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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[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.
[4 Nov 2019]
[28 Oct 2019] JPI-AMR has granted 1.4 million euros in funding to EMBARK - a CARe-led consortium aiming to improve and simplify monitoring of antibiotic resistance in the environment. "Essentially we will generate data on the natural background resistance in different environments and provide a framework for more efficient and less costly monitoring" says Johan Bengtsson-Palme, coordinator of the EMBARK program.
[7 Oct 2019] where he talks about the role of ethics and value issues in antibiotic resistance research and management, exemplifying with the interdisciplinary work from CARe in this area.
[11 Sep 2019] Chemical changes in mutant E. coli exhibiting impaired plasmid transfer have been identified both on, and within the bacterial envelope using time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS).
[21 Aug 2019] CARe fellows Christian Munthe, Nils Nijsingh, Karl de Fine Licht and Joakim Larsson are the joint editors of a new special issue of the research journal Bioethics on the theme of the ethics of antibiotic resistance. The issue features 8 original contributions by leading scholars from philosophy, politics, law, medicine and social science.
[19 Aug 2019] Professor Joakim Larsson and his co-workers at CARe have repeatedly pointed out a problem in the current substitution system for drugs in Sweden and many other countries; currently, only the cheapest copy of a given medicine is subsided by tax money. This provides counterincentives for manufacturers to invest in pollution control. Here TV4 interviews Professor Larsson and others about the need for change.
"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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