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Congress programme
| Thursday, August 29 |
| 13.00 –14.30 |
SSAC Young member Workshop:
Workshop on
CMV-infections
The Workshop will consist of a discussion based on
case-reports sent in by the participants. This year's topic is
Cytomegalovirus (CMV)-infections. The moderator of the
Workshop will be Britt-Marie Eriksson, head of the Department
of Infectious Disease, Uppsala Akademiska Hospital, Sweden,
and an expert in the field of CMV-infections.
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16.00 –19.00 |
SSAC minicourse:
Practical course on rapid
microbiological diagnosis
Twenty years experience on rapid diagnosis of respiratory
virus infections
Olli Ruuskanen, Turku
Demonstrations: clinical cases, bacteriology and
virology
Facts and fictions on rapid diagnosis of
infectious diseases
Matti Viljanen, Turku
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| 19.00 |
Course
Dinner |
| Friday, August
30 |
| 10.00 – 11.30 |
Satellite symposium arranged by
GlaxoSmithKline
Update on vaccines
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| 11.30 |
Registration
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Symposium 1
- Rapid microbiological diagnosis
Chairs: Erkki Eerola,
Turku and Gunnar Kahlmeter, Växjö
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| 13.00 |
Use of gene amplification in the diagnosis
of infections
Jari Jalava, Turku
Use of PCR in the
rapid diagnosis of invasive fungal infections
Erja
Chryssanthou, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm
Future
prospects for rapid detection of antimicrobial
resistance
Ørjan Olsvik, Tromsø
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| 14.30 |
Coffee break and
exhibition
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| 15.30 |
SSAC Honorary Lecture
Paavo Toivanen,
Turku
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| 18.00 |
Opening ceremony and City reception at
Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova Museums
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| 20.00 |
Get-together party and dinner at Brewery
Restaurant Koulu
“The School” |
| Saturday, August
31 |
Symposium 2 -
Infections in the immunocompromised host
Chairs: Jukka
Nikoskelainen, Turku and Olav Öktedalen,
Oslo
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| 8.00 |
Infections in patients with solid organ
transplantation
Jan G. Tollemar, Stockholm
Invasive fungal infections in patients with hematological
malignancies
Juha Salonen, Turku
CMV-infections in immunocompromised patients
Per
Ljungman, Stockholm
Infections in patients with hypogammaglobulinemia
Leena
Kainulainen, Turku
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| 10.00 |
Coffee break and
exhibition
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Symposium 3 - Infectious problems in the Baltic
area
Chairs: Pauli Leinikki, Helsinki and Ingrid
Nilsson-Ehle, Lund
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| 10.45 |
Viral hepatitis in the Baltic countries today
Arvydas
Ambrozaitis, Vilnius
HIV-infections
Pauli Leinikki, Helsinki
Multidrug resistant tuberculosis
Hanna Soini,
Turku
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| 12.15 |
Lunch
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Symposium 4 -
Antiviral resistance
Chairs: Thedi Ziegler, Helsinki and
Ragnar Norrby, Stockholm
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| 13.15 |
Molecular basis for drug-resistance of
herpes viruses
Mia Brytting, Stockholm
Drug
resistance of influenza viruses
Thedi Ziegler, Helsinki
Laboratory identification of drug resistance of
HIV
Mika Salminen, Helsinki
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| 14.45 |
Coffee break and poster
viewing
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Symposium 5 - Young scientists
session
Chairs: Frank Espersen, Copenhagen and Paul
Andersen, Århus
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| 15.45 |
Invited young
scientists
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| 17.00 |
Poster discussion and
Bristol-Myers Squibb poster award
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| 19.40 |
Buses leave for Turku
Castle from the Congress Hotels
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| 20.00 |
Banquet at Turku
Castle
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| Sunday, September
1 |
Symposium 6 -
Severe infections
Chairs: Ville Valtonen, Helsinki and
Karl G. Kristinsson, Reykjavik
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| 9.00 |
Prevention of meningococcal disease
Bjørn-Erik
Kristiansen, Skien
Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia
Eeva Ruotsalainen,
Helsinki
Pneumococcal pneumonia; does penicillin resistance make a
difference?
Már Kristjánsson, Reykjavik
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| 10.30 |
SSAC GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| 11.00 |
Coffee break and
exhibition
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Symposium 7 - New
antimicrobials
Chairs: Pentti Huovinen, Turku and Otto
Cars, Uppsala
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| 11.30 |
Novel principles in the treatment of bacterial
infections
Niels Frimodt-Møller, Copenhagen
Antimicrobial growth promoters; what instead?
Frank
Aarestrup, Copenhagen
Blocking of leucocyte interaction with endothelium in
sepsis
Sirpa Jalkanen, Turku
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| 13.00 |
End of the meeting and
lunch
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