Third international meeting on bacterial epidemiological markers

Comp. lmmun. Microbiol. infect. Dis. Vol. 16, No. 4, p. i, 1993 Pergamon Press Ltd. Printed in Great Britain

ANNOUNCEMENT THIRD

INTERNATIONAL MEETING ON BACTERIAL EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MARKERS

6 - 9 April 1994 Cambridge, U.K. Scientific Programme Hospital Acquired Infection: surveillance, cost and control, microbiological investigation of outbreaks Typing: fungi including Candida, viruses, protozoa, mycoplasma and chlamydia New typing methods: gene probes, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, PCR methods, pyrolysis mass spectrometry Pathogenicity and antibiotic resistance: MRSA, enteropathogenic E. coli, glycopeptide resistance, pneumococci Mycobacteria: epidemiology, rapid identification, antibiotic resistance, strain typing Other topics: molecular epidemiology, veterinary and zoonotic infections, plasmid characterisation, virulent strain markers

Important Dates Second announcement and call for abstracts: 29 October 1993 Abstracts deadline: 15 January 1994 Notification to authors: 15 February 1994

For further information please contact: III IMBEM Secretariat Conference Contact 42 Devonshire Road Cambridge CB1 2BL U.K.

Tel.: 44 223 323437 Fax: 44 223 460396