210 - Effects of Antibiotics on Bacterial Virulence

Saturday, October 14, 2023

10:30 AM – 11:45 AM US ET

Location: 157 ABC

All relevant financial disclosures have been mitigated.

Moderator(s)

Mahalia Desruisseaux, MD

Associate Professor
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, CT, United States
Luiz Bermudez, MD

Professor
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR, United States

Thien-Fah Mah, PhD (she/her/hers)

Professor
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, ON, Canada

Slides
David van Duin, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine
Department of Medicine
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Slides
Barbara Kazmierczak, MD, PhD (she/her/hers)

Professor of Medicine & Microbial Pathogenesis
Yale University
New Haven, CT, United States

Disclosure(s):

Mahalia S. Desruisseaux, MD: No financial relationships to disclose

Luiz Bermudez, MD: No financial relationships to disclose

At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:

explain the current knowledge on effect of antibiotic treatment and bacterial virulence;
describe the increasing antibiotic resistance in Klebsiella;
describe the use of phages to treat multi-antibiotic resistant bacteria

10:30 AM – 10:55 AM US ET

Antibiotic Resistance and Biofilms
Speaker: Thien-Fah Mah, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Ottawa
10:55 AM – 11:20 AM US ET

Confluence of Resistance and Virulence in Klebsiella pneumoniae
Speaker: David van Duin, MD, PhD – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
11:20 AM – 11:45 AM US ET

Phage Therapy for Gram-Negative Bacteria
Speaker: Barbara I. Kazmierczak, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Yale University