ESCMID Panorama

Research & Projects

Find out about ESCMID Study Groups or collaborative projects such as the European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST), Genomics to Combat Resistance against Antibiotics (GRACE) and Improving Patient Safety in Europe (IPSE).

Study Groups

ESCMID supports 18 Study Groups engaged in advancing scientific knowledge and/or disseminating professional guidelines in the field of clinical microbiology and infectious diseases.

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 ...

GRACE

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

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 ...

EUCAST Breakpoints

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

link to breakpoint tables