World AMR Awareness Week is starting next week and our special webinar series continues this Thursday at 16:00 CET with the third part that dives into the 2024 UN declaration targets and tracking mechanisms behind them.

The previous parts are also available on demand on ESCMID Media.

Science & Research

As part of the AMR policy collaboration between the ESCMID AMR Action Subcommittee and the Global Strategy Lab, you are asked to take this 15-minute survey to help define the scientific priorities for the Independent Panel on Evidence for Action against AMR (IPEA). ESCMID is keen to engage with the members and hear your views on the future work plan of the panel!

Applications open tomorrow for the ESCMID CAREer Grant. This grant provides support for new scientists or new parents/caregivers to ensure balance in both personal and professional lives. Learn more and start preparing your application today!

Education

Build up your knowledge on a topic that deserves increasing attention. Learn to recognise emerging trends and challenges and how to integrate modern strategies to support proper treatment and build prevention strategies for STIs.

Explore the clinical and public health management of classical and emerging hepatitis viruses, including hepatitis A–E and viral haemorrhagic fevers such as yellow fever, dengue, and Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever. Persons interested in viral liver diseases will not want to miss this.

Congress & Events

ESCMID Global 2027 abstract submissions are closing next week on 18 November. Be sure to submit your abstracts on time as there is no guarantee that submission will be extended.

Also be sure to take advantage of the many travel grants and awards that are available for abstract submitters to support your travel to the congress.

We are bringing the bench back to ESCMID Global once again! ESCMID Global attendees can get hands-on training in topics like fungal culture, anaerobic bacteriology and parasitic microscopy in the ESCMID Mobile Lab. Sign up to join one or more of these special workshops when you register to join the congress.

Guidelines & Journals

The Emerging Infections Subcommittee released a narrative review reflecting on the 2026 cyclosporiasis outbreak to examine how social, cultural, regulatory, institutional and economic factors influence the generation, recognition, spread, control and consequences of foodborne outbreaks.

Global arbovirus activity remains high, with chikungunya causing 271,223 cases and 113 deaths outside the EU/EEA this year, primarily in the Americas. France has reported 207 locally acquired cases, while Switzerland confirmed its first-ever local transmission. Dengue activity has shifted toward Asia, notably in Bangladesh, which has recorded 114,251 cases, while Chad faces a rapidly expanding outbreak. In the United States, measles cases have surged to 5,182, threatening the country's elimination status. Meanwhile, West Africa is experiencing concentrated yellow fever activity. In Europe, West Nile virus transmission is waning after 2,029 locally acquired cases. France has noted a surge in extensively drug-resistant typhoid linked to travel from Senegal, and Thailand reports sustained endemic transmission of mpox with 470 cases this year.

Risk of depression in individuals with syphilis: a population-based, nationwide matched cohort study in Denmark

Prevention and management of urinary tract infections in kidney transplant recipients: a narrative review