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RESEARCH ARTICLE

Vertical Transmission

Roy Robins-Browne
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President of ASM

Microbiology Australia 37(4) 156-156 https://doi.org/10.1071/MA16052
Published: 3 November 2016

Abstract

When I, a fresh young medical graduate, announced my decision to specialise in pathology my senior colleagues were impressed, because pathology is a 9-to-5 job that pays well. However, when I added that I was planning to sub-specialise in microbiology, they questioned my sanity. Didn’t I know that infectious diseases had been conquered by the twin forces of immunisation and antimicrobials?