The current call for ESCMID funded observerships is closing next week on 06 October at 12:00 noon CEST. Early career researchers will not want to miss this opportunity to get funding from ESCMID to travel to new countries and learn from experts and bring the experience back to their home institutions.

Science & Research

Don’t miss the second part of the BDBV vaccine webinar series. Discover the BDBV vaccine development pipeline with talks from CEPI, the University of Oxford, EMA and more. Register today and join live tomorrow at 14:15 CEST.

Education

Equip yourself with practical strategies for diagnosing and managing high-burden infectious diseases, particularly in resource-limited and tropical settings. Gain expertise through interactive, real-world clinical discussions led by national and international experts.

Gain insight into the challenges of reconstructing, annotating, and comparing plasmids from bacterial whole-genome sequencing data and gain strategies to detect plasmid-borne antimicrobial resistance, understand transmission dynamics, and support outbreak investigations.

Congress & Events

Preparation for ESCMID Global 2027 is already well under way! Regular abstract submissions open next week on 07 October and early registration opens in one month on 28 October. Start making your plans and save the date to join us in Stockholm, Sweden next April!

Guidelines & Journals

The October issue of CMI is now online and freely available to all ESCMID members. Discover the latest research, insights and developments in clinical microbiology and infectious diseases.

The DRC's Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak has reached 7,890 confirmed cases and 3,799 deaths (CFR 48.1%) across 63 health zones in seven provinces. Newly affected areas near South Sudan raise the risk of cross-border spread, and WHO rates the national risk very high. West Nile virus has caused 1,569 locally acquired cases in 16 European countries, and the US has 813 cases, 607 of them neuroinvasive. Tick-borne encephalitis reached a record in Sweden and rose sharply in Austria. Chikungunya remains high in Brazil, Mauritius and Nicaragua. Western Australia reported a third severe diphtheria case in Perth. Taiwan has 1,586 severe influenza cases and 304 deaths, and leptospirosis cases in the Philippines reached 10,936 after flooding. Ghana confirmed yellow fever after 21 unexplained deaths, and Togo declared measles outbreaks.

Clinical and regulatory acceptability of hierarchical composite endpoints in infectious disease clinical trials

Temporal and spatial community-level dynamics of Candida and other yeasts in ICU patients at risk of infection