Ninth EPIET Scientific Seminar
Mahon, Menorca, Spain, 14–16 October 2004

We would like to thank the following groups and institutions for their contribution: Consell Insular de Menorca, Ajuntament de Maó, Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Canadian Field Epidemiology Program, Aventis Pasteur MSD, EPIET Alumni Network.
Session 1 - Outbreaks I
Session 2 - Round table I- Avian influenza
Session 3 - Hospital acquired infection and anti - microbial resistance
Session 4 - Outbreaks (II)
Session 5 - Surveillance and methods
Session 6 - Round table II- Epidemiological surveillance during mass gatherings
Session 7 - Posters
Session 8 - Vaccine preventable diseases
Session 9 - Emerging infections / international health
Session 10 - Round table III- Darfur - the international respons
Session 11 - HIV / Sexually transmitted infections
Session 12 - Outbreaks (III)
For presentations please contact the EPIET Programme Office who will contact the author.

Thursday 14 October 2004

09:00 Introduction & Welcome Mike Catchpole, Chairman, EPIET Steering Committee
Richard Pebody, President, EPIET Alumni Network
Juan Fernando Martinez-Navarro, Instituto de Salud Carlos III
09:15 Session 1 - Outbreaks I
Moderator: Johan Giesecke, SMI, Sweden
Outbreak of Clostridium Botulism, Type B, associated with home preserved olives in saltwater, Molise, Italy 2004
Amy Cawthorne
Waterborne outbreak of salmonellosis in Chania, Crete, February-March 2004
Stefanos Bonovas
An outbreak of VTEC O157 from pasteurised milk in Copenhagen and Northern Sealand, Denmark, September 2003 to March 2004
Andrea Gervelmeyer
Human to human transmission of avian influenza A/H7N7, The Netherlands,2003
Mirna Du Ry van Beest Holle
Avian to human transmission of influenza virus A/H7N7 inthe Netherlands, 2003
Arnold Bosman
11:00 Break
11:30 Session 2 - Round table I
Avian influenza
Guest speaker:
Marion Koopmans, RIVM, The Netherlands Moderator: Arnold Bosman, RIVM, The Netherlands
12:45 Introduction to the poster session
Susan Hahné
12:55 Lunch at "Club Marítimo"
14:15 Session 3 - Hospital acquired infection and anti - microbial resistance Moderator: Jean-Cleaude DESENCLOS, InVS - St Maurice, France 15:35Coffee break
16:05 Session 4 - Outbreaks (II)
Moderator: James STUART, HPA, UK
An outbreak of hepatitis A in North Rhine- Westphalia, Germany, March-April 2004
Karl Schenkel
Outbreak of furunculosis due to lukS-lukF positive Staphylococcus aureus in a small village, Germany 2002-2004
Miriam Wiese-Posselt
Salmonella Enteritidis outbreak among participants of an official dinner, Athens, Greece, November 2003
Kassiani Mellou
17:35Free time 18:00 EAN General Assembly 19:00 Free time 20:30 Dinner at "Club Marítimo"

Friday 15 October 2004

08:45 Session 5 - Surveillance and methods Moderator: Denis Coulombier, WHO - Lyon, France 10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Session 6 - Round Table II

Epidemiological surveillance during mass gatherings
Guest speaker:
Nikoletta Mavroidi, HCIDC, Greece
Tracy Treadwell, CDC, USA
Sarah Thackway, NSW Health Department, Australia Moderator: Chris Bartlett, University College, London - UK
12:30 Lunch at "Club Marítimo"

14:00 Session 7 - Posters

15:30 Coffee break

16:00 Session 8 - Vaccine preventable diseases
Moderator: Natasha Crowcroft, HPA, UK
Pertussis incidence in The Netherlands after introduction of an acellular booster vaccination at 4-years of age
Sabine De Greeff
Modelling the impact of varicella vaccine in French adolescents and young adults
Isabelle Bonmarin
Mass antibiotic treatment to stop an outbreak of meningococcal disease
Michael Gdalevich
Pandemic influenza: Modelling the impact with and without intervention in France
Aoife Doyle
Cluster of tetanus in injecting drug users: Single incident or changing epidemiology of tetanus in the UK
Susan Hahné
17:45 Free time 20:30 10 years EPIET Buffet/Party at “Club Marítimo”

