Programme

A wide range of topics related to applied infectious disease epidemiology will be covered.  The plenary sessions will present on: Surveillance in Europe, What has genotyping to offer epidemiologists, Aging and infectious diseases and New methods for analyzing outbreaks.  The programme will be updated continuously.  

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Monday, October 26

08.00 – 09.00                       Registration

09.00 – 09.30                       Introduction & Welcome

Zsuzsanna Jakab, ECDC Director 

Professor Johan Giesecke, Chief Scientist ECDC

09.30 – 10.45                       Plenary Session A – Ageing and infectious diseases

Session Coordinator: Davide Manissero, Arnold Bosman and Ines Steffens, ECDC       

• The times of our lives: a history of longevity
  Professor Christopher Dye, WHO, Switzerland
• The impact of current and forecast demographic trends on the dynamics of childhood diseases: measles as a case study
  Professor Piero Manfredi, Universita di Pisa, Italy

10.45 – 11.15                       Coffee Break

11.15 – 12.55                       Parallel sessions 1, 2 & 3

• Parallel session 1- Influenza 1

  Moderator: Dr Bruno Ciancio, ECDC 

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• Transmission of Influenza A (H1N1) following a point exposure to a confirmed case
  Mr Pete Kinross
• First outbreak of influenza A(H1N1)v without travel history in a school in the Toulouse district, France, June 2009
  Dr Anne Guinard
• Epidemiology and control of the new influenza A(H1N1)v epidemic in the Netherlands: the first 115 cases
  Dr Susan Hahné
• Risk factors for infection with novel influenza virus A(H1N1) in a teenage party cohort, Germany, June 2009
  Dr Julia Hermes
• Assessment of strategies based on the use of a pandemic inactivated vaccine in mitigating influenza A/H1N1 spread: a modeling study
  Dr Vana Sypsa 

• Parallel session 2- Outbreaks 1

  Moderator: Dr Todd Weber (US CDC/ECDC) 

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• New Influenza A(H1N1) Virus Outbreak in a School, South-East London, April-May 2009
  Dr Laurence Calatayud
• Outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium DT 191a associated with reptile feeder mice in England and Wales
  Ms Katy Hutton
• Previous insufficient vaccination coverage led to countrywide mumps outbreak in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (MKD)
  Dr Janusz Janiec
• A textbook case of autochthonous malaria, France, 2007
  Dr Arnaud Tarantola
• An outbreak of Hepatitis A in Roma populations living in three prefectures in Greece
  Dr Apostolos Vantaraki 

• Parallel session 3- Health care associated infections 1 

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• Prevalence of infections in French Nursing Homes: A cross-sectional nationwide survey (PRIAM survey)
  Ms Kathleen Chami
• Diabetes mellitus and nosocomial surgical site infection in older patients in Spain
  Dr Roser Gonzàlez
• A new procedure specific risk index for stratifying surgical site infection following hip surgery in Scotland: A replacement for the NNIS risk index?
  Ms Shona Cairns
• Impact of hospital acquired infections on mortality, length of hospitalization and healthcare costs: an estimation for all acute hospitals in Belgium
  Mrs France Vrijens
• Impact of Bloodstream Infections with Extended-Spectrum-Beta-Lactamase-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in Hungarian hospitals
  Dr Emese Szilágyi

12.55 – 14.00                       Lunch

14.00 – 15.40                      Parallel sessions 4, 5 & 6

• Parallel session 4- Surveillance 1

  Moderator: Dr Andrew Amato, ECDC 

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• Syndromic Surveillance based on Routine Emergency Medical Care Data – Experiences from the European Project SIDARTHa
  Ms Alexandra Ziemann
• Successful expansion of influenza surveillance to 53 countries of the WHO Euro Region
  Mrs Tamara Meerhof
• Analysis of timeliness of infectious disease notifications in the Netherlands
  Mrs Elisabeth Reijn
• Exhausivity of the surveillance system for respiratory Tuberculosis in Balearic Islands, Spain, 2005-2007: a capture-recapture study
  Dr Jaume Giménez-Durán  
• Exhaustivity of the surveillance system for non-respiratory forms of tuberculosis in Balearic Islands, Spain, 2005-2007: Does it have difference with respiratory TB surveillance?
  Dr Jaume Giménez-Durán

