International Congresses Amsterdam 2025

The ERS Congress 2025, Amsterdam

This annual event brings together the world's respiratory experts to showcase all the latest advances in respiratory medicine and science.

Chair(s): Markus Fally, Onno Akkerman, Olha Konstantynovska

Session type: State of the art session

Eva Polverino

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Antimicrobial resistance in respiratory infections: challenges

Eva Polverino

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to outline how timely interventions like isolation of symptomatic patients, proper use of personal protective equipment and environmental controls can significantly reduce transmission of mycobacterial and viral respiratory infections; to clarify the lack of appropriate biomarkers for determining infectiousness of mycobacterial and viral respiratory infections; to discuss the importance of controlling drug-resistant pathogens like multidrug-resistant bacteria and drug-resistant tuberculosis, especially in relation to the rising threat of antimicrobial resistance in respiratory infections.