Within the frame of international scientific collaboration between the Friedrich Loeffler Institut and Mansoura University and within the frame of the German partnership program for Excellence in Biological and health security, Mansoura University cordially hosts Prof. Dr. Heinrich Neubauer - Head of the Friedrich Loeffler Institut, Federal Research Institute for animal health- on October 26th, 2016 to follow up the project entitled “Brucellosis, Q fever and Viral Hemorrhagic fever in Egypt" which is funded by the German Federal Foreign Office by the principal investigator Dr. Mayada Gwida - Assistant professor of zoonoses, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Mansoura University. Besides the meeting, a presentation on the state of the art and the challenges of the diagnosis of Brucellosis will be given by Prof. Neubauer.