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The MMTN Malaysia Conference 2019

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The Medical Mycology Training Network (MMTN) conference in Penang, Malaysia, was a great success with standing room only for the 1.5-day event. Held on 20–21 July 2019, the conference was well attended by close to 100 participants from Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand.

The meeting hosted a lively faculty of international and local experts in medical mycology. Participants were multidisciplinary – including infectious disease physicians, critical care physicians, hemato-oncologists, microbiologists and ICU pharmacists – all with a keen interest to improve the diagnosis and management of fungal diseases.

The scientific program covered many hot topics in medical mycology. Some new and highly popular sessions included:

  • How to diagnose and manage Candida auris?
  • What are the 5 key controversies in mycology?
  • 10 common mistakes in clinical and laboratory mycology
  • How do I interpret Candida in different samples (urine/respiratory secretions/abdominal drains)?
  • How do I interpret serum galactomannan/beta-D-glucan/procalcitonin levels?

The program was interactive with workshops where participants engaged in heated group discussion about challenging clinical cases and subsequently presented their approaches to the faculty and the entire audience. The diagnostic mycology workshop catered to microbiologists, with sessions on laboratory identification of molds, dermatophytes, yeasts and zygomycetes, rapid diagnostics and fungal antigen assays.




AGENDA

Fungal infection updates 2019 – Crosstalk between bench and bedside
Professor Arunaloke Chakrabarti, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (India)
Candida auris : Diagnosis and management
Professor Yee-Chun Chen, National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology; and National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine (Taiwan)
How do I interpret … Candida in the urine?
Dr Low Lee Lee, Head, Infection Control Unit Infectious Disease Physician Department of Medicine Hospital Sultanah Bahiyah Alor Setar (Malaysia)
How do I interpret … Candida in respiratory secretions?
Dr Tan Ban Hock, Department of Infectious Diseases at the Singapore General Hospital and Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School (Singapore)
How do I interpret … Candida from abdominal drains?
Professor Yee-Chun Chen, National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology; and National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine (Taiwan)
How do I interpret ... Serum galactomannan?
Dr Tan Ban Hock, Department of Infectious Diseases at the Singapore General Hospital and Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School (Singapore)
How do I interpret … Serum beta‐D‐glucan?
Dr Atul Patel, MD, FIDSA, Chief Consultant and Director, Infectious Diseases Clinic, Vedanta Institute of Medical Sciences, Ahmedabad (India)
How do I interpret … Procalcitonin in suspected fungal sepsis?
Dr Methee Chayakulkeeree, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital Mahidol University (Thailand)
How do I manage systemic hyalohyphomycosis other than aspergillosis?
Dr Low Lee Lee, Head, Infection Control Unit Infectious Disease Physician Department of Medicine Hospital Sultanah Bahiyah Alor Setar (Malaysia)
How do I manage systemic phaeohyphomycosis?
Professor Ruoyu Li, Department of Dermatology, Peking University First Hospital; and Peking University Research Center for Medical Mycology (China)
How do I diagnose and manage mucormycosis?
Dr Atul Patel, MD, FIDSA, Chief Consultant and Director, Infectious Diseases Clinic, Vedanta Institute of Medical Sciences, Ahmedabad (India)
How do I diagnose and manage chronic pulmonary aspergillosis?
Professor Retno Wahyuningsih, Universitas Indonesia and Universitas Kristen Indonesia (Indonesia)
5 controversies in mycology
Dr Methee Chayakulkeeree, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital Mahidol University (Thailand)
Prevention and control of nosocomial fungal infections
Professor Yee-Chun Chen, National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology; and National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine (Taiwan)
10 common mistakes in laboratory/basic mycology
Professor Arunaloke Chakrabarti, Head, Department of Medical Microbiology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh (India)
10 common mistakes in clinical mycology
Dr Atul Patel, MD, FIDSA, Chief Consultant and Director, Infectious Diseases Clinic, Vedanta Institute of Medical Sciences, Ahmedabad (India)
Identification of zygomycetes
Professor Retno Wahyuningsih, Universitas Indonesia and Universitas Kristen Indonesia (Indonesia)

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