Saturday 16 October 2004

08:45 Session 9 - Emerging infections / international health

Moderator: Philippe Sudre, DGS, Switzerland

10:55 Coffee break
11:15
Session 10 - Round table III
Darfur - the international respons
Video introduction (10 min)
Retrospective mortality survey, Darfur, Sudan
Bernadette Gergonne
Hepatitis E outbreak, Darfur, Sudan
Hilde Kløvstad
Moderator: Deborah Hall, UK 12:45 Lunch at "Club Marítimo"
14:00 Session 11 - HIV / Sexually transmitted infections Moderator: Andrzej Zielinski, National Institute of Health, Poland 15:20 Coffee break 15:35 Session 12: Outbreaks (III)
A case-control study of risk factors for endemic Campylobacter jejuni infections in The Netherlands
Yvonne Doorduynn
Outbreak of brucellosis due to fresh cheese in Extremadura, Spain
Jerker Jonsson
Another wide community outbreak of Hepatitis A due to shellfish consumption in Southern Italy
Delia Boccia
A prolonged outbreak of Legionnaires' disease associated with an industrial cooling tower - how far can airborne transmission spread?
Tran Minh Nhu NguyenRose
Moderator: Andrea Ammon, RKI, Germany
16:55 Closing ceremony
Mike Catchpole, Chairman, EPIET Steering Committee
Richard Pebody, President, EPIET Alumni Network
Andreu Bosch Mesquida, Conseller de Bienestar Social, Consell Insular de Menorca, Spain
17:25 End

