9:00-12:00 | PW1:Basic and Advanced Microbiologic Techniques and their Applications in Nosocomial Infection Control |
| Chairperson:Yi-Wei Tang (USA) |
| Chairperson: Bijie Hu (China) |
9:00-9:40 | PW1-1:Basic and advanced laboratory techniques for detection and identification of nosocomial pathogens |
| Thomas K.W. Ling (Hong Kong) |
9:40-10:20 | PW1-2:Phenotypic and genotypic techniques in microbial pathogen typing |
| Tsu-Lan Wu (Taiwan) |
10:20-11:00 | PW1-3:Clinical microbiology service in nosocomial viral infection control: a clinical microbiologist’s perspective |
| Yi-Wei Tang ( USA) |
11:00-11:40 | PW1-4:Microbial pathogen detection and characterization in hospital infection control: a hospital epidemiologist’s perspective |
| Michelle (Xiaoyan) Song ( USA) |
11:40-12:00 | Discussion |