1 Health-care associated infection
1a Bloodstream and intravasculardevice associated infections
1b Surgical site infections1c Ventilator-associated pneumonia
1d Urinary tract infections1e Gastroenteritis (other thanNorovirus and CDAD)
1f Norovirus1g C.difficile/CDAD
1h Staphylococcal infections
1i Bone- and prosthetic jointinfections
1j Nosocomial viral infections (otherthan norovirus and influenza)
1k Influenza/lessons learned from H1N11l Yeast and mold infections
1m Burden of HAI
2 Multi-drug resistant microorganisms
2a MRSA epidemiology and control
2b Vancomycin-reistant enterococci
2c ESBL & Co (Gram-negativeresistance)
2d Multidrug-resistant pathogens(other than MRSA, VRE andESBL&Co)
3 Antimicrobials
3a Antimicrobial-resistance (surveillance)
3b Antimocrobial-use andstewardship
4 Special issues in infection control
4a Hand hygiene
4b Behaviour and infectioncontrol/influencing HCWs
4c Patient participation
4d Healthcare worker (HCW)education
4e Innovative approaches in infectioncontrol
4f Ergonomics and human factorsdesign in infection control
4g Epidemiological methods and theirapplication to infection control
4h Mathematical modelling ininfection control
5 Surveillance of HAI
5a Surveillance and infection controlindicators
5b Public reporting / Benchmarking of infection rates OR Publicreporting/Benchmarking
6 Special patient populations
6a Infections & infection preventionin critical care (ICU)
6b Infections & infection control inneutropenic patients
6c Transplantation and HAI/HAIprevention
6d Infections and infection preventionin pediatric populations
6e Infection control in long-term carefacilities and nursing homes
6f Infections and infection preventionin the developing world
7 Special settings
7a Operating room
7b Dialysis
7c Endoscopes
8 Disinfection/sterilization
8a Environmental control
8b Disinfection – skin (other thanhands)
8c Sterilization
9 Outbreaks
10 Public-health and patient safety issues
11 Nursing homes
12 Occupational health
13 Submissions in French
14 Innovation in infection control andantimicrobial resistance prevention
(Abstracts submitted for Innovation and Innovation Academy)