Academic article

• Mia Angelique Winkler; Marit Hetland; Håkon Kaspersen et al. (2026). A One Health study of Klebsiella pneumoniae species complex plasmids shows a highly diverse and ecologically adaptable plasmidome. (external link)
• Thomas David Stanton; Marit Hetland; Iren Høyland Löhr et al. (2025). Fast and accurate in silico antigen typing with Kaptive 3. (external link)
• Marianne Hille Smith; Torunn Gresdal Rønning; Siren Irene Rettedal et al. (2026). Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus lugdunensis in a neonatal intensive care unit: diagnostic challenges and emergence of multidrug-resistance. (external link)
• Jessica Renz; Kazeem Adesina Dauda; Olav Nicolay Larsson Aga et al. (2025). Evolutionary accumulation modeling in AMR: machine learning to infer and predict evolutionary dynamics of multi-drug resistance. (external link)
• Marit Hetland; Mia Angelique Winkler; Håkon Kaspersen et al. (2025). A genome-wide One Health study of Klebsiella pneumoniae in Norway reveals overlapping populations but few recent transmission events across reservoirs. (external link)
• Theodor Anton Ross; Jessin Janice; Sergio Arredondo Alonso et al. (2025). Enterococcus lactis is ecologically and genetically distinct from the major opportunistic pathogen Enterococcus faecium. (external link)
• Iren