Department of Infectious Diseases

We conduct clinical research in many areas, including epidemiology, clinical management, diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases and public health. Clinical microbiological research include development, validation and clinical application of diagnostic assays. We also conduct basic research concering pathogenesis of all types of pathogenic agents involving viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites, but also the commensal microbiota. Some groups deal with research questions related to immunology and cancer research.

We work closely together with the Sahlgrenska University Hospital, both at the Infectious disease Clinic and the unit for Clinical Microbiology, which provides advanced diagnostic services to meet the needs of a large teaching hospital.

The department hosts CARe - the Center for research on Antibiotic Resistance - which perform state-of-the-art science regarding development and consequences of antimicrobial resistance, with the intention to ultimately support policy development and clinical practice.

CCUG, the Culture Collection of the University of Gothenburg, is a bacterial strain collection and a European center for bacterial typing and species determination. Many new bacterial species have been discovered there. CCUG is part of the Sahlgrenska University Hospital, although many researchers are affiliated with the Department of Infectious Diseases.

The department of infectious diseases provides high quality teaching in specialized subjects at several undergraduate university programs including Medical School (läkarprogrammet), Nursing school (sjuksköterskeprogrammet), Dental school (Tandläkarprogrammet) as well as educational programs for Pharmacists and Biomedical technicians. We also teach food-related microbiology on the Diet and Health program. 

Research groups at the department

Ingegerd Adlerberth

Johan Bengtsson-Palme
Interactions in the microbiome

Tomas Bergström

Carl-Fredrik Flach
The role of wastewater environments for development and surveillance of antibiotic resistance

Vanda Friman

Magnus Gisslén

Anna Grahn
Neurological complications caused by varicella-zostervirus and enterovirus

Kristoffer Hellstrand
Cell-mediated immunity in leukemia

Gunnar Jacobsson
Clostridioides Difficile

Michael Kann
Intracellular transport of viral structures

Roger  Karlsson
Direct identification of disease-causing microorganisms in clinical samples using genomics and proteomics

Martin Lagging
Translational research on Tick-borne Encephalitis (TBE) and other flavivirus infections

Joakim Larsson
Environmental dimension of antibiotic resistance

Jan-Åke Liljeqvist

Magnus Lindh
Studies of hepatitis B and hepatitis D focusing on viral replication, viral sequencing and integration of the viral genome into human chromosomes

Inger Mattsby-Baltzer
Antimicrobial peptides and proteins in humans

Åsa Mellgren
Women and HIV

Edward Moore
Studies on microbial diversity: characterisation, classification and identification of clinically-relevant microorganisms

Peter Norberg
Viral evolution and genetics

Helene Norder

Lars Olaison

Susann Skovbjerg 
Pneumococci and related infections globally and in Sweden

Marie Studahl
Viral infections of the central nervous system

Ka-Wei Tang
Epstein-Barr virus - mutational landscapes and viral gene expression

Rune Wejstål
Antiviral treatment of chronic hepatitis C and the effect on quality of life, cognitive function and cerebrospinal fluid markers of neuronal injury and inflammation.

Christine Wennerås
The Neoehrlichia Eosinophil (NEOs) Project

Johan Westin
Translational studies of viral respiratory infections (and other viral infections) in adults

Agnes Wold

Christina Åhrén
Improved therapeutical guidelines and surveillance of multi-resistant gut bacteria with ESBL