Photo: Dr. John Besser of the CDC (left), Dr Balfour (middle), and Barbara Schenk, Illinois SCACM Director (right).
On Monday, September 28th, Dr. Balfour gave a talk about our EBV research at a symposium entitled “Happy Birthday (200) Charles Darwin, Change and Evolution in Microbiology.” This was the annual fall meeting of the South Central Association for Clinical Microbiology held at the Loyola University Medical Center near Chicago. The symposium was attended by 90 clinical microbiologists from 6 states: Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia.