Imperial College researchers will be presenting their work at the Infection Prevention Society annual conference in Liverpool.

The conference attracts over 800 professionals each year, including DIPCs, Microbiologists, Antibiotic Pharmacists, Managers as well as nursing leaders in Infection Prevention and Control.

Researchers from the National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit in Healthcare Acquired Infection and Antimicrobial Resistance at Imperial College London will be attending the conference again this year.

Public health expert Raheelah Ahmad will be presenting her poster "Knowledge, perceptions and decision making – what matters to patients?" 

Epidemiologists Dr Jon Otter and Elie Dyakova will be giving a presentation entitled "“Can I swab your rectum please?”; Improving compliance with rectal screening for CRE."

Professor Alison Holmes, Dr Otter, Dr Linda Batten and Enrique Castro Sanchez will present a poster on “Estimating the isolation burden if overseas residents are pre-emptively isolated for CRE admission screening.”

The full list of Imperial presentations at IPS is below:

Oral presentations

Abstract ID: 3865 - Otter J, Dyakova E, Bisnauthsing K, Querol-Rubiera A, Girdham S, Patel A, Ahanonu C, Tosas Auguet O, Edgeworth J, Goldenberg S. Who’s carrying CRE? Universal admission screening in London

Abstract ID: 3866 - Dyakova E, Bisnauthsing K, Querol-Rubiera A, Girdham S, Patel A, Ahanonu C, Tosas Auguet O, Edgeworth J, Goldenberg S, Otter J. “Can I swab your rectum, please?”: Improving compliance with rectal screening for CRE

Abstract ID: 3860 - Mookerjee S, Sullivan J, Davies F, Donaldson H, Brannigan E, Holmes A, Otter J. Risk factors for patients with carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) in a Northwest London hospital Trust, 2014 – 2015

Posters

Abstract ID: 3785 - Ahmad R, Castro-Sanchez E, Iwami M, Husson F, Holmes A. Knowledge, perceptions and decision making: What matters to patients?

Abstract ID: 3798 - Record C, Gilchrist M, Patel D, Jiao L. Infection prevention in splenectomy patients: An audit of practice in a regional hepatobiliary centre

Abstract ID: 3799 - Turnbull A,  Moore L, Azadian B. To PPE or not to PPE

Abstract ID: 3858 - Batten L, Holmes A, Otter J, Castro-Sanchez E. Estimating the isolation burden if overseas residents are pre-emptively isolated during CRE admission screening

Abstract ID: 3859 - Mookerjee S, Sullivan J, Davies F, Donaldson H, Brannigan E, Holmes A, Otter J. Real-time surveillance of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) using live microbiology culture data in a North-West London Hospital Trust, 2014–2015

Abstract ID: 3861 - Alexander M, Mookerjee S, Nelson D, Holmes A, Otter J.  An audit of single room capacity for isolation at a London hospital Trust  

Abstract ID: 3862 - Galletly T, Bateman A, Brannigan E, Holmes A, Otter J. Thematic analysis of post 48-hour bloodstream infections: What did we learn?

Abstract ID: 3863 - Acharya A , Samarasinghe D , Singleton J, Brannigan E, Galletly T, Donaldson H, Holmes A, Otter J. Pilot evaluation of environmental hygiene using fluorescent markers and microbiological cultures

Abstract ID: 3864 - Gilchrist M , Galletly T, Brannigan E, Holmes A, Otter J. How much Clostridium difficile is preventable?

Abstract ID: 3867 - Goldberg S, Dyakova E, Bisnauthsing K, Querol-Rubiera A, Girdham S, Patel A, Ahanonu C, Tosas Auguet O, Edgeworth J, Otter J. Poor sensitivity of perineal compared with rectal swabs for detecting ESBL Enterobacteriaceae