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Observerships & ECCs Video

ESCMID presents two exciting initiatives: the ESCMID Collaborative Centres and the Observership. Our ‘alumni’ observers talk about their extraordinary experience in the ESCMID Collaborative Centres ECCs which are clinical microbiology and/or infectious disease centres of excellence in Europe and beyond. Apply online for an observership, it's your opportunity to learn about the latest diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, to exchange knowledge and to build an international network.

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Latest News

13 May 2013
Back to school - register for the ESCMID Summer School!

Plan to join us in Vravrona, Greece, from 6 – 13 July 2013. We have an exciting interactive programme lined up covering diverse topics in CM/ID as well as career advice. Especially tailored to young MDs and scientists!

30 April 2013
ECCMID Presentations online

Find already now a large number of ECCMID presentations in the ESCMID Online Lecture Library. Bookmark the link and come back to see our daily additions, which will also include the downloadable version of the slides.

Direct link to the ECCMID Presentations 2013

27 April 2013
ECCMID Highlight - First Day

Watch the ESCMID President, Prof Gunnar Kahlmeter, talking about ECOFFs in the Educational Workshop "Antimicrobial susceptibility testing with EUCAST breakpoints and methods".

27 April 2013
PRESS RELEASE: Leading experts concerned at increasing challenges and new threats in infectious diseases

26 April 2013, BERLIN: Experts about to gather at the world’s largest conference on infectious diseases acknowledge that they are facing a number of increasing challenges and emerging new threats in infectious diseases. The European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), which opens tomorrow in Berlin (27 – 30 April), brings together more than 10,000 scientists and clinicians from around the world to share state of the art updates, experience and information on cutting edge science and technology.

27 April 2013
PRESS RELEASE: Award given to international expert at a time of growing alarm about antibiotic resistance

26 April 2013, BERLIN: At a time when there is growing alarm about increasing antibiotic resistance, Professor Patrice Nordmann is being honoured for his work in emerging resistance worldwide to antibiotics, mostly to carbapenems (a class of antibiotics often regarded as a last line of treatment when other antibiotics fail).

23 April 2013
ECCMID 2013 - abstracts online

Browse the abstracts of ECCMID now comfortably centralised in the ESCMID Online Lecture Library.

More ECCMID material to come. Stay tuned.

18 March 2013
Three new open positions at University of Antwerp, Belgium
  • Research Fellow of Medical Microbiology
  • Clinical or Medical Microbiologist
  • Medical Technologist

 

 

ESCMID Events 2013

All ESCMID events to view online or as a downloadable pdf!

ECDC Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses Digest
20 May 2013 Novel Coronavirus MERS-CoV and A(H7N9)

This features Epidemiological Summaries, Public Health Developments and Scientific Advances on influenza (animal, seasonal and pandemic) and other respiratory viruses as well as the Weekly Influenza Surveillance Overview (WISO) and WHO summaries.