8th EMGM Meeting

Royal College of Surgeons Ireland, Dublin, 7th - 9th September 2005

The programme for the meeting is available elsewhere. For the meeting, a number of participant countries prepared posters describing the Epidemiology and surveillance methods used to monitor meningoccocal disease in their countries.

The posters are available in pdf format below. Also, some of the presentations which utlised EU-IBIS data, are also accessible in pdf format.

Presentations

EU-MenNet Overview
Prof Matthias Frosch
National Reference Laboratory for Meningococci, Germany

The Epidemiology and Surveillance of Meninogoccal Disease in Europe
Dr Mary Ramsay and Dr Caroline Trotter
Health Protection Agency, UK

EU-MenNet:Genetic Characteristaion of European Meningococcal Disease Isolates
Carina Brehony, Martin Maiden, Keith Jolley and the EU-MenNet Consortium
University of Oxford, UK

MenC Immunisation in Europe
Dr Caroline Trotter
Health Protection Agency, UK

Safe Working with Meningococci
Dr Steve Gray and Dr Ed Kaczmarksi
Health Protection Agency, UK

Epidemiology/Surveillance posters

Austria
Dr Heuberger and Dr Pekard-Amenitsch
Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety

Belgium
F Carion et al
Scientific Institute of Public Health

Denmark
Dr Hoffman et al
Statens Serum Institute

England and Wales
Dr Kaczmarski et al
Health Protection Agency

Estonia
Dr Kerbo and Dr Jöks
Health Protection Inspectorate

Finland
Dr Käyhty et al
National Public Health Institute (KTL)

France
Dr Perrocheau and Dr Parent du Châtelet
Institut de veille sanitaire

Germany
Dr Hellenbrand et al
Robert Koch Institute, National Reference Laboratory for Meningococci

Greece
Dr Tzanakaki and Prof Kremastinoum
National Meningococcal Reference Laboratory

Iceland
Dr Gudnason et al
Center for Infectious Disease Control, Department of Microbiology Landspitali-University Hospital

Italy
Dr Ciofi degli Atti et al
Istituto Superiore di Sanità

Latvia
L Kazanova
State Public Health Agency

Malta
Dr Gauci and Dr Melillo
Disease Surveillance Unit

Netherlands
Dr van der Ende et al
Academic Medical Centre/Netherlands Reference Laboratory for Bacterial Meningitis (AMC/RIVM), Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology

Poland (Epidemiology)
Dr Rosinska et al
National Institute of Hygiene

Poland (Reference Laboratory)
Dr Skoczynska et al
National Institute of Public Health

Slovak Republic
Dr Švejnochová et al
Public Health Authority of the Slovak Republic

Spain
Dr Portero-Cano and Dr Vazquez Moreno
National Centre of Epidemiology, National Centre of Microbiology

Sweden
Prof Olcén et al
Örebro University Hospital, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control

Switzerland
Dr Zucs and Dr Ninet
Swiss Federal Office of Public Health