Session Highlights

PLENARIES

PIDS/ESPID JOINT PLENARY SYMPOSIUM – THE FUTURE OF VACCINES (IS NOW)

HPV vaccination – One dose?

Aimee Kreimer, USA

The problems with making the right decisions

Wolfgang Gaissmaier, Germany

Vaccine safety – How to measure it and how to communicate it

Saad Omer, USA

ESPID PLENARY – OPENING SYMPOSIUM – ANTIBIOTIC USE ACROSS EUROPE – DIFFERENCES AND CHALLENGES

Panelists:

Bojana Beovie

Maria Tsolia, Greece

Oana Falup-Pecurariu, Romania

Olof Hertting, Sweden

Welcome Speech by Meeting Co-Chairs

PLENARY SYMPOSIUM – ONE HEALTH – THE HUMAN – ANIMAL INTERFACE

Nature mortelle – The global burden of zoonotic infections

Tatjana Avšič Zupanc,  Slovenia

Pets as sources of infections

Bruno Chomel, USA

Ticking in the woods – New insights in tick-transmitted infections in Europe

Franc Strle, Slovenia

ESPID PLENARY SYMPOSIUM – NEW RESEARCH APPROACHES IN THE STUDY OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN CHILDREN

New ways of doing clinical trials in infectious diseases.

Diana Gibb, UK

How do we learn what works? Causal Inference from Observational Studies when Randomized Trials are not available

Miguel A Hernan, USA

SYMPOSIA

• Paediatric sepsis

• Pediatric infectious disease in unstable settings

• Perinatal infections – The mother – Infant pair

• Vaccine challenges

• Novelties in diagnostic microbiology in pediatrics

• Children on the move – Practical aspects on travel medicine and migrant health

• Congenital CMV infection

• Influenza prevention and children

• Healthcare associated infections in children

• Infections which define immune responses – Or the other way around?

• Prevention of meningococcal disease – the way forward

• Is it infection or inflammation?

• Infections in paediatric oncology and HSCT patients

Meet the Expert

• Complicated pneumonia (diagnostic and treatment approaches)

• Endocarditis in children

• Lyme disease – Diagnosis and management

• Invasive fungal infections in immunocompromised children

• Prevention of vertical transmission of HIV

• Tuberculosis – Still with us

• Diagnostic and treatment dilemmas in acute encephalitis

• How to do an audit on the use of antibiotics

• Diagnosis and management of osteomyelitis in children

• CMV infection in the neonate

• Diagnostic considerations in the frequently sick child

• Kawasaki disease dilemmas

• Diagnostic approaches in paediatric infectious diseases (microbiology vs. host response)

• Management of ventriculoperitoneal shunt infections in children

• Mycoplasma pnuemonia

• Vaccine Acceptance