6th Asian Congress of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Organised by
The Sri Lanka College of Paediatricians
hosted by
The Asian Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases
ACADEMIC PROGRAMME – MAIN CONGRESS
Thursday 29th November 2012
07.45am-08.45am Breakfast Meeting: Meet-the-Experts Parallel Session 1 -Committee Room C
Recurrent Lower Respiratory Tract Infections
Prof. Ronald de Groot (Netherlands) and Prof. Ron Dagan (Israel)
Breakfast Meeting: Meet-the-Experts Parallel Session 2-Committee Room D
Gastrointestinal Infections
Prof. Tony Nelson (Hong Kong) and Dr. Shaman Rajindrajith (Sri Lanka)
09.00am -09.40am Plenary Lecture 1 – Sirimavo Bandaranaike Complex Hall A
The Global Burden and Action Plan for Diarrhoeal Diseases: Prof. Zulfiqar Bhutta (Pakistan)
09.40am-10.40am Principal Symposium 1- Sirimavo Bandaranaike Complex Hall A
Dengue Fever: The Latest Trends
The Worldwide Scenario: Prof. Duane Gubler (Singapore)
Current Concepts in Immunology: Dr. Aravinda de Silva (USA)
Management Strategies: Prof. Siripen Kalayanarooj (Thailand)
10.40am-11.10am TEA / COFFEE BREAK
11.10am-11.50am Plenary Lecture 2 - Sirimavo Bandaranaike Complex Hall A
From Basic Science to Improved Antibiotics: Prof. Ada Yonath (Israel)
11.50am-12.50pm Principal Symposium 2 - Sirimavo Bandaranaike Complex Hall A
An overview of Recurrent Respiratory Infections
Clinical Scenario of Recurrent Respiratory Infections: Prof. Ronald de Groot (Netherlands)
Investigations & Management of Recurrent Respiratory Infections: Prof. Lulu Bravo (Philippines)
12.50pm-02.20pm Luncheon Symposium 1 – Sirimavo Bandaranaike Complex Hall A
To be arranged
Free Paper Session 1 - Parallel Oral Presentations
FP 1-6 Immunization I - Committee Room A
02.20pm-02.35pm (FP1) Rotavirus vaccine uptake and parental barriers to vaccination in Hong Kong: A cross- sectional kindergarten-based survey
Johnny Yick-Chun Chan, Tin Yan Alvin Liu, Sian Griffiths
02.35pm-02.50pm (FP2) A prospective study comparing occurrence of post-vaccination fever among Thai children given either DTwP or DTaP-based vaccines
Librada Siman Fortuna, Chukiat Sirivichayakul, Veerachai Watanaveeradej, Ngamphol Soonthornworasiri, Raweerat Sitcharungsi
02.50pm-03.05pm (FP3) immunogenicity and safety of a booster dose of novel live attenuated Japanese Encephalitis vaccine (IMOJEV®) in children
Emmanuel Feroldi, Marie R. Capeding, Mark Boaz, Sophia Gailhardou, Claude Meric, Alain Bouckenooghe
03.05pm-03.20pm (FP4) The impact of rotavirus vaccination program on hospitalizations due to rotavirus disease in Australia
Sanjay Jayasinghe, Aditi Dey, Kristine Macartney
03.20pm-03.35pm (FP5) Wastage multiplier factor (WMF) and percent wastage of vaccines during routine immunization under the Universal Immunization Programme (UIP), India
Ajit Mukherjee
03.35pm-03.50pm (FP6) Immunogenicity and safety of 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine in children primed with three doses of 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine
Usa Thisyakorn, Kulkanya Chokephaibulkit, Pope Kosalaraksa, Suwat Benjaponpitak, Chitsanu Pancharoen, Sunate Chuenkitmongkol
Free Paper Session 2 - Parallel Oral Presentations
FP 7-12 Respiratory: Committee Room B
02.20pm-02.35pm (FP7) Bacteraemia and tuberculosis in severely malnourished children with acute pneumonia and a pilot study of the validity of TB diagnostics
Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, Stephen M. Graham, Trevor Duke, Tahmeed Ahmed, Mark Arthur Charles Pietroni, Abu Syed Golam Faruque, Abdullah Brooks, Hasan Ashraf, Sophie La Vincente, Rubhana Raqib, Mahfuza Shirin, Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayeem Bin Shahid, K M. Shahunja, Gazi Imran, Lazina Sharmin, Mohammed Abdus Salam
02.35pm-02.50pm (FP8) Evaluation of nasal bubble CPAP in children with lower respiratory tract infections - An exploratory study
Jayashree Muralidharan, Kiran Babu, Sunit Singhi
02.50pm-03.05pm (FP9) Clinical and molecular epidemiologic characteristics of severe pneumonia caused by human adenovirus among children in the Philippines
Dai Yamamoto, Mariko Saito, Michiko Okamoto, Raita Tamaki, Akira Suzuki, Vina Arguelles, Amado Ona TandocⅢ, Edelwisa Mercado, Lydia Sombrero, Socorro Lupisan, Hitoshi Oshitani
03.05pm-03.20pm (FP10) Viral aetiology of severe acute respiratory illness in hospitalized children - One year prospective study
Amita Jain, Bhawana Jain, Ajay Kumar Singh, Tanushree Dangi
03.20pm-03.35pm (FP11) Early versus Late oseltamivir treatment in hospitalized paediatric patients with H1N1 2009 viral pneumonia
Bin Cao
03.35pm-03.50pm (FP12) Lactate dehydrogenase level in nasal wash fluid as a novel marker for respiratory syncytial virus induced bronchiolitis
Sanaa Mahmoud abdelsalam
Free Paper Session 3 - Parallel Oral Presentations
FP 13-18 Neonatology - Committee Room C
02.20pm-02.35pm (FP13) Group B streptococcus colonization in pregnancy
Gayathri Herath, Nilanthi Dissanayake, Thilakanjali Gamage
02.35pm-02.50pm (FP14) Antimicrobial resistance test for Escherichia coli from neonates by disc diffusion and E test
Dan Wu, Yajuan Wang
02.50pm-03.05pm (FP15) The Impact of placental histopathological and microbiological studies on premature delivery and neonatal outcome
Afaf Abd El Wahab Korraa, Zeinab Nabil, Naglaa Sameer
03.05pm-03.20pm (FP16) Neonatal HSV in Australia: 13 year surveillance reveals increased HSV-1disease, especially in babies born to adolescents with genital herpes
Cheryl Jones, Neonatal HSV APSU Study Investigators and Contributors to the APSU
03.20pm-03.35pm (FP17) Prevalance of early and postneonatal infection in rural community of Odisha- A longitudinal study
Radhanath satpathy, Nimai Charan Nanda, Pitabas Mishra, Pinaki Panigrahi
03.35pm-03.50pm (FP18) Procalcitonin versus traditionally used infection markers in patients with bacterial infections:A study conducted in a private tertiary hospital.
Gilbert L. Vergara, Kenny Arthur H. Guanco, Edward Prestoza
Free Paper Session 4 - Parallel Oral Presentations
FP 19-24 Miscellaneous topics I - Committee Room D
02.20pm-02.35pm (FP19) Antibiotic use in paediatric hospital in South India - A point prevalence study
Dorairajan Sureshkumar, Ram Gopalakrishnan, K Velupandi
02.35pm-02.50pm (FP20) Molecular study of hepatitis C virus infection among thalassaemic children in Iraq
Waqar Abdul Qahar Al-kubaisy, AL-Naib K.T.and Habib M.A
02.50pm-03.05pm (FP21) Increased incidence of enterobacter sepsis:A three year study
Zareen Fasih
03.05pm-03.20pm (FP22) Web-based infectious disease syndromic surveillance system for schoolchildren in Taipei, Jan. 2010- Aug. 2011
Ting-Chia Weng, Chia-Kun Jasper Chang, Muh-Yung Yen, Ta-Chien Chan, Chwan-Chuen King
03.20pm-03.35pm (FP23) Infection associated hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis: a case series using steroids only protocol for management
Prabhas Giri, Priyankar Pal, Apurba Ghosh, Rajib Sinha, Nupur Ganguly
03.35pm-03.50pm (FP24) Molecular characteristics of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolated from Chinese children
Xuzhuang Shen, Yingchao Liu
03.50pm-04.20pm TEA / COFFEE BREAK
