The Autumn Symposium of the British Society for Microbial Technology took place at the Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool last October. On behalf of the BSMT, Mark Wilks reports on a comprehensive and stimulating programme.
Over 100 microbiologists, mainly biomedical scientists, clinical scientists and medical microbiologists, attended the Autumn Symposium of the British Society for Microbial Technology (BSMT), the focus of this one-day event being on the role of microbiology in paediatric and women’s healthcare.
Paediatric overview: keynote lecture
Professor Eric Bolton (BSMT President) chaired the morning session, and introduced the first speaker, Dr Andrew Riordan (Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Alder Hey Hospital, Liverpool), who gave an overview of paediatric microbiology and what he called the three golden rules of paediatrics (Table 1).
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