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