• Parallel session 5- Vaccine preventable diseases 1 

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• Can the existing virological data collection system serve for surveillance of severe acute respiratory influenza? England, 2008/09
  Ms Ariane Halm
• Standard hepatitis B vaccination scheme less effective in elderly and men; three dose revaccination scheme after non response most effective
  Dr Christian Hoebe
• A long-lasting measles epidemic in Maroua, Cameroon 2008-2009: the need to rethink vaccination strategies
  Mr Francisco Javier Luquero
• Determinants for HPV vaccine uptake in the Netherlands
  Mr Marc Rondy
• Increased incidence of pertussis in Slovenia despite high vaccination coverage
  Mrs Veronika Učakar

• Parallel session 6- HIV

  Moderator: Dr Mika Salminen, ECDC

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• Potential impact of routine testing of patients with HIV indicator disease in preventing late HIV diagnosis
  Dr Enrico Girardi
• HIV seroconversion following immigration in Germany – Analysis of reported HIV/AIDS cases among immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa in Germany 2001-2008
  Mr Guy Oscar Kamga Wambo
• Knowledge about HIV-transmission in migrants from Sub Sahara Africa: Results from a German survey 2008-2009
  Ms Sabine Mall

15.40 – 16.10                       Coffee Break

16.10 – 17.25                       Plenary Session B- H1N1 pandemic: Will vaccines solve the problem and how will we know?

Session Coordinator: Johan Giesecke and Andrea Ammon, ECDC       

• Overview of the current situation regarding H1N1 with particular emphasis on vaccine strategies and prioritization
  Professor Angus Nicoll, ECDC 
• Assessing the effectiveness of H1N1 vaccine in Europe
  Dr Alan Moren, I-Move
• Modelling the potential benefits of vaccine use
  Mr Tommi Asikainen, ECDC
• H1N1 Vaccine uptake; Challenges for risk communication
  Professor Karl Ekdahl, ECDC
• Moderated panel discussion
  

17.25 – 19.00                       Reception

Tuesday, October 27

09.00 – 10.15                       Plenary Session C- What has genotyping to offer epidemiologists

Session Coordinator: Panayotis T. Tassios, University of Athens, Greece and Marion Koopmans, RIVM, Netherlands       

• Integrating strain typing and epidemiology in international networks: focus on diphtheria and invasive group A streptococcal infections
  Dr Androulla Efstratiuo, Health Protection Agency, UK
• Next generation molecular epidemiology of RNA viruses
  Dr Oliver Pybus, University of Oxford, UK
• Insights into norovirus epidemiology through molecular epidemiological studies
  Dr Marion Koopmans, National Institute for Public Health and Environment, Netherlands

10.15 – 10.45                       Coffee Break

10.45 – 12.25                       Parallel sessions 7, 8 & 9

• Parallel session 7- Influenza 2 

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• Thermal image scanning for mass screening of incoming travellers at airports.
  Dr Patricia Priest
• Influenza - an underestimated cause of fever in Swedish returned travellers
  Dr Brigitta Lesko
• Understanding the dynamics of seasonal influenza in Italy: an analysis of disease incidence and population susceptibility
  Dr Antonella Lunelli
• Active case finding for human infection in an H5N1 epizootic area –the first human H5N1 case in Lao PDR, 2007
  Mr Phonepaseuth Ounaphom
• Can we measure influenza vaccine effectiveness using a simple method? Comparing two study designs using data from the Spanish Influenza Sentinel Surveillance System, 2008-2009
  Dr Camelia Savulescu

