Current Research on Respiratory Viral Infections: XIII International Symposium on Respiratory Viral Infections: Part 1

Abstract

The XIII International Symposium on Respiratory Viral Infections was convened by The Macrae Group LLC (NY, USA) in Rome, Italy, on the 13–16 March 2011. This annual symposium provides a forum for public health specialists, vaccinologists, clinicians, virologists and pharmacologists to discuss recent advances in respiratory virus research in an interdisciplinary fashion. Here, we highlight presentations at this conference with a special focus on influenza.

Spotlight on respiratory viruses 2012: introduction

“…To complete this Spotlight issue on respiratory viruses, Welkers and colleagues provide a synopsis of the XIIth International Symposium on Respiratory Viral Infections, which was held in Taipei, Taiwan in March 2010, and which covers a wide range of topics relevant to the field. For those interested, summaries from other International Symposia on Respiratory Viral Infections have been recently published [4][5][6].…”