Congress of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

A suite of deep learning (DL) models to automate tuberculosis (TB) risk assessment from lung ultrasound (LUS) images fulfils the WHO criteria for a sputum-free TB triage test and outwits human experts in the TrUST study.

Tapering the dose of vancomycin over 2 weeks following initial 14-day therapy appears to work better than the 14-day fixed dosing at reducing the recurrence of Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI), as shown in the TAPER-V trial.

Antibiotic treatment may be done for 5 days, as opposed to at least 7 days, in hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) who had achieved clinical stability by day 3 to 5, suggests a study presented at ESCMID Global 2025.

BNT162b2 JN.1-adapted vaccine provides protection against COVID-19–related hospitalization in Europe, a case-control study using the id.DRIVE platform has shown.