Poster Guide

EU Designated surveillance networks
Measles surveillance in the European Union
Steffen O. Glismann
Basic Surveillance Network: European Surveillance data on infectious diseases
Anders Ternhag
Results from the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System (EARSS) offer opportunities for intervention
Edine W. Tiemersma
Five winters of influenza activity in Europe: an evaluation of the indicators used to measure the activity and an assessment of the timing, length and spread of influenza
W. John Paget
Epidemiological patterns of hepatitis A and B in Athens, Greece in 2001
Cleo G. Anastassopoulou
Detecting unexpected and unusual STI transmission events in Europe: the ESSTI_ALERT surveillance system
Delia Boccia
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in the enlarged European Union: a threat from the former Soviet Union?
Andrea Infuso
HIV infection among migrant populations in the enlarged European Union
Françoise F. Hamers
Eurosurveillance: evolving to address an expanded Europe
Elizabeth Hoile
Enteric disease - surveillance and control
Campylobacter infections in France : Results of the first years of surveillance (2002 - 2003)
Anne Gallay
Using Campylobacter jejuni multi locus sequence typing (MLST) data to evaluate whether typing information can be used in studies to assess the contribution of different host sources to human infection
Noel McCarthy
A drop in the ocean: Norovirus in oysters, British Columbia, Canada 2004
Samara T. Berger
An outbreak of gastroenteritis caused by Norwalk virus in a nursing home in Colmenar Viejo, Madrid, Spain
Larraitz Arriola
Diagnosis on Campylobacter in public and private laboratories in Spain
Carmen Varela-Martinez
Setting up Norovirus surveillance in Sweden
Stephen Martin
Outbreaks
An outbreak of Tularaemia in Sweden, 2003
Lara Payne
The first reported outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium DT49 in Ireland
Massimiliano Di Renzi
An outbreak of norovirus gastroenteritis on an Israeli military base
Itamar Grotto
Outbreak of gastroenteritis in Sami School in Northern Norway
Hilde Kløvstad
A pseudo-outbreak of pulmonary tuberculosis, Gloucestershire, UK 2004
Chikwe Ihekweazu
Low level of influenza activity in Germany, season 2003/04 - not in children under four
Karl Schenkel
Does timely vaccination of nursing home residents protect during an outbreak of influenza?
Marion Muehlen
A cluster of acute HCV among men who have sex with men - results from contact tracing and public health implications
Hannelore M. Götz
A new STI in Geneva? Ciprofloxacine-Resistant Neisseria gonorrhoea
Carmen Aramburu
Meningococcal disease
Neisseria Meningitidis W135 in Spain
Larraitz Arriola
Invasive meningococcal serogroup C disease and vaccination in Belgium, 2001-2003
Germaine Hanquet
European study on the effectiveness of antibiotics in preventing meningococcal disease following a case in nursery schools (1993-2002)
Delia Boccia
Outbreak due to Neisseria meningitidis B in a small area of Spain
Pilar Soler
Standards of practice in acute bacterial meningitis and meningococcal septicaemia among adults in England and Wales: a retrospective clustered randomised review
Ardiana Gjini
Vaccine preventable disease
Vaccinations in early infancy - results of a random sample survey in Hamburg 2003
Gerhard Fell
An outbreak of Parotitis in Sweden during February-April 2004
Benn Sartorius
EPI cluster sampling survey in South Tyrol on vaccination coverage data and its determinants: local experience and comparison with national data
Peter Kreidl
Immunity to rubella virus among women and teenage-girls in Arkhangelsk region, Russia
Andrei Tulisov
Evaluation of the BCG vaccination coverage by cluster survey, Campina district, Romania, March 2004
Biagio Pedalino
Monitoring the effectiveness of influenza vaccine within the Danish sentinel surveillance system: A pilot study
Anne Mazick
Low measles vaccination coverage among children aged 6 to 59 months, Niamey, Niger, April 2004- a lot quality assurance sampling survey
Andrea Gervelmeyer
Who takes up influenza vaccination? Survey on vaccination coverage in season 2003/2004, Germany
Miriam Wiese-Posselt
Vaccine coverage survey following the implementation of universal varicella vaccination in Sicily, Italy, 2003
Gabrielle Breugelmans
The impact of pneumococcal vaccine in Scotland
John D. Mooney
Influenza vaccination uptake amongst Irish General Practitioners
Massimiliano Di Renzi
Global health
Epidemiological investigation of nosocomial infection of Lassa fever in Kenema Government Hospital (KGH), Kenema, Sierra Leone - April 2004
KANDE-BURE O'BAI Kamara
Implementation of public health measures during the SARS outbreak 2003 in Germany
Klaudia Porten
No human to human transmission of avian influenza H5N1 among Hospital Employees, Vietnam, 2004
Mirna Du Ry Van Beest Holle
Malaria prophylaxis among German travellers to Senegal, Kenya and Thailand, 2004: an airport survey
Mirna Du Ry Van Beest Holle
First prioritisation exercise for communicable diseases surveillance, 2003, Romania - Resource allocation on scientific basis
Alexandru Rafila
The Mozambique injection safety survey, March 2004
Cinthia Lemos
A Rapid Public Health response to an outbreak of ebola haemorrhagic fever, in Yambio, South Sudan, 2004
Chikwe Ihekweazu
Nipah infection: seroprevalence in the aftermaths of an epidemic, Goalanda district, Bangladesh February 2004
Alice Croisier
Setting up an early warning system for epidemic prone diseases in the Darfur humanitarian crisis, first achievements and limits.
Augusto Pinto
Surveillance - practice and methods
HIV, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C in Northern Ireland prisons: A cross-sectional survey
Konstantinos Ntanis
The effect of postdischarge surveillance on surgical site infection rates in The Netherlands
Judith Manniën
Emergence of Community -Acquired Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Geneva, Switzerland, 2002-2004
Carmen Aramburu
How many new HIV diagnosis result from a recent infection in France? First results of a national anonymous HIV notification system implemented in 2003
Françoise Cazein
PID-ARI.net and year-round surveillance of 19 respiratory pathogens in children
Josef A.I. Weigl
Evaluation of the surveillance system of Legionellosis in the Balearic Islands, Spain
Jerker Jonsson
Evaluation of the Human Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies surveillance system in The Basque Country's Autonomous Community, 1993-2003
Larraitz Arriola
Evaluation of the surveillance of paediatric pneumococcal meningitis infections in France, 2001-2002
Aoife Doyle
Outbreak surveillance in Germany. Computer assisted outbreak reporting versus statistical algorithm
Klaudia Porten
Evaluation of the surveillance system of gonococcal infection in theAutonomous Community of Madrid (Spain), 2001-2003
Cándida Sanchez-Barco
Electronic reporting improves timeliness and completeness of infectious disease notification, The Netherlands, 2003
Mary Ward
Implementation of sentinel surveillance of STI in The Netherlands
Marita Van De Laar
Resurgence of Listeria monocytogenes in England and Wales; why now?
Katri Jalava
Hepatitis C and lower limb sclerotherapy: estimating the risk
Angela Rose
Capture-Recapture analysis to improve incidence estimates of invasive meningoccocal disease in Germany
Annette Schrauder
The incidence of pneumococcal meningitis in the Netherlands 1993-2000, estimated by a two-source capture-recapture analysis
Mary Ward
Clearing the air: Assessing the risk of tuberculosis from residual air contamination, Canada 2004
Derek Scholten
Dynamics of the geographical diffusion of an outbreak of menincococcal disease by a mathematical model
Javier De La Vega
Impact of legislation to restrict non-prescription sales of paracetamol in England and Wales
Oliver Morgan
Impact of the explosion of the AZF factory, 21 september2001, on hearing loss of workers
Stéphanie Riviere
Application of an automated outbreak detection algorithm to Swedish mortality data from 1997 to 2003 as an early warning system
Benn Sartorius
Deaths risk factors of elderly people living at home during an exceptional heatwave, Paris and surroundings, August 2003
Alice Croisier
Surveillance and control of communicable Diseases in cruise ships during the Athens 2004 Olympic Games
Georgia Nikolopoulou
WHO Global Salm-Surv and Applied Epidemiology Training Programs: Beneficial Partnerships
Jaap Wagenaar
For presentations please contact the EPIET Programme Office who will contact the author.
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