General Policies

 

• All abstracts must be submitted electronically through the electronic abstract submission system.

  All abstracts must be received on or before October 15, 2014.
  Abstracts received after this deadline will not be accepted for inclusion in the Symposium.

  All abstracts have a 350 word limit of text (not including presenter information and title).

   

• Authors are advised to insure that their abstracts meet the criteria and guidelines below. Acceptance of the abstract in the program and assignment to a session are determined solely by the Scientific Committee based on a review of the abstract and its subject matter. Decisions of the Scientific Committee are final. Because of the logistics of assigning abstracts to sessions and the number of abstracts received, requests for particular types of presentations, sessions, days, or times will not be considered by the Program Committee.

   

• Submitting authors are required to insure that all listed co-authors have reviewed the abstract, take responsibility for its content and agree with being listed as co-author.

  All potential conflicts of interest for each co-author must be provided. Potential conflicts of interest include, but are not limited to, commercial interest in the research, and financial or in-kind support for the research, and financial or in-kind support for the research from entities with commerical interest in research.

   

• The Program Committee invites the submission of research abstracts of excellent quality in all areas related to Clostridium difficile and other clostridia bacteria. Authors with original research are encouraged to submit abstracts related to this bacterial infections, the pathogenesis of infectious diseases, antimicrobial agents, and related fields of investigation. All abstracts are reviewed by Scientific Committees of the Symposium for the quality and originality of their research, scientific content, and presentation.

 

• The full names of all authors and their affiliations should be provided. 

 

• The authors of the papers will be required to present the research during the poster session for which it was designated.

 

• The presenting author must be properly registered poster at the symposium.