All press conferences will be held in Room 14B of the San Diego Convention Center. In an increasingly global world, international travel is becoming more common.
People fly half-way around the world in less than a day.
In the quest for the exotic, more people are vacationing in developing countries. As travel increases, so too does the chance of being exposed to unfamiliar diseases and bringing them home. Participants will discuss the challenges associated with the field of travel medicine including the latest on vaccines and prevention and treatment of malaria. Also to be discussed with be travel medicine considerations for HIV-infected individuals and other special risk groups. A study commissioned by the ASM to assess the impact of managed care on the status of clinical microbiology laboratories in a variety of settings has confirmed that significant changes have taken place in clinical microbiology laboratories under cost-containment pressures but has not documented adverse impacts on patient care.