04.20pm-05.20pm Parallel Symposium 1: Committee Room-A
Childhood Meningitis
Clinical Presentation: Prof. Heikki Peltola (Finland)
Diagnosis & Management: Prof. Sunit Singhi (India)
Parallel Symposium 2: Committee Room-B
UTI
Do We Know It All: Dr. Asiri Abeygunawardene (Sri Lanka)
Infections in Renal Transplant Recipients: Prof. Pankaj Hari(India)
Parallel Symposium 3: Committee Room -C
Disease Surveillance
General Principles of Disease Surveillance: Dr. Kiyosu Taniguchi (Japan) Disease Surveillance: Implications for Asia: Dr. Paba Palihawadana (Sri Lanka)
Parallel Symposium 4: Committee Room-D
New developments in Vaccines
Update on Global Vaccine Action Plan: Prof. Tony Nelson (Hong Kong)
Modern Trends in Combination Vaccines: Prof. Zulkifli Ismail (Malaysia)
05.20pm-06.00pm Parallel Guest Lecture 1 Committee Room-A
Newer Antibiotics and New Faces to Old Antibiotics: Dr. S.D.Athukorale (Sri Lanka)
Parallel Guest Lecture 2 Committee Room-B
Childhood Rickettsial Infections: Prof. Yupin Suputtamongkol (Thailand)
Parallel Guest Lecture 3 Committee Room -C
Oral Polio Vaccine: The Past & Implications for the Future: Dr. Nitin Shah (India)
Parallel Guest Lecture 4 Committee Room-D
Immunological Evaluation of Children with Recurrent Infections:
Dr. Suranjith Seneviratne (UK)
06.00pm-06.30pm ACPID Business Meeting Committee Room -C
Friday 30th of November 2012
07.45 am-08.45am Breakfast Meeting: Meet-the-Experts Parallel Session 3 -Committee Room C
Neonatal Infections
Prof. Zulfiqar Bhutta (Pakistan) Prof. Praveen Kumar (India) and Prof. Sujeewa Amarasena (Sri Lanka)
Breakfast Meeting: Meet-the-Experts Parallel Session 4-Committee Room D
Upper Respiratory Tract Infections
Dr. Mike Starr (Australia) and Dr. Saman Yasawardena (Sri Lanka)
09.00 am – 09.40 am Plenary Lecture 3 - Sirimavo Bandaranaike Complex Hall A
A Comprehensive Overview of Paediatric HIV disease: Dr. Iyanthi Abeyewickreme
09.40am-10.40am Principal Symposium 3 - Sirimavo Bandaranaike Complex Hall A
Neonatal Infections
Aetiology of Neonatal Sepsis: Prof. David Isaacs (Australia)
Intricacies of Management: Prof. Praveen Kumar (India) Control of Infections in Neonatal Units: Prof. Sujeewa Amarasena (Sri Lanka)
10.40am-11.10am TEA/COFFEE BREAK
11.10am-11.50am Plenary Lecture 4 - Sirimavo Bandaranaike Complex Hall A
A General Overview of Paediatric Tuberculosis: Prof. Ben J. Marais (Australia)
11.50am-12.50pm Principal Symposium 4 - Sirimavo Bandaranaike Complex Hall A
Influenza
The Current Trends in Influenza: Dr. Ping Ing Lee (Taiwan) Management Strategies: Dr. Bin Cao (China)
12.50pm-02.20pm Luncheon Symposium 2 - Sirimavo Bandaranaike Complex Hall A
To be arranged
Free Paper Session 5 - Parallel Oral Presentations
FP 25-30 Central Nervous System & HIV/AIDS Committee Room A
02.20pm-02.35pm (FP25) Culture positivity of cerebrospinal fluid in bacterial meningitis & of blood in children with pneumonia and sepsis
Muhammad Ashraf Sultan, Khawaja Amjad Hassan, Ahmad Imran Saleemi, Khadija Ismaeel, Muhammad Faheem Afzal
02.35pm-02.50pm (FP26) Pharmacokinetics of atazanavir/ritonavir among Thai HIV-infected children concomitantly taking tenofovir disoproxil fumarate
Torsak Bunupuradah, Chonnamet Techasaensiri, Siriwan Keadpudsa, Narukjaporn Thammajaruk, Amornrat Srimuan, Thaintip Sahakijpicharn, Wasana Prasitsuebsai, Jintanat Ananworanich, Thanyawee Puthanakit, HIV-NAT 146 study team
02.50pm-03.05pm (FP27) Australian and NSW state-based datasets indicate declining childhood encephalitis mortality but high proportion with unknown cause
