Medical Xpress American Society for Microbiology

The American Society for Microbiology ASM is click here a professional organization for scientists who study viruses, bacteria, fungi, algae, and protozoa as well as other aspects of microbiology. Microbiology is the study of organisms too small to be seen with the naked eye and which must be viewed with a microscope.

In December 1960, it was renamed the "American Society for Microbiology."