Vaccines against respiratory infections

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Chairs: L. Huiart (Strassen, Luxembourg), T. Welte (Hannover, Germany)
Aims: to address confidence in the use of vaccines; to report new vaccines against TB; to present the significant effects of pneumococcal vaccines on disease incidence, antibiotic resistance and microbial epidemiology; to discuss how uptake of the annual influenza vaccine has been variable, passive immunisation may be more effective than antiviral agents and future vaccines may soon be sufficiently generic to avoid the need for annual vaccination.

Vaccine confidence: how is it measured and what can we do about it? B. Rath (Berlin, Germany)
Moving tuberculosis vaccines from theory to practice P. Andersen (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Pneumococcal and Hemophilus vaccination: real world effectivity including pulmonary diseases A. Torres (Barcelona, Spain)
Influenza vaccination in COPD M. Herrmann (Basel, Switzerland)