Resistant bacteria – their evolution and pharmacodynamic response to antimicrobials

1st joint symposium between ISAP, the European Society of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases [ESCMID]) and the programme committee of the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy [ICAAC; American Society of Microbiology [ASM]),  held during the 9th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases [ECCMID]

co-organizers: W.A. Craig, Madison, WI ( ICAAC ) & O. Cars, Uppsala, Sweden ( ISAP/ESCMID )

The fight of Gods and Tritons  Pergamon Museum, Berlin

Fitness costs of resistance and genetic compensation (D. Andersson, Solna, Sweden) Mathematic modelling of the antibiotic selective process (F. Baquero, Madrid, Spain) Pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic parameters of efficacy. Are they the same for normal bacteria and for those with reduced susceptibility? (W.A. Craig Madison, WI) Combination therapy as a tool to prevent emergence of resistance. What can be learnt from in vitro models? (J. W. Mouton, Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Pharmacological strategies to overcome and prevent Resistance (O. Cars, Uppsala, Sweden)

The fight of Gods and Tritons: one part of the famous Altar of Pergamon, masterpiece of the Hellenistic art (2th century BC), on display at the Pergamon Museum in central Berlin (see complete view). 

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