16.01.2026
35th Challenge in Infectious Diseases, 16 - 17 January 2026
Engelberg, Kursaal
The Annual Infectious Disease Symposium has been replaced by monthly virtual lunch sessions and the Special Session at the SSI Annual Meeting.
Engelberg, Kursaal
Virtual lunch session
12:00-12:45
Registration closed
98 participants
Disease heterogeneity in COVID-19: an interferon paradox?
Virtual lunch session
12:00-12:45
Registration closed
110 participants
Drug resistant tuberculosis: a scientific update
Nicolas Veziris, Sorbonne Université, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris
Moderator: Johannes Nemeth, Zurich University Hospital
Virtual lunch session
12:00-12:45
Registration closed
127 participants
Monkeypox - Where are we now?
17:30-20:30, Interlaken
followed by rich aperitif
Registration closed
120 Participants
Programme as of August 14, 2022
Bern
Cancelled due to COVID-19
Will be replaced by monthly virtual meetings. Information to follow.
Bern, Inselspital
Auditorium Maurice E. Müller
Freiburgstrasse 16
Programme as of February 27, 2020
Hot topic: Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2
Cancelled due to COVID-19
Credits 6 CME
Angela Huttner; Antibiotic therapy duration: shortest is beautiful
Ondrej Mach; The polio end game
Silvio Brugger; The nose knows
Sarah Tschudin; Metronidazole for C. difficile: Pro/con
Nicolas Noël; Immune checkpoint inhibitors and infections
Shamez Ladhani; Experience with meningococcal group B
Vetter Pauline, Koch Daniel, Kuster Stefan: Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2: Impact global and local
Angela Huttner; Antibiotic therapy duration: shortest is beautiful
Ondrej Mach; The polio end game
Silvio Brugger; The nose knows
Sarah Tschudin; Metronidazole for C. difficile: Pro/con
Nicolas Noël; Immune checkpoint inhibitors and infections
Shamez Ladhani; Experience with meningococcal group B
vaccination programme
Vetter Pauline, Koch Daniel, Kuster Stefan: Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2: Impact global and local
Zürich, Careum Auditorium
Pestalozzistrasse 11
8032 Zürich
158 participants, incl 9 faculty
Programme as of March 12, 2019
Adrian Egli; Future of diagnostic microbiology
Marc J. M. Bonten; Antibiotic cycling and mixing: Can we influence antibiotic resistance rates?
Pauline Paterson; Vaccine hesitancy
Ron Dagan; Pneumococcal immunization: successes and challenges for the next decade
Steven Holland; Innate immunodeficiencies
Pauline Vetter; Ebola: past and present
Future of diagnostic microbiology - Adrian Egli
Antibiotic cycling and mixing: Can we influence antibiotic resistance rates? - Marc J. M. Bonten
Vaccine hesitancy - Pauline Paterson
Pneumococcal immunization: successes and challenges for the next decade - Ron Dagan
Zürich
Careum Auditorium
Pestalozzistrasse 11
8032 Zürich
173 participants, incl 7 faculty
Programme as of March 8, 2018
Registration closed
Credits: 5 CME by SSI, SGIM, SSP/SGP, FAMH and other societies
Treating multi-resistant gram negative bacteria; J Rodríguez-Baño
Plague in Madagascar: epidemiology in changing environments; S Telfer
PrEP efficacy and risk compensation; J-M Molina
Burden of influenza in the elderly; J McElhaney
Clinical metagenomics: why does microbiota matter?; J Schrenzel - slides not available
Lucerne
168 participants, incl 27 faculty
How to treat Staphylococcal bacteremia/endocarditis in 2017, Josep M. Miró
Human genomics of immune response, Ch. Hammer
Etiology of Community Acquired Pneumonia: current concepts, Daniel M. Musher
Lucerne
181 participants, incl 19 faculty
Programme updated Mar 29, 2016
Turning on the heat on bacteria in the nasopharynx - Christoph M. Tang
New insights in the pathogenesis of Listeria - Marc Lecuit
The burden of rickettsiosis - the perspective from Asia - Daniel H. Paris
The threat of KPC producting bacteria - Yehuda Carmeli
The human virome: where are we? - Laurent Kaiser
Zika virus - Case presentations - not available