ESCMID: ESGUTI

Aims and objectives

The ESCMID Study Group for Urinary Tract Infections (ESGUTI) aims to bring together international experts on the diagnosis, pathophysiology, treatment, and prevention of urinary tract infections (UTI) in order to improve our understanding, management and prevention of these infections and to reduce the emergence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in this population.

To advance its mission, ESGUTI is committed to:

Organising meetings of research groups studying UTI to enhance cooperation among diverse specialties, including infectious diseases, microbiology, immunology, urology, and nephrology
Performing research projects to build the evidence base for diagnosing, managing, preventing UTI; efforts will also be made to establish consensus definitions for both the research and patient-care spheres
Developing clinical guidelines on UTI such as UTI in men (including bacterial prostatitis)
Offering postgraduate teaching and training courses on clinical and experimental aspects of UTI

Activities and resources

Welcome to ESGUTI, ESCMID’s new study group for urinary tract infections! We look forward to working together to better understand UTI’s risk factors, pathophysiology, diagnosis, management, and prevention.

If you haven’t signed up, please do; this will ensure you are kept up to date on events and research projects.

Our first in-person meeting will take place at the ESCMID Global Congress in Vienna, Austria, on Monday 14 April from 16:15 to 17:15 in Room Schubert 3 at the Messe Wien Exhibition & Congress Center (official ESCMID Global 2025 venue). For those who cannot join, a videoconference link will be provided shortly.