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• Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), American Academy of Neurology (AAN), and American College of Rheumatology (ACR): 2020 Guidelines for the Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Lyme Disease (with ESCMID endorsement). 
  Lantos P M, Rumbaugh J, Bockenstedt L K et al. Clin Infect Dis 2021; 72: e1–e48. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1215.

• Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria: 2019 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
  Nicolle LE, Gupta K, Bradley SF et al. Clin Infect Dis 2019 pii: ciy1121. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciy1121.
• ESCMID-ECMM guideline: diagnosis and management of invasive aspergillosis in neonates and children. Warris A, Lehrnbecher T et al. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2019 25(9):1096-1113. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2019.05.019.
• ESCMID-EUCIC clinical guidelines on decolonization of multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria carriers. Tacconelli E., Mazzaferri E. et al. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2019,25:807-817.  doi.org/10.1016/j.cmi.2019.01.005.
• EHRA international consensus document on how to prevent, diagnose, and treat cardiac implantable electronic device infections-endorsed by HRS, APHRS, LAHRS, ISCVID and ESCMID in collaboration with EACTS. Blomström-Lundqvist C, Traykov V at al. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2019 Nov 14. pii: ezz296. doi: 10.1093/ejcts/ezz296.
• ESCMID generic competencies in antimicrobial prescribing
  and stewardship: towards a European consensus.
  Dyar OJ, Beović B, Pulcini C, Tacconelli E, Hulscher M, Cookson B;
  Clin Microbiol Infect 2019;25:13-19. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2018.09.022
• Consensus document for the diagnosis of prosthetic joint
  infections: a joint paper by the EANM, EBJIS, and ESR
  (with ESCMID endorsement).
  Signore A, Sconfienza LM, Borens O, et al. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 2019.
  doi: 10.1007/s00259-019-4263-9
• Correction to: consensus document for the diagnosis of
  prosthetic joint infections: a joint paper by the EANM,
  EBJIS, and ESR (with ESCMID endorsement).
  Signore A, Sconfienza LM, Borens O, et al. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 2019.
  doi: 10.1007/s00259-019-04281-z.
• International consensus guidelines for the optimal use of
  the polymyxins: endorsed by ACCP, ESCMID, IDSA, ISAP, SCCM,
  and SIDP.
  Tsuji BT, Pogue JM, Zavascki AP, et al. Pharmacotherapy 2019;39:10-39.
  doi: 10.1002/phar.2209.
• ESICM/ESCMID task force on practical management
  of invasive candidiasis in critically ill patients.
  Martin-Loeches I, Antonelli M, Cuenca-Estrella M, et al. Intensive Care Med 2019;1-17. doi: 10.1007/s00134-019-05599-w.
• Diagnosis of peripheral bone and prosthetic joint infections: overview on the consensus documents by the EANM, EBJIS, and ESR (with ESCMID endorsement).
  Sconfienza LM, Signore A, Cassar-Pullicino V et al. Eur Radiol 2019 doi: 10.1007/s00330-019-06326-1.
• Defining breakthrough invasive fungal infection-Position paper of the mycoses study group education and research consortium and the European Confederation of Medical Mycology.
  Cornely OA, Hoenigl M, Lass-Flörl C et al. Mycoses 2019. doi: 10.1111/myc.12960.
• Joint EANM/ESNR and ESCMID-endorsed consensus document for the diagnosis of spine infection (spondylodiscitis) in adults.
  Lazzeri E, Bozzao A, Cataldo MA et al. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 2019 doi: 10.1007/s00259-019-04393-6.
• Screening for carriage of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in settings of high endemicity: a position paper from an Italian working group on CRE infections.
  Ambretti S, Bassetti M, Clerici P et al. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control 2019;8:136. doi: 10.1186/s13756-019-0591-6.

• Diagnosis and management of Aspergillus diseases: executive summary of the 2017 ESCMID-ECMM-ERS guideline. Ullmann AJ, Aguado JM, et al. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2018 May;24 Suppl 1:e1-e38. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2018.01.002. 
• Guidance document for prevention of Clostridium difficile infection in acute healthcare settings. Tschudin-Sutter S, Kuijper EJ et al. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2018 Oct;24(10):1051-1054. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2018.02.020.

