Major Topics of INMIS-2010

  • Guidelines of Vaccine Safety
  • BCG vaccine: lessons to be learned and new achievements
  • Burden of neonatal/early infections that need to be prevented
  • Early life vaccinology: Passive transmission of maternal antibodies, B and T lymphocyte functions, safety issues
  • Immunization practices in adolescents and adults
  • Alternative strategies for neonatal protection against Hib including maternal immunization
  • Potential new vaccines: Group B streptococcal vaccines, Cytomegalovirus vaccine
  • Pertussis vaccine: Epidemiology of pertussis infection, pertussis vaccine in adolescence, adults, pregnant-post pregnant and newborn period
  • Pneumococcal vaccine: Maternal pneumococcal immunization, pneumococcal vaccine during infancy
  • Immune system during pregnancy and Immunization during pregnancy
  • Influenza vaccine: Influence of maternal influenza antibody on infant antibody response, Influenza vaccines during infancy
  • Hepatitis B vaccine in early newborn period
  • Human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccines
  • Immunity to rotavirus infections and rotavirus vaccines
  • Basic neonatal immunology: Adaptive immunity, innate immunity, altered immun status in high-risk neonates
  • New achievements to optimize neonatal immune responses and potential new vaccines