– Peer-reviewed journal papers –

– 2023 –

  1. Knoll, R.L., Jarquín-Díaz, V.H., Klopp, J., Kemper, A., Hilbert, K., Hillen, B., Pfirrmann, D., Simon, P., Bähner, V., Nitsche, O., Gehring, S., Markó, L., Forslund, S.K., Poplawska, K., 2023. Resilience and stability of the CF- intestinal and respiratory microbiome during nutritional and exercise intervention. BMC Microbiology, 23, 44. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12866-023-02788-y
  2. Inda-Díaz, J.S., Lund, D., Parras-Moltó, M., Johnning, A., Bengtsson-Palme, J., Kristiansson, E., 2023. Latent antibiotic resistance genes are abundant, diverse, and mobile in human, animal, and environmental microbiomes. Microbiome, 11, 44. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-023-01479-0
  3. de la Cruz Barron, M., Kneis, D., Elena, A.X., Bagra, K., Berendonk, T.U., Klümper, U., 2023. Quantification of the mobility potential of antibiotic resistance genes through multiplexed ddPCR linkage analysis. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, fiad031. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiad031
  4. Bargheet, A., Klingenberg, C., Esaiassen, E., Hjerde, E., Cavanagh, J. P., Bengtsson-Palme, J., Pettersen, V. K., 2023. Development of early life gut resistome and mobilome across gestational ages and microbiota-modifying treatments. EBioMedicine, 92, 104613. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2023.104613
  5. Gschwind, R., Ugarcina Perovic, S., Weiss, M., Petitjean, M., Lao, J., Coelho, L. P., Ruppé, E., 2023. ResFinderFG v2.0: a database of antibiotic resistance genes obtained by functional metagenomics. Nucleic acids research, gkad384. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkad384
  6. Kneis, D., Lemay-St-Denis, C., Cellier-Goetghebeur, S., Elena, A.X., Berendonk, T.U., Pelletier, J.N., Heß, S., 2023. Trimethoprim resistance in surface and wastewater is mediated by contrasting variants of the dfrB gene. ISME Journal. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-023-01460-7
  7. Abramova, A., Berendonk, T.U.Bengtsson-Palme, J., 2023. A global baseline for qPCR-determined antimicrobial resistance gene prevalence across environments. Environment International, 178, 108084. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2023.108084 
  8. Bengtsson-Palme, J., Abramova, A., Berendonk, T.U., Coelho, L.P., Forslund, S.K., Gschwind, R., Heikinheimo, A., Jarquín-Díaz, V.H., Ali Khan, A., Klümper, U., Löber, U., Nekoro, M., Osińska, A.D., Ugarcina Perovic, S., Pitkänen, T., Rødland, E.K., Ruppé, E., Wasteson, Y., Louise Wester, A., Zahra, R., 2023. Towards monitoring of antimicrobial resistance in the environment: For what reasons, how to implement it, and what are the data needs? Environment International, 108089. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2023.108089

– 2022 –

  1. Teban-Man, A., Szekeres, E., Fang, P., Klümper, U., Hegedus, A., Baricz, A., Berendonk, T. U., Pârvu, M., & Coman, C., 2022. Municipal Wastewaters Carry Important Carbapenemase Genes Independent of Hospital Input and Can Mirror Clinical Resistance Patterns. Microbiology spectrum, e0271121. https://doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.02711-21
  2. Weise, K., Winter, L., Fischer, E., Kneis, D., de la Cruz Barron, M., Kunze, S., Berendonk, T. U., Jungmann, D., Klümper, D., 2022. Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes Promote Bacterial Conjugative Plasmid Transfer. Microbiology spectrum, e0041022. https://doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.00410-22
  3. Kneis, D., Berendonk, T. U., Forslund, S. K., Hess, S., 2022. Antibiotic Resistance Genes in River Biofilms: A Metagenomic Approach toward the Identification of Sources and Candidate Hosts. Environmental Science & Technology. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c00370
  4. Kampouris, I.D., Klümper, U., Kramer, L., Sørum, H., Wedekind, H., Berendonk, T.U., 2022. Dissemination of antibiotic resistance in antibiotic-free recirculating aquaculture systems. Journal of Hazardous Materials Advances. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hazadv.2022.100201