Lyn Khoury, Cheryl Jones, Robert Booy, Russell Dale, David Durrheim, Philip Britton, Nick Wood, Australian Childhood Encephalitis (ACE) study group
03.05pm-03.20pm (FP28) Correlation of dermatological manifestations to the WHO clinical staging and CD4 T-cell count in HIV seropositive children
Leelavathy Budamakuntla, Ramya K, Belavadi Gangadhar, Basappa Prabhakar, D.M Basavarajaiah, N Vidyashankar
03.20pm-03.35pm (FP29) Transmission of HIV type-I infection from mother to child
D.M Basavarajaiah, B Narasimha Murthy, B Leelavathy, S Pushpaltha, C.N. Reddy, K Maheshappa
03.35pm-03.50pm (FP30) Aetiology of encephalitis in Sri Lankan children and adults
Daisuke Mori, Udaya Ranawaka, Kentaro Yamada, Shaman Rajindrajith, Kazushi Miya, Wathsala Hathagoda, Takashi Matsumoto, Lasanthi Weerasooriya, Lea Hedman, Nayomi Fonseka, Marcelo T. Mitui, Harsha Perera, Klaus Hedman, Malka Dassanayake, Hisashi Mori, Akira Nishizono, Maria Söderlund-Venermo, Kamruddin Ahmed, Ragama CNS Infection Study Group
Free Paper Session 6 - Parallel Oral Presentations
FP 31-36 Gastro–intestinal - Committee Room B
02.20pm-02.35pm (FP31) Aetiology, drug resistance and associated risk factors among children with bacterial diarrhoea
Tayyaba Ijaz, Nida Shaukat, Aftab Ahmad Anjum, Muhammad Imran Najeeb, Bilal Muneer Ahmad, Sana Aslam, Saadia Ijaz
02.35pm-02.50pm (FP32) Detection and molecular characterization of viruses causing mixed and single infections in children with diarrhoea from Bangladesh and Turkey.
Takashi Matsumoto, Takahiro Marcelo Mitui, Gulendam Bozdayi , Selim Ahmed, Buket Dalgic, Luthful Kabir, Ilknur Bostanci , Abdul Hannan, Akira Nishizono1, Kamruddin Ahmed
02.50pm-03.05pm (FP33) Novel surveillance system demonstrates burden of enteric fever in India
Naveen Thacker, Leah Harvey, Vipin Vashishtha, Panna Choudhury, Vijay Yewale, Tanu Singhal, Vikas Goyal, Jogesh Sachde, Deep Thacker
03.05pm-03.20pm (FP34) Does minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) co-relate with treatment outcomes in enteric fever? - A laboratory experience from Mumbai
Aruna Poojary, Varsha Yadav, Shilpa Durgad, Lata Bhandarkar
03.20pm-03.35pm (FP35) Evaluation of Helicobacter pylori seroprevalence in iron deficiency anaemia.
Sulaiman Ahmed, Afshan Sumera, Muhammed Nadeem, Adnan Ali , Rafiq Khananni , Shaheen Sharafat
03.35pm-03.50pm (FP36) Effect of short course prophylactic zinc supplementation on diarrhoea in infants of 6-11 months-A community based double blinded RCT
Akash Malik, Dr. Davendra Kumar Taneja
Free Paper Session 7 - Parallel Oral Presentations
FP 37-42 Esoteric Tropical Infections - Committee Room C
02.20pm-02.35pm (FP37) Comparison of a rapid dengue test with ELISA for IgM detection at the Teaching Hospital, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka (SL)
Thamarasi Senaratne, Faseeha Noordeen, Nilanthi Dissanayake, Athula Kumara
02.35pm-02.50pm (FP38) Experience of malaria in children of flood affected area: A field hospital study
Muhammad Faheem Afzal, Muhammad Ashraf Sultan
02.50pm-03.05pm (FP39) Repellent activity of Azadirachta indica leaf decoction versus commercially available N, N, - Diethyl-metatoluamide lotion against Aedes aegypti
Jade Cortez Akhunzadah, Ma. Cristina Vince-Cruz Woo
03.05pm-03.20pm (FP40) A retrospective study of scrub typhus among paediatric patients in a base hospital in North Western Province, Sri Lanka
Ginige Nalika de Silva, Veranja Liyanapathirana, Vasanthi Thevanesam, John Stenos, Sarojini Wijesundara
03.20pm-03.35pm (FP41) Clinical characteristics of paediatric rickettsioses
