The new ESCMID Yearbook (2020/21) is now available online! Read about all of the society’s activities over the last year (as well as a great selection of snapshots submitted by the ESCMID community).
Are you a speaker or chairperson at ECCMID 2021? Be sure to visit the ECCMID Speakers and Chairs Instructions page on the ECCMID website for some handy hints and explanatory tutorials to help you make your ECCMID experience as trouble-free as possible!
We are pleased to announce that the 19th ESCMID Summer School, to be held from 4-11 September 2021 in Carcavelos, Portugal, has been accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME®) for a maximum of 33 European CME credits (ECMEC®s). Find out more and register on the Summer School website.
The Ethics Advisory Committee has launched an anonymous survey to better understand ESCMID members and survey participants' involvement in bioethics and their perceptions of priorities and gaps in the field of bioethics and Infectious Diseases. The results will help the EEAC to better define ethical issues and design a strategy to approach them in a consistent and systematic way. Complete the survey here.
Bloodstream infections in patients with rectal colonization by Klebsiella pneumoniae producing different type of carbapenemases: a prospective, cohort study (CHIMERA study)
The CHIMERA study investigates the hypothesis that intestinal colonization by different types of carbapenemase-resistant K. pneumoniae (CR-Kp) leads to different risks for BSI caused by the same colonising organism. The results of this cohort study are here reported: among CR-Kp rectal carriers the risk of developing BSI by the same colonizing organism is higher in NDM-producing Kp than in KPC-producing Kp rectal carriers.
