IJID Supplement
Session Slides
Plenary Sessions
100th Anniversary of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic – Preventing and Stopping Epidemics in 2018
- “New interventions for Outbreak Response: Ebola in DRC”: Janet Diaz (Switzerland)
- “Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV): Current Understanding”: Jaffar Al-Tawfiq (Saudi Arabia)
- “Rift Valley Fever in Kenya”: Peninah Munyua (Kenya)
- “Nipah Virus Outbreak 2018”: Jon Epstein (USA)
- “Listeriosis Monocytogenes in South Africa”: Juno Thomas (South Africa)
- “Recent Yellow Fever Epidemics in Brazil: Evolving Challenges”: Andre Siqueira (Brazil)
- “Plague in Madagascar”: Eric Bertherat (Switzerland)
Using Mobile Data and Global Mapping to Tackle the Next Outbreak Andy Tatem (UK)
Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention – Improving Prevention, Detection, and Response to Infectious Disease Threats Across Africa Philip Onyebujoh (Zimbabwe)
Landscape Change, Biodiversity Loss, and Emerging Infectious Disease Christine Kreuder-Johnson (USA)
Parallel Sessions
Open Source Geospatial Data and Analysis Tools for Epidemic Surveillance and Response
- “Innovations and Challenges in the Use of Open-source Remote Sensing Data and Tools”: Victoria Gammino (USA)
- “The Use of Remote Sensing, Geostatistical and Machine Learning Methods in Neglected Tropical Diseases Surveillance—the Case of Podoconiosis and Lymphatic Filariasis”: Kebede Kassaye (UK)
- “Mapping Monkeypox Risk in the Congo Basin using Remote Sensing and Ecological Niche Models”: Yoshihori Nakazawa (USA)
- “Predicting Spatiotemporal Risk of Yellow Fever Using a Machine Learning Approcah”: RajReni Kaul (USA)
One Health – Emerging Threats Across Species Boundaries
- The persistent prevalence and evolution of cross-family recombinant coronavirus GCCDC1 among a bat population: a two-year follow-up: Joseph Obameso (Nigeria)
- A Mathematical Model of the Transmission of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus in Dromedary Camels: Amy Dighe (UK)
- Ebola in Animals – Our Knowledge to Date: Assessing Human Exposure Risks: Gael Lamielle (USA)
- Ebola West Africa, 2014-16: An Analysis Of A Filovirus Outbreak: Adriano Duse (South Africa)
- The Detection of Diverse Coronaviruses, Including MERS-Related Coronaviruses, In South African Bat Populations And Their Associated Ecology in Neoromica capensis: Nadine Cronjé (South Africa)
- The Efficacy of Passive Surveillance For HPAI H5N1 In Nigeria: Practices That Affect Early Detection of Disease Outbreaks In Poultry: Agatha Ojimelukwe (Nigeria)
- Long-term Wildlife and Human Disease Surveillance in Northern Congo: A Model for the Detection of Ebola Virus Disease Epizootics: Eeva Kuisma (Congo)
- Review of brucellosis in Albania: disease frequency in humans and animals, and one health efforts to control the disease, 1925 to present Kujtim Mersini (Albania)
- Ten Outbreaks of Rift Valley Fever in Uganda 2016-2018: Epidemiological and Laboratory Findings: Luke Nyakarahuka (Uganda)
- The Discovery of A New Ebolavirus, Bombali Virus, Adds Further Support for Bats as Hosts of Ebolaviruses: Tracey Goldstein (USA)
- Serological evidence of exposure to filoviruses and henipaviruses in wildlife, Malaysia: Eric Laing (USA)
- Zoonoses In The Bolivian Amazon: Alarming Initial Results From an NGO-led One Health Initiative: Erika Alandia Robles (Bolivia)
- Hendra Virus in the Field – Risk Profiling and Management: Nina Kung (Australia)
Antimicrobial Resistance in the One Health Context
- “How Should LMICs Prioritize One Health Interventions to Control Antimicrobial Resistance?”: Marc Mendelson (South Africa)
- Identifying Food System Drivers of Antimicrobial Resistance: A Planetary Health approach”: Jennifer Cole (UK)
- “One Health Approach to Controlling Antimicrobial Resistance”: Ghassan Matar (Lebanon)
Epidemic Forecasting Across Borders
- “Precision Epidemic Forecasting”: Antoine Flahault (Switzerland)
- “Mapping the Risk of International Infectious Disease Spread (MRIIDS)”: Sangeeta Bhatia (UK), Emily Cohn (USA), Anne Cori (UK), Mark Herringer (Netherlands), Britta Lassmann (USA), Pierre Nouvellet (UK)
- “Vector Surveillance – Shazam for Mosquitoes”: Haripriya Mukundarajan (USA)
