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Infectious Disease News prepares for ASM Microbe 2016
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BOSTON — Infectious Disease News and Healio.com will offer live coverage from the American Society for Microbiology’s new annual meeting, ASM Microbe 2016, starting today.
The event will integrate the organization’s two major conferences, the General Meeting of the ASM and the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), into a joint meeting featuring the latest clinical and microbiological data. Sessions and presentations on current trends in infectious diseases will include antimicrobial resistance, infection control, HIV/AIDS, novel therapies, nosocomial infections, globally emerging diseases and more.
Paul A. Volberding
“This is a fully international meeting, and one covering the wide spectrum of infections from viruses (including plant viruses) to bacteria and parasites,” Infectious Disease News Chief Medical Editor Paul A. Volberding, MD, said. “Highlights will include an interview with Bill Gates and a discussion of the revolutionary CRISPR technology that has already opened many new insights in infectious diseases.
“This is a meeting with new science and review sessions and includes basic science as well as clinical medicine. It will be great to see all we learn this year.”
The Infectious Disease News staff will provide onsite video interviews with experts to gain their perspectives on some of the presentations. Readers also can expect newswires featuring the conference’s top headlines.
ASM Microbe 2016 runs until June 20. Visit Healio.com/ID to read the latest news.