The 8th Annual Scientific Meeting of Microbiology and Immunology Department was held on Sunday, the 8th of November 2015, in the VIP Hospital Conference Hall Under the title :"Antibiotic Resistance and its Economic Impact ".
The Meeting started by a welcome talk from the Dean of the Faculty Prof Dr Dawlat El Miligy. The first lecture was presented by Dr Esraa Hegazy,Assistant lecturer of microbiology and immunology, Faculty of Medicine Cairo University who gave a lecture under the title of Phage therapy of antibiotic resistant . Then, Prof Dr Hala Badawi presented her lecture under the title of"Antibiotic policy", and gave examples about the use of antibiotics in the hospital of Thuodor Bilharz institute. This was followed by DR Basma El Awady who presented her lecture about antibiotic policy. On the other hand,Prof Dr Mona Gharib gave a lecture under the title of "Antibiotic resistance and its economic impact "
The last talk was presented by Nigerian students who discussed how bacteria resists antibiotics ,the different route of transmission and how we can avoid acquiring infection by these bacteria.