Antibiotic Resistance in Wastewater

Papers I-II To assess the levels of antibiotics, antibiotic resistance genes and class 1 integrons in different anthropogenically impacted and undisturbed aquatic

(Paper I), the recent origin of CMY-1/MOX-1, MOX-2 and MOX-9 class C beta-lactamases as Aeromonas sanarellii, Aeromonas caviae and Aeromonas media respectively (Paper II),

In this thesis, we identified the origins of several mobile antibiotic resistance genes exclusively from WGS data available from public sequencing repositories,

Among the 84 patients admitted to the hospital with the suspicion of a bacterial infection 73% received only one antibiotic (men 70%, women 69% and children 82%) and 25% received 2

In Study III the purposive selection of twelve patients, five women and seven men (age 30-66 years), was carried out by Eva Skyman, infection control nurse and Leif

used in 2004 (n=92) and for a new set of patients in 2011 (n=110) focused on the patients’ use and beliefs of a MRSA notification card and their encounters when presenting it in

Among the most interesting mutants are DA65171, which had the highest MIC as determined by the broth microdilution test and showed a growth rate twice as fast as the wild

Both the Swedish meningococcal isolates and the isolates from the African meningitis belt were mainly susceptible for the antibiotics used (for both treatment and