The Leibniz Research Alliance INFECTIONS’21 funded by the Leibniz Association has been formed by the Research Center Borstel–Leibniz Center for Medicine and Biosciences (FZB, www.fz-borstel.de) together with 13 institutions of the Leibniz association (Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering (ATB, www.atb-potsdam.de), Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM, www.bnitm.de), Leibniz-Institute DSMZ–German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures (DSMZ,