• Parallel session 8- Food- and water-borne diseases

  Moderator: Johanna Takkinen, ECDC

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• Consumption of Fresh fruit juice: How a healthy food practice caused a national outbreak of Salmonella Panama gastro-enteritis.
  Dr Harold Noël
• Hepatitis A Outbreak in a Naval Base-Thailand, June 2008
  Ms Patummal Silaporn
• Investigation of a 7 year recurrent Salmonella Infantis outbreak of gastroenteritis in a rehabilitation clinic
  Dr Michaela Spackova
• Estimation of risk of Hepatitis A contamination of blood supplies during community-wide outbreak in Latvia, 2008.
  Dr Irina Lucenko
• Human listeriosis and co-morbidities in England, 1999 to 2008: quantifying the risk.
  Mr Piers Mook

• Parallel session 9- Surveillance 2 

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• Outbreaks of foodborne infectious intestinal disease in England and Wales: Health Protection Agency surveillance from 1992-2008.
  Dr Fraser Gormley
• Can we use web-based medical education to improve mandatory disease reporting in Germany?
  Mr Guy Oscar Kamga Wambo 
• Reporting of diagnosed measles cases to health authorities during an outbreak in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, 2006/07
  Ms Annicka Reuss
• Epidemiology of invasive Streptococcus pyogenes infections in Finland, 2004-2008
  Mrs Tuula Siljander
• Independent predictors of tetanus anti-toxin levels in the Netherlands; a serosurveillance study
  Ms Anneke Steens

12.25 – 13.15                       Lunch

13.15 – 14.15                       Poster Session A

14.15 – 15.55                       Parallel sessions 10, 11 & 12

• Parallel session 10- International Health

  Moderator: Dr Katherine Alpers, RKI Germany 

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• The First Indigenous Outbreak of Novel Influenza A (H1N1) in a Pub in a Popular Seaside Location, Thailand, June 2009.
  Ms Suchada Jiamsiri
• Factors triggering the initiation of international contact tracing in public ground conveyances
  Dr Oliver Mohr
• Lot Quality Assurance Sampling Used to Evaluate Immunization Coverage during the National Yellow Fever Vaccination Campaign, Cameroon, May 2009
  Dr Lorenzo Pezzoli
• Investigation of imported cases is helpful for surveillance of Dengue.
  Dr Charlotte Renaudat
• Screening of migrants for chronic Hepatitis B virus infection: A cost-effectiveness analysis
  Dr Irene Veldhuijzen

• Parallel session 11- Vaccine prenventable diseases 2

  Moderator: Dr Pawel Stefanoff, National Institute of Public Health, Poland 

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• Predictors of childhood vaccination uptake: a cross-sectional study in Greece
  Dr Konstantin Danis
• Diphtheria Surveillance Network: focus on microbiological diagnostics and molecular typing in Europe
  Dr Shona Neal
• Complications of Varicella Evaluated Within Four Years of the German Varicella Sentinel Surveillance System, 2005-2009
  Dr Michaela Spackova
• Epidemiological impact and cost effectiveness of serogroup C meningococcal vaccination in France.
  Mr Dieter Van Cauteren
• Current status of diphtheria and related infections in Europe
  Ms Joanne White

• Parallel session 12- Health care associated infections 2

  Moderator: Dr Carl Suetens, ECDC 

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• Increasing incidence and testing do not explain steep mortality rise associated to Clostridium difficile infection in Brussels and Flanders, 1998-2006.
  Mr Ignacio Gutiérrez 
• The Added Value of Post Discharge Follow-up of Surgical Site Infections
  Mrs Hege Line Lower
• National surveillance of surgical site infections after laparoscopic cholecystectomy in Norway: incidence and risk factors
  Ms Karina Junussova  
• Surgical site infections after appendectomy
  Ms Janne Moller-Stray
• Healthcare-associated infections in Finnish neonatal intensive care units – first results from repeated prevalence surveys
  Dr Emmi Sarvikivi

