Veterinary & Environmental Sciences
Antibiotics in the world are not just given to people, or stay at the hospitals. Our veterinary and environmental researchers follow resistance through farms, food, water and wildlife.
Introduction
Resistance does not respect the boundary between human and animal medicine, or between a hospital and the river downstream of it. Research in this area tracks resistant bacteria and antibiotic residues across those boundaries, in Sweden and in settings from Uganda to Vietnam, and examines what would actually reduce antibiotic use in food production.
This area brings together researchers from Uppsala University, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and the Swedish Veterinary Agency (SVA).
What we work on
- Antimicrobial resistance in livestock and food production
- Zoonotic pathogens at the wildlife, livestock and human interface
- Environmental resistomes in water and wastewater
- Pharmaceutical residues in the environment
- One Health surveillance and genomic epidemiology
- Veterinary clinical practice and infection control
Members at the UAC Research Community
- Elisabeth Rajala - how resistance builds up on livestock farms, and where it goes from there
- Evangelos Mourkas - genomic epidemiology of zoonotic pathogens and environmental resistomes
- Foon Yin Lai - antimicrobial pollutants and resistance in the aquatic environment
- Josef Järhult - antimicrobial resistance from a One Health perspective
- Lena Pelander - urinary tract infection and antibiotic use in small animal medicine
- Marie Wrande - wastewater treatment plants and industrial water systems
- Máté Vass - what happens to resistance genes when wastewater and natural waters mix
- Oskar Nilsson - surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in Swedish animals
- Sandra Nohrborg - antimicrobial resistance in the global livestock sector
- Susanna Sternberg-Lewerin - antimicrobial resistance and biosecurity in livestock production
- Todd Alsing Johansson - infection prevention and control in animal populations
- Valeriia Ladyhina - resistomes in Swedish pig farms, tracked across the production cycle
Members at the UAC Research School
- Divya Shridar Vaishnavi - model-based wastewater epidemiology for resistance surveillance
- María Rincón Gracia - spread of resistant bacteria and genes through water environments
- Marmar Nekoro - reducing veterinary pharmaceuticals in the environment
- Olivia Graaf Bjöersdorff - resistant Campylobacter on urban poultry farms in Uganda
- Robert Spörndly - resistant bacteria moving from patients to wildlife and back
- Ulrika Lagerquist - wound debridement and bacterial reduction in horses
- Viktoria Langwallner - vaccination as an alternative to antibiotics in horses