• Community carriage of ESBL-producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae: a cross-sectional study of risk factors and comparative genomics of carriage and clinical isolates 

      Raffelsberger, Niclas Peter; Buczek, Dorota Julia; Svendsen, Kristian; Småbrekke, Lars; Pöntinen, Anna Kaarina; Löhr, Iren Høyland; Andreassen, Lotte Leonore Eivindsdatter; Simonsen, Gunnar Skov; Sundsfjord, Arnfinn Ståle; Gravningen, Kirsten; Samuelsen, Ørjan (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-06-12)
      The global prevalence of infections caused by extended-spectrum βlactamase-producing Enterobacterales (ESBL-E) is increasing, and for Escherichia coli, observations indicate that this is partly driven by community-onset cases. The ESBL-E population structure in the community is scarcely described, and data on risk factors for carriage are conflicting. Here, we report the prevalence and population ...
    • Detection of Klebsiella pneumoniae human gut carriage: a comparison of culture, qPCR, and whole metagenomic sequencing methods 

      Lindstedt, Kenneth; Buczek, Dorota Julia; Pedersen, Torunn Annie; Hjerde, Erik; Raffelsberger, Niclas Peter; Suzuki, Yutaka; Brisse, Sylvain; Holt, Kathryn E.; Samuelsen, Ørjan; Sundsfjord, Arnfinn (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-08-31)
      Klebsiella pneumoniae is an important opportunistic healthcare-associated pathogen and major contributor to the global spread of antimicrobial resistance. Gastrointestinal colonization with K. pneumoniae is a major predisposing risk factor for infection and forms an important hub for the dispersal of resistance. Current culture-based detection methods are time consuming, give limited intra-sample ...
    • Gastrointestinal carriage of Klebsiella pneumoniae in a general adult population: a cross-sectional study of risk factors and bacterial genomic diversity 

      Raffelsberger, Niclas Peter; Hetland, Marit Andrea Klokkhammer; Svendsen, Kristian; Småbrekke, Lars; Löhr, Iren Høyland; Andreassen, Lotte; Brisse, Sylvain; Holt, Kathryn E.; Sundsfjord, Arnfinn; Samuelsen, Ørjan; Gravningen, Kirsten Midttun (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-06-28)
      Antibiotic resistant <i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i> is a leading public health threat and gastrointestinal carriage is an established risk factor for subsequent infections during hospitalization. Our study contributes new knowledge of risk factors for gastrointestinal carriage and the genomic population structure of <i>K. pneumoniae</i> colonizing humans in a representative sample of a general population ...