May 28, 2009

Maison Internationale - Cité Universitaire, Paris Institute for Public Health Surveillance

To facilitate the CNR network, the InVS, in collaboration with the CNR Committee, regularly organizes seminars that bring together CNR directors and their staff, members of the CNR Committee, and officials from the Directorate General of Health and the InVS involved in infectious disease surveillance.

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Oral presentations

Opening remarks

by Marie-Hélène Cubaynes, Deputy Director of the Infectious Risk Prevention Division at the DGS, and Françoise Weber, Director General of the InVS

Review of the CNR Committee’s work and preparation of the 2010 call for applications

Patrick Berche, Chair of the CNR Committee

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Leishmaniasis in France: Epidemiology and Surveillance

Jean-Pierre Dedet, Leishmania CNR

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New technologies for the identification of bacteria and viruses

Moderator: Jean-Claude Piffaretti, member of the CNR Committee

Mass spectrometry applied to bacterial identification

Xavier Nassif, Necker Hospital, Inserm U570

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Application of microarrays for virus identification

Jean-Claude Manuguerra, Institut Pasteur

Quality assurance in the laboratory

Moderator: Xavier de Lamballerie, Member of the CNR Committee

Laboratory accreditation

Jean-Claude Piffaretti, Interlifescience, member of the CNR Committee

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Organization of Biological Resource Centers in France

Chantal Bizet, CRB, Institut Pasteur

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Role of the CNR in the characterization of post-vaccination circulating strains

Moderator: François Denis, member of the CNR Committee

Rotavirus

Pierre Pothier, CNR Enteric Viruses

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Papillomavirus (HPV)

Michel Favre - Isabelle Heard, CNR Papillomavirus

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Pneumococcus

Emmanuelle Varon, CNR Pneumococci

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Antimicrobial Resistance

Moderator: Panayotis Tassios, member of the NRC Committee

Monitoring Antibiotic Resistance in Switzerland

Kathrin Mühlemann, University of Bern

Influenza

Bruno Lina, CNR Influenzae Virus

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Cytomegalovirus

Sophie Alain, CNR Cytomegalovirus

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Summary of the day

Jean-Claude Desenclos, Scientific Director of the InVS

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Conclusion

Françoise Weber, Executive Director of the InVS