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Since becoming an Incorporated Society in March 1999, ASA membership now covers a diverse background of professions interested in the study of antimicrobials including clinical microbiologists and infectious diseases physicians, respiratory and ICU physicians, medical and non-medical microbiologists and scientists, pharmacists, veterinarians, undergraduate and postgraduate students, and industry representatives from pharmaceutical and diagnostic/research biomedical companies.
Although ASA's membership is primarily based in Australia and New Zealand, it now extends to the United Staes of America, United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Denmark, Singapore and Japan.
On this site you can access the Society's Objectives and Constitution and the Committee Members. In addition the Society's Membership Subscription Form and details of the Annual Scientific Meeting can be downloaded.
Members of the Society may wish to download the current and previous newsletters as well as abstracts from previous annual scientific meetings in the Members Area.
There are also links to many other areas and related societies.
If you would like to contact the Society please email info@asainc.net.au.
Current Newsletter:
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Newsletter Number 29 (November 2007)
- Detection of International Panton-Valentine Leucocidin Positive CA-MRSA Clones in Western Australia (Julie Pearson)
- What's Happening in Susceptibility Testing (Sydney Bell and John Turnidge)
- Antimicrobials 2008
- ASA Journal Club
- 13th International Symposium on Staphylococci and Staphylococcal Infections
- ASA Picture Quiz: November 2007
- ASA Picture Quiz Response: May 2007
- ANZCOSS Study
- Meeting Calendar
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24-Jul-2008
Antimicrobials 2009: Pharmacy Workshop
The Australian Society for Antimicrobials in conjunction with the Infectious Diseases COSP would like to invite pharmacists to the Antimicrobials 2009 conference to be held at Hilton on the Park, Melbourne, on Thursday 26th to Saturday 28th February 2009. The programmes symposia covers many different aspects on antimicrobials including 'How to Use Antibiotics Better', 'Vaccine and Antibiotic Use' and 'Antimicrobial Drug Development'. The Pharmacy Workshop at this conference will focus on 'The Bugs (eg viral infections and infective endocarditis)' and 'The Drugs (eg. Antibiotic Desensitisation)'. For more information, see http://www.antimicrobials2009.com.
The material in the Pharmacy Workshop (3 hours of content as Group-1 activity) has been accredited by SHPA as suitable for inclusion in an individual pharmacist's CPD plan as outlined in the SHPA CPD program at http://www.shpa.org.au/docs/cpd.html. The program addresses pharmacist competencies, including: Competency Unit 3.1, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2 and 7.2.
23-Jul-2008
13th International Symposium on Staphylococci and Staphylococcal Infections
13th International Symposium on Staphylococci and Staphylococcal Infections
7 to 10 September 2008
Cairns Convention Centre
www.isssi2008.com
LATE BREAKER ABSTRACT SUBMISSION CLOSES ON MONDAY 11 AUGUST 2008
Astracts should be a maximum of 250 words and can be submitted to isssi2008@icms.com.au.
Abstracts will be considered under the following topics.
Resistance Determinants
Virulence Determinants
Cell Wall
Slime Layer
Immunity
Vaccines
Healthcare-associated infection
Community-acquired infection
Antimicrobials
Therapeutics
Staphylococcus aureus
MRSA
Coagulase-negative staphylococci
Typing
Nomenclature
Infection in animals
Diagnostics
The meeting's programme and registration details can be found on the meeting's website www.isssi2008.com
23-Jul-2008
ICAAC 2008 AstraZeneca Travel Award Recipients
On behalf of AstraZeneca, the ASA Committee would like to congratulate Dr Anton Peleg and Dr Catherine Bennett on being awarded an ICAAC 2008 AstraZeneca Travel Award to attend the 48th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobials Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) being held in Washington USA 25 to 28th October 2008.
Their abstracts have recently been accepted by the ICAAC Organsing Committee:
Relationship between Virulence and Reduced Susceptibility to Daptomycin in Staphylococcus aureus
Anton Peleg. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre, Boston, USA
Galleria mellonella as a Model System to Study Acinetobacter baumannii Pathogenesis and Therapeutics
Anton Peleg. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre, Boston, USA
Patient and Infection Characteristics Associated with the Presence of pvl in Community Onset Staphylococcus aureus Infections in Melbourne, Australia
Catherine Bennett. The University of Melbourne, Australia
The ASA Committee would like to once again thank Murray Green and AstraZeneca Pty Ltd for providing this award.
15-Jul-2008
Antimicrobials 2009: Novartis Pharmaceuticals Australia
The Australain Society for Antimicrobials congratulates and welcomes Novartis Pharmaceuticals Australia on becoming a Gold Foundation Member of the Society.
During the meeting Antimicrobials 2009 (Hilton on the Park, Melbourne 26 - 28 February 2009) a Novartis lunch time symposium has been scheduled for Thursday 26th February. Full details to follow.
Antimicrobials 2009
www.antimicrobials2009.com
Early Bird Registration: Friday 12th December 2008
Abstract Submission Deadline: Friday 12th December 2008
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