Infectious Diseases in 2003 - where science, medicine and politics need to meet

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Infectious Diseases in 2003 - where science,  medicine and politics need to meet

Current Infectious Disease Challenges

Public and political concerns

Current Infectious Disease Challenges

Diagnosis

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COPD Around the World (all ages)

Comparison of COPD Direct and Indirect Costs (US$ millions)

CAP – the problem

Frequency of investigations performed in the management of patients with LRTI including pneumonia by GPs in different European countries

Number of documented infections in studies of the aetiology of CAP

Microbial aetiology (%) of adult CAP in the UK

Penicillin-resistant & intermediate pneumococci

MRSA bacteraemia (England & Wales) as % of all Staph. aureus - 2001

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Controlling resistance to antimicrobial agents

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Surveillance – critical questions

Prudent prescribing - definition

Outstanding gaps

Outstanding gaps

Recommended immunization schedules (childhood)

www.escmid.org

EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES

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Clinical Governance

Medical Research Council (UK) – budget (£m)

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US experience - academic perspective

The microbial genome and disease expression

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