– 2021 –

  1. Abramova, A., Osińska, A., Kunche, H., Burman, E., Bengtsson-Palme, J., 2021. CAFE: a software suite for analysis of paired-sample transposon insertion sequencing data. Bioinformatics. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa1086
  2. Kampouris, I.D., Agrawal, S., Orschler, L., Cacace, D., Kunze, S., Berendonk, T.U., Klümper, U., 2021. Antibiotic resistance gene load and irrigation intensity determine the impact of wastewater irrigation on antimicrobial resistance in the soil microbiome. Water Research, 116818. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2021.116818
  3. Ligouri, R., Rommel, S.H., Bengtsson-Palme, J., Helmreich, B., Wurzbacher, C., 2021. Microbial retention and resistances in stormwater quality improvement devices treating road runoff. FEMS Microbes, 2. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsmc/xtab008
  4. Kampouris, I.D., Alygizakis, N., Klümper, U., Agrawal, S., Lackner, S. Cacace, D. Kunze, S., Thomaidis, N.S., Slobdonik, J., Berendonk, T.U., 2022. Elevated levels of antibiotic resistance in groundwater during treated wastewater irrigation associated with infiltration and accumulation of antibiotic residues. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 423. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2021.127155
  5. Maier, L., Goemans, C.V., Wirbel, J., Kuhn, M., Eberl, C., Pruteanu, M., Müller, P., Garcia-Santamarina, S., Cacace, E., Zhang, B., Gekeler, C., Banerjee, T., Anderson, E.E., Milanese, A., Löber, U., Forslund, S.K., Patil, K.R., Zimmermann, M., Stecher, B., Zeller, G., Bork, P., Typas, A., 2021. Unravelling the collateral damage of antibiotics on gut bacteria. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03986-2
  6. Anjum, M.F., Schmitt, H., Börjesson, S., Berendonk, T.U., on behalf of the WAWES network, 2021. The potential of using E. coli as an indicator for the surveillance of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the environment. Current Opinion in Microbiology, 64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mib.2021.09.011
  7. Bengtsson-Palme, J., Jonsson, V., Heß, S., 2021. What is the role of the environment in the emergence of novel antibiotic resistance genes? A modelling approach. Environmental Science & Technology, 55. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c02977
  8. Coelho, L. P., Alves, R., Del Río, Á. R., Myers, P. N., Cantalapiedra, C. P., Giner-Lamia, J., Schmidt, T. S., Mende, D. R., Orakov, A., Letunic, I., Hildebrand, F., Van Rossum, T., Forslund, S. K., Khedkar, S., Maistrenko, O. M., Pan, S., Jia, L., Ferretti, P., Sunagawa, S., Zhao, X. M., Nielsen, H.B., Huerta-Cepas, J., Bork, P., 2022. Towards the biogeography of prokaryotic genes. Nature, 601. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04233-4

– Pre-prints –

– 2023 –

  1. Abramova, A., Berendonk, T.U.Bengtsson-Palme, J., 2023. A global baseline for qPCR-determined antimicrobial resistance gene prevalence across environments. bioRxiv preprint. http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.29.478248

– 2022 –

  1. Abramova, A., Berendonk, T.U.Bengtsson-Palme, J., 2022. Meta-analysis reveals the global picture of antibiotic resistance gene prevalence across environments. bioRxiv preprint. http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.29.478248
  2. de la Cruz Barron, M., Kneis, D., Elena, A.X., Bagra, K., Berendonk, T.U.Klümper, U., 2022. Quantification of the mobility potential of antibiotic resistance genes through multiplexed ddPCR linkage analysis. bioRxiv preprint. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.26.509453
  3. Kampouris, I.D., Bengtsson-Palme, J., Berendonk, T.U.Klümper, U., 2022. The global groundwater resistome: core ARGs and their dynamics – an in silico re-analysis of publicly available groundwater metagenomes. bioRxiv preprint. http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2022.11.14.516424

– 2021 –

  1. Liguori, R., Rommel, S.H., Bengtsson-Palme, J., Helmreich, B., Wurzbacher, C., 2021. Microbial retention and resistances in stormwater quality improvement devices treating road runoff. bioRxiv preprint. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.12.426166
  2. Bengtsson-Palme, J., Jonsson, V., Heß, S., 2021: What is the role of the environment in the emergence of novel antibiotic resistance genes? – A modelling approach. bioRxiv preprint. http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2021.04.04.438392
  3. Ugarcina Perovic, S., Ksiezarek, M., Rocha, J., Alves Cappelli, E., Sousa, M., Gonçalves Ribeiro, T., Grosso, F., Peixe, L., 2022: Extended bacterial diversity of the urinary microbiome of reproductive-age healthy European women captured by culturomics and long-read amplicon sequencing. bioRxiv preprint. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.19.476882

– External communication –

  • 2022-04-19: Svetlana Ugarčina Perović gave a talk on exploring the global resistome within EMBARK at University of Novi Sad
  • 2021-12-14: Johan Bengtsson-Palme gave a talk on monitoring AMR in the environment and EMBARK at RICAI in Paris
  • 2021-12-09: Johan Bengtsson-Palme talked about the environmental resistome and EMBARK’s role at the National Consortium for Microbial Genomics Meeting in Norway
  • 2021-11-17: Johan Bengtsson-Palme gave a talk about EMBARK at the Swedish Antibiotics Forum on November 17
  • 2021-11-04: Johan Bengtsson-Palme spoke about EMBARK at the AMR Nordic One-Health seminar on November 4
  • 2021-10-21: Rémi Gschwind gave a talk entitled ResFinderFG 2.0: a database of antibiotic resistance genes obtained by functional metagenomics on 6th International Conference on Clinical Metagenomics
  • 2021-09-27: Thomas Berendonk gave a talk on Urban wastewater treatment plants as hot spots for the release of antibiotic resistances to the aquatic environment at the Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Limnologie
  • 2021-09-27: Uli Klümper gave a talk entitled Diverse microbial communities can serve as a barrier against antimicrobial resistance at the Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Limnologie
  • 2021-07-13: Johan Bengtsson-Palme spoke in the Antimicrobial Resistance section of the EU Citizens Dialogue for the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS)
  • 2021-04-14: Johan Bengtsson-Palme spoke at the Engineering Health seminar at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg
  • 2020-06-01: Johan Bengtsson-Palme appeared on the AMR Studio Podcast hosted by the Uppsala Antibiotic Center