22nd Tunisian Congress of Infectious Diseases & 2nd Arab Congress of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology
Scientific Program
The Tunisian Society of Infectious Diseases (TSID)
22th Tunisian Congress of Infectious Diseases
SIGLE The Federation of Arab Societies for Clinical Microbiology
and Infectious Diseases (FASCMID)
2nd Arab Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Hour 8.00 9.00 10.00 11.00 12.00 13.00   14.00 15.00 16.00 17.00 18.00 19.00
Date    
Wednesday
May 23, 2012
  14.30
Registration
19.00 – 20.30
General Assembly FASCMID
16.00 – 18.30 
Workshop (Infective endocarditis)
16.00 – 18.30 
Workshop (HIV infection)
Thursday
May 24, 2012
8.45 – 9.30 
Lecture
Leishmaniasis in Arab countries
9.30 – 10.30   Coffee break 11.00 – 12.15 12.15– 13.30
Symposium
(
HIKMA )
Lunch

Poster Session
14.30 – 16.30
Community acquired infections
Coffee break 17.00 – 18.30 Infective endocarditis 19.00
Opening ceremony
Invasive fungal infections
Infections in immunocompromised hosts
19.30 – 21.00
Symposium
(
MSD )
Friday
May 25, 2012
8.45 – 10.30 
Tuberculosis
Coffee break 11.00 – 12.15  Vaccines 12.15– 13.30
Symposium
(
PFIZER )
14.30 – 16.30 
HIV infection
Coffee break 17.00 – 18.30
Viral hepatitis
18.30 – 20.00
Symposium
(
BMS )
Saturday
May 26, 2012
8.45 – 10.30 
Bacterial resistance

