The scope of the meeting is to exchange information on invasive Neisseria meningitidis and Haemophilus influenzae disease.
The main topics will be:
Epidemiology and surveillance
Laboratory diagnosis, antibiotic susceptibility testing and strain characterization
Genomics and Whole-Genome sequencing
Public Health Management
Prevention and control strategies
Immunology and immunity, vaccine development and implementation
Clinical aspects, risk factors and carriage
Treatment and antibiotic resistance