2015 Young Scientist Award Winners Paweł Bęczkowski and Emily Porter

Paweł Bęczkowski: BETTER UNDERSTANDING FIV INFECTION
The 2015 AMYSA for Basic Research was presented to Dr Pawel Beczkowski (31), a Polish resident in internal medicine (ECVIM) at the Small Animal Hospital at the University of Glasgow, UK.

While studying at the University’s Centre for Virus Research, he focused on

GUIDELINE for Disinfectant choice in feline veterinary hospitals, shelters and cat households

Regardless of whether a pathogen is viral, bacterial, parasitic or fungal, or an emerging unknown, the mainstay of infectious disease prevention is hygiene, and the cornerstone of good hygiene is effective disinfection.