Preliminary Topics
- Antimicrobial Susceptibility/Resistance including new/old antimicrobials, surveillance
- Clinical Use of Antimicrobial Drugs including clinical trials, case reports and antimicrobial drug combinations
- Antimicrobials including in vitro measurements (MIC, MPC, kill assays, synergy testing) and older antimicrobials revisited
- Alternatives to Antimicrobial Agents including vaccines, immunomodulatory agents, anti-virulence strategies
- Advances in Diagnostics including automation, traditional microbiology, molecular syndromic testing, artificial intelligence, smart phones, point of care testing, sequencing
- The Microbiome and Antimicrobials
- PK/PD including modelling studies, newer and older antimicrobial drugs, translation to clinical impact
- Strategies for appropriate antimicrobial use including antimicrobial stewardship, infection prevention and control, real time reporting of diagnostic testing results