The submission site for the meeting is now CLOSED. 

 

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ASID is pleased to invite submission of abstracts for poster presentation at the Gram Negative "Superbugs" Meeting. Original research, case reports and case series submissions are welcome. Accepted poster abstracts will be published in the meeting handbook, on the Gram Negative "Superbugs" Meeting website and displayed at the meeting.

 

The Gram-Negative "Superbugs" Meeting oral presentations will be from keynote invited speakers only.

 

The following poster guidelines are to be read prior to development of your abstract and submission.

 

 

THEMES FOR ABSTRACTS
1. The Bacterial Armamentarium: ‘Multiresistance’ and Resistance Mechanisms
2. Treatment: Treating seriously ill patients in ICU
3. Treatment: Old and new options
4. Treatment: Problem organisms
5. Global Report: Gram Negative Superbugs
6. Infection Control
7. Microbiology

 

SELECTION CRITERIA
Poster abstracts will be reviewed by the Organising Committee for quality, innovativeness and consistency with meeting themes.

ABSTRACT PREPARATION GUIDELINES
All abstracts must:

1. For presentations of original research, the following headings are recommended:

2. For case reports or case series and where clinical pictures form the body of the proposed poster, a brief description of the cases and why they are of note is all that is required in the abstract. Please make the title concise and informative.
Note: If the body of the abstract is more than 250 words it will be returned for revision.

DISCLOSURE OF INTEREST STATEMENT:
The Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases (ASID) recognises the considerable contribution that industry partners make to professional and research activities. We also recognise the need for transparency of disclosure of potential conflicts of interest by acknowledging these relationships in all written publications.
For an example of a disclosure of interest statement please see below:
The Melon Institute and Metabolism Corp are funded by the University of Oxbridge, UK. No pharmaceutical grants were received in the development of this study.
Note: If accepted, authors will be requested to include a disclosure of interests on the poster.

 
POSTER ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
Poster Abstracts must be submitted electronically through the delegate portal. Submissions will require:

Please contact the Meeting Secretariat if you are unable to lodge your poster abstract via the website or if you have any queries.

By submitting a poster abstract, all authors agree to release the license to the Meeting Organisers and give permission to publish the abstract in the meeting handbook, on the website and have the poster displayed at the event, and in so doing, certify that the abstract is original work.
In addition, we will ask the authors’ permission to have a pdf file of the poster available for display on the ASID website. We encourage this option, but it is not mandatory.

Note: If the poster abstract does not conform to the guidelines, including if it is over 250 words, it will be returned to the submitting author for revision.

MEETING REGISTRATION:
All authors will be required to fund their own attendance at the meeting and should not submit an abstract if this is not possible.
All authors will be required to register for the meeting by Friday 24 May 2013. It will be assumed that any author not registered by this date has withdrawn from the program and their poster abstract will be removed from the handbook.