CARe - Centre for Antibiotic Resistance Research at University of Gothenburg – has a vision is 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 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.
[8 Jan 2020] Emissions of high concentrations of antibiotics from manufacturing sites select for resistant bacteria and may contribute to the emergence of new forms of resistance in pathogens. Many scientists, industry, policy makers and other stakeholders recognize such pollution as an unnecessary and unacceptable risk to global public health.
[10 Dec 2019] We announce two full time postdoctoral position (24 months each) within the research group led by Professor Joakim Larsson. The deadline for applying is the 10th of January, 2020. Please apply here.
[28 Nov 2019] Scientists at CARe and researchers in Germany, antibiotic resistance genes and bacteria were analyzed in airplane-borne sewage using both molecular and cultivation-based methods.
[28 Nov 2019] New paper on collective action motivation related to public health and antibiotic resistance from CARe researchers.
[27 Nov 2019] Årets lista över världens mest citerade forskare 2019 har nu offentliggjorts och CARe-forskare är med på listan.
[14 Nov 2019] CARe scientists have identified the chromosomal origin of a group of genes providing resistance to several important antibiotics. The bacterium in which these genes originated is an aquatic bacterium known to cause infections in fish.
"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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