The final program for the 5th Annual GESITRA-IC Scientific Conference, to be held on March 5 and 6 in Madrid, is now available!

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These workshops are designed with a highly practical goal in mind: to help you make better diagnostic and therapeutic decisions for immunosuppressed patients.

📌 Date: March 19, 2026
📍 Location: IBiS (Seville Institute of Biomedicine)
🎓 GEIDS–SAMICEI training activity
🤝 Format focused on discussion and clinical cases

Registration: samicei@samicei.es

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The @SAMICEI-GEIDS group (Study Group on Infections in Primary and Secondary Immunodeficiencies) invites you to the III GEIDS–SAMICEI Training Conference, which will take place on March 19, 2026, in Seville (@ibis_sevilla).

ESGICH Board announce the availability of 5 grants to support attendance at the ESGICH Course “Infections in Immunocompromised Patients” (Bologna, 6–7 March 2026). Each scholarship consists of a €500 grant to contribute to participation-related costs (travel not included).
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Registration: www.leanevent.it/esgich_regeng/

ESGICH invites early-career infectious diseases physicians to a residential course in Bologna on 6–7 March 2026. This is a unique opportunity to review the main topics on infections in immunocompromised patients and discuss them with leading experts in an informal setting.

Empirical and targeted antimicrobial therapy in patients with febrile neutropenia and haematological malignancy or after haematopoietic cell transplantation: recommendations from the 10th European Con... Febrile neutropenia can lead to life-threatening infections in patients with haematological malignancies or after hematopoietic cell transplantation. Infection management is challenged by rising antib...

Now available the new recommendations from the European Conference on Infections in Leukaemia for empirical and targeted antimicrobial therapy in patients with febrile neutropenia and hematological malignancy or after hematopoietic cell transplantation: thelancet.com/journals/lan...

CMV Global "Update en Citomegalovirus: Diagnóstico y tratamiento" (Sesión 1)

📅28th October, 2025
📍Online

📚📝Programme/registration👇 update-citomegalovirus-cmvglobal.com

New systematic review on the epidemiology of resistant bacterial infections in patients with hematological malignancies or HSCT recipients by the European Conference on Infections in Leukemia (ECIL)

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📣 GESITRA-IC Meeting is coming! 📍 Madrid | 5–6 March 2026 🗓️ Save the date!

The presentations from the 4th GESITRA-IC Scientific Meeting, held in Barcelona last June, are now available on the group's website.
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Hurry up, registration is free and capacity is limited!!!

📝 Desde GESITRA-IC os invitamos a completar esta breve encuesta para actualizar los perfiles profesionales del grupo y orientar vuestra participación en futuras colaboraciones, proyectos y actividades.
📅 Hasta el 14 de agosto
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¡Gracias por participar!

Participate in our engaging webinar to delve into donor-transmitted infections in solid organ and hematopoietic cell transplants, featuring insights from specialists.
Sign up now: ichs.wildapricot.org/event-6142533

Synthetic Microbiome Therapy Offers Hope Against C. difficile Infections Penn State researchers develop a synthetic microbiome therapy that rivals fecal transplants in fighting C. difficile infections, with fewer risks.

Penn State researchers develop a synthetic microbiome therapy that rivals fecal transplants in fighting C. difficile infections, with fewer risks.

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This symposium will provide state-of-the-art discussion on hot topics in the field of transplant infectious diseases. Chaired by Shahid Husain and Deepali Kumar
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6th SEIMC Summer School, with the aim of offering a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of clinical microbiology and infectious diseases through a practical and interactive format.
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🦠Un estudio liderado por el @ibis-investigacion.bsky.social identifica una molécula antiviral de amplio espectro

🔬El trabajo muestra la eficacia y seguridad de esta molécula para combatir las infecciones causadas virus

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🔬El #CSIC es el mayor organismo científico de España, con 124 institutos. Sus equipos realizan investigación básica para ampliar las fronteras del conocimiento

🧵 En este hilo te contamos las noticias destacadas de esta #SemanaCSIC
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Great review and meta-analysis identifying areas of research on antimicrobial stewardship in SOTr that require the highest priority @ibis-investigacion.bsky.social @isciiisalud.bsky.social

Effectiveness and safety of strategies to optimise antimicrobial use in solid organ transplant recipients. Systematic review and meta-analyses Strategies to optimise antimicrobial use are safe, with no negative impact on mortality or transplant-related complications, and appear to improve some clinical outcomes in SOTr, particularly when usi...

Effectiveness and safety of strategies to optimise antimicrobial use in solid organ transplant recipients. Systematic review and meta-analyses - eClinicalMedicine www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...

Organ transplants between people with HIV, backed by solid international studies, have been given the green light in Spain. Upcoming protocols will mark the beginning of this practice, which promotes equality in healthcare.
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West Nile Virus: A Review This narrative review summarizes the pathophysiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of West Nile virus infection.

People who are older or immunocompromised are at higher risk of severe disease and death. Since there are no therapies or human vaccines, prevention relies on personal protective measures, WNV surveillance, and mosquito control interventions.

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Oral Vancomycin for Prevention of Recurrent Clostridioides difficile Infection This randomized clinical trial examines whether prophylactic oral vancomycin vs placebo reduces recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection in adults receiving antibiotics for another indication.

No differences in results when evaluating subgroups with a particularly high risk of recurrent infection, such as immunocompromised individuals.

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An Observational Analysis of a Large Cohort of Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia is increasingly diagnosed in non-HIV immunocompromised patients. In this multicenter cohort, we observed rising diagnoses,

Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia in immunocompromised patients.
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Current trends on antifungal prophylaxis in solid organ transplantation: a study from ESCMID-EFISG, ESCMID-ESGICH, SITA, and SEIMC-GESITRA-IC - Infection Introduction Invasive fungal diseases (IFD) present serious risks to solid organ transplant recipients, particularly in the first 180 days post-transplant. Existing European and US guidelines offer li...

🚨 #Antifungal #prophylaxis in #SOT patients is evolving—but not uniformly.

A new survey by @efisg-escmid.bsky.social @ESGICH @SITA @seimc.bsky.social @gesitraic-seimc.bsky.social sheds light on how prophylaxis is actually being used in transplant centers.

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