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Notice to Readers: Annual Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance --- February 1--3, 2010

CDC and 11 other national agencies and organizations will collaborate with the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases in sponsoring the 2010 Annual Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance (including basic science, prevention, and control), February 1--3, 2010, at the Hyatt Regency Bethesda Hotel in Bethesda, Maryland. Six symposia will be offered. Topics include antiviral drug resistance, economic and public policy aspects of antibiotic resistance and antibiotic development, susceptibility issues, implications of rapid diagnostic testing, methicillin-resistant Staphlococcus aureus (MRSA), and stewardship and policy. The conference keynote will address the globalization of antimicrobial resistance.

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