Electronic Tools for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology

Editorial: Applications of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Tools in Microbiology of Infectious Diseases

Epidemiology is a discipline intended to systematically investigate, and ideally quantify, disease dynamics in populations (Perez, 2015). Epidemiological assessments may be divided into four large areas, namely, (a) identification and characterization of a pathogen, (b) development of systems for detection of cases, (c) descriptive epidemiology and quantification of disease patterns, and (d) ad...

17th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID)

Molecular Tools for Monitoring Infectious Diseases in Aquaculture Species

The rapid detection and identification of pathogens in infected fish, both clinically and subclinically, and in environmental samples is essential for effective health management in aquaculture. Traditional diagnostic techniques have been very useful for the identification of infectious agents in cultured fish and shellfish; however, they are limited in their speed and sensitivity. For this rea...

Birth of a New European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Journal

Microbes and infections ignore frontiers, but clinical microbiology does not: a recent survey by Didier Raoult, the Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Microbiology and Infection, the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases journal, showed that papers from emerging countries were still under-represented among infectious diseases and clinical microbiology journals [1]. This is...

ESCMID* guideline for the diagnosis and management of Candida diseases 2012: developing European guidelines in clinical microbiology and infectious diseases.

The process to develop a guideline in a European setting remains a challenge. The ESCMID Fungal Infection Study Group (EFISG) successfully achieved this endeavour. After two face-to-face meetings, numerous telephone conferences, and email correspondence, an ESCMID task force (basically composed of members of the Society's Fungal Infection Study Group, EFISG) finalized the ESCMID diagnostic and ...