Summary of CHRO 2011
Eva Olsson Engvall
EURL- Campylobacter
CHRO, Campylobacter, Helicobacter and
Related Organisms
• 16th International workshop 28th of August –
1st of September 2011
• Vancouver, BC, Canada
• Plenary talks (11)
• Session starters (28)
• Abstracts (392), presented as oral and/or
poster presentations, divided into 14
categories
14 Abstract categories, 392 abstracts
• Campylobacter control strategies (34)
• Campylobacter host responses and host cell interactions (29)
• Epidemiology of Campylobacter in poultry and non-human hosts (35)
• Helicobacter pathogenesis (31)
• Increasing antibiotic resistance in CHRO, can anything be done? (25)
• Campylobacter pathogenesis (31)
• Epidemiology of Campylobacter in the human host (31)
• Glycobiology of CHRO (22)
• Host responses and clinical factors that modulate Helicobacter infection
and disease (24)
• Microbial ecology and CHRO survival in the niche (20)
• Related organisms and emerging species (21)
• Detection and surveillance of CHRO (38)
• Fundamental biology of CHRO (33)
• Helicobacter epidemiology and evolution (18)
• Prevalences of Campylobacter in animal
populations
• Prevalences of Campylobacter at different
stages in the poultry processing chain
• Studies of risk factors for Campylobacter in
animal populations
• Genetic typing of isolates from different hosts
• Population structures
Epidemiology of Campylobacter in poultry
and non-human hosts
• Modifications of ISO 10272
• Use of membrane filters
• Evaluation of rapid methods/commercial kits
• Comparison of selective culture media
• Mass spec – MaldiTof
• Revalidation of PCR assays
Detection and surveillance (1)
detection and enumeration – a selection of
topics
• MLST, multi locus sequence typing
• CFG, Comparative Genomic Fingerprinting
with microarray
• P-BIT, PCR Binary Typing
• PFGE, and in combinaion with antibiotic
resistance profiling
• flaA typing, in combination with SVR
• Whole genome sequence typing
Detection and surveillance (2)
typing methods used
• Fly screens
• Intranasal immunization with chitosan-DNA
• Vaccine candidates
• Intramuscular vaccine
• Steam and ultrasund treatment at slaughter
• Chemical decontamination
• Bacteriophage, Phage infection
• Probiotic cultures
• Water acidification product
• Ultrasonication
• Organic acids
• Chemicals for decontamination
• Inhibition by Lactobacillus salivarius strains (bacteriocin effect)
Control strategies, examples
Night at the museum of anthropology at UBC
Vancouver – a fantastic city!
Thank you for your attention!
The next CHRO meeting will be in Aberdeen, Scotland in 2013. Looking forward to seeing you there!
