November 28, 2013

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

The Institute for Health Surveillance, in collaboration with the Committee of National Reference Centers (CNR), regularly organizes seminars that bring together all CNR directors and their staff to discuss current topics and share experiences.

The 6th NRC seminar took place on November 28, 2013, at the Maison Internationale (Paris, 14th arrondissement). It brought together the heads of the NRCs and their associated laboratories for the first time since their appointment for the 2012–2016 term, in the presence of experts from the NRC Committee, officials from the Directorate General for Health, the InVS, and partner agencies involved in the surveillance and control of infectious diseases.

Program (pdf)

Oral presentations

Introduction by the General Directorate of the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS) and the General Directorate of Health (DGS)

Activities of the National Reference Centers (CNR) Committee from 2009 to 2013 Prof. Jean-Claude Piffaretti, Chair of the National Reference Centers (CNR) Committee Download the document (pdf)

Moderator: Dr. Christine Saura

Program of the European Centre for the Prevention and Control of Communicable Diseases (ECDC) in the field of public health microbiology Prof. Marc J. Struelens, ECDC, Head of Microbiology Download the document (pdf)

Vaccine escape and coverage: tools, results, and ethical considerations illustrated by three examples

Moderator: Dr. Daniel Lévy-Bruhl

Pertussis: consequences for the epidemiology of the disease of the emergence of isolates no longer expressing one or more vaccine antigens Dr. Nicole Guiso, Institut Pasteur – CNR Pertussis and other Bordetella infections Download the document (PDF)

Pneumococci: Prevenar®7, Synflorix®10, Prevenar®13, and beyond? Dr. Emmanuelle Varon, Assistance publique-hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) Georges Pompidou European Hospital – CNR PneumococciDownload the document (pdf)

Meningococcal B: New Tools for Assessing Vaccine Coverage of Circulating Strains with Bexsero© Dr. Muhamed-Kheir Taha, Institut Pasteur – CNR Meningococcal B Download the document (PDF)

Quality

Role of CNRs in the evaluation of reagents Moderator: Prof. Jean-Claude Piffaretti

Regulation of in vitro diagnostic medical devices Dr. Marianne Deschênes, French National Agency for Medicines and Health Products Safety (ANSM)Download the document (PDF)

Evaluation of diagnostic kits for dengue and chikungunya Dr. Christine Prat, Armed Forces Biomedical Research Institute (IRBA) – CNR ArbovirusDownload the document (pdf)

Diagnosis of leptospirosis Dr. Mathieu Picardeau, Institut Pasteur – CNR LeptospirosisDownload the document (PDF)

Accreditation

Moderator: Dr. Sophie Bertrand

Clinical Laboratory Medicine: Legal and Regulatory Framework Dr. Line Legrand, DGS

The challenges of accreditation Dr. François-Xavier Weill, Institut Pasteur – CNR Escherichia coli, Shigella, and SalmonellaDownload the document (pdf)

Feedback Prof. Sophie Alain, Limoges University Hospital (CHU) – CNR CytomegalovirusDownload the document (pdf)

Feedback Dr. Sophie Bertrand, Scientific Institute of Public Health (ISP), BelgiumDownload the document (PDF)

Innovation and News

Moderator: Prof. Bruno Pozzetto

The Value of New "Deep Sequencing" Techniques Prof. Marc Eloit, Institut Pasteur – Pathogen Discovery UnitDownload the document (pdf)

First multicenter outbreak of Saprochaete clavata infections in France Prof. Françoise Dromer, Institut Pasteur – CNR Invasive Mycoses and Antifungals

Emerging Diseases: Risk of a Pandemic Linked to the MERS-CoV Virus Prof. Bruno Lina, Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL) – CNR Influenzae VirusesDownload the document (pdf)