17th International Congress on Infectious Diseases

<strong>17th</strong> INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Scientific Program ~ Saturday, March 5, 2016
35.004 Assessment of effect of intermittent
preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy
on birth weight of babies in Nigeria:
Life-saving dynamics
Y. F. Oke, M. Salihu
Abuja (Nigeria)
35.005 Rickettsial disease IFA-IgG titres in autoimmune
diseases: What do they imply?
P. Balasooriya, N. B. Bandara,
T. Chandrasena, R. Premaratna
Ragama (Sri Lanka)
35.006 Novel tick-borne Rickettsia sp. from wild
ticks of Kenya: Implications for emerging
vector-borne disease outbreaks
M. M. Mwamuye, E. Kariuki, D. Omondi,
J. Kabii, D. Odongo, D. Masiga, J. Villinger
Nairobi (Kenya)
35.007 Twelve months outcome in kala-azar patients
treated with 3 novel regimens, at public
health care facilities in Bihar
V. Goyal 1 , R. Mahajan 1 , B. Sharma 1 ,
N. Strub-Wourgaft 3 , M. Balasegaram 3 ,
S. Rijal 1 , S. Ellis 2 , F. Alves 2 , S. Burza 1 ,
T. Sunyoto 1 , N. Lima 3 , K. Pandey 4 ,
V. N. Rabi Das 4 , P. Das 4 , J. Alvar 2
1
New Delhi (India), 2 Geneva (Switzerland),
3
Barcelona (Spain), 4 Patna (India)
35.008 Post kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis treated
with liposomal amphotericin B (AmBisome)
S. Burza 1 , M. D. Boer 2 , R. Mahajan 1 , A. K.
Das 3 , G. Mitra 1 , P. Almeida 3 , M. A. Lima 4 ,
B.-N. Ahmed 3 , T. Sunyoto 1 , K. Ritmeijer 2
1
New Delhi (India), 2 Amsterdam
(Netherlands), 3 Dhaka (Bangladesh),
4
Barcelona (Spain)
Lunch Break
(optional)
Exhibition/Hall 3 12:45–14:15
Ground Floor Saturday, March 5, 2016
A cash snack bar and lunch areas are available in
Exhibition/Hall 3.
Poster Presentations
Exhibition/Hall 3 12:45–14:15
Ground Floor Saturday, March 5, 2016
Sessions 43.001 – 43.271 (see pages 78–94)
Session 36
Plenary VI
Zika, MERS, Ebola, SARS and H1N1:
Local and Global Responses
to Viral Threats
Chair: Rana Hajjeh, USA
CME
Room: Hall 4 (Plenary Hall) 14:30–15:15
Ground Floor Saturday, March 5, 2016
36.001 Zika, MERS, Ebola, SARS and H1N1:
Local and global responses to viral threats
P. A. Tambyah
Singapore (Singapore)
Coffee Break
Exhibition/Hall 3 15:15–15:45
Ground Floor Saturday, March 5, 2016
SATURDAY • March 5, 2016
35.009 Multilocus sequence typing of seven genetic
loci to discriminate strains of L. donovani
isolated from Bangladesh
S. S. Banu
Westmead (Australia)
35.010 The effect of TNF-Alpha neutralization on
parasite load and cytokine production in
human visceral leishmaniasis
N. Singh 1 , R. Kumar 2 , S. Nylén 3 , D. Sacks 4 ,
S. Sundar 1
1
Varanasi (India), 2 New Delhi (India),
3
Stockholm (Sweden), 4 Bethesda, MD (USA)
35.011 The baboon (Papio anubis)-Plasmodium
knowlesi model of placental malaria
F. I. Onditi
Nairobi (Kenya)
Session 37
Symposium
Sepsis and Other Infections
in Critical Care
Co-Chairs: Balaji Veeraraghavan, India
Jon Cohen, United Kingdom
CME
Room: Hall 2 15:45–17:45
Ground Floor Saturday, March 5, 2016
37.001 Intensive care considerations in epidemics
P. A. Tambyah
Singapore (Singapore)
37.002 Epidemiology of sepsis in low- and middleincome
countries
V. Ramasubramanian
Chennai (India)
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