16.25 – 17.45                       Parallel sessions 13, 14 & 15

• Parallel session 13- Environmental Epidemiology

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• Surveillance for carbon monoxide poisonings: a French environmental surveillance system as a part of preventive policies
  Mrs Agnes Verrier
• Prioritisation of physical agents for public health action - A structured approach
  Dr Annamaria Antics
• Early detection of excess legionella cases in France: evaluation performance of five automated methods
  Mr Francesco Grandesso
• The use of windscreen wiper fluid without added chemicals in cars and commercial vehicles: A newly identified risk factor for Legionnaires’ disease
  Dr Anders Wallensten

• Parallel session 14- Tuberculosis

  Moderator: Dr Emma Hutric, ECDC

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• Protective effect of BCG vaccination in a nursery outbreak of Tuberculosis in London
  Dr Jaran Eriksen
• A high attack rate of Tuberculosis Infectionsin a school outbreak. Wilhelmshaven, Germany, 2008
  Mrs Alexandra Hofmann
• Tuberculosis in children in London, 1999-2007
  Dr Aileen Kitching
• Does increasing immigration affect the epidemiology of TB in Austria, 1997-2006?
  Mr Hung-Wei Kuo

• Parallel session 15- Sexually Transmitted Infections

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• Hepatitis-B-seroprevalence among children and adolescents in Germany - Findings from the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS)
  Ms Wei Cai 
• Participation and positivity rates in a large scale population-based Chlamydia Screening Implementation in the Netherlands
  Dr Ingrid van den Broek
• Participant acceptability of the Chlamydia Screening Implementation programme in the Netherlands
  Ms Catherine Greenland
• Epidemiology of acute and chronic hepatitis B virus infections in Norway, 1992–2007
  Ms Gražina Rimšelienė

Wednesday, October 28

09.00 – 10.15                       Plenary Session D- New methods for analyzing outbreaks

Session Coordinator: Viviane Bremer, ECDC and Barbara Schimmer, RIVM, Netherlands       

• Use of qualitative information in outbreaks
  Dr Steen Ethelberg, Statens Serum Institut, Denmark
• Description and analysis of outbreaks using GIS
  Dr Karin Nygård, The Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway
• Epidemiological issues in outbreaks of infectious disease
  Dr Noel McCarthy, Health Protection Agency, UK

10.15 – 10.45                       Coffee Break

10.45 – 12.25                       Parallel sessions 16, 17 & 18

• Parallel session 16- Influenza 3

  Moderator: Dr Marianne van der Sande, RIVM 

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• High proportion of self-reported symptoms and incomplete adherence to prophylactic oseltamivir among London Schoolchildren, May  2009
  Dr Aileen Kitching
• Compliance to and occurrence of self reported adverse events of prophylactic oseltamivir in nursery and primary school children following exposure to influenza A(H1N1)v
  Ms Eva van Velsen
• Side effects are common among school children receiving oseltamivir chemoprophylaxis
  Dr Anders Wallensten
• Novel A(H1N1)v case and contact management in 13 European countries during the containment phase, April 27 – May 15, 2009
  Dr Sandra Cohuet
• Outcomes of two case investigations focusing on duration of viral shedding and the contact management among some of the first reported cases of influenza A(H1N1) in Germany
  Ms Stine Nielsen

• Parallel session 17- Outbreak 2 

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• Norovirus-outbreak at an army-barracks, Germany, January 2009
  Dr Maria Wadl
• Norovirus outbreak at a primary school showing a change in the prevalent genotypes in the region
  Mrs Henriëtte ter Waarbeek
• Excess mortality during a norovirus outbreak following a pilgrimage to Lourdes
  Mr Marc Rondy
• Role of asymptomatic foodhandlers in norovirus transmission
  Dr Nathalie Nicolay
• Water-borne Norovirus outbreak in a mountain village in Sweden, April 2009
  Dr Riera Montes

