Call for late breakers

The call for late breakers for ESCAIDE 2026 is open from 9 to 23 September 2026.   

To be eligible, the abstract must fulfil all the following criteria: 

  1. Report on acute urgent public health problems OR contain novel, surprising findings.
  2. Report data or information that was unavailable before the deadline for submission in the general call for abstracts for ESCAIDE (18 May 2026). 
  3. Has not been published before. 

Abstracts initially submitted for the regular programme and rejected are ineligible for late breaker consideration, unless the rejection was due to the absence of critical data at the time of submission. 

Abstracts should be submitted in the form of text via the abstract management platform (hosted by Ex Ordo). Guidelines for late breaker abstract submissions are available at the link below.

Abstracts will be reviewed by the ESCAIDE Scientific Committee between 25 September and 8 October and results will be communicated to authors by 14 October 2026. Late breaker abstracts may be eligible for both oral and poster presentations.