Environmental factors influencing the development and spread of antibiotic resistance

Antibiotic resistance and its wider implications present us with a growing healthcare crisis. Recent research points to the environment as an important component for the transmission of resistant bacteria and in the emergence of resistant pathogens. However, a deeper understanding of the evolutionary and ecological processes that lead to clinical appearance of resistance genes is still lacking, as is knowledge of environmental dispersal barriers. This calls for better models of how resistance genes evolve, are mobilized, transferred and disseminated in the environment. Here, we attempt to define the ecological and evolutionary environmental factors that contribute to resistance development and transmission.…

• SF
  Stiftelsen för Miljöstrategisk Forskning

  Award: 2004-147
• SF
  Svenska Forskningsrådet Formas

  Awards: 2012-86, 2015-750, 2016-786
• CT
  Chalmers Tekniska Högskola
• V
  Vetenskapsrådet

  Awards: 2011-4744, 2015-02492, 2013-8633
• GU
  Göteborgs Universitet
• CF
  Centre for Antibiotic Resistance Research, University of Gothenburg