Research profile
The group performs research on a variety of topics related to infections:
- Laboratory diagnostics
- Molecular epidemiology of infectious diseases
- Staphylococcus aureus infections – bloodstream infections and orthopaedic implant-associated infections
- Next-generation sequencing – whole genome sequencing, metagenomics, rapid diagnostics
- Antibiotic resistance – antibiotic stewardship measures, epidemiology, mathematical modelling, resistome analyses of the gut microbiota
- Microbiome – the gut microbiome in inflammatory bowel diseases, host – microbiome crosstalk, resistome
- Human papillomavirus – National reference laboratory
- Clinical translational research – collaboration between the laboratories (medical microbiology) and clinical departments on topics where infections play an important role
- Infection control
Collaboration
The group collaborates with a range of regional, national and international research groups.
National collaboration:
- Various clinical departments at Ahus
- University hospitals in Norway
- Innlandet Hospital HF
- TTA – Turning the Tide of antimicrobial resistance, a consortium established by Oslo University Hospital in collaboration with national and international partners.
- The Institute of Public Health
- The Cancer Registry
- The Armed Forces/The Defense Research Institute
- Oslo council
- Norwegian Institute for Water Research
- Universities: University of Tromsø, University of Bergen; Norwegian University of Life Sciences; OsloMet; University of Oslo
International collaboration:
- EUCAST Development Laboratory for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (AST), Växjö, Sweden
- Odense University Hospital, Denmark
- Hvidovre Hospital, Denmark
- Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
- FIMM - Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland
- Rabin Medical Center, Israel
- Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italiy
- Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Germany
- The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, Canada
- The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Great Britan
- The Institute Pasteur, France
- Statens seruminstitut, København, Denmark
- Alere Technologies, Germany
- Universities: University of Edinburgh, UK; University of Greifswald, Germany; University of Oxford, UK; University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe; Örebro University, Sweden; Dresden University of Technology, Germany; Technical University of Denmark, Denmark; University of Bristol, UK; University of Latvia, Latvia; Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil; University of New South Wales, Australia; Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussels (UZ Brussels), Belgium; Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland