Philip Karlsson

PhD student at Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology; Infection and Immunity; Helen Wang

E-mail:
philip.karlsson@imbim.uu.se
Visiting address:
BMC
Husargatan 3
752 37 UPPSALA
Postal address:
Box 582
751 23 UPPSALA

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ORCID:
0000-0003-0060-005X

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My PhD is about how bacteria of different species interact to cause urinary tract infections, primarily through biofilms, in intensive care unit patients.

PhD representative in the Research Training Committee (KUF). Until recently, research assistant for the development of new diagnostic approaches in clinical microbiology, Uppsala university hospital, and research visitor at the Marshall Centre for Infectious Diseases Research, Australia.

Keywords

  • antibiotic resistance
  • epidemiology
  • infection biology
  • antibiotic use
  • urinary tract infections
  • clinical bacteriology
  • molecular epidemiology
  • bacterial biofilms

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The use of broad-spectrum antibiotics increased drastically in intensive care at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. At first, this helped patients avoid urinary tract infections and seemed to prevent the growth of most bacteria. However, it also contributed to a sharp growth in enterococci, an antibiotic-tolerant group of bacteria, which rendered the treatment of urinary tract infections more difficult.

Antibiotics hindered treatment of urinary tract bacteria

Antibiotic use during coronavirus disease 2019 intensive care unit shape multidrug resistance bacteriuria: A Swedish longitudinal prospective study.

https://www.forskning.se/2023/02/13/bred-antibiotika-forsvarade-behandling-av-urinvagsinfektioner/

Philip Karlsson

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