Videos in this resource go through the basics of the science behind the antibiotic crisis.
[18 Jun 2019] Patricia Huijbers, Carl-Fredrik Flach and Joakim Larsson at CARe have published a conceptual framework for environmental surveillance of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance in the environment.
[5 Jun 2019] The fourth annual CARe meeting was held June 3th - 4th on the island of Hisingen. Approximately 60 CARe scientists participated during the theme-based sessions.
[28 May 2019] An upcoming survey from the University of York reports antibiotics in surface waters across the world. Here Joakim Larsson is interviewed by Radio P4 about the implications of environmental pollution with antibiotics (in Swedish).
[28 May 2019] In an article published in the New Scientist, a French journalist team describes the pollution situation from drug manufacturing in the Hyderabad area, and the research done here by the Larsson group at CARe.
[22 May 2019] We are now looking for a postdoc who is interested in taking on the task to experimentally explore different environments for novel, mobile resistance genes not yet found in pathogens, and to characterize these.
[23 Apr 2019] The method is also shown to have superior performance compared to other similar computational approaches.
[22 Mar 2019] Utvecklandet av en moln-plattform för sjukhuslaboratorier och smittskyddsmyndigheter i hela världen som möjliggör användning av DNA- sekvensering av antibiotika-resistenta bakterier för infektionskontroll och diagnostik samt delning av data, har prisats.
2021 - Gothenburg
"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"
See all talks from the first ever major international conference on this topic.
This completely new Nordic educational program at the University of Gothenburg is under development. Note that the information on this website is continuously updated.
