Abstract Topics
1. Antibiotic Stewardship and Infection Control
2. Antimicrobial Agents: Resistance, pharmacology, pharmacogenetics, PK/PD analysis, TDM
3. Bacterial Infections:
a) Bacteremia and endocarditis
b) Bone and joint, skin and soft tissue infections
c) Community-acquired bacterial infections (non-respiratory)
d) Community-acquired bacterial infections (respiratory)
e) Gastrointestinal tract infections
f) Meningitis
g) Neonatal infections
h) Other bacterial infections
i) Pertussis
j) Sepsis
k) Sexually transmitted diseases
l) Urinary tract infections
4. Common and neglected tropical Infections and parasitic infections
5. Diagnostic Microbiology: Molecular diagnostics, molecular imaging, point of care techniques
6. Emerging and Zoonotic Infections
7. Fungal Infections
8. Global Child Health
9. Host-Pathogen Interactions
10. Infections in the Immunocompromised Host and Transplant Patients
11. Infectious Diseases in Natural and Social Disaster situations
12. Microbiome Studies
13. Miscellaneous
14. Public Health and Epidemiology:
a) Gram-positive infections: MSSA, MRSA
b) Gram-negative infections
c) Healthcare-associated infections
d) Viral infections
15. Tick-borne Infections
16. Vaccination:
a) Antibacterial vaccines
b) Antiviral vaccines
c) System vaccinology
d) Vaccine hesitancy and uptake
17. Viral Infections:
a) Antiviral drugs and resistance
b) Arboviral encephalitis
c) Arbovirus infections including Chikungunya, Dengue virus, yellow fever, Zika virus
d) Encephalitis
e) Gastrointestinal tract infection
f) Hepatitis
g) HIV infection
h) Influenza infection and respiratory virus infections
i) Other virus infections
j) Perinatal and congenital infections
k) Respiratory syncytial virus infection