Welcome to Pnc Euro meeting Berlin 1011th, Sep 2001

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Welcome to Pnc Euro meeting Berlin 10-11th, Sep
2001 !!

• By Tuija Leino
• Department of Vaccines

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Pnc
Carriage
Modelling transmission
Antibiotic resistance
Dynamic population modelling
Vaccine development
Immunological correlates for protection
Clinical diseases
Economical analysis
Surveillance of invasive disease
Laboratory methodology
Molecular epidemiology
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Questions today

• Carriage studies by whom and how? major
  challenges in them?
• Could biological modelling questions be presented
  already?
• Invasive disease surveillance studies already
  running, ...but how?
• How the factors affecting the observed invasive
  disease rates could be tackled?

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Specific results 1

• A list of practical suggestions how to
  quantitatively estimate the fraction of IPD lost
  by the surveillance
• Plans on how to continue field studies for the
  next 6-12 months for both invasive disease
  surveillance and carriage

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Specific results 2

• Specific modelling questions and
• questions from the modellers
• --- next step formulated and written
• (distributed in x weeks time?)

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Steering committee meeting

• Scientific field
• Decisions concerning
• publication policy -
• rights and rules

• Management of the project
• What to send to EU
• at the end of the 1st year?