4th Congress of the European Society for Emerging Infections, 30 Sept - 01 Oct 2007, Lisbon - Portugal
             
 




4th Congress of the European Society for Emerging Infections,
Marriott , 30th September to 3rd October 2008, Edina, Minnesota

  
  Preliminary programme  
 
TUESDAY 2nd OCTOBER 2008
EMERGING RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS
09.00-9.30 Malaria
09.30-10.00 Tularemia
10.00-10.30 African Relapsing Fevers - a re-emerging threat?"
10.30-11.00 Coffee break and posters
11.00–11.30 West Nile and Usutu virus infections
11.30–12.00 Panel discussion
EMERGING FOOD-BORNE DISEASES
12.00–12.30 Transmissible spongiform diseases in veterinary medicine
12.30–13.00 Epidemiology of CJD
13.00-14.30 Lunch
14.30–15.00 nvCreutzfeldt-Jakob disease
15.00–15.30 Emerging food-borne diseases
16.00–16.30 Panel discussion
Oral presentation of selected abstracts
16.30–16.45 Paper I
15.45–16.00 Paper II
16.00–16.30 Coffee break
16.30-16.45 Paper III
16.45-17.00 Paper IV
20.00 Gala Dinner

WEDNESDAY 3rd OCTOBER 2008
ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE
09.00-09.30 Emerging antibiotic resistance as cause of human disease
09.30-10.00 Antibiotic-resistant pneumococci – are vaccines the answer?
10.00-10.30 Antibiotic resistance in food animals and human disease
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-11.30 Multi-drug resistant TB
11.30-12.00 Panel discussion
12.00–12.15 TMC207, a new drug against multi-resistant TB
12.15-13.00 Closing remarks
13.00-14.30 Lunch
Sunday & Monday