Facing the Future of Endemic and Emerging Infectious Diseases: FAO Capacity Building and Innovation
- “Risk Modelling and Forecasting Tools for Enhanced Early Warning: “The Example of Rift Valley Fever”: Claudia Pittiglio (Italy)
- “Emergency Preparedness and FAO’s Support to Effective Response on Emerging Diseases”: Maria Romano (Italy)
- “Innovative Information Technologies to Improve Animal Diseases Reporting and Surveillance”: Fairouz Larfaoui (Italy)
- “The future of African Livestock: From Endemic Zoonoses to EIDs”: Ugo Pica-Ciamarra (Italy)
Hot Topics in Emerging Infectious Diseases
- One-Shot Immunization Using a Measles/Lassa Vaccine Fully Protects Cynomolgus Monkeys Against Lassa Fever: Sylvain Baize (France)
- Use of Pseudotyped Viruses for the Production of Reference Materials as part of Emerging Viral Outbreak Preparednes: Emma Bentley (UK)
- Global Flu View: A Platform to Connect Crowdsourced Disease Surveillance Around the World: Adam Crawley (USA)
- Novel platform (wEB) to study flu virus evolution and predict vaccine efficacy: Slobodan Paessler (USA)
- Comparison of Seasonal Influenza Trends: Timeliness Validation of State Outbreak Reports in Mexico 2007-2014: Hojoon Lee (USA)
- Comparison of characteristics of individuals hospitalised with acute and chronic respiratory illness testing influenza positive at two sites in South Africa, 2011-2016: Thulisa Mkhencele (South Africa)
- Full-genome Analysis of the Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Influenza Viruses Isolated in Ukraine During 2009-2017 Years: Oksana Smutko (Ukraine)
- Global Origins of African Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5Nx Viruses And Intracontinental Spread: Alice Fusaro (Italy)
- Changing Epidemiology of Listeria Outbreaks and Recalls: A review of ProMED reports from 1996-2018: Angel Desai (USA)
- Hantavirus Puumala Genetic Variation In The Patients With HFRS In Tatarstan, Russia: Ekaterina E. Garanina (Russia)
- Incentives that Influence Low Income Filipinos with Tuberculosis Symptoms to Change Health-seeking Behaviour: a Randomized Controlled Trial: Siwon Lee (Philippines)
- Measles among Healthcare Workers during the Ongoing 2017-2018 Epidemic in Greece: Helena Maltezou (Greece)
- Significant range expansion of Lloviu rirus in Europe: Re-emergence in 2016, Hungary: Gábor Kemenesi (Hungary)
Advanced Diagnostics for Emerging Threats
- “Clinical Challenges Associated with Emerging Infections”: Eskild Petersen (Oman)
- “Etiology Discovery Approaches”: Marion Koopmans (The Netherlands)
- “Next Generation Sequencing for One Health”: Natacha Couto (Portugal)
- “Preparedness of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory for Emerging Infections”: Jacob Moran-Gilad (Israel)
Vector-borne Disease in Humans and Animals
- Investigation Of Serological Cross-Reactivity Within The Alphavirus Genus Using IFA Biochip Mosaics: Erik Lattwein (Germany)
- Flavivirus serocomplex cross-reactive immunity is protective by activating heterologous memory CD4 T cell: Ashley St. John (Singapore)
- Evaluation of a candidate WHO International Standard for Zika antibody as a vaccine reference reagent: Sarah Kempster (United Kingdom)
- Endemicity of Zika Virus in Indonesia: Serological Evidence in Pediatric Population: R. Tedjo Sasmono (Indonesia)
- Development And Validation Of Microarray-Based Serological Assay For Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCF) And Determination of the Prevalence of CCFV In Guinea: Olga Stukulova (Russia)
- Baseline Data on The Bionomics of Aedes aegypti to Support Dengue Control Strategies in Burkina Faso: Athanase Badolo (Burkina Faso)
- Investigation of the Public Health Event in the Cafunfu Town, Lunda-Norte, December 2017: Dilunvuidi Pode (Angola)
- Severe Malaria in Canada 2014-2017: Report from the Canadian Malaria Network: Anne McCarthy (Canada)
- Gestational and Congenital Toxoplasmosis – The Clinicial Findings in a Teaching Hospital: Cinara Brandao de Mattos (Brazil)
- The Pathogenesis of Genetically Diverse Strains of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus in the Cynomolgus Macaque Model: Chales Shoemaker (USA)
- The First Ever Nipah Virus Outbreak and the Best Possible Response by a Tiny State of India: Sukumaran Ariyari (India)
