The annual Congress of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases is a key event for all colleagues at the Laboratory of Medical Microbiology, with its dates marked in red well in advance. Once again, 11–14 April 2025 proved to be a highlight, as six team members proudly presented their research at #ESCMIDGlobal2025:

Anouk Braspenning

Dynamics of gastrointestinal colonisation by antibiotic-resistant bacteria in high-risk infants in Swiss and Greek neonatal intensive care units (oral presentation)

Juan Pablo Rodríguez Ruiz

• Detection of respiratory pathogens in the nasopharynx of children hospitalised with severe pneumonia in sub-Saharan Africa (poster presentation)
• The gastrointestinal resistome and microbiota of children hospitalised with severe pneumonia in sub-Saharan Africa in the PediCAP trial (poster presentation)

Sam Van Goethem

Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy as a tool for clonal clustering in hospital-associated Serratia marcescens outbreaks (poster presentation)

Ann Versporten

Harmonisation trajectory of Global-Point Prevalence Survey (Global-PPS) and WHO-PPS (ePoster flash session)

Annelies Boven

• A standardised approach for measuring outpatient antimicrobial use data: development and evaluation of the outpatient global point prevalence survey (poster presentation)
• Identifying predictors for antibiotic use: a global point prevalence survey study among 130 hospitals in Belgium, the Philippines and South Africa (poster presentation)

Ines Pauwels

Implementation of hospital antimicrobial stewardship in Europe using a data-driven behaviour change approach: insights from the drive-AMS EU project (ePoster flash session)