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Anaerobic Bacteria Confirmed Plenary Speakers OFFICIALOFFICIAL JOURNALJOURNAL OFOF THETHE AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY FOR MICROBIOLOGY INC.INC. VolumeVolume 3636 NumberNumber 33 SeptemberSeptember 20152015 Anaerobic bacteria Confirmed Plenary speakers Professor Peter Professor Dan Assoc Prof Susan Lynch Dr Brian Conlon Professor Anna Hawkey Andersson University of California Northeastern Durbin University of Upsalla University San Francisco University, Boston Johns Hopkins Birmingham Environmental pollution Colitis, Crohn's Disease Drug discovery in Dengue and vaccines Nosocomial by antibiotics and its and Microbiome soil bacteria infection control and role in the evolution of Research antibiotic resistance resistance As with previous years, ASM 2016 will be co-run with NOW CONFIRMED! 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Jonathan Iredell Editorial team Guest Prof. Ian Macreadie, Mrs Jo Macreadie Editorial 103 and Mrs Hayley Macreadie Anaerobic bacteria 103 Editorial Board Dena Lyras and Julian I Rood Dr Chris Burke (Chair) Dr Gary Lum Under the Prof. Mary Barton Dr John Merlino Microscope 104 Prof. Linda Blackall Prof. Wieland Meyer The complex factors that contribute to Clostridium difficile infection 104 Prof. Sharon Chen Prof. William Rawlinson Kate E Mackin and Dena Lyras Prof. Peter Coloe Dr Paul Selleck Dr Narelle Fegan Dr David Smith Clostridium difficile infection: an Australian clinical perspective 106 Dr Geoff Hogg Ms Helen Smith Grant A Jenkin Prof.. Jonathan Iredell Dr Jack Wang Dr Ipek Kurtböke Dr Paul Young Predicting genome variations between passages of Clostridium difficle Subscription rates by ribotypes 109 Current subscription rates are available Volker Gürtler from the ASM Melbourne offi ce. 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