Annual Congress Berlin 2008

Saturday, 04.10.2008
Sunday, 05.10.2008
Monday, 06.10.2008
Tuesday, 07.10.2008
Wednesday, 08.10.2008

Citations should be made in the following way: Authors. Title. Eur Respir J 2008; 32: Suppl. 52, abstract number.

Material from 2008:

3952 Abstracts
658 Slide presentations
316 Webcasts
96 Handouts
1824 e-posters
316 Multimedia files

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Is microbiological diagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia possible and useful?

Symposium
Chairs: W. Lim (Nottingham, United Kingdom), G. Dimopoulos (Athens, Greece)
Aims: The symposium will update the audience on the cost-benefit value of new microbiological and non-microbiological techniques for the diagnosis of bacterial infection in pneumonia.

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Rapid diagnostic methods: from urinary antigens to multiplex PCR M. Ieven (Antwerp, Belgium)
Biomarkers of bacterial infection M. Tamm (Basel, Switzerland)
Invasive approaches to the aetiologic diagnosis: when and why? A. Torres (Barcelona, Spain)
Microbiological diagnosis and clinical outcome: where are we? S. Ewig (Bochum, Germany)