APCCMI 2023

Call for Late-Breaking Abstract

The APCCMI 2023 Organizing Committee invites you to submit late-breaking abstracts of original investigations for consideration as oral or poster presentations at the 19th Asia Pacific Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infection.

A late-breaking abstract should contain new information that was not yet known or fully available by the abstract submission deadline, February 28, 2023. The data in the abstract must not be published prior to the meeting. It should show data that is high-impact, innovative, and newsworthy. Please note that the late-breaking abstract deadline is not intended to be an extension of the regular abstract submission deadline.

Please click the button below for the detailed guidelines before submitting your late-breaking abstract and follow the instructions.

Presenting Authors must register for the congress by no later than May 17, 2023 (KST), and pay the registration fee in full by the registration deadline to secure their presence at the congress.

[Laureates of Institut Merieux Young Investigator]
If you are a Laureates of Institut Merieux Young Investigator, please check the presentation type as 'Oral Presentation for Former Asia Pacific Laureates of Institut Merieux Young Investigators Awards’. 
The type of 'Oral Presentation for Former Asia Pacific Laureates of Institut Merieux Young Investigators Awards' is only for presenters who were Laureates of Institut Merieux.
And please write [Institut Merieux] at the beginning of your abstract title.

Important Dates

Abstract Topics

• Bacterial infections
• Antimicrobial resistance
• Antibiotic/diagnostic stewardship
• New antimicrobial agents, pharmacology/pharmacogenetics
• Sepsis and systemic inflammatory response syndrome
• Culture-based diagnostics in clinical microbiology
• Serologic diagnosis and monitoring in infectious diseases
• Rapid diagnostics in clinical microbiology
• Performance evaluation and quality control in clinical microbiology
• Viral infections other than COVID-19
• COVID-19
• Fungal infections
• Medical parasitology
• Tuberculosis and nontuberculous mycobacterial infections
• Infection control and prevention
• Vaccine and immunology
• Public health and socioeconomic impact
• Microbiomes and metagenomics
• Big data and artificial intelligence in infectious disease
• Others

Abstract Submission Guidelines

• Abstracts must be submitted online via the APCCMI 2023 website only.
• Authors have the option to indicate their preference on their presentation type between “Poster Only” and “Poster or Oral” presentations. The APCCMI 2023 Organizing Committee, however, reserves the right to decide the final type of presentation for all abstracts after review.
• Acknowledgment of submission will be sent automatically to both the abstract submitter and the presenting author by e-mail. Please contact the secretariat if the e-mail confirmation has not been sent.
• Modifications may be made at any time until the late-breaking abstract submission deadline of April 19, 2023 (KST).
• All submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the APCCMI scientific committee according to the review process. Once APCCMI scientific committee completes to abstract review and professional editing, some of the authors would be asked to review within 7 days, only minor editing will be permitted.

Declaration & Assignation

• Abstracts must not have been published or presented at any other conference by any co-authors.
• The authors grant the APCCMI 2023 Organizing Committee a royalty-free, irrevocable, and non-exclusive right to publish, reproduce, distribute, display or otherwise use the submitted abstracts. The authors will also retain the copyright of their abstracts.

Acceptance Notice

• Acceptance Notice will be sent to both the abstract submitter and the presenting author by e-mail.
• The presenting author should reply to the acceptance notification for confirmation of attendance and be sure to register by no later than May 17, 2023. Accepted abstracts whose presenting author does not register and pay in full by then will be automatically withdrawn.

Abstract Withdrawal

Authors who want to withdraw an abstract should send a written request to the secretariat at [email protected] by April 19, 2023. Abstract withdrawal is deemed complete upon the confirmation of the secretariat.