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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[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.
[18 Feb 2020] Erik Malmqvist, forskare på CARe, diskuterar antibiotika och vad det spelar för roll när många andra länder har en helt annan inställning än Sverige när det gäller utskrivning och användning. Och vilket ansvar har du och jag?
[14 Feb 2020] In a 2013 paper published in Lancet Infectious Diseases, the state of antimicrobial resistance worldwide was described. This follow-up paper, led by Ramanan Laxminarayan and coauthored by several leading scientists on antimicrobial resistance across the world, describes what has changed since then.
[13 Feb 2020] In India´s National Action Plan to combat antibiotic resistance from 2017, the Indian government expressed an intention to regulate antibiotic discharges from all national manufacturing sites. Now, they have published a draft of the new legislation.
[10 Feb 2020] Adding sewage sludge on soils does not promote antibiotic resistance, a study from the University of Gothenburg shows.
[22 Jan 2020] While many companies now present elaborate environmental strategies and emission targets, none publishes actual antibiotic discharge levels, and none discloses their suppliers of active ingredients or which waste-treatment plants they are using. "Clearly, there is still a long way to go", says Joakim Larsson, director of CARe.
"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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