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Participants - more than 350 people, consisting of bacteriologists and epidemiologists from public health and educational medical establishments.

BioVitrum and Partner Participants:

Natalia Smirnova – senior sales specialist for microbiology products

Anna Kurakova – microbiology sales specialist

Marina Libina – customer service specialist

Marina Rumyantseva – Microbiology product manager

Ricardo Almeida – Oxoid Microbiology specialist (UK)

Participation Format:

1. Exhibition

- Visual demonstration of Oxoid's product line (nutrient media, disks with antibiotics and dispensers, MICE strips for the determination of MIC, diagnostic kits for latex agglutination and biochemical identification, express- tests, gas generation systems and packages, systems for blood culturing, and others.

- Videos which demonstrate the application of Oxoid products

- Analyzers from i2a (France) - videos which demonstrate the work of the analyzers

- Informational materials:

• Petri dishes and pouring modules for automatic preparation and bottling of nutrient media - AES (France)
• Nikon microscopes (Japan)
• Astell autoclaves(England)
• Laboratory equipment (laminated-flow cabinet, centrifuge, incubators, refrigerators , etc) for ThermoScientific products
• New microbiology stains produced by BioVitrum

2. Report

Marina Rumyantseva gave the report "contemporary methods of diagnostics and determining the antibiotic sensitivity of intra-hospital infection agents". This report focused on virus and bacterial intestinal infections, in which the need for the combination of the principles of express-diagnostics and screening together were emphasized with the use of antibiotics and infection control. During the report the innovative methods of diagnosing the most significant intra-hospital pathogens were represented based on the examples of Oxoid reagents, such as chromogenic media, MICE strips, express-test systems, and also i2a analyzers.