European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Study Group for Artificial Intelligence and Digitalisation consensus statements on key aspects in the interaction of clinical microbiologists and infectious disease specialists with general-purpose large language model-based systems: project protocol

Daniele Roberto Giacobbe, Riccardo Lucis, Suryabrata Banerjee, Giorgia Carra, Eric Dexter, Benjamin McFadden, Alberto Rizzoon behalf of the Study Group for Artificial Intelligence and Digitalisation , of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease

Published online on July 23, 2026

Abstract

Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease, Volume 13, January-December 2026.
Background:General-purpose large language model (LLM)–based systems are increasingly accessible to clinicians and are being explored for applications in clinical microbiology and infectious diseases (ID). However, rapid adoption has outpaced the ...