Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food quality

On February 25th and 26th 2010 the Central Veterinary Institute, the Animal Health Service Deventer and the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality organized a Q fever conference in Breda, the Netherlands. The purpose of the conference was to collect and share the worldwide knowledge about Q fever in order to find a continuing policy to fight against Q fever.

Program and the presentations

• Program Q-fever conference in the Netherlands
• Speech by Elske Smith (Department of Food, Animal Health and Welfare and Consumer Policy)
• Christianne Bruschke (Ministry - CVO) - Actual veterinary situation and developments in the Netherlands
• Yvonne van Duynhoven (RIVM) - The story of human Q-fever in the Netherlands
• Francisco Reviriego Gordejo (DG SANCO) - Q fever: the EU public and animal health legislative context
• Pia Makela (EFSA) - Current reporting and monitoring of Q fever in animals in EU
• Denis Coulombier (ECDC) - Implications for public health in the EU
• Jeanette van de Ven - Goat committee of the Dutch farmers' organisation LTO Netherlands
• Annie Rodolakis (France) - Q fever in France
• Stephen Graves (Australië) - Epidemiology and the role of human vaccination in prevention
• Martin Ganter (Germany) - Q fever in  Germany
• Paula Menzies (Canada) - Q fever & Coxiellosis in Canada
• Benaouda Kadra (CEVA) - Q fever: Vaccine production and control
• Hendrik Jan Roest  (Central Veterinary Institute) - Diagnosis, genotyping, virulence and culture of C. burnetii in the Netherlands
• Dimitrios Frangoulidis (Germany) - Coxiella burnetii - stability in the environment and molecular typing
• Piet Vellema (Animal Health Service Deventer) - Research in the relation to the approach of Q fever