Please carefully select the topic under which you wish to submit your abstract for review. Abstracts not submitted under an appropriate topic may be incorrectly reviewed and rejected. Basic Science 1. Pathogenesis 2. Animal models including experimental treatment 3. Biofilm Antimicrobials 4. Antimicrobial pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacogenomics, pharmacoeconomics and general pharmacology, drug interaction studies 5. Mechanisms of action and resistance 6. Resistance surveillance 7. Surveys of molecular epidemiology of resistance and resistance genes, strains or serotypes 8. In vitro antibacterial susceptibility 9. New antimicrobials 10. Epidemiology of MRSA, VRE and other Gram-positives 11. Epidemiology of MDR-Gram-negatives 12. Antibiotic usage Molecular biology, including diagnostics 13. Molecular bacteriology 14. Molecular virology 15. Molecular mycology 16. Molecular typing 17. Molecular biology – others Diagnostics, other than Molecular 18. Diagnostic/laboratory methods (other than molecular) 19. Methods for antibacterial susceptibility testing Public Health 20. Public health and community-acquired infections 21. Emerging infectious diseases Infection Control 22. Infection control 23. Clinical epidemiology of nosocomial infections Travel Medicine, International Health, Tropical Diseases and Parasitology 24. Travel medicine, tropical and parasitic diseases Mycology 25. Resistance and mechanisms of action of antifungals 26. Fungal infections Virology 27. AIDS and HIV infection 28. Hepatitis 29. Virology non-HIV/non-hepatitis Clinical ID 30. Mycobacterial infections (including diagnosis) 31. Infection in the immunocompromised host and transplant recipients 32. Community-acquired infections including CAP, sepsis, STD, ... 33. Lyme borreliosis, toxoplasmosis 34. Antimicrobial clinical trials 35. Paediatric infections Vaccines & Immunology 36. Immunology, host defences, immunotherapy 37. Vaccines