Introducing the ABX guide: an open-access antibiotic treatment-guide (AbX Guide) focussed on pathogen-directed treatment in the Europe region

Wednesday 13 November

12.00-13.00 CET

Programme

Welcome & Introductions
Heiman Wertheim

The Why of AbxGuide /The importance of treatment guidelines in routine care
Heiman Wertheim

Core presentations

AbxGuide: What is in it and what is not?
Neda Kostova

Pathogen-directed antibacterial treatment: more demanding, but so much better than empirical treatment
Pierre Tattevin

Moderated Panel Discussions

Q&A / session wrap up

Speaker bio

Prof. Pierre Tattevin is a 55-year-old infectious diseases physician, head of the Infectious Diseases and Intensive Care Unit Department at Rennes University Hospital (Western France). He was trained in Paris (fellowship), Rennes (PhD), and San Francisco (post-doc). He is the coordinator of Lyme disease and TB guidelines update in France, the vice-president of the French Society of Infectious Diseases (SPILF), and chair the Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics (APUA). He authored or co-authored >600 papers indexed in Pubmed, mostly as a first or last author. His H-index is 56.