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Asia Pacific Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infection (APCCMI) 2021
The Asia Pacific Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infection (APCCMI) the bi-ennial conference for the Asia Pacific Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infection (APSCMI) was held in November 2021 as a hybrid event.
The excellently curated programme featured an impressive international faculty covering broad areas of infectious diseases and clinical microbiology, COVID-19 and non-COVID-19.
See ISAC's highlights below and watch all keynote, plenary and symposium sessions on YouTube:
Treatment of XDT and PDR Gram negative bacteria
Po Ren Hsueh (National Taiwan Hospital, Taiwan)
The link between clinical microbiology and infection prevention & control
Andreas Voss (Radboud University, the Netherlands)
The revolution of diagnostics in microbiology: from answers in days to answers in minutes
Robin Patel (Mayo Clinic, USA)
Impact of rapid pathogen identification from blood cultures
Shawn Vasoo (National Centre for Infectious Diseases)
New antibiotics
David Paterson (University of Queensland, Australia)
Using COVID-19 vaccines: lessons fro control of vaccine preventable diseases and the eradication of smallpox and polio
David Heymann (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK)
Rapid Diagnosis for Bacterial Resistance
Yohei Doi (Fujtia Health University / University of Pittsburgh)
Advances in influenza therapeutics
Frederick Hayden (University of Virginia, USA)
Assessing the value of new diagnostics
Robin Patel (Mayo Clinic, USA)
Utility of typing carbapenemases
David Paterson (University of Queensland, Australia)
