What are your top takeaways from IDWeek 2025?

• The professional ID community is still strongly interested in the power of vaccines to prevent infectious diseases and improve the health of the world.
• New anti-fungal agents show promise for treating difficult mold infections
• Changing climate and increased mobility are shifting the traditional geo...

One takeaway is that many clinicians are struggling to understand when to use oral therapy for serious infections such as osteomyelitis and endocarditis. People are not happy with the drug combinations and doses that were proposed in the recent clinical trials, and are also still trying to determine...

• Rapid progress in the science of HIV prevention (via PrEP and vaccine development), antifungal therapies, and treatment of severe bacterial infections (like endocarditis) is generating enthusiasm tempered by serious logistical, equity, and governmental funding concerns.
• In Transplant and Oncology I...