<str<strong>on</strong>g>17th</str<strong>on</strong>g> INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON INFECTIOUS DISEASES Awards Travel Grant Awards for Young Investigators from India and Southeast Asia The Society gratefully acknowledges the generous support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundati<strong>on</strong> that enabled these grants. S<strong>on</strong>u Agrawal – Chandigarh, India Rajiv Ahlawat – Chandigarh, India Asma Ahmed – Bangalore, India Harishchander Anandaram – Chennai, India Shamma Athalye Shetye – Mumbai, India Priyantha Balasooriya – Colombo, Sri Lanka Nargis Bali – Soura, India Kuldeep Bhardwaj – Mumbai, India Saurabh Bhargava – Kanpur, India Manisha Biswal – Chandigarh, India Priyanka Chahar – Rohtak, India Salesh Chandran – Indore, India Somdatta Chatterjee – Kolkota, India Ravi Kumar Chaudhary – Greater Noida, India Sumi Chetry – Dibrugarh, India Swathirajan Chinnambedu Ravichandran – Chennai, India Nargis Choudhury – Silchar, India Betsy Dass – Chennai, India Saswati Majumder Datta – Kolkata, India Akhilandeswarre Dharmaprakash – Thiruvananthapuram, India Th<strong>on</strong>gadi Ramesh Dinesh – Chennai, India Pham Doanh – Hanoi, Vietnam Prasanna Duvvuri – Hyderabad, India Rajkumari Elizabeth – Silchar, India Geetanjali Ganguli – Bhubaneswar, India Ramesh Geetharani – Chennai, India Selvamurthi Gomathi – Chennai , India Vishal Goyal – New Delhi, India M Gunasekaran – Chennai, India S<strong>on</strong>al Gupta – New Delhi, India Vivek Gupta – Wardha, India Parakriti Gupta – Chandigarh, India Anand Ignatius – Mangalore, India Zhahirul Islam – Dhaka, Bangladesh Evangeline Jayakumar – Chennai, India Bharath K Sundararaj – Bangalore, India Bhuvanesh Kalal – Mangalore, India Sivasangeetha Kanagasabai – Chennai, India Ravi Kant – New Delhi, India Debarshi Kar Mahapatra – Segunderabad, India Manjeri Kaushik – Rohtak, India Vidya Krishna – Chennai, India D R Naveen Kumar – Vellore, India Manochitra Kumar – P<strong>on</strong>dicherry, India Dinesh Kumar – Varanasi, India Prawin Kumar – New Delhi, India Raman Mahajan – New Delhi, India Anirban Mandal – Kolkata, India Selvin Sundar Raj Mani – Vellore, India Anand Kumar Maurya – Jodhpur, India Kayur Mehta – Hyderabad, India Anshul Mishra – Patna, India Richa Misra – Lucknow, India Mayank Modi – Vadodara, India Lavanya Mohanam – Chennai, India Sarita Rath Mohapatra – New Delhi, India Aman Moudgil – Palampur, India Prashant Mudaliar – Trivandrum, India Shyam Lal Mudavath – Mohali, India Swati Mudshingkar – Pune, India Kalamathy Murugananthan – Kandy, Sri Lanka Mitha Naik – Trivandrum, India Nishant Nandanwar – Hyderabad, India Mukti Nayak – Kolkata, India Avinash Padhi – Bhubaneswar, India Kesavaram Padmavathy – Chennai, India Shashiraja Paduk<strong>on</strong>e – Puducherry, India Apoorva Patel – Bangalore, India Deepjyoti Paul – Silchar, India Nagaraj Perumal – Madras, India Agila Kumari Pragasam – Vellore, India KV Pramina – Hebbal, India Asim Priyendu – Mangalore, India Siva Raghavenhdar – New Delhi, India Niharika Rajnala – Bangalore, India Srabanti Rakshit – Bangalore, India Subhasree Roy – Kolkata, India Mani Sankar – New Delhi, India Paramita Sarkar – Kolkata, India Srabasti Sengupta – Bhubaneswar, India Nasheed Shaikh – Mumbai, India Priyanka Sharma – New Delhi, India Irshad Ali Sheikh – Kolkata, India Namita Singh – New Delhi, India Ravinder Singh – New Delhi, India Neetu Singh – Varanasi, India Taru Singh – New Delhi, India Kuljit Singh – Patna, India Bhawana Singh – Varanasi, India Harkaran Singh – Amritsar, India Om Prakash Singh – Varanasi, India Jyotsana Singh – Tiruvalla, India Ruchi Singh – New Delhi, India Abhishek Kumar Singh – Varanasi, India Jitendra Singh – New Delhi, India Nadeera Siriseena – Kandy, Sri Lanka Sinosh Skariyachan – Bangalore, India Dhakshinamoorthy Subashini – Chennai, India Beula Subashini – Vellore, India Puja Tiwary – Varanasi, India Supriya Upadhyay – Shill<strong>on</strong>g, India Sheetal Verma – Lucknow, India Ashish Vyas – New Delhi, India 10 ~ FINAL PROGRAM #<str<strong>on</strong>g>17th</str<strong>on</strong>g>ICID
<str<strong>on</strong>g>17th</str<strong>on</strong>g> INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON INFECTIOUS DISEASES Acknowledgements The <str<strong>on</strong>g>Internati<strong>on</strong>al</str<strong>on</strong>g> Organizing Committee would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the following Benefactors, Sp<strong>on</strong>sors, C<strong>on</strong>tributors, and Cooperating Organizati<strong>on</strong>s: CONGRESS BENEFACTORS PREMIER SPONSORS SPONSORS Bill & Melinda Gates Foundati<strong>on</strong> Bharat Biotech Japanese Associati<strong>on</strong> for <strong>Infectious</strong> Disease (JAID) The Elsevier Foundati<strong>on</strong> GSK Sanofi Pasteur Skoll Global Threats Fund Takeda Pharmaceutical <str<strong>on</strong>g>Internati<strong>on</strong>al</str<strong>on</strong>g> Etihad Airways CONTRIBUTORS B. Braun Sociedade Brasileira de Infectologia (SBI) British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC) Center for Disease Dynamics, Ec<strong>on</strong>omics & Policy (CDDEP) DRIVE-AB — A project of the Innovative Medicines Initiative The Lancet <strong>Infectious</strong> <strong>Diseases</strong> Nato Grant <strong>on</strong> Refugee and Migrant Health South African Field Epidemiology Training Programme (SAFETP) SLS Cell Cure Technologies Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance COOPERATING ORGANIZATIONS Clinical <strong>Infectious</strong> Disease Society (CIDS), India Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology, India European Society of Clinical Microbiology and <strong>Infectious</strong> <strong>Diseases</strong> (ESCMID) Infecti<strong>on</strong> C<strong>on</strong>trol Africa Network (ICAN) Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP) Indian Associati<strong>on</strong> of Medical Microbiologists (IAMM) <str<strong>on</strong>g>Internati<strong>on</strong>al</str<strong>on</strong>g> Society for <strong>Diseases</strong> Surveillance (ISDS) Public Health Foundati<strong>on</strong> of India (PHFI) #<str<strong>on</strong>g>17th</str<strong>on</strong>g>ICID FINAL PROGRAM ~ 11