The  PREPARE  Arbovirus workshop 29 - 31 March 2017 is now open for registration. The aim of the workshop is to improve the participants knowledge of identification and management of arbovirus infections and outbreaks at local and European level, with the aim to strengthen preparedness to (re-) emerging arbovirus infections across Europe... read more

  The MERMAIDS-ARI study has got off to a good start for the second season, with patients recruited from both primary and secondary care sites within the first week of the season, which started on 1st October 2016. There are currently 17 sites open to recruitment across seven countries: Croatia, Germany, Ireland, Poland, Romania, the Netherlands and the Unit... read more

PREPARE in conjunction with ECDC held a Postgraduate course ‘Infection control in epidemics: the evidence base for healthcare workers’ at the European Respiratory Society congress this year at the Excel Congress Centre, London. Visit the ERS website 

We are about to launch season 2 of the ALIC4E Trial as we are nearing the beginning of this year’s flu season. Here is a reminder for everyone involved in the recruitment of participants into the trial what they need to do. This video is also available on the Virtual Learning Centre. read more

The study protocols developed by WP3 for the MERMAIDS observational studies of Acute respiratory infections (ARI) Arbovirus compatible febrile illnesses in adults (ARBO) Sepsis-like syndromes in infants and ARI in children (PED) are now available through the Virtual Learning Centre.  Protocols are available for any research group to view and ... read more

On Thursday 2nd of June 2016 the first patient was enrolled in the WP3 MERMAIDS ARBO study by the clinical team in Cluj Napoca, Romania. More information on the Arbovirus study can be found on the PREPARE Virtual Learning Centre 

PREPARE has been preparing its network in order to rapidly identify, diagnose and  collect crucial clinical data in case autochthonously-transmitted Zika arrives in Europe.  The protocol of the PREPARE ARBO virus study in the Balkans that will begin in May 2016 has been modified so that adult Zika cases, both those presenting acutely or with GBS i... read more

The 3rd annual PREPARE meeting was organized in Madrid on 20-21 April 2016. Presentations from the meeting can be found in the PREPARE member area after logging in.

On Monday 11th of April the Intensive Care Unit of the University Medical Center in Utrecht recruited the first patient in the WP5 AD-SCAP study. More information on this trial can be found on the PREPARE Virtual Learning Center.

PREPARE presented an overview of the project in the ESCMID Networking Corner on the 26th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 9-12 April 2016, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Download the poster here