Ranjan Premaratna, Fathima Mufeena, Kansul Madeena, Nilmini Chandrasena, Wijesinghe Bandara, Wasantha Karunasekara, Manel Fernando, Lilanthi De Silva, Janaka De Silva
03.35pm-03.50pm (FP42) Simultaneous assessment of dengue and chikungunya infections in acute-febrile patients in Delhi from year 2008 to 2011
Pratima Ray, B Siva Raghavendhar, Sushil K. Kabra, Rakesh Lodha, Naveet Wig
Free Paper Session 8 - Parallel Oral Presentations
FP 43-48 - Miscellaneous topics II - Committee Room D
02.20pm-02.35pm (FP43) Panton–Valentine leukocidin gene sequence variation and phage in methicillin-resistant and methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus from children in mainland China
Xuzhuang Shen, Xiangmei Li, Jing Sun, Mingjiao Sun
02.35pm-02.50pm (FP44) Hypophosphataemia among severely malnourished and non-malnourished children suffering from Sepsis
Md. Munirul Islam, Shoji Yoshimatsu, Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, Sayeeda Huq, Takashi Fukushima, Tahmeed Ahmed, Iqbal Hossain
02.50pm-03.05pm (FP45) Screening for tuberculosis in international adoptees: An important preventive strategy
Christine Lau, Nicholas Wood
03.05pm-03.20pm (FP46) Serum Procalcitonin and its relation to the outcome of ventilator-associated pneumonia in children
Sanaa Mahmoud abdelsalam
03.20pm-03.35pm (FP47) Risk factors for carbapenem non-susceptibility and mortality of Acinetobacter baumannii bacteraemia in children
Warunee Punpanich, Natthacha Nithitamsakun, Vipa Treeratweeraphong, Suntarattiwong Piyarat
03.35pm-03.50pm (FP48) Findings from Pertussis surveillance in a Tertiary Care Children’s Hospital in Thailand
Piyarat Suntarattiwong, Kalayanut Karnchanabura, Thanawan Loapipatana, Ketsiree Kornsittikul, Surang Dejsirilert, Tawee Chotpitayasunondh
03.50pm-04.20pm TEA/COFFEE BREAK
04.20pm-05.20pm Parallel Symposium 5: Committee Room A
Osteo-articular Infections
Clinical Presentation & Diagnosis: Dr. Mike Starr (Australia)
Management of Osteo-articular Infections: Prof. Heikki Peltola (Finland)
Parallel Symposium 6: Committee Room B
An Update on Bronchiolitis
Clinical Presentation & Management Strategies: Dr. Eun Hwa Choi (S Korea)
Long Term Implications: Prof. Ronald de Groot (Netherlands)
Parallel Symposium 7: Committee Room C
Leprosy
Global and Regional Burden: Prof. Rajeshwar Dayal (India)
Management Complexities: Prof. Jayamini Seneviratne (Sri Lanka)
Parallel Symposium 8: Committee Room D
HIV
Clinical Perspective of Paediatric HIV: Dr. Sanjiv Lewin (India) Parent to Child Transmission of HIV: Prof. Usa Thisyakorn (Thailand)
05.20pm-06.00pm Parallel Guest Lecture 5 - Committee Room A
Emerging Antibacterial Resistance in Lower Respiratory Tract Infections:
Prof. Ron Dagan (Israel)
Parallel Guest Lecture 6 - Committee Room B
Infective Endocarditis in Children- Diagnostic and Management Challenges
Dr. Krishna Kumar (India)
Parallel Guest Lecture 7 -Committee Room C
Measles Elimination: A Review: Prof. M. Ashraf Sultan (Pakistan)
Parallel Guest Lecture 8 - Committee Room D
Pharmacometric Principles in the Treatment of Bacterial Infections:
Dr. Ping Ing Lee (Taiwan)
Saturday 1st December 2012
07.45am-08.45am Breakfast Meeting: Meet-the-Experts Parallel Session 5 Committee Room C
Myocarditis : Diagnosis and Management
Dr. Krishna Kumar (India) and Dr. Andrew Steer (Australia)
Breakfast Meeting: Meet-the-Experts Parallel Session 6-Committee Room D
Early Diagnosis of Sepsis
Dr. Bin Cao (China) and Prof. Jennifer Perera (Sri Lanka)
09.00am -09.40am Plenary Lecture 3 - Committee Room B
The Many Complexities of Viral Hepatitis: Prof. Anupam Sibal (India)