9th EMGM Meeting

Aurelia Convention Centre, Rome, Italy, 30th May - 1st June 2007

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 the EU-IBIS network, or were directly relevant to it, are also accessible in pdf format.

Presentations

Towards an integrated EU surveillance system
Dr Lucia Pastore Celentano
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Sweden

EU-IBIS : Surveillance and Epidemiology of Invasive Meninogoccal Disease in Europe 1999 - 2006
Dr Manny Chandra and Dr Mary Ramsay
Health Protection Agency, UK
(on behalf of EU-IBIS participants)

Report of Working Group on Strain Characterisation and Typing and results of EQAS
Prof Andrew Fox
Health Protection Agency, UK

Challanges for Public Health Policy in Europe
Dr James Stuart, Martin Hoek
Health Protection Agency, UK

Questionaire on Public Health Policies
Martin Hoek. Dr James Stuart
Health Protection Agency, UK

Epidemiology/Surveillance posters

Austria
Dr Heuberger and et al
Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety

England and Wales
Dr Gray et al
Health Protection Agency

Estonia
Dr Kerbo and Dr Jöks
Health Protection Inspectorate

Latvia
Dr Lucenko et al
State Agency "Public Health Agency"

Malta
Dr Gauci and Dr Melillo
Disease Surveillance Unit

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