2025-07-112025-07-112025-06Rodríguez-Baño, J., Skov, R.L., Friedland, J.S., Río, C.d., Akova, M. y Zinkernagel, A.S. (2025). The challenge to improving and standardizing training in infectious diseases in Europe. Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 31 (6), 888-889. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmi.2025.03.007.1198-743X1469-0691https://hdl.handle.net/11441/175254The recent COVID-19 pandemic once again demonstrates that infectious diseases pose a significant threat to humanity. Moreover, we are increasingly encountering emerging pathogens causing outbreaks, the growing problem of antimicrobial resistance threatens modern medicine, and the number of individuals at risk of serious infections is rising due to an ageing population and the more widespread use of immunosuppressive drugs and invasive procedures. Given these realities, it is no surprise that the medical specialty of infectious diseases (ID) has become a crucial component of modern clinical medicine, working in close collaboration with clinical microbiology and public health.application/pdf15 p.engAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/standardizinginfectious diseasesinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccess10.1016/j.cmi.2025.03.007