Vaccines and infectious disease

Introduction

The EuGMS SIG on Vaccines and Infectious disease was created in 2005 with the goal of proposing  “Adult vaccination guidelines”. The working group was very active and produced in 2009 several papers were published:

• MICHEL JP, CHIDIAC C, GRUBECK-LOEBENSTEIN B, ET AL. Advocating vaccination of adults aged 60 years and older in Western Europe: statement by the Joint vaccine Working Group of the European Union Geriatric Medicine Society and the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics-European Region. Rejuvenation Res 2009;12(2): 127-35
• GUSMANO MK, MICHEL JP.  Life course vaccination and healthy aging. Aging Clin Exp Res. 2009 Jun;21(3):258-63.
• MICHEL JP, CHIDIAC C, GRUBECK-LOEBENSTEIN B, JOHNSON RW, LAMBERT PH, MAGGI S,
• MOULIAS R, NICHOLSON K, WERNER H. Coalition of advocates to vaccinate of Western European citizens aged 60 years and older. Aging Clin Exp Res. 2009 Jun;21(3):254-7.
• BAEYENS JP, LANG PO, MICHEL JP. Willingness to vaccinate and to be vaccinated in adults.  Aging Clin Exp Res. 2009;21(3):244-9.
• GRUBECK-LOEBENSTEIN B, DELLA BELLA S, IORIO AM, MICHEL JP, PAWELEC G, SOLANA R. Immunosenescence and vaccine failure in the elderly. Aging Clin Exp Res. 2009 Jun;21(3):201-9.
• MICHEL JP  Vaccinations: "not just for kids". Aging Clin Exp Res. 2009;21(3):199-200.

Then, an online course on adult vaccination was launched on the EUGMS website 2011:

The EUGMS accreditation obtained for the first course was not renewed after two years due to the financial burden of the online maintenance. CDs were produced in 5 different languages. A few sets of CDs are still available on request.

Since 2006, the EUGMS vaccine working group has been organizing in each EUGMS congress an independent EUGMS session focused on different types of vaccines. Until 2014, the speakers were always members of the working group.

After the EUGMS Brussel congress Marc Paccalin published a paper untitled: Should adult pneumococcal vaccine guidelines be updated throughout Europe? European Geriatric Medicine, Volume 4, Issue 4, September 2013, Pages 266-268

After these activities, the appearance of new vaccines such as Herpes Zoster and Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine challenged the group to exactly determine the efficacy of the new vaccines in old adult

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