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Abstract Categories


  • 1a. HIV/AIDS (incl diagnostics & epidemiology, anti-retroviral drugs, vaccines, treatment & susceptibility/resistance)
  • 1b. Viral hepatitis (incl diagnostics & epidemiology, antiviral drugs, vaccines, treatment & susceptibility/resistance)
  • 1c. Influenza and respiratory viruses (incl diagnostics & epidemiology, antiviral drugs, vaccines, treatment & susceptibility / resistance) 
  • 1d. Herpesviruses (incl diagnostics & epidemiology, antiviral drugs, treatment & susceptibility/resistance, excl clinical studies in immunocompromised hosts)
  • 1e. Emerging/re-emerging, vector-borne and zoonotic viral diseases (all aspects)
  • 1f. Diagnostic virology (other than respiratory viruses, herpesviruses, hepatitis & HIV)
  • 1g. Viral epidemiology – general, prevalence studies, molecular and genomic epidemiology (other than respiratory viruses, herpesviruses, hepatitis & HIV)
  • 1h. Antiviral drugs, treatment, susceptibility/resistance (other than respiratory viruses, herpesviruses, hepatitis & HIV)
  • 1i. Basic and applied virology (incl in vitro and in vivo models, novel methods)
  • 2a. Tuberculosis and other mycobacterial infections (incl antimycobacterial drugs, treatment & susceptibility/resistance, diagnostics & epidemiology)
  • 2b. Severe sepsis, bacteraemia & endocarditis (incl host bio-markers and outcome prediction)
  • 2c. Community-acquired respiratory infections
  • 2d. Community-acquired abdominal/gastrointestinal, urinary tract & genital infections
  • 2e. Community acquired skin, soft tissue, bone & joint (excl prostheses)
  • 2f. Community acquired nervous system and other multi-system bacterial infections 
  • 2g. Zoonotic bacterial diseases (incl foodborne and waterborne pathogens and One Health aspects, excl AMR)
  • 2h. Other intracellular or rare bacteria
  • 3a. Resistance surveillance & epidemiology: MRSA, VRE & other Gram-positives
  • 3b. Resistance surveillance & epidemiology: Gram-negatives
  • 3c. Susceptibility testing methods (incl assay validation and comparative studies, excl TB)
  • 3d. Resistance mechanisms incl in vitro and in vivo studies, mobile elements (excl TB)
  • 3e. Resistance detection / prediction approaches (rapid and/or molecular assays, resistome analysis, inference methods)
  • 3f. Clinical outcome of resistant infections (excl trials of new drugs)
  • 3g. Spread of resistance incl reservoirs, ecology, models (excl nosocomial transmission)
  • 3h. Policy aspects of AMR incl societal impact, economics, mitigation
  • 4a. Diagnostic bacteriology – culture based and general microbiology
  • 4b. Lab management (incl automation, information, QC/QA)
  • 4c. MALDI-TOF and other proteomic methods
  • 4d. Molecular diagnostics (incl POCT and syndromic testing)
  • 4e. Strain typing and surveillance (methods other than genomics)
  • 4f. Whole genome sequencing (diagnostic, typing)
  • 4g. Microbiome studies (incl clinical and diagnostic studies, One Health aspects)
  • 4h. Clinical metagenomics
  • 4i. Bioinformatics tools & pipelines
  • 4j. Other novel diagnostic technologies
  • 5a. Mechanisms of action, new compounds, preclinical data & pharmacology of antibacterial agents
  • 5b. Pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics of antibacterial drugs & therapeutic drug monitoring
  • 5c. New or repurposed antibacterial agents: clinical trials
  • 5d. Antimicrobial stewardship and improved prescribing  (incl interventions, decision-support / prediction tools, behavioural aspects)
  • 5e. Safety and adverse effects of treatment
  • 5f. Pharmacoepidemiology / pharmacoeconomics (incl cost-effectiveness, modelling)
  • 6a. Fungal disease epidemiology
  • 6b. Diagnostic mycology (incl molecular)
  • 6c. Antifungal drugs & treatment (incl clinical trials)
  • 6d. Antifungal resistance & susceptibility testing (incl surveillance)
  • 6e. Basic mycology (incl in vitro and in vivo studies, pathogenesis)
  • 7a. Diagnostic parasitology
  • 7b. Antiparasitic susceptibility & resistance
  • 7c. Antiparasitic drugs & treatment
  • 7d. Parasitic disease epidemiology
  • 7e. Travel medicine & migrant health
  • 7f. Food & water safety and environmental health
  • 7g. Global health, public health
  • 7h. Infections in low-resource settings
  • 8a. Intravascular catheter-related infections
  • 8b. Other foreign-body and implant infections
  • 8c. Surgical site infections
  • 8d. Healthcare-associated pneumonia (incl VAP)
  • 8e. Hospital epidemiology, transmission, surveillance & screening (incl. environment)
  • 8f. Other healthcare associated infections (incl CDI)
  • 8g. Infection control interventions and trials (incl. microbiota transplantation)
  • 8h. Disinfection & biocides
  • 8i. Healthcare workers and infection prevention (incl vaccination, behavior and practices)
  • 9a. Microbial pathogenesis & virulence
  • 9b. Host-pathogen interaction (including basic microbiome studies)
  • 9c. Preclinical biofilm studies
  • 9d. Experimental and cellular microbiology
  • 9e. Basic studies using Omics (in vitro and in vivo) 
  • 10a. Host genetics: infection susceptibility & immunodeficiency
  • 10b. Clinical epidemiology and treatment of infections in immunocompromised hosts
  • 10c. General vaccinology (incl. policy, social aspects)
  • 10d. Antiviral vaccines (excl influenza, respiratory and bloodborne viruses)
  • 10e. Antibacterial vaccines
  • 10f. Immune response to infection (excl sepsis biomarkers)
  • 10g. Laboratory assessment of immunity and immune resposne to infection
  • 11a. Professional affairs and career development
  • 11b. Publishing, ethics, other academic affairs
  • 11c. Medical education for CM/ID
  • 11d. Digital health and infection (incl AI, data mining, informatics)
  • 11e. Diversity and equality
  • 11f. Advocacy and role of patients 
  • 12a. Basic science and virology
  • 12b. Epidemiology- local, regional, global
  • 12c. Clinical features, case management, outcome (incl long-term)
  • 12d. Diagnostics (incl molecular, genomic, rapid tests)
  • 12e. Drug development and treatment modalities (incl. clinical trials)
  • 12f. Immune response (incl immunity assessment, immunomodulation)
  • 12g. Vaccine development, trials, efficacy, policy
  • 12h. Infection control incl healthcare facilities, community settings
  • 12i. Public health policy, mitigation (non-pharmaceutical interventions)
  • 12j. Preparedness and response (COVID and future pandemics)
  • 12k. Other societal aspects (incl. economics)
  • 12l. Virus evolution, variants and impact 
  • 21. New drugs
  • 22. Clinical trials
  • 23. COVID-19
  • 24. Outbreaks and public health emergencies other than COVID-19