Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

Plasmodium vivax malaria found in Duffy-negative individuals in Sudan, challenging assumptions about resistance and revealing parasite adaptation. Read more.

A single-dose viral vector-based rabies vaccine shows strong, sustained antibody responses in adults and children with a good safety profile at 1 year.

Australian cohort study has found that HIV incidence among transgender people fell by almost 94% between 2014 and 2023.

Influenza D virus infects human airway cells efficiently and evades early immune responses, raising concerns over zoonotic spillover risk.

New study shows antibody-based population immunity measures can predict influenza subtype dominance and epidemic size across multiple countries.

Machine learning tuberculosis drug resistance models predict antibiotic susceptibility and treatment outcomes, offering improved diagnostic precision and clinical insight.

Rasha Elshenawy highlighted the promise of AI in antimicrobial stewardship but warned that use must be responsible in exclusive insight from ESCMID Global 2026.

WHO-recommended first-line antibiotics for neonatal sepsis are likely to be effective in only 25% of cases in LMICs, according to new findings presented at ESCMID Global 2026.