For Members
ASM-ESCMID Conference on Methicillin-resistant Staphylococci in Animals
September 22 - 25, 2009, London, England
Principal Organizer
J Scott Weese, DVM DVSc DipACVIM
Ontario Veterinary College
University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
ESCMID Liaison
Andreas Voss, MD, PhD
Professor of Infection Control
Radboud University Medical Centre
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Scientific Committee
Mireille Wulf, MDClinical Microbiologist
PAMM Laboratory for Medical Microbiology
Veldhoven, The Netherlands
Yvonne Abbott
Veterinary Sciences Centre
School of Agriculture, Food Science and Veterinary Medicine
University College Dublin, Belfield
Dublin, Ireland
Andrew Hillier, BVSc, MACVSc, DACVD
Dept. of Veterinary Clinical Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine
The Ohio State University
Columbus, OH, USA
David Lloyd, PhD, BVetMed, FRCVS, DipECVD
Professor of Veterinary Dermatology
Dept. of Veterinary Clinical Studies
Royal Veterinary College Hawkshead Campus
Hatfield, UK
Jeff Bender, DVM MS DACVPM
Veterinary Public Health
Dept. of Clinical and Population Sciences
College of Veterinary Medicine
University of Minnesota
Tim Nuttall, BSc BVSc PhD CertVD CBiol MIBiol MRCVS
Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Dermatology
Department of Clinical Veterinary Science
The University of Liverpool
Faculty of Veterinary Science
Leahurst, Neston, Cheshire, UK
Conference Scope: This meeting will focus on methicillin-resistant staphylococci (MRS) in animal health and the potential implications thereof for humans. The main focus will be methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The meeting will also include methicillin-resistant S. intermedius, S. schleiferi coagulans and S. pseudintermedius because of their emerging roles in animal disease. The two main areas are; 1) the impact of MRS infection and colonization on animal populations, and; 2) the public health consequences of animal MRS infection and colonization.