- Safety and Immunogenicity of a mRNA-based Chikungunya Vaccine in a Phase 1 Dose-Ranging Trial: Allison August (USA)
- Antibody Response in Borrelia miyamotoi Infection Studied by Protein Microarray: Olga Stukolova (Russia)
Epidemic Preparedness
- “Preventing Disease in the Time of War: Immunizations for Immigrants and Refugees, and Challenges During Humanitarian Emergencies”: Rana Hajjeh (Egypt)
- “Preventing the Next Pandemic”: Hilary Bower (UK)
- “Public Private Partnerships for Epidemic Preparedness”: Ryan Morhard (Switzerland)
Neglected Emerging Diseases
- “Snake Bites”: Rafael Ruiz de Castaneda (Switzerland)
- “Marine Toxins”: Carmen Louzao (Spain)
- “Mycobacterium bovis at the Animal Human Interface”: Elisabeth Erlacher-Vindel (France)
New Developments in Vaccines for Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Katrin Ramsauer (Austria)
- Chikwe Ihekweazu (Nigeria)
- Gerd Sutter (Germany)
- Sarah Gilbert (UK)
- Melanie Saville (UK)
Bugs and Drugs: Bacterial Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance
- El Nino Southern Oscillation Predicts Vibriosis Risk in the United States: David Fisman (Canada)
- An Outbreak of Necrotising Enterocolitis of Unknown Aetiology in Newborns Admitted to a Neonatal Unit in Gauteng Province, March – June 2018: Andronica Shonhiwa (South Africa)
- Foodborne Outbreak Of An Acute Streptococcal Pharyngitis In A Portuguese Air Force Training Center: Joana Pita (Portugal)
- Silent antibiotic resistance genes: A threat to antimicrobial therapy: Deekshit VK (India)
- Sharing of Antimicrobial Resistance Genes Among Animals, Humans, and the Environment In Nepal: A One Health Case Study: Cristin Young (USA)
- Molecular Surveillance for Drug Resistant Plasmodium falciparum Imported to Ontario: Andra Boggild (Canada)
- Prevalence and Antimicrobial Resistance of Escherichia coli and Salmonella spp. Isolated from Poultry Drinking Water and Cloacal Swab Compared of Two Regions in Thailand: Phitsanu Tulayakul (Thailand)
- Staphylococcus aureus Nasal and Intestinal Carriage by Free-Ranging Red Deer: Evidence of Human, Domestic and Wild Animal Lineages: Camilla Luzzago (Italy)
Drivers of Emerging Infectious Diseases
- “Why Here? Why Now? Travel, Trade and Disease Emergence”: David Fisman (Canada)
- “Emerging Infectious Diseases in a New Climate”: Rachel Lowe (UK)
- “Trends in Disease Emergence: Through the ProMED Lens: Leo Liu (USA)
- “Disease Emergence at the Animal/Human Interface”: Albert Osterhaus (Germany)
Outbreak Preparedness – Surveillance, Policy and Communication
- The Role of Entry-Screening Procedures in the Identification of Multidrug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Cluster Cases Amongst Patients Arriving in Europe from The Horn Of Africa, 2016-17: Günter Pfaff (Germany)
- Traveller Sentinels for Global Surveillance of Malaria Drug Resistance and Diagnostic Test Evasion: Christinane Prosser (Australia)
- The Potential for International Dissemination of Emerging Viral Pathogens: Jonathan Read (UK)
- Outbreak DIY: A new tool for public communication about infectious disease and One Health: Sabrina Sholts (USA)
- An Epidemic of Tariffs? Infectious Disease and Global Trade in an Era of Change: Ann Marie Kimball (USA)
- Risk Communication of Zoonotic Spillover: Initial Lessons from a Satellite-Based Forecasting Platform: Samuel Malloy (USA)
- Development of a Sustainable Diagnostic Toolbox for Serosurveillance of West African Infectious Diseases: Keersten Ricks (USA)
- A Role for EpiCore with International NGOs: the Experience of MSF Spain (2018): Jas Mantero (USA)
- How Culture Collections can Assist Responses to Emerging Diseases: Karen Buttigieg (UK)
- Improving Community Resilience through the Development of an Epidemic Risk and Priority Framework: Kemal Arslantas (Netherlands)
- Technology Volunteerism – the Red Cross’ Approach to Developing a Digital Community Based Surveillance Tool for Early Detection of Diseases with Epidemic Potential: Anine Kongelf (Norway)
- Surveillance of laboratory exposure to human pathogens and toxins in Canada: Florence Tanguay (Canada)
- Big Brother is Watching – Using Digital Disease Surveillance Tools for Near Real-Time Forecasting: Sangeeta Bhatia (UK)