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Invited lectures

Members of the project group held several invited lectures at domestic microbiology congresses and at the international microbiology, infectology and other scientific meetings dedicated to C. difficile and MRSA. RUPNIK, Maja. Clostridium difficile - new developments in epidemiology, pathogenesis and treatment. 6th Croatian Congress of Microbiology with International Participation, June 15-18, 2016, Sveti Martin na Muri, Croatia. [COBISS.SI-ID 512629304] RUPNIK, Maja. Clostridium difficile: human and animal challenges. V: Diagnostic solutions to adress "One Health" antimicrobial resistance challenges: selection of abstracts. Mary l'Etoile: bioMérieux. 2017. [COBISS.SI-ID 92624129] RUPNIK, Maja. Od klostridija do mikrobiote s sekvenciranjem naslednje generacije. 7. kongres Slovenskega mikrobiološkega društva, 20.-22. september 2017, Bled, Slovenija. [COBISS.SI-ID 512767288] RUPNIK, Maja. Genome plasticity and virulence in Clostridium difficile. 17th International Congress of the Hungarian Society for Microbiology, July 8-10, 2015, Budapest. [COBISS.SI-ID 92619009] RUPNIK, Maja. Current understanding of Clostridium difficile infection. International Conference for Young Scientists Hot Topics in Microbiology, Štrbské Pleso, High Tatras, Slovakia, 23-26 April, 2015. [COBISS.SI-ID 512528440] RUPNIK, Maja. Novosti na področju okužb z bakterijo Clostridium difficile: epidemiologija in patogeneza. 6. kongres Slovenskega mikrobiološkega društva, 24.-26. september 2014, Bled, Slovenija. [COBISS.SI-ID 3209807] RUPNIK, Maja. Clostridium difficile: challenges in diagnostic, epidemiology and control. VI Serbian Congress of infectious diseases, Kopaonik, 5th-8th October 2017. [COBISS.SI-ID 512756536] RUPNIK, Maja. Clostridium difficile biology in the era of comparative genomics. ProkaGENOMICS 2015, 6th European Conference on Prokaryotic and Fungal Genomics, Goettingen, Germany, 29.9.-2.10.2015. [COBISS.SI-ID 512578360] RUPNIK, Maja. The genomic aspect of C. difficile and C. difficile infection. I Sympozjum kliniczne zakażenia Clostridium difficile-pandemia XXI wieku, Warszawa, 28.2.2015. [COBISS.SI-ID 512575544] RUPNIK, Maja. The prevention of C. difficile. 1st CEE Conference "The future of infection surveillance and control", 4 March 2015, Vienna. [COBISS.SI-ID 92624641] OCEPEK, Matjaž. The influence of livestock on human infections with LA-MRSA. 8th global summit on microbiology and infectious diseases, February 22 - 23, 2018, Paris, France. [COBISS.SI-ID 4500858]

B.04 Guest lecture

COBISS.SI-ID: 512629304

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Direct PCR-Ribotyping of Clostridium difficile

Poglavje v knjigi opisuje izboljšano metodo PCR ribotipizacije, ki smo jo razvili in omogoča tipizacijo C. difficile neposredno iz celokupne DNA izolirane iz vzorcev blata. Rezultat dobimo v nekaj urah in ne v nekaj dneh kot pri klasični (od kulture odvisni) PCR ribotipizaciji.

D.11 Other

COBISS.SI-ID: 512626744

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Organizing the congresses and workshop

ESCMID international workshop on Clostridium difficile European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) as as an expert and research association organizes annual events including courses and workshops. Between September 2nd and 4th 2015, international workshop entitled 'C. difficile: practical aspects of diagnostics, typing and comparative genomics' was organized by NLZOH in cooperation with MF UM and AGES (Austria). The list of speakers included M. Wilcox (UK), E. Kuijper (NL), F. Barbut (FR), P. Spigaglia (IT), E. Nagy (HU), F. Allerberger (AT), A. Indra (AT), S. Janežič (SI) and M. Rupnik (SI). There were 16 participants from 13 countries. 6th congress of the Slovenian Microbiological Society Members of the project group co-organized the 6th congress of the Slovenian Microbiological Society held between September 24th and 26th 2014 in Bled, Slovenia. The organization committee president was Matjaž Ocepek, while Maja Rupnik and Mateja Pate were members of the organization/program committee. Maja Rupnik was invited speaker (Clostridium difficile and news regarding the infections). Darja Kušar and Matjaž Ocepek edited the abstract book. 5th International Clostridium difficile Symposium 2015 Project group members Maja Rupnik and Sandra Janežič were abstract book editors and organization committee members of the 5th International Clostridium difficile Symposium 2015 held in Bled, Slovenia, during May 19th-21st 2015. 7th congress of the Slovenian Microbiological Society Project group members co-organized the 7th congress of the Slovenian Microbiological Society held between September 20th and 22th 2017 in Bled, Slovenia. Matjaž Ocepek, Darja Kušar and Maja Rupnik were organization/program committee members. Maja Rupnik was invited speaker (From Clostridium to microbiota with NGS). Darja Kušar co-edited the abstract book.

B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting

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Presentations of the findings related to the MRSA

Project group members presented the findings related to the MRSA results in the form of one lecture (Golob et al., The role of animals in human LA-MRSA infections, COBISS.SI-ID 4387450) and two posters (Golob et al., LA-MRSA in pigs: two farms under the microscope, COBISS.SI-ID 4386682; Dermota, Molecular characterization of virulence factors and genotypes of community-acquired MRSA in Slovenia, COBISS.SI-ID 33444825) at the 7th congress of the Slovenian Microbiological Society (September 20th -22th 2017, Bled, Slovenia). In addition, one poster was presented at the XI. Congress of Serbian microbiologists (May 11.-13. 2017, Belgrade, Serbia) (Golob et al., An example of one health approach to investigate LA-MRSA infections in humans, COBISS.SI-ID 4335738).

B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference

COBISS.SI-ID: 4387450

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Presentations of the findings related to the Clostridium difficile

The results concerning C. difficile were presented in the form of two posters at the 5th International Clostridium difficile Symposium (19.-21.5.2015, Bled, Slovenia) (Avberšek et al., Clostridium difficile in animals in Slovenia: an overview for years 2005-2014, COBISS.SI-ID 3994490; Janežič et al., Comparative genomics of Clostridium difficile toxinotypes, COBISS.SI-ID 512577080), one poster at the 7th congress of the Slovenian Microbiological Society (September 20th -22th 2017, Bled, Slovenia) (Avberšek et al., Shedding dynamics of Clostridium difficile in pigs, COBISS.SI-ID 4388474) and as ?? at the 8th International Conference on Gram-Positive Microorganisms, 18th International Conference on Bacilli (21.-25.6.2015, Tuscany, Italy) (Janežič et al., Genomic relatedness of Clostridium difficile toxinotypes, COBISS.SI-ID 512527928).