Abstract Guideline

Abstract Guideline

Updated: 31 March 2025
The Organising Scientific Committee of the 20th Asia Pacific Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infection (APCCMI 2025) invites you to submit an abstract. Please see guidelines below for the required format of the abstracts. Each abstract will undergo a peer review process.
Accepted abstracts will be presented as:
  1. E-posters
  2. E-posters with Rapid Fire sessions
  3. Oral Presentations
Important Dates
Activity Period
Regular Abstract Submission 1 April - 31 July 2025
Regular Abstract Acceptance Notification After 15 August 2025
Late-Breaking Abstract Submission 14 - 28 August 2025 (midnight Thailand time, GMT +7)
Late-Breaking Abstract Acceptance Notification 29 September 2025

A late-breaking abstract should contain new information that was not yet known or fully available by the abstract submission deadline, 15 August 2025. The data in the abstract must not be published prior to the meeting. It should show data that is high-impact, innovative and newsworthy. Please note that the late-breaking abstract deadline is not intended to be an extension of the regular abstract submission deadline.

Presenting Authors must register for the congress by no later than 15 October 2025 (BKK), and pay the registration fee in full by the registration deadline to secure their presence at the congress.

Abstract Submission Guidelines

  • Abstracts must be submitted online via the APCCMI 2025 website only.
  • Abstracts must contain original work that has not previously been reported
  • Abstracts may be original research and case studies
  • Only the presenting author may submit the abstract
  • The abstract MUST NOT exceed 250 words, excluding the title, authors and affiliations
  • Full papers are NOT required
  • You MUST include results or data in your abstract - you may include pictures, figures and/or tables
  • Abstracts that describe plans for a study or state “results will be presented” will NOT be accepted
  • Do NOT include references
  • Do NOT submit abstracts with typographical or grammatical errors
  • All abbreviations should be given in brackets after the first full use of the word
  • All presentations MUST be in English
  • Authors can indicate their preferred presentation type from the following three options:
    • E-poster only
    • E-poster with rapid-fire presentation
    • Oral presentation
    Authors may select more than one option. However, the APCCMI 2025 Organizing Committee reserves the right to determine the final presentation format for all abstracts after review.
  • Acknowledgement of submission will be sent automatically to the abstract submitter only. Please contact the secretariat at info@apccmi2025.com if you do not receive the confirmation email.
  • All submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the APCCMI scientific committee according to the review process.

Abstract Topics

  1. Antimicrobial Agents & Resistance:
    • Antimicrobial Agents and PK/PD
    • Antimicrobial Resistance
  2. Antimicrobial Stewardship & Clinical Microbiology Diagnostics:
    • Antimicrobial Stewardship Program
    • Clinical Microbiology and Diagnostics
    • Diagnostic Stewardship
  3. Clinical Infectious Diseases (Bacterial, Fungal, Mycobacterial, Parasitic):
    • Bacterial Infection
    • Fungal Infection
    • Tuberculosis and other Mycobacterial Infections
    • Medical parasitology
    • Clinical Syndromes
  4. Viral Infections & Immunology:
    • COVID-19
    • HIV
    • Viral Infection (All Viruses other than HIV and SARS-Cov-2)
    • Vaccine and Immunology
  5. Healthcare Epidemiology & Infection Prevention/Control:
    • Healthcare Epidemiology
    • Infection Prevention/Control
  6. Emerging Topics & Others:
    • Microbiome
    • Public Health and Socioeconomic Impact
    • Others
Abstract Format
Language English
Title
  • Capitalize the first letter of each word. Titles in ALL CAPS are not allowed.
  • Refrain from using standard abbreviations or acronyms in the title.
Author Information Name
  • All co-authors' first and family name(s) must be provided in full.
  • Degrees or titles such as MD after an author's name must be deleted.
Affiliation
  • Affiliation should be structured as follows: Department, Institution and Country.
Abstract Body Text
  • The text of the entire abstract must not exceed 250 words.
  • Use standard abbreviations or acronyms in the text. ALL CAPS are not allowed.
Structure
  • The abstract body can be written either as an original article or case report.
  • Original Article: Summary description of study/research set out in a systematic, stylized form under headings structured in: Background, Methods, Results, Conclusion.
  • Case Report: Summary description set out in a systematic, stylized form under headings structured in: Title, Introduction, Case Presentation, Conclusion.
Pictures/Graphs/Tables
  • You can only upload one file (jpeg or jpg file) of pictures, graphs or table per abstract .
Declaration & Assignation
  • Abstracts must not have been published or presented at any other conference by any co-authors.
  • The authors grant the APCCMI 2025 Organizing Committee a royalty-free, irrevocable, and non-exclusive right to publish, reproduce, distribute, display or otherwise use the submitted abstracts. The authors will also retain the copyright of their abstracts.
Acceptance Notification
  • Acceptance notification will be sent to the abstract submitter only.
  • On receiving the acceptance notification, the abstract submitter must confirm attendance of the presenting author and instruct the presenting author to register no later than 15 October 2025. Accepted abstracts whose presenting author does not register and pay in full by then will be automatically withdrawn.
Abstract Withdrawal
Authors who want to withdraw an abstract should send a written request to the secretariat at info@apccmi2025.com by 28 August 2025. Abstract withdrawal is deemed complete upon the confirmation of the secretariat.