Pharmabiz – Bureau, Hyderabad Tuesday, February 02, 2016, 08:00 Hrs [IST]
Leading doctors and medical researchers and microbiologists at an All India Microbiology Conference held at SVS Medical College in Mahabubnagar district of Telangana expressed concern over growing trend of fungal and hospital acquired infections that are drug resistant.
In view of this, the experts advocated new and innovative procedures to contain risks of such infections for the patients. According to K J Reddy, medical director of SVS Medical College, during the past one decade there has been a growing trend of chronic infections, hospital acquired infections, antibiotic resistance increasingly observed in the hospitals. In view of this, I urge all the microbiologists to lead the hospital community to reduce all kinds of preventable measures and ensure achieving optimum patient care in the hospitals.
The Continuing Medical Education (CME) pre-conference which began as part of XIX annual conference of Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists mainly focused on latest advancements in the clinical and microbiological aspects of mycotic infections. According to medical experts and scientific researchers, there is a growing trend of fungal infections observed in the recent times. Keeping this in view the medical fraternities across the country have converged at SVS hospital to educate and create awareness of the laboratory methods for fungal diagnosis to the medical students and researchers in the medical field. “These presentations will help all the participants to apply these methods in the day to day laboratory practice wherever they are working. The improvement in the recognition of the fungi will help in giving better diagnostic services to the patients,” said Dr D S Murty, secretary, Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists.
Dr Uma Tendulkar, Professor of Microbiology from Lokamanya Tilak Medical College in Mumbai deliberated on fungal rhinosinusitis.
Fungal infections of the sinuses have recently been blamed for causing most cases of chronic rhinosinusitis. The evidence, though, is still controversial. Most fungal sinus infections are benign or noninvasive, except when they occur in individuals who are immunocompromised. Several reports are available that have shown invasive fungal infections in immunocompetent individuals. Distinguishing invasive disease from noninvasive disease is important because the treatment and prognosis are different for each.
Another speaker Dr P Umabala, associate professor from NIMS, Hyderabad had spoken on emerging and re-emerging invasive yeast infections. Dr Ranganatha Iyer, senior microbiologist from Global Hospitals, Hyderabad presented on fungal infections in organ transplant recipients.
Dr Anupama Jyothi Kindo from Sri Ramachandra Medical College, Chennai gave a presentation on processing of clinical specimens in mycology laboratory. Later on a lecture on regularity policies and scientific affairs of Mosanto India was presented. More than 100 postgraduates and faculty have taken part in various competitions of presenting their research work papers.
