History of the International Pathogenic Neisseria Conferences

In the 1970s a series of conferences were held dealing with issues of meningococcal epidemiology and vaccination. Some of these conferences were held in Milano, St. Paul de Vence, and Marseille. But the first official conference was held in San Francisco, California, 1978.

• First International Pathogenic Neisseria Conference
  1978, San Francisco, California, USA.
  Chair: G.F. Brooks.
• Second International Pathogenic Neisseria Conference
  1980, Hemavan, Sweden.
  Chairs: S. Normark and D. Danielsson.
• Third International Pathogenic Neisseria Conference
  1982, Montreal, Canada.
  Chair: I.WDeVoe.
• Fourth International Pathogenic Neisseria Conference
  1984, Asilomar; California, USA.
  Chair: G.K. Schoolnik.
• Fifth International Pathogenic Neisseria Conference
  1986, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands.
  Chair: J.T. Poolman.
• Sixth International Pathogenic Neisseria Conference
  1988, Pine Mountain, Georgia, USA.
  Chair: S.A. Morse.
  Clinical Microbiology Reviews (1989) 2(Suppl). Perspectives on Pathogenic Neisseriae
  
• Seventh International Pathogenic Neisseria Conference
  1990, Berlin, Germany.
  Chair: M. Achtman.
• Eighth International Pathogenic Neisseria Conference
  1992, Cuernavaca, Mexico.
  Chair: C.I. Conde-Glez.
• Ninth International Pathogenic Neisseria Conference
  1994, Winchester, England.
  Chair: M.C.J. Maiden and I Feavers.
  • Front
  • Capsules and lipopolysaccharides
  • Biology of major surface proteins
  • Environmentally regulated proteins and metabolism
  • Host-pathogen interactions
  • Population biology and epidemiology
  • Vaccines and vaccine trials
  • Index
• Tenth International Pathogenic Neisseria Conference
  1996, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
  Chair: C.E. Frasch.
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Gonococcal infection, immunity, and resistance
  • Chapter 2: Lipooligosaccharides
  • Chapter 3: Noncapsular vaccines
  • Chapter 4: Conjugate and polysaccharide vaccines
  • Chapter 5: Pathogenesis
  • Chapter 6: Genetics
  • Chapter 7: Epidemiology, typing and diagnostics
  • Chapter 8: Environmentally regulated proteins
  • Chapter 9: Structure of Neisserial proteins
• Eleventh International Pathogenic Neisseria Conference
  1998, Nice, France.
  Chair: X. Nassif.
  
  • Abstracts
• Twelfth International Pathogenic Neisseria Conference
  2000, Galveston, Texas, USA.
  Chair: F. Sparling and P. Rice.
• Thirteenth International Pathogenic Conference
  2002, Oslo, Norway.
  Chair:  E. Wedege
  • Introduction and contents
  • Abstracts
• Fourteenth International Pathogenic Conference
  2004, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
  Co-Conveners: M.A. Apicella and H. Seifert
  • Abstracts
• Fifteenth International Pathogenic Conference
  2006, Cairns, North Queensland, Australia.
  Co-Conveners: J. Davies and M. Jennings
  • Abstracts