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10:30 - 10:40Welcome address
Bernard Hirschel, MD, Geneva
President of the Swiss Society for Infectious Diseases and
Chairman of the Symposium
10:40 - 10:45Moderator's introduction
Thierry Calandra, MD, PhD, Lausanne
10:45 - 11:35"Innate sensors of infection in host defence"
Caetano Reis e Sousa, PhD
Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute, London, UK
11:35 - 11:40Moderator's introduction
Ursula Flückiger, MD, Aarau
11:40 - 12:30"On malignant endocarditis"
Philippe Moreillon, MD, PhD
University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
12:30 - 13:30Lunch
13:30 - 13:35Moderator's introduction
Bernard Hirschel, MD, Geneva
13:35 - 14:25"How should we use pneumococcal conjugate and polysaccharide vaccines in adult programmes"
Andrew J. Pollard, FRCPCH PhD
Oxford Vaccine Group, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
14:25 - 14:30Moderator's introduction
Gilbert Greub, MD, PhD, Lausanne
14:30 - 15:20"Point of care tests (Rapid tests): advantages and difficulties"
Michel Drancourt, MD, PhD
Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France
15:20 - 15:40Coffee Break
15:40 - 15:45Moderator's introduction
Kathrin Mühlemann, MD, PhD,  Bern
15:45 - 16:35"Cholera in Haïti: revisiting the relations between infectious diseases and humanitarian crisis"
Jean-Daniel Rainhorn, MD
Center for education and research in humanitarian action (CERAH), Geneva, Switzerland
16:35 - 16:40Chairperson's concluding remarks
16:40End of the Symposium

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