Pre-congress Course ISHAM2025
Workshop: Algorithm-based diagnosis of fungal infections in clinical practice
Date: Tuesday, 20th May
Time: 08:00 – 12:30 hrs.
Location: Bourbon Cataratas Convention Center, Iguaçu Falls-Brazil
Maximum number of participants: 100
This postgraduate workshop is intended for for 50-100 participants including physicians and trainees in infectious disease, critical care, transplantation, haemato-oncology, dermatology, pediatrics, and other clinical specialties dealing with fungal infections, Clinical microbiology laboratory directors/consultants, CPEP microbiology fellows, Clinical laboratory scientists (diagnostic microbiology/mycology), PhD students and Postdoctoral researchers, Scientists from infectious disease in vitro diagnostics (IVD) industry or pharmaceutical companies who want to improve their knowledge and understanding in the area of Fungal Diagnostics.
Course Objectives: To provide a comprehensive, and detail-oriented primer or refresher on the currently available approaches, challenges and solutions in diagnosis of fungal infections in different clinical settings. The antifungal susceptibility and resistance testing will be also discussed. In addition, we will provide scientific evidence on importance of fungal disease laboratory screening and infection prevention.
Chairs: Masoud Mardani & Mohammad Taghi Hedayati
7:30 Arrival and Registration
7:45 Opening of the course, welcome, introduction | Amir Seyedmousavi & Darius Armstrong-James
Session 1. Chair: Masoud Mardani & Flavio De Queiroz Telles Filho (Brazil)
8:00 Lecture 1 | Fungal and diseases (including Microsporidia and PJP) in normal and abnormal hosts and underlying risk factors
Ilan Schwartz (USA)
08:20 Lecture 2 | Diagnostic mycology in practice, fungal nomenclature, emerging fungal pathogens
Amir Seyedmousavi (USA)
8:40 Lecture 3 | Early diagnosis of aspergillosis and rare molds (Fusarium Scedosporium)
Juan Gea-Banacloche (USA)
9:00 Lecture 4 | Diagnosis of Candidiasis and rare yeasts
Maiken Arendrup (Denmark)
9:20 Lecture 5 | Routine Mycology Laboratory Workups (Yeast vs. Molds, Diagnostics vs. Surveillance)
Hein van der Lee (Netherlands)
9:40 Q &A
9:55-10:10 Comfort Break
Session 2. Chairs: Mohammad Hedayati & Nicolas Barros
10:10 Lecture 6. | Diagnosis of Mucorales and Melanized fungi
Shivaprakash Rudramurthy (India)
10:30 Lecture 7 | Diagnosis of Cryptococcosis and Pneumocystosis
Zeynab Yassin (Iran)
10:50 Lecture 8 | Diagnosis of Coccidioidomycoses and Endemic Dimorphs
Nicolas Barros (USA)
11:10 Lecture 9 |Antifungalis in clinical Practice and importance of resistance detection
Masoud Mardani (Iran)
11:30 Lecture 10 | Point of care diagnostic assays
Darius Armstrong-James (UK)
11:50 Q & A
Session 3. Chairs: Amir Seyedmousavi & Darius Armstrong-James
12:00-12:30: General Assembly Meeting of Fungal Diagnostics Working Group and Selection of Board Members for 2025-2028