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Meeting Report

Hot topics in the prevention of respiratory syncytial virus disease

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Pages 291-293 | Published online: 09 Jan 2014
 

Abstract

The 7th International Respiratory Syncytial Virus Symposium took place in Hotel Blijdorp, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The series has been running since 1996; this meeting took place after a 3-year gap, and was attended by approximately 200 clinicians, scientists and industry representatives from all over the world. The conference covered all aspects of respiratory syncytial virus disease, including virology, cell biology, pathogenesis, clinical presentation, diagnosis, immunology, vaccines, antivirals and other therapeutic approaches. Reviews by invited keynote speakers were accompanied by oral and poster presentations, with ample opportunity for discussion of unpublished work. This article summarizes a small selection of hot topics from the meeting, focused on pathogenesis, therapeutics and vaccine development.

Financial & competing interests disclosure

Pevion Biotech funded Peter Openshaw’s laboratory to perform preclinical testing on their virosomal vaccine. Maximillian S Habibi receives funding by a Wellcome Trust Programme Grant (grant number: 087805/Z/08/Z) awarded to Peter Openshaw. The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript. This includes employment, consultancies, honoraria, stock ownership or options, expert testimony, grants or patents received or pending, or royalties.

No writing assistance was utilized in the production of this manuscript.

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