Summer school on epidemiology, evolution, and laboratory detection of antimicrobial resistance (AMR)

Location: National Medicines Institute, Chełmska 30/34, 00-725 Warsaw, Poland AND ONLINE

Target audience: clinical microbiologists

Organizers: Department of Epidemiology and Clinical Microbiology and Department of Molecular Microbiology, National Medicines Institute, Warsaw, Poland

Organizers contacts: Alicja Kuch (), Anna Skoczyńska ()

Language: English

Key topics:

• AMR mechanisms and their spread.
• High-risk clones of selected pathogens.
• Mobile genetic elements (MGEs).
• Principles of antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST).
• Review of AST methods for determining AMR.
• Molecular biology and genomics in AMR diagnostics and epidemiology.
• Epidemiology and AMR detection in ESKAPE pathogens, AMR surveillance and networking.