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ESCMID 2025 Congress Review

 

This post-congress highlights podcast from ESCMID 2025 features Dr Sowsan Atabani, Consultant Virologist and Clinical Lead for Virology at the UK Health Security Agency South West Regional Laboratory, Bristol sharing her key congress highlights in transplant and infectious diseases. She discusses top papers in transplant ID (including expanding donor pools with HIV positive kidneys and infection risks following CAR T therapy), evolving strategies for donor and recipient screening (with a focus on HHV8/Kaposi sarcoma virus), and a keynote on the past, present and future of infections in transplant recipients. Dr Atabani also reviews new European recommendations on congenital CMV screening and antiviral use in early pregnancy, the growing role of AI in diagnostics, surveillance and guideline development.