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26th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
The report of 26th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases by Dr. Farhad Rezaei
Application Code :
306-0116-0062
 
Created Date : Saturday, May 21, 2016 16:24:14Update Date : Tuesday, June 7, 2016 14:25:20
IP Address : 194.225.57.40Submit Date : Tuesday, June 7, 2016 14:25:41Email : rezaie@tums.ac.ir
Personal Information
Name : Farhad
Surname : Rezaei
School/Research center : School of Public Health
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Position : Assistant professor
Tel : +98-21-88962343
Information of Congress
Title of the Congress : 26th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Title of your Abstract : Incidence, prevalence, and genotypic characterization of human parvovirus B19 and human herpesvirus 6/7 in children with measlesand rubella like illness in Iran
Destination Country : Netherlands
From : Saturday, April 9, 2016
To : Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Abstract(Please copy/paste the abstract send to the congress) : Human Parvovirus B19 (B19V) is a prototype of the erythrovirus genus in Parvoviridae family. B19V infections are often associated with fever and rash, and can be mistakenly reported as measles or rubella. The pattern of B19V infection may therefore assist physician in limiting the differential diagnosis of fever and rash syndromes. To investigate the causative role of B19V infection in children suspected measles and rubella, a total of 583 sera from children with exanthems were tested for presence of B19V by determining anti B19V IgG and IgM antibodies by ELISA as well as B19V DNA detection by nested PCR. DNA positive samples were assessed further for determination of viral load and sequence analysis by Real-Time PCR and Sanger sequencing method, respectively. Out of 583 patients, 112 (19.21%) patients were positive for B19V-IgM antibody, 110 (18.87 %) were positive for B19V-IgG antibody, and 63 (10.81%) were positive for B19V viral DNA. The frequency of B19V-IgG antibodies were increased with age; i.e. children under 6 year old showed 7.11% seroprevalence for B19V-IgG as compared to 18.39% and 28.91% for age groups 6 to >11 and 11-14 years old, respectively .Phylogenetic analysis of the NS1-VPu1 overlapping region revealed that all sequenced B19V-DNA belonged to genotype 1. The results of this study may aid the surveillance programs aiming at eradicating measles/rubella virus in Iran, as infections with B19V can be mistakenly reported as measles or rubella if laboratory testing is not conducted.
Keywords of your Abstract : Parvovirus B19, Measles, Rubella, Genotypes
Acceptance Letter : http://gsia.tums.ac.ir/images/UserFiles/30378/Forms/306/PRESENTATION_CONFIRMATION.pdf
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Published abstract in the abstract book with the related code : http://gsia.tums.ac.ir/images/UserFiles/30378/Forms/306/Abstract.pdf
Where has your abstract been indexed? : none
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The Congress Reporting Form
How many volunteers were present at the Congress? : 11600
Delegates from which countries presented in the congress? : USA, Japan, Netherland, England, Italy, China, Canada, Germany
Were the delegates of any other organizations present in the congress? : No
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What were the responses to your talking points? Were specific questions or concerns raised? : There were no specific question or concerns. However,they ask whether are there any organized surveillance programs for the viruses related to topic of my presentation?
If you met staff members, please list their full names & positions. : Dr. Seyed Mohammad Jazayeri, Associate professor at Virology Department
Please inform us if there are any follow up actions we need to talk with the members of the congress : As Eccmid is one of the most important congress in field of clinical infectious disease and famous scientists attend in, it would be a good idea to invite some of those to have scientific talks and related courses for the faculty members and students. Since, many of these scientists have position for PhD and postdoc which is very attractive to postgraduate students.
Your experiences about the travel processes(Providing ticket, accommodation,...) : Unfortunately, we have lots of problem for paying registration fee and booking hotel.I think it is responsibility of TUMS to facilitates these kind of problems.
Please give a briefing of your own observations and outcomes of the congress: : In several aspects, 26th ECCMID was so interesting to me. First of all, organization of the congress was the great. Second, there were several discussion groups with the expert scientists in any specific field of infectious disease. Also, having opportunity to attend practical workshops with the recent advanced technologies was very valuable experience for me. In addition, I talked to several professor from UK, USA and Netherland about collaboration and running joint projects in field of detection and control of Arboviruses. At the end, attending the ECCMID gave me an optimistic feeling for running and implementing of new laboratory technique for detection of present and new emerging viruses in Iran.