Coffee break

Poster Session

11.30 - 13.00
Healthcare associated infections
13.00
Closing ceremony


22th Tunisian Congress of Infectious Diseases
2nd Congress of Federation of Arab Societies of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Scientific Programme
Wednesday May 23, 2012
16.00 – 18.30 Workshop Infective endocarditis
Diagnostic tools of blood culture negative endocarditis (BCNE).
A. Znazen (Tunisia)
Neurological complications of infective endocarditis.
J. Van Der Meer (Netherland)
Infective endocarditis: special situation – compromised patients – unusual cause.
N. Kaabia (Tunisia)
Management of prosthetic valve infective endocarditis.
A. Khayati (Tunisia)
16.00 – 18.30 Workshop HIV infection
First line antiretroviral therapy. 
K. Marhoum El Filali (Morocco)
Treatment of HIV/HBV and HIV/HCV co-infection.
D. Salmon-Ceron (France)
Antiretroviral drug resistance: clinical consequences and management.
J. Mokhbat (Lebanon)
Preventing mother to child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV.
M. Chakroun (Tunisia)
19.00 – 20.30 General Meeting FASCMID
Thursday May 24, 2012
08.45 – 09.30 Lecture: Leishmaniasis in Arab countries.
K. Aoun (Tunisia)
09.30 – 12.15 Infections in immunocompromised hosts & Invasive fungal infections
  Chairpersons : Ahmed Zribi (Tunisia)
Tarak Ben Othmène (Tunisia)
Ali Ayadi (Tunisia)
09.30 Management of febrile neutropenia.
C. Cordonnier (France)
10.00 Classification and new diagnostic methods for invasive fungal infections.
S. Bretagne (France)
10.30 Coffee break (offered by MSD)
11.00 Prophylaxis of invasive fungal infection in patient with haematological diseases or cancer.
C. Cordonnier (France)
11.30 Current options for antifungal therapy of invasive candidiasis.
S. Ladab (Tunisia)
12.15 – 13.30 Symposium HIKMA
13.30 – 14.30 Poster Session I
14.30 – 16.30 Community acquired infections
  Chairpersons : Taoufik Ben Chaabane (Tunisia)
Hicheme Ziglam (Libya)
Amel Kechrid (Tunisia)
14.30 Epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections in Arab countries.
Z. Mhirsi (Tunisia)
14.50 Brucellosis: still a problem in Arab countries.
J. Wadi (Jordan)
15.10 Classification and management of skin and soft tissue infections.
E. Caumes (France)
15.45 Oral communications
15.45 Prevalence and characteristics of Chlamydia trachomatis infection among three populations of Tunisian women with different risks of sexually transmitted infections.
A. Znazen, H. Gharsallah, O. Frikha, N. Zribi, A. Hammami. (Sfax - Tunisia)
16.00 Febrile urinary tract infections in men. Report of 100 cases.
F. Smaoui, A. Toumi, H. Ben Brahim, C. Loussaief, F. Ben Romdhane, N. Bouzouaïa,
M. Chakroun.  (Monastir -  Tunisia)
16.15 Prevalence of Listeria among pregnant women in Libya.
SS. Saky, A. Al Sherbini, A. Al Zahra. (Libya)
16.30 Coffee break (offered by MSD)
17.00 – 18.30 Infective endocarditis
  Chairpersons : Zuhayr Tabbara (Lebanon)
Habib Gamra (Tunisia)
Amel Letaief (Tunisia)
17.00 Epidemiology of infective endocarditis in middle East.
Z. Kanafani (Lebanon)
17.25 Controversies in prophylaxis of infective endocarditis.
J. Van Der Meer (Netherland)
17.50 Oral communications
17.50 Epidemiology of infective endocarditis in Tunisia: a multicenter retrospective study: 2001-2011.
S. Hajri Ernez and the study group. ( Sousse - Tunisia)
18.00 Staphylococcal infective endocarditis.
S. Ben Kahla, L. Abid, M. Koubâa, A. Znazen, D. Abid, I. Mâaloul, M. Akrout, S. mallek, F. Triki, M. Hentati, A. Hammami, M. Ben Jemâa, S. kammoun.(Sfax - Tunisia)
18.10 Right-sided infective endocarditis: A Tunisian experience.
L. Ammari,  A. Ghoubantini, A. Berriche, R. Abdelmalek, S. Aissa, F. Kanoun, B. Kilani, H. Tiouiri Benaissa, T. Ben Chaabane. (Tunis - Tunisia)
18.20 Infective Endocarditis at the American university of Beirut medical center: a 23-year experience.
N. El Chakhtoura, JG. Sfeir, M. Yasmin, TA. Baban, SS. Kanj and ZA. Kanafani. (Beirut - Lebanon)
19.00 – 19.30 Opening Ceremony
19.30 – 21.00 Symposium MSD
Friday May 25, 2012
08.45 – 10.30 Tuberculosis
  Chairpersons : Noureddine Bouzouaïa (Tunisia)
Jamel Wadi (Jordan)
Leila Slim (Tunisia)
08.45 Tuberculosis: epidemiology in north Africa and Middle east.
M. Abdelaziz (WHO - EMRO)
09.10 The laboratory diagnosis of tuberculosis: update and news.
D. Cirillo (Italy)
09.40 Multidrug resistant tuberculosis: epidemiology and treatment.
E. Mokaddas (Kuwait)
10.10 Management of lymph node tuberculosis: Tunisian multicenter study.
R. Abdelmalek (Tunisia)
10.30 Coffee break (offered by MSD)
11.00 – 12.15 Vaccines
  Chairpersons : Mohamed Daw (Libya)
Mondher Gastli (Tunisia)
Henda Triki (Tunisia)
11.00 Perspective in novel vaccine development.
R. Barbouche (Tunisia)
11.20 Recent Advances in malaria vaccine.
A. Ahmed (USA)
11.50 Novel antibacterial vaccines.
Novartis
12.15 – 13.30 Symposium Pfizer
13.30 – 14.30 Poster Session II
14.30 – 16.30 HIV infection
  Chairpersons : Ahmed Hassi (Libya)
Amine  Slim (Tunisia)
Mohamed Ridha Kamoun (Tunisia)
14.30 Epidemiological situation and response to HIV infection in North Africa and the Middle East. 
H. Setayesh - H. Khatib (UNAIDS -MENA)
14.50 Tunisian recommendations on antiretroviral therapy: process, implementation and results.
M. Ben Mamou - M. Chakroun (Tunisia)
15.10 Pre-exposure prophylaxis.
J. Mokhbat (Lebanon)
15.45 Impact of HAART to prevent HIV transmission.
A. Chatty (WHO - EMRO)
16.30 Coffee break (offered by MSD)
17.00 – 18.30 Viral hepatitis
  Chairpersons : Jacques Mokhbat (Lebanon)
Fayçal Zouiten (Tunisia)
Azouz Msaddak (Tunisia)
17.00 Natural history and diagnosis of HBV infection: state of the art.
O. Bahri (Tunisia)
17.20 Therapeutic strategies for HBV infection.
J. Arends (Netherland)
17.50 HCV protease inhibitors in the treatment of naïve and experienced patients.
D. Salmon-Ceron (France)
18.10 Treatment monitoring of chronic hepatitis C (efficacy and side effects).
J. Boubaker (Tunisia)
18.30 – 20.00 Symposium BMS
Saturday May 26, 2012
08.45 – 10.30 Bacterial resistance
  Chairpersons : Eimen Mokaddas (Kuwait)
Saida Ben Redjeb (Tunisia)
Hanène Tiouiri Benaissa (Tunisia)
08.45 Carbapenemases: epidemiology, detection and therapeutic options.
N. Woodford (UK)
09.15 Molecular characterization of community acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and therapeutic impact.
N. Ramdani Bouguessa (Algeria)
09.45 Contribution of pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic parameters of antibiotics in the treatment of multidrug resistant bacterial infections.
F. Jehl (France)
10.15 Coffee break (offered by MSD).
10.30 – 11.30 Poster Session III
11.30 – 13.00 Healthcare associated infections.
  Chairpersons : Nadjia Ramdani Bouguessa (Algeria)
Abdelaziz  Zorgani (Libya)
Fekri Abroug (Tunisia)
11.30 Prevalence and risk factors of healthcare-associated infections in Tunisia and Arabic countries.
N. Borsali (Tunisia)
12.00 Healthcare-associated infections: prevention and control programs.
C. Brun Buisson (France)
12.30 Oral communications
12.30 Faecal carriage of multidrug-resistant bacteria (MDR) during a non-outbreak situation in Habib Bourguiba University hospital Sfax-Tunisia.
B. Mnif, I. Jmal, E. Chiboub, S. Gouiaa, F Masmoudi, S. Sallemi, A. Hammami. (Sfax -Tunisia)
12.45 High rates of community acquired Panton-Valentine Leucocidin (PVL) positive methicillin resistant S. aureus (MRSA) infections in Rabta hospital of Tunisia.
M. Zribi, H. Battikh, A. Masmoudi, J. Etienne, C. Fendri. (Tunis - Tunisia)
13.00 Closing Ceremony