Research & Projects

Find out all about the annual congress, upcoming conferences focussing on hot topics in the infection field, ESCMID Study Groups or collaborative projects such as the European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST), Genomics to Combat Resistance against Antibiotics (GRACE).

ECCMID

ESCMID's yearly congress attracts around 10'000 participants. ECCMID offers a wide range of sessions including: keynotes, symposia, poster sessions, educational workshops, meet-the-expert sessions and more.

ESCMID Conferences

In addition to ECCMID, our society offers more major conferences covering hot topics for microbiologists and infectious disease specialists.

Study Groups

With ever increasing expansion of our Study Groups' activities, we aim to clearly display the fields of expertise of the Study Groups and show ...

GRACE

ESCMID was a partner of GRACE, which was a network of excellence devoted to tackling the increasing problem of resistance to antibiotics when dealing ...

EUCAST

EUCAST is a standing committee jointly organized by ESCMID, ECDC (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control) and European national breakpoint committees. The Steering ...

TROCAR

ESCMID is partner of the TROCAR project (Translational Research on Combating Antimicrobial Resistance), which is a research project funded by the Seventh Framework Programme ...

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EUCAST Breakpoints

Clinical breakpoints are for everyday use in the clinical laboratory work to advise on patient therapy.

link to breakpoint tables