Enteric Microbiology

Current practices – a bog standard approach?

Diagnosing Clostridium difficile
Dr Tim Planche
Constultant Microbiolgist, St George's Hospital
An Overview of Molecular Methods for Enteric Pathogens
Professor John E Coia
Consultant Clinical Microbiologist, Director Scottish Microbiology Reference Laboratories, Glasgow
Verocytoxin producing E. coli detection in food, water and the environment and the importance of molecular detection
Dr Andrew Fox
Unit Head/Lead Scientist HPA Microbiology Services Food Water and Environmental Microbiology, Preston Laboratory
Direct detection of VTEC from stools: Why, how and what does it mean clinically?
Dr Claire Jenkins
Clinical Scientist, Gastrointestinal Infections Reference Unit, Microbiology Services Colindale
– Lunch –
The H. pylori Story – Helicobacter pylori through the ages
Dr Jin-Yong Kang
Consultant Gastroenterologist, St George's Hospital
The Returning Traveller
Dr Catherine Cosgrove
Clinical Research Fellow, Infectious Diseases, St George's Hospital
Gastronomic Viruses – current status
Professor Jim Gray
Professor of Clinical Virology, University of East Anglia