CARe - Centre for Antibiotic Resistance Research at University of Gothenburg – has a vision to limit mortality, morbidity and socioeconomic costs related to antibiotic resistance on a global scale through research. CARe offers diverse expertise representing six faculties and a broad network of stakeholders within the health care sector and beyond to generate state-of-the-art science with the intention to support rapid revision of policies and their implementation.
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[22 Jun 2020] The work entitled "Identification of novel antibiotic resistance genes through the exploration of mobile genetic elements" was successfully defended by Mohammad Razavi.
[4 Jun 2020] A guide for how all countries could develop their national action plans to reduce risks for infections and antibiotic resistance to develop spread as a consequence of water pollution was just published. Behind the guide stands the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Organisation for Animal Health, with help from a range of academic experts.
[26 May 2020] We present an assay that is capable of identifying bacteria directly from uncultured clinical urine samples, as well as in mixtures, with the potential to be discriminative even at the subspecies level.
[18 May 2020] Davis, Mark, Lyall, Benjamin, Whittaker, Andrea, Lindgren, Mia, Djerf-Pierre, Monika, Flowers, Paul. (2020). A year in the public life of superbugs: News media on antimicrobial resistance and implications for health communications, Social Science & Medicine
[2 May 2020] Hospital screening of patients for antibiotic resistant bacteria is a backbone of good antibiotic stewardship. In a new original research article, published in the established healthcare ethical journal Monah Bioethics Review, an interdisciplinary group of CARe researchers argue for reform of existing hospital screening programs to detect colonization of multi-drug resistant gram-negative (MDRGN) bacteria in patients.
[27 Mar 2020] Aminoglycoside antibiotics are critically important for treating several types of infections with multi-resistant bacteria. A completely new resistance gene, which is likely to counteract the newest aminoglycoside-drug plazomycin, was recently discovered by scientists at the University of Gothenburg.
[27 Feb 2020] CARe researcher Johan Bengtsson-Palme has been awarded the first best article award from FEMS Microbiology Reviews for the 2018 review "Environmental factors influencing the development and spread of antibiotic resistance", co-authored with fellow CARe researchers Joakim Larsson and Erik Kristiansson.
"This serious threat is no longer a prediction for the future, it is happening right now in every region of the world and has the potential to affect anyone, of any age, in any country"
"Without urgent, coordinated action by many stakeholders, the world is headed for a post-antibiotic era, in which common infections and minor injuries which have been treatable for decades can once again kill"
(World Health Organization 2014 regarding the global challenges with antibiotic resistance)
“It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill them… There is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and by exposing his microbes to non-lethal quantities of the drug make them resistant.”
(Alexander Flemming, Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1945)
"Ethics and Value Challenges in Antibiotic Resistance Management, Policy and Research Symposium"
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2021 - Gothenburg POSTPONED to 2022
