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.
7:30 Arrival and Registration
7:45 Opening of the course, welcome, introduction | Amir Seyedmousavi & Darius Armstrong-James
Session 1. Chair: Maiken Arendrup (Denmark), Flavio De Queiroz Telles Filho (Brazil)
8:00 Lecture 1. | Diagnostic mycology in practice, fungal nomenclature, emerging fungal pathogens
Amir Seyedmousavi (USA)
8:20 Lecture 2 | Fungal and diseases (including Microsporidia and PJP) in normal and abnormal hosts and underlying risk factors
To be determined
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: Arunaloke Chakrabarti (India), Martin Hönigl (Austria)
10:10 Lecture 6. | Diagnosis of Mucorales and Melanized fungi
Shivaprakash Rudramurthy (India)
10:30 Lecture 7 | Diagnosis of Cryptococcosis and Pneumocystosis
To be determined
10:50 Lecture 8 | Diagnosis of Coccidioidomycoses and Endemic Dimorphs
To be determined
11:10 Lecture 9 | Antifungal susceptibility testing (EUCAST versus CLSI) and Resistance Detection
Nathan Wiederhold (USA)
11:30 Lecture 10 | Pint of care diagnostic assays in resource-limited countries
Mohammad Hedayati (Iran)
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