NewsKarnataka – Mangalore
Mangalore: The Department of Microbiology, Father Muller Medical College is organizing ‘An Encounter with Anaerobes’, a three-day national Hands-on- Workshop on Anaerobic Culture Techniques. The workshop was inaugurated on 23rd January, 2014 at Knowledge Center, Father Muller Charitable Institutions.
The Chief Guest of the function was Dr M K Lalitha, Past President, IAMM Advisor, Laboratory Services, Malabar Institute of Medical Sciences Kozhikode, Kerala. Rev Fr Patrick Rodrigues , Director, Father Muller Charitable Institutions presided over the function. Rev. Fr Rudolph Ravi D’Sa, administrator, FMMC, Dr Jayaprakash Alva, Dean, FMMC Dr. Rekha, Organizing Chairman, Dr. Beena Antony, Organizing Secretary were the dignitaries on the dais.
The inaugural function commenced after the lighting of the lamp by the dignitaries.
Dr M K Lalitha, the Chief Guest of the function while addressing the gathering appreciated the organizers for choosing Anaerobes as the topic for the workshop. She said, “Anaerobes is not much discussed due to its intricacy and complex nature of isolation and identification. Dealing with anaerobes organisms is much challenging compared to dealing with other organisms. “
She threw light on significance in Anaerobes and the infections in humans. She added, “ Inorder to prevent this infections and to have a healthy society the microbiologists along with the clinicians should work together and gain wider knowledge about this bacteria called anaerobes.
Fr Patrick Rodrigues, director of FMCI in his presidential address said, “In United States, 40 millions are affected with the hospital acquired infections and among them around 90,000 face mortality. In developed countries, the infection rate is from 5 to 15% and in developing countries it is 10 to 32%. “
He further said,” The cost of curing is high compared to the cost of prevention. It is important to know about such infections and to control its impact on patient and also the budget. Prevention of the infection is the major challenge.”
Anaerobic Laboratory Manual was released by Fr Rudolph Ravi D’Sa during the occasion.
The three-day workshop will be conducted in five sessions where the eminent doctors will speak on various topics like anaerobic culture techniques and culture media , Laboratory diagnosis and antimicrobial susceptibility testing of anaerobes, Isolation and identification of anaerobes, anaerobic organism and its culture techniques, Recent techniques for identification of anaerobes with an emphasis on Molecular Methods, Quantitation in culture methods for intestinal, vaginal and oral specimens. Practical sessions will also be conducted in order to give a better understanding about this topic.