• ESCMID Study Group for Infections in Compromised Hosts (ESGICH) consensus
  document on the safety of targeted and biologic therapies: an infectious diseases
  perspective—cell surface receptors and associated signaling pathways.
  Aguilar-Company J, Fernández-Ruiz M, García-Campelo R, Garrido-Castro AC, Ruiz-Camps I. Clin Microbiol Infect 2018;24:S41-S52. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2017.12.027.
• ESCMID Study Group for Infections in Compromised Hosts (ESGICH) Consensus
  Document on the safety of targeted and biological therapies: an infectious diseases
  perspective (Agents targeting lymphoid or myeloid cells surface antigens [II]: CD22,
  CD30, CD33, CD38, CD40, SLAMF-7 and CCR4).
  Drgona L, Gudiol C, Lanini S, Salzberger B, Ippolito G, Mikulska M. Clin Microbiol Infect 2018;24:S83-S94. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2018.03.022.
• ESCMID Study Group for Infections in Compromised Hosts (ESGICH) Consensus
  Document on the safety of targeted and biological therapies: an infectious diseases
  perspective (Soluble immune effector molecules [I]: anti-tumor necrosis factor-α agents).
  Baddley JW, Cantini F, Goletti D, et al. Clin Microbiol Infect 2018;24:S10-S20. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2017.12.025
• ESCMID Study Group for Infections in Compromised Hosts (ESGICH) Consensus
  Document on the safety of targeted and biological therapies: an infectious diseases
  perspective (Intracellular signaling pathways: tyrosine kinase and mTOR inhibitors).
  Reinwald M, Silva JT, Mueller NJ, et al. Clin Microbiol Infect 2018;24:S53-S70. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2018.02.009
• ESCMID Study Group for Infections in Compromised Hosts (ESGICH) Consensus
  Document on the safety of targeted and biological therapies: an infectious diseases
  perspective (Agents targeting lymphoid cells surface antigens [I]: CD19, CD20 and
  CD52).
  Mikulska M, Lanini S, Gudiol C, et al. Clin Microbiol Infect 2018;24:S71-S82. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2018.02.003.
• ESCMID Study Group for Infections in Compromised Hosts (ESGICH) Consensus
  Document on the safety of targeted and biological therapies: an infectious diseases
  perspective (Soluble immune effector molecules [II]: agents targeting interleukins,
  immunoglobulins and complement factors).
  Winthrop KL, Mariette X, Silva JT, et al. Clin Microbiol Infect 2018;24:S21-S40. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2018.02.002.
• ESCMID Study Group for Infections in Compromised Hosts (ESGICH) Consensus
  Document on the safety of targeted and biological therapies: an infectious diseases
  perspective (Immune checkpoint inhibitors, cell adhesion inhibitors, sphingosine-1-
  phosphate receptor modulators and proteasome inhibitors).
  Redelman-Sidi G, Michielin O, Cervera C, et al. Clin Microbiol Infect 2018;24:S95-S107. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2018.01.030.
• ESCMID Study Group for Infections in Compromised Hosts (ESGICH) Consensus
  Document on the safety of targeted and biological therapies: an infectious diseases
  perspective (Introduction).
  Fernández-Ruiz M, Meije Y, Manuel O,et al. Clin Microbiol Infect 2018;24:S2-S9. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2018.01.029
• Editorial for ESCMID Study Group for Infections in Compromised Hosts (ESGICH)
  Consensus Document on the safety of targeted and biological therapies:
  an infectious diseases perspective.
  Aguado JM, Manuel O. Clin Microbiol Infect 2018;24 S1. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2018.04.02
• To test or not to test? Laboratory support for the diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis: a
  position paper of ESGBOR, the ESCMID study group for Lyme borreliosis.
  Dessau RB, van Dam AP, Fingerle V, et al. Clin Microbiol Infect 2018;24:118-124. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2017.08.025.

• Surviving Sepsis Campaign: International Guidelines for Management of Sepsis and
  Septic Shock: 2016. Rhodes A, Evans LE at al. Intensive Care Med. 2017;43(3):304-377 and Crit Care Med. 2017 Mar;45(3):486-552.

• Recommendations for screening, monitoring, prevention, prophylaxis and therapy of hepatitis B virus reactivation in patients with haematologic malignancies and patients who underwent haematologic stem cell transplantation-a position paper. Sarmati L, Andreoni M, Antonelli G et al. Clin Microbiol Infect 2017;23:935-940. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2017.06.023. 
• Use of nebulized antimicrobials for the treatment of respiratory infections in invasively mechanically ventilated adults: a position paper from the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.
  Rello J, Solé-Lleonart C, Rouby JJ et al. Clin Microbiol Infect 2017;23:629-639. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2017.04.011.
• Clinical considerations for optimal use of the polymyxins: A focus on agent selection and dosing.
  Pogue JM, Ortwine JK, Kaye KS. Clin Microbiol Infect 2017;23:229-233. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2017.02.023.

• ESCMID guideline: diagnosis and treatment of acute bacterial meningitis. van de Beek D, Cabellos C et al. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2016 May;22 Suppl 3:S37-62. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2016.01.007.
• European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases: update of the diagnostic guidance document for Clostridium difficile infection. Crobach MJ, Planche T et al. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2016 Aug;22 Suppl 4:S63-81. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2016.03.010.
• Chronic pulmonary aspergillosis: rationale and clinical guidelines for diagnosis and management. Denning D. W., Cadranel J et al. European Respiratory Journal 2016 47: 45-68; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00583-2015.