• Parallel session 18- New methods in public health

  Moderator: Dr Gerard Krause, RKI, Germany

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• Representing spatial distribution of hospital emergency departments' catchment areas to enhance syndromic surveillance: an example in Midi-Pyrénées Region, France, 2008.
  Ms Lise Grout
• I-MOVE, towards monitoring seasonal and pandemic influenza vaccine effectiveness in Europe: pooled analysis of 5 countries case-control studies in the 2008-9 pilot phase
  Ms Ester Kissling
• Cholera epidemic in Guinea-Bissau: the importance of 'place'
  Mr Francisco Luquero
• Epidemiology facing its limits? The investigation of an unprecedented large salmonella outbreak, Denmark, 2008-2009
  Mrs Luise Müller

12.25 – 13.15                       Lunch

13.15 – 14.15                       Poster Session B

14.15 – 15.55                       Parallel sessions 19, 20 & 21

• Parallel session 19- Surveillance 3 

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• Real time monitoring of mortality – a common algorithm for European countries proposed by the “European monitoring of excess mortality for public health action” project (EuroMOMO)
  Dr Bernadette Gergonne
• Excess Mortality Related to Outbreaks of Influenza, Respiratory Syncytial Virus and Norovirus in Sweden 2004-2007
  Dr Mikael Andersson
• Comparison of survey methods for the estimation of influenza vaccination coverage in Sweden
  Ms Yen Ngo
• Unique Swedish travel data compared with surveillance data identifies trends in contracting food- and water-borne diseases abroad
  Ms Sofie Ivarsson
• Completeness of hepatitis, brucellosis, syphilis, measles and HIV/AIDS surveillance in Izmir, Turkey
  Dr Raika Durusoy

• Parallel session 20- Zoonoses

  Moderator: Dr Carmen Varela Santos, ECDC

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• A brucellosis outbreak in a previously brucellosis-free Greek island
  Mr Ioannis Karagiannis
• The tip and the iceberg - symptomatic and asymptomatic Q fever infections in an outbreak setting
  Mr Stefan Brockmann
• Prevalence and risk factors for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization in veterinary personnel, Germany
  Mr Niels Kleinkauf
• Giardia and Cryptosporidium in Finland – who gets diagnosed?
  Dr Ruska Rimhanen-Finne
• Goat census and brucellosis prevalence--Phetchaburi Province, Thailand 2008
  Dr Kitipat Sujit

• Parallel session 21- Antimicrobial resistance

  Moderator: Dr Klaus Weiss, ECDC

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• Antibiotic stewardship programmes in hospitals: achievements and gaps in Southwestern France, 2007
  Dr Catherine Dumartin 
• How does antibiotic stewardship programme impact antibiotic use ? A four-year survey in 86 hospitals, Southwestern France
  Dr Catherine Dumartin 
• Pattern of prescriptions and prudent use of antimicrobials in a small animal teaching hospital in Italy: a retrospective survey
  Ms Martina Escher
• Antibiotic prescriptions for the common cold. What are the expectations of Germany’s general population?
  Dr Mirko Faber
• Cholera Outbreak in Khonkaen, Thailand, 2007: Early warning of Quinolone Resistance
  Mr Choopong Sangsawang

15.55 – 16.15                       Coffee Break

16.15 – 17.30                       ESCAIDE Late Breakers’ session

Session Coordinator: Professor Johan Giesecke, ECDC 

• GIS Visualization of A/H1N1 Vaccination Strategies Optimizing Cost Versus Benefit
  Mr Lars Skog
• Early estimates of 2008-9 seasonal influenza vaccine effectiveness against A(H1N1)v outcomes, results from a computerized medical records cohort in Navarra (Spain)
  Mr Jesús Castilla
• The German shedding study on novel influenza virus A/H1N1 provides important information for modelers and public health officials
  Dr Udo Buhholz
• Household transmission of the first school outbreak of Novel Influenza A (H1N1) infection in Thailand, June-August 2009
  Dr Kanlaya Jongcherdchootraku
• Bringing specificity to large-scale syndromic influenza surveillance through self-sampling by direct mail: Lessons from England
  Mrs Cassandra Powers

17.30 – 17.40                       Closing Ceremony

Evening                               EPIET award party - open for all conference participants