ICDS 2018 – INVITED SPEAKERS
| Robert Britton (USA) | C. difficile, diet and microbiota |
| Gayatri Vedantam (USA) | C. difficile and immune response |
| Stuart Johnson (USA) | Pro con debate : CDI treatment - FMT or antibiotic management? |
| Giovanni Cammarota (IT) | Pro con debate : CDI treatment - FMT or antibiotic management? |
| Joe Sorg (USA) | CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Editing in C. difficile |
| Claire Janoir (FR) | In vivo visualization of C. difficile biofilms |
| Ferric Fang (USA) | Pro con debate: C. difficile diagnostics – PCR and toxins |
| M. Wilcox (UK) | Pro con debate: C. difficile diagnostics – PCR and toxins |
| Kerrie Davies (UK) | The factors affecting reported CDI rates |
| Louis-Charles Fortier (CAN) | C. difficile phages |
| Paula Salgado (UK) | C. difficile spores |
| Rita Tamayo (USA) | C. difficile phase variation |
| Dan Knight (AUS) | Animals, genomics and One Health |
| David Eyre (UK) | C. difficile transmission in the hospital and the diverse reservoirs |
| Wiep Klaas Smits (NL) | Molecular aspects of antimicrobial resistance in C. difficile |
| Monique Crobach (NL) | Asymptomatic colonisation with C. difficile |
| Curtis Donskey (USA) | C. difficile infection control |