. pseudomallei and other closely related species colonies on different agar plates at different incubation time points (Trung)
  • Three-antibiotic disc test (Trinh Thanh Trung)
  • Latex agglutination test (Narisara Chantratita)

 

Group 2

  • Rapid diagnosis of melioidosis from clinical specimens (Shivani Dharmaraja)

Break

Turnaround

Tuesday, October 15, 2019

8:30–11:30 am

Practical Session (divided into two groups)

Gabriel Wagner and Ivo Steinmetz, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Further developments of serodiagnostics

 

Group 1

  • Demonstration of B. pseudomallei and other closely related species colonies on different agar plates at different incubation time points (Trinh Thanh Trung)

Group 2

  • Rapid diagnosis of melioidosis from patient’s sera (Narisara Chantratita)

Break

Turnaround