Thursday, 13th October The Prato Conference on the Pathogenesis of Bacterial Infections of Animals 2016

Followed by audience discussion: Strategies to reduce use of antibiotics in veterinary medicine 

• The effect of antimicrobial treatment strategies on selection of resistant bacteria and adaptation of the resistant bacteria to treatment - John Elmerdahl Olsen

• Whole Genome Sequence analysis of multiple antimicrobial resistant, extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC) from humans and food animals - Steven Djordjevic
• Recent trends in pathogenic Escherichia coli in pigs in Québec: emergence of a new multidrug resistant ETEC:F4 E. coli virotype - John M Fairbrother
• Sertraline, an anti-depressive drug, revert tetracycline resistance of a tetracycline resistant avian pathogenic E. coli, and induce major changes in global gene regulation when combined with tetracycline - Rikke RHO Olsen
• ICE-associated multidrug resistance in Pasteurellaceae species isolated from fatal bovine respiratory disease cases in North American feedlots  - Cassidy L. Klima
• Identification of unique lipopolysaccharide phosphoethanolamine transferases in Pasteurella multocida. - Marina Harper

• Haemophilus parasuis in the respiratory tract - Virginia Aragon

• Novel functions of surface proteins of pathogenic mycoplasmas - Glenn F Browning
• Intracellular niches of Mycoplasma bovis: are phylogenetic lineages linked to the severity of disease? - Paola Pilo
• A novel serological assay for detection of infection with Mycoplasma bovis in cattle - Nadeeka K Wawegama

• Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae: a recently discovered intracellular pathogen - Benjamin BA Raymond
• Immune responses against Mycoplasma gallisepticum infection in turkeys. - Dinidu S Wijesurendra
• Towards a live vaccine for Contagious Caprine Pleuropneumonia - Flavio Sacchini
• Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus as an intracellular pathogen - Bolette Skive

Venue: Salone di Bacco in Artimino (30 minute drive from Prato)
Return bus transfer is included in the dinner ticket.

The bus will depart at 7:00pm from the Piazza Santa Maria delle Carceri, which is located on the side of the castle 200 meters from Monash University Prato.