The Tropical Infectious Diseases Group
We focus on outbreak research and research in resource-poor settings, on diseases caused by antimicrobial resistance, severe infections and microbial causes of diarrhea.
Affiliation
About the research group
Our interdisciplinary team collaborates with global partners to improve health outcomes and promote sustainable healthcare practices. Through cutting-edge research, we aim to develop innovative solutions to combat diseases. Join us in our mission to make a significant impact on global health.
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Projects
Probiotics against antimicrobial resistance
- Probiotics as adjunct preventive therapy for childhood diarrhea and antimicrobial resistance in Africa (PRoRota)
- Probiotic treatment of newborns to reduce colonization and disease caused by resistant bacteria (ProRIDE).
Bloodstream infections and antimicrobial resistance
- (Combatting Anti-Microbial Resistance with Interdisciplinary Approaches)
- Surveillance and metagenomic tracking of antimicrobial resistance genes in environmental and clinical samples using machine learning approaches ().
- Learning and predicting the pathways of antimicrobial resistance evolution using hypercubic transition path sampling, computational and mathematical approach to learn evolutionary pathways using large-scale biological data ()
- Risk communication and perception of antimicrobial resistance in the public and among healthcare workers: Knowledge needed to develop new policies and interventions ().
- Antimicrobial stewardship in hospitals, resistance selection and transfer in a One Health context ().
- Consequences of antibiotic resistance after preventive treatment with cotrimoxazole in HIV patients (CoTrimResist).
- Innate and adaptive immunity within the early versus late BCG vaccination in HIV-1 exposed infants (BCGI).
- Bloodstream infections and antibiotic resistance among patients in Tanzania.
- Development of methods for detection of the malaria parasite鈥檚 genetic material.
Diarrhea
- Immune reasponse against Giardia in humans ().
- Detection and prevalence of intestinal parasites in Norway, including genotyping of circulating Giardia and Cryptosporidium variants (TaDiGe).
- Improved diagnostics for Cryptosporidium in low-income countries (, CryptoT&T).
- Exposure study to enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli bacteria and vaccine development (ETEC).
- Causes of diarrhea among children under five years of age in Tanzania.
COVID-19
- Prevention of long covid-19 in Norway by treatment with Paxlovid ().
- The Coordination Mechanism for Cohorts and Trials ().
Ebola
- Investigation of the protocols for supportive treatment in Ebola treatment centers in Sierra Leone and other affected countries.
- Evaluation of the efficacy of a post-exposure prophylaxis strategy in contacts at high risk of developing Ebola virus disease.
Other projects
- Bacterial strain colonization in fecal microbiota transfer therapy in patients with irritable bowel syndrome ().
- The significance of blood volume in blood cultures in children: evaluation of weight- and age-adjusted volumes for growth of pathogenic microbes and microbial contamination.
Completed projects
- Developing vaccines against diarrhea caused by enterotoxigenic Shigella (EntVac)
- Developing vaccines against diarrhea caused by enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETECVac)
- Transplantation of intestinal microbiota in primary Clostridioides difficile infections ()
- Gastrointestinal complaints and fatigue among patients and a control group after the giardiasis outbreak in Bergen in 2004 ().
Publications
Key publications
This is a selection of the Group's key publications. For detailed lists please refer to individual project pages.
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- (2025)
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- (2024)
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- (2024)
- (2023)
- (2023)
- (2022)
- (2021)
- (2020)
Doctoral dissertations
- Annette Onken: . (2024)
- 脴ystein Haarklau Johansen: (2023)
- Joel Manyahi: (2022)
- Christina Sk氓r Saghaug: (2021)
- Thandile Nkosi: (2021)
- Sunniva Todnem Sakkestad: Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli infection and diarrhoea - experimental infection studies and immunological characterisation to guide vaccine development. (2021)
- Sabrina Moyo: (2014)
- Gro Elizabeth Ann Str酶m: (2014)
- Kurt Hanevik: (2012)
- Kristine M酶rch: (2010)
- Bj酶rn Blomberg: (2007)
People
Group manager
Nina Langeland Professor
Group members
Kristine M酶rch Associate Professor, Head National Center for Tropical Infectious Diseases, Haukeland University Hospital
Kurt Hanevik Professor
Bj酶rn Blomberg Professor
Sabrina Moyo Researcher
Joel Manyahi Researcher
Asnake Simieneh Tamru PhD candidate
Elin Hoffmann Dahl PhD candidate
Jahid Hasan Tipu PhD candidate
Jepsy Grace Yango Wa Yango PhD candidate
Nikolai Norevik Myklebust PhD candidate
Oda Ved酶y PhD candidate
Saman Riaz PhD candidate
Sehee Rim PhD candidate
Tewachew Awoke Dejenie PhD candidate
Trygve Kristiansen PhD candidate
Tori Friis Study Nurse
Helene Heitmann Sandnes Laboratory engineer
Olivera Bozickovic Laboratory engineer
Internal collaborators
Anne Lise Fimreite Head of Department of Government
Lise H. Rykkja Professor, Department of Government
Iain Johnston Professor, Department of Mathematics
Guttorm Alendal Professor, Department of Mathematics
Eivind Valen Professor, Department of Informatics
Amani Thomas Mori Researcher, Institute for Global Public Health and Primary Care
Randi Jacobsen Bertelsen Professor, Department of Clinical Science
Iren H酶yland L枚hr Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Science
Department of Research and Development, Haukeland University Hospital
Birgitte Berentsen Jacobsen Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Medicine
Eline Hillestad PhD candidate
Audun Sivertsen Department of Microbiology, Haukeland University Hospital
External collaborators
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom
University of Bordeaux, France | ANRS, Ivory Coast
Training and Research Unit of Excellence, Malawi | Kamuzu University of Health Sciences
Scripps Research Translational Institute, USA
National Institute of Biomedical Research, Congo | University of Kinshasa, Congo
National Institute of Biomedical Research, Congo | University of Kinshasa, School of Medicine, Congo
Oslo University Hospital, Norway
Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany
Department of Clinical Medicine, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway
John T. Milliken Department of Medicine, University of Washington, USA
Alumni
Gro Elizabeth Ann Str酶m PhD graduate
Sunniva Todnem Sakkestad PhD graduate
Thandile Nkosi PhD graduate
Christina Sk氓r Saghaug PhD graduate
脴ystein Haarklau Johansen PhD graduate
Anette Onken PhD graduate