• Antibiotic residues in final effluents of European wastewater treatment plants and their impact on the aquatic environment 

      Rodriguez-Mozaz, Sara; Vaz-Moreira, Ivone; Varela Della Giustina, Saulo; Llorca, Marta; Barceló, Damià; Schubert, Sara; Berendonk, Thomas U.; Michael-Kordatou, Irene; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo; Martinez, José Luis; Elpers, Christian; Henriques, Isabel; Jaeger, Thomas; Schwartz, Thomas; Paulshus, Erik; O_Sullivan, Kristin; Pärnänen, Katariina M.M.; Virta, Marko; Do, Thi Thuy; Walsh, Fiona; Manaia, Celia M. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
    • Antibiotic resistance in European wastewater treatment plants mirrors the pattern of clinical antibiotic resistance prevalence 

      Parnanen, Katariina MM; Narciso-Da-Rocha, Carlos; Kneis, David; Berendonk, Thomas U.; Cacace, Damiano; Do, Thi Thuy; Elpers, Christian; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo; Henriques, Isabel; Jaeger, Thomas; Karkman, Antti; Martinez, José Luis; Michael, Stella G; Michael-Kordatou, Irene; O_Sullivan, Kristin; Rodriguez-Mozaz, Sara; Schwartz, Thomas; Sheng, Hongjie; Sørum, Henning; Stedtfeld, Robert D.; Tiedje, James M.; Giustina, Saulo Varela Della; Walsh, Fiona; Vaz-Moreira, Ivone; Virta, Marko; Manaia, Celia M. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Integrated antibiotic resistance (AR) surveillance is one of the objectives of the World Health Organization global action plan on antimicrobial resistance. Urban wastewater treatment plants (UWTPs) are among the most ...
    • Endospore Appendages: a novel pilus superfamily from the endospores of pathogenic Bacilli 

      Pradhan, Brajabandhu; Liedtke, Janine; Sleutel, Mike; Lindbäck, Toril; Zegeye, Ephrem Debebe; O_Sullivan, Kristin; Llarena, Ann-Katrin; Brynildsrud, Ola Brønstad; Aspholm, Marina Elisabeth; Remaut, Han (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Bacillus cereus sensu lato is a group of Gram-positive endospore-forming bacteria with high ecological diversity. Their endospores are decorated with micrometer-long appendages of unknown identity and function. Here, we ...
    • Replication Region Analysis Reveals Non-lambdoid Shiga Toxin Converting Bacteriophages 

      Llarena, Ann-Katrin; Aspholm, Marina Elisabeth; O_Sullivan, Kristin; Wêgrzyn, Grzegorz; Lindbäck, Toril (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Shiga toxin is the major virulence factor of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC), and the gene encoding it is carried within the genome of Shiga toxin-converting phages (Stx phages). Numerous Stx phages have been ...
    • The cooperative and interdependent role of GerA, GerK, Ynd in germination of Bacillus licheniformis spores 

      Borch-Pedersen, Kristina; Lindback, Toril; Madslien, Elisabeth Henie; Kidd, Shani Wilhelmina Aarek; O_Sullivan, Kristin; Granum, Per Einar; Aspholm, Marina (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)