WHO defeating meningitis symposium, 3rd international symposium on Streptococcus agalactiae disease (ISSAD) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: State-of-the-art overview of S. agalactiae meningitis

Laura M A Oliveira; Namrata Prasad; Ruth Lynfield; Margaret Ip; Soufiane Sanou; Felipe P G Neves; Annelies Wilder-Smith; Heidi M Soeters; Kirsty Le Doare; Marie-Pierre Preziosi

doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.126895

WHO defeating meningitis symposium, 3rd international symposium on Streptococcus agalactiae disease (ISSAD) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: State-of-the-art overview of S. agalactiae meningitis

Vaccine. 2025 Apr 11:52:126895. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.126895. Epub 2025 Feb 22.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Goes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Electronic address: lauraoliveira@micro.ufrj.br.
² Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, United States. Electronic address: riz9@cdc.gov.
³ Minnesota Department of Health, United States. Electronic address: ruth.lynfield@state.mn.us.
⁴ Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. Electronic address: margaretip@cuhk.edu.hk.
⁵ National Institute of Public Health/Centre MURAZ, Burkina Faso.
⁶ Instituto Biomédico, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Brazil. Electronic address: fpgneves@id.uff.br.
⁷ World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. Electronic address: wildersmitha@who.int.
⁸ World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. Electronic address: soetersh@who.int.
⁹ World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland; St George's University of London, London, UK; Makerere University, Johns Hopkins University, Kampala, Uganda; UK Health Security Agency, Porton Down, UK. Electronic address: kiledoar@sgul.ac.uk.
¹⁰ World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland. Electronic address: preziosim@who.int.

PMID: 39987882
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.126895

Abstract

A World Health Organization (WHO) Defeating Meningitis Symposium took place as part of the 3rd International Symposium on Streptococcus agalactiae disease (ISSAD) conference which was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from October 16-18, 2023. The symposium highlighted WHO's Defeating meningitis by 2030 global road map focusing on Group B Streptococcus (GBS) meningitis and provided an overview of the meningitis burden and main challenges faced to tackle the disease across the Americas, Africa, and Asia.

Keywords: Group B Streptococcus; Meningitis; WHO defeating meningitis by 2030 global road map.

Publication types

Congress

MeSH terms

Brazil / epidemiology
Congresses as Topic
Global Health
Humans
Meningitis, Bacterial* / epidemiology
Meningitis, Bacterial* / microbiology
Meningitis, Bacterial* / prevention & control
Streptococcal Infections* / epidemiology
Streptococcal Infections* / microbiology
Streptococcal Infections* / prevention & control
Streptococcal Vaccines / immunology
Streptococcus agalactiae* / pathogenicity
World Health Organization

Substances

Streptococcal Vaccines

Grants and funding

001/WHO_/World Health Organization/International