Chair(s): Markus Fally, Onno Akkerman, Olha Konstantynovska
Session type: State of the art session
Mateja Jankovic Makek
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Giovanni Battista Migliori
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The impact of non-tuberculous mycobacteria in patients with underlying respiratory diseases
Mateja Jankovic Makek
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Clark Tristan
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Eva Polverino
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Session aims
to outline how timely interventions like isolation of symptomatic patients, proper use of personal protective equipment and environmental controls can significantly reduce transmission of mycobacterial and viral respiratory infections; to clarify the lack of appropriate biomarkers for determining infectiousness of mycobacterial and viral respiratory infections; to discuss the importance of controlling drug-resistant pathogens like multidrug-resistant bacteria and drug-resistant tuberculosis, especially in relation to the rising threat of antimicrobial resistance in respiratory infections.