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In case you missed the Regional & National MRSA Surveillance Programmes Webinar held on 10 March 2021, you can now watch the full recording.

Thank you for attending this online conference, sponsored by the MRSA Working Group of the International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (ISAC), to review national and regional surveillance programs for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).

The first meeting included brief presentations from laboratories in several countries that undertake MRSA surveillance. This was followed by a period of moderated discussion to assess best practices. The goals were to understand the variety of approaches to surveillance worldwide and to develop principles that may underlie future harmonization of surveillance methods.

• Denmark
  Anders Rhod Larsen
  Head of National Reference Laboratory, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen
  
  
• Germany
  Guido Werner
  Medical microbiologist, Department of Infectious Diseases, Robert Koch Institute, Wernigerode
  
  
• Netherlands
  Leo Schouls
  Molecular microbiologist, Infectious Diseases Research, Diagnostics and laboratory Surveillance (IDS), Centre for Infectious Disease Control Netherlands (CIb), National Institute for Public Health and the Environment
  
  
• Poland
  Joanna Empel
  National Reference Centre for Susceptibility Testing (KORLD), Department of Epidemiology and Clinical Microbiology, National Medicines Institute, Warsaw
  
  
• Malta
  Michael Borg
  Head departments of Infection Control & Sterile Services, Mater Dei Hospital, Msida

• Switzerland
  Domnique Blanc
  Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne
  
  
• Switzerland
  Andreas Kronenberg
  Institute for Infectious Diseases, University of Bern
  
  
• Belgium
  Boudewijn Catry
  Head of Unit Healthcare-associated infection and antimicrobial resistance, Sciensano, Brussels
  
  
• Czech republic
  Helena Žemličková
  Head of National Reference Laboratory for Antibiotics, National Institute of Public Health, Prague
• France
  Aurélie Chabaud
  SPARES mission, Microbiologist at Limoges University Hospital, Limoges
  
  
• France
  Francois Vandenesch
  Director National Reference center for Staphylococci, Lyon