The group is made up of family physicians working in different lines of research on infectious diseases in primary care. We have collaborations with Catalan, Spanish and international universities and scientific societies of primary care in Catalonia and abroad. We actively participate in research by independent organizations in Catalonia, Spain and abroad. The primary objective of the group is to promote a more reasoned prescription of antimicrobials in primary care, identifying the subgroups of patients who really need them and avoiding them when they are not necessary. Other objectives are the microbiological aspects of the most prevalent community germs, identifying whether the etiology is bacterial or viral, resistance and prognosis of the most common infections. Another objective is to provide the family physician with diagnostic tools for community infections by means of rapid diagnostic methods.
