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Recommended Conferences for Streptococcus pneumoniae

Streptococcus pneumoniae

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Streptococcus pneumoniae , pneumococcus, is a Gram-positive, alpha-hemolytic, facultative anaerobic member of the genus Streptococcus. A significant human pathogenic bacterium, S. pneumoniae was recognized as a major cause of pneumonia in the late 19th century, and is the subject of many humoral immunity studies.
S. pneumoniae resides asymptomatically in the nasopharynx of healthy carriers. The respiratory tract, sinuses, and nasal cavity are the parts of host body that are usually infected. However, in susceptible individuals, such as elderly and immunocompromised people and children, the bacterium may become pathogenic, spread to other locations and cause disease. S. pneumoniae is the main cause of community acquired pneumonia and meningitis in children and the elderly, and of septicemia in HIV-infected persons. The methods of transmission include sneezing, coughing, and direct contact with an infected person.

Despite the name, the organism causes many types of pneumococcal infections other than pneumonia. These invasive pneumococcal diseases include bronchitis, rhinitis, acute sinusitis, otitis media, conjunctivitis, meningitis, bacteremia, sepsis, osteomyelitis, septic arthritis, endocarditis, peritonitis, pericarditis, cellulitis, and brain abscess.

S. pneumoniae is one of the most common causes of bacterial meningitis in adults and young adults, along with Neisseria meningitidis, and is the leading cause of bacterial meningitis in adults in the USA. It is also one of the top two isolates found in ear infection, otitis media.Pneumococcal pneumonia is more common in the very young and the very old. It also is a major bacterium for invasive diseases like pneumonia and meningitis in South Asian children 12 years of age, though the evidence is of low quality and scarce.

S. pneumoniae can be differentiated from Streptococcus viridans, some of which are also alpha-hemolytic, using an optochin test, as S. pneumoniae is optochin-sensitive. S. pneumoniae can also be distinguished based on its sensitivity to lysis by bile, the so-called "bile solubility test". The encapsulated, Gram-positive coccoid bacteria have a distinctive morphology on Gram stain, lancet-shaped diplococci. They have a polysaccharide capsule that acts as a virulence factor for the organism; more than 90 different serotypes are known, and these types differ in virulence, prevalence, and extent of drug resistance.

Conferences :

1.   2nd World Congress and Expo on Applied Microbiology,
October 31- November 2, 2016  Istanbul, Turkey

2.      Rare Diseases and Orphan Drugs Conference,
May 12-13, 2016  Chicago, USA

3.      Infection Prevention and Control Conference,
Aug 1-2, 2016  Frankfurt, Germany

4.      Human Papillomavirus Conference,
May 2-3, 2016  Chicago, USA

5.      Lupus Conference,
Oct 27-28, 2016  Chicago, USA

6.      Allergy Conference,
March 29-30, 2016  Valencia, Spain

7.      Mycology Conference,
Sept 12-14, 2016  San Antonio, USA

8.      Medical Parasitology Conference,
Oct 17-19, 2016  Houston, USA

9.      4^th HIV/AIDS, STDs & STIs Conference,
Oct 3-5, 2016, Miami, USA

10.  5^th Virology Conference,
Dec 1-3, 2016, Baltimore, USA

11.  2^nd Influenza Conference,
Sept 12-14, 2016  Berlin, Germany

12.  2^nd Parasitology Conference,
Oct 10-12, 2016  Manchester, UK

13.  6^th Euro Virology Conference,
March 10-12, 2016  Madrid, Spain

14.  3^rd Hepatitis and Liver Diseases Conference,
Oct 17-19, 2016  Dubai, UAE

15.  4^th Epidemiology & Emerging Diseases Conference,
Oct 3-5, 2016 London, UK

16.  2^nd Flu Conference,
Nov 17-19, 2016  San Francisco, USA

17.  3^rd Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Conference,
July 11-12, 2016  Brisbane, Australia

18.  European Infectious Diseases Conference,
Aug 1-3, 2016  Frankfurt, Germany

19.  4^th Bacteriology and Infectious Diseases Conference,
May 16-18, 2016  San Antonio, USA

20.  Infectious Diseases and Diagnostic Microbiology Conference,
Oct 3-5, 2016  Vancouver, Canada

21.  2^nd Retroviruses and Novel Drugs Conference,
June 30-Jul 1, 2016  Capetown, South Africa

22.  72^nd Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Conference,
San Antonio, USA

23.  26^th European Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Conference, Istanbul, Turkey

24.  Infection Prevention and Control Conference, Tübingen, Germany

25.  17^th Infectious Diseases Conference, Hyderabad, India

26.  34^th Annual Infectious Diseases Conference, Sacramento, California

27. ASM-Microbe 2016

28. 17th International Conference MPMI

29. MSBJ Annual Meeting

30. Problems in Listeriosis Conference

Socities :

1. American society for Micro Biology
2. Society for General Micro Biology
3. Swiss Society for Micro Biology
4. Society for applied Microbiology
5. International Union of Microbiological societies
6. Federation of European Microbiological Societies

Companies :

• Gilead Sciences, Inc.
• Amgen, Inc.
• Celgene Corporation
• Biogen Idec, Inc.
• Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
• Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
• Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
• Illumina, Inc.
• BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Inc.
• Agilent Technologies, Inc.

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