Department of Microbiology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, India take the honor to organize the 1st South Asian Melioidosis Congress 2015 (SAMC 2015) under the theme ‘Melioidosis – Unraveling the Enigma’ on 20-22 November, 2015 at Manipal University, India. This noble conglomeration of physicians, microbiologists, infectious diseases specialists, researchers, public health personnel and global experts for the first time in this part of the world will hopefully usher a new era in the research and diagnosis of melioidosis and other emerging tropical bacterial diseases and create a network among the South Asian countries like India and neighboring countries like Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Myanmar, Bhutan and Pakistan. [weblink]

 

For many decades, Vietnam has been known to be endemic area of melioidosis but very few clinical laboratory staffs and physicians know about the disease, leading to the misdiagnosis of cases. In ongoing collaborative project named “Research Network on Melioidosis and Burkholderia pseudomallei” between Vietnam and Germany, together with Prof. Ivo Steinmetz in Medical University of Greifswald, Germany, Trinh Thanh Trung organized workshops and training courses for 16 hospitals surrounding Hanoi and in the central part of Vietnam. After a short period of time, a number of cases were detected and many cases were detected in the hospitals that did not recognized the disease before. [pictures] [news1] [news2]