ESCMID Panorama

ESCMID Meningitis Study Group – EMESG

News & Activities

  • 9 May, 18.15-19.15 (Room Amber 3)
    EMESG Business Meeting
    All interested persons are cordially invited to join the meeting and plan future EMESG activities.

For more details about the congress, please check the ECCMID/ICC programme.

ECCMID/ICC programme

 

Adjuvant glycerol is not beneficial in experimental pneumococcal meningitis

Cornelia Blaser, Matthias Klein, Denis Grandgirard, Matthias Wittwer, Heikki Peltola, Michael Weigand, Uwe Koedel and Stephen L Leib

BMC Infect Dis. 2010 Mar 30;10:84.

Ongoing EMESG research project

Meningococcal Meningitis Model in Mice

A collaborative pilot study has been set up and started to evaluate correlates of a meningococcal meningitis model in mice. Work has been performed exploiting the complementary expertise of three EMESG partners (Siena, Munich, Bern). Preliminary data are highly encouraging and joint grant applications are ongoing including application for ESCMID funding.

Ongoing EMESG medical guideline project

Guidelines on Rationale Therapeutic Management of Bacterial Meningitis

Under the leadership of Diederik van de Beek, MD, PhD, Neurologist, Academic Medical Center, a panel of experts has been formed to produce guidelines on the management of patients with bacterial meningitis. A proposal for grant support has been sent to ESCMID (Guideline Director: Erdal Akalin) for evaluation.

Histopathology in Experimental Neuroinfection

EMESG organized this ESCMID PGTW in Bern, Switzerland, 7 - 8 September 2009.

Last update: 25 January 2012

Download the latest Annual Report.

Annual Report

ESCMID Postgraduate Education Course

 

 

14 - 17 May 2012, Siena, Italy