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On March 10 and 11, 2025, the symposium INFECTIONS - Symposium “Antimicrobial resistance: The silent pandemic” will take place at the Leibniz Institute for Analytical Sciences - ISAS - e.V., Dortmund, Germany.
From 28 to 30 October 2024, the members of the Leibniz Research Alliance INFECTIONS met for the 8th Plenary Assembly at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) in Hamburg. They discussed the future direction of the network and presented their research findings on combating antimicrobial resistance (AMR) - a key issue for global health.
In the seed money project AirBarn, aerosols inside and from animal barns are investigated as a potential source for airborne pathogens. It is known that the use of antibiotics in agriculture often selects antibiotic-resistant bacteria, but the extent to which environmental influences can change the composition of bacteria in bioaerosols and where risks arise for humans and the environment are still open research questions.
A recent publication, which was published in The Lancet at the end of September, has analyzed the global burden of bacterial resistance on human health from 1990 to 2021 and calculated a forecast up to 2050 from this data. Three researchers from the Leibniz research network INFECTIONS contributed to this systematic analysis.
The ENVIRE project is an intervention study that aims to investigate the potential of various measures on the spread of antibiotic resistance in chicken farms and their surroundings. This experimental study, in which six working groups from Germany, France, Lithuania, Poland and Tunisia are pooling their expertise, aims to investigate whether and to what extent changes in husbandry, the way drugs are used or the storage and cleaning of manure and wastewater lead to a reduction in drug resistance and reduce the transmission of antibiotic resistance to humans in the environment.