News on antibiotic resistance

Treating severe infections with a combination of antibiotics has long been standard practice in Swedish medicine. Despite this, at present there is...

A new innovation environment for precision health is under construction in Uppsala. Made possible by a five-year grant from Vinnova, the new innova...

An international team of researchers used historical museum collections to study the effects of human-made antibiotics over the entire history of t...

More than 30 years have passed since a new class of antibiotics was last discovered. The world’s antibiotic consumption is rising, and the problems...

Five years ago, Uppsala University took a new step in the fight against accelerating antibiotic resistance with the establishment of the Uppsala An...

When teaching about antibiotic resistance, it is not sufficient to rely on biological and medical facts. Pupils also need to be trained to make dec...

Antimicrobial resistance is an urgent global threat to human and animal health. This year’s Uppsala Health Summit, which will take place online on ...

Using theoretical models of bacterial metabolism and reproduction, scientists can predict the type of resistance that bacteria will develop when th...

An important and still unanswered question is how new genes that cause antibiotic resistance arise. In a new study, Swedish and American researcher...

In cases of severe infection, identifying the correct antibiotic – and doing so quickly – can be a matter of life and death. At Uppsala University ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has not halted work to identify needs and uses for antibiotics. The PLATINEA cooperation platform engages academia, industry,...

Researchers at Uppsala University have developed a new method to determine – rapidly, easily and cheaply – how effective two antibiotics combined c...

A previous study has shown that a type of squill growing in Madeira produces a chemical compound that may be useful as a medicinal drug. But a new ...

Tuberculosis is once again a major public health threat as the causative bacteria become resistant to antibiotics. Globalisation is also contributi...

Antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis is a common and serious problem globally. In a new article, researchers from Uppsala University describe how tube...

By studying social and linguistic patterns in doctor-patient meetings, Anna Lindström, professor of language and social interaction, wants to lay t...

Uppsala University is taking a leading role in COMBINE, a multinational collaboration where 11 partners from academia and the private sector are wo...

One key question in evolutionary biology is how novel genes arise and develop. Swedish researchers now show how new genes and functions that are ad...

The international network ReAct, which is coordinated from Uppsala University, will focus on four strategic areas in the fight against antibiotic r...

When antibiotics are used to treat bacteria susceptible to them, the treatment usually works. Nevertheless, the antibiotic chosen is sometimes inef...