CME focuses on advances in clinical microbiology

Mahbubnagar: The Continuing Medical Education (CME) pre-conference which began as part of nineteenth annual conference of Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists at SVS Medical College in Mahbubnagar focused on latest advancements in clinical and microbiological aspects of Mycotic infections.

According to medical experts and scientific researchers, there is a growing trend of fungal infections observed in the recent times. Keeping this in view, the medical fraternities across the country have converged at SVS Hospital to educate and create awareness to medical students and researchers about laboratory methods for fungal diagnosis.

“These presentations will help all participants to apply these methods in day-to-day laboratory practice wherever they are working. The improvement in the recognition of the fungi will help giving better diagnostic services to the patients,” said Dr D S Murthy, Secretary, Indian Association of Medical Microbiologists.

Dr Uma Tendulkar, Microbiology professor at Lokamanya Tilak Medical College in Mumbai deliberated on fungal rhinosinusitis. Another speaker Dr P Umabala, associate professor from NIMS, Hyderabad, spoke on emerging and remerging invasive yeast infections. Dr Ranganatha Iyer, senior microbiologist from Global Hospitals, Hyderabad, presented on fungal infections in organ transplant recipients.

Dr Anupama Jyothi Kindo from Sri Ramachandra Medical College, Chennai, gave a presentation on ‘Processing of Clinical specimens in Mycology laboratory’. Later on, a lecture on regularity policies and scientific affairs of Mosanto India was presented. More than 100 postgraduates and faculty took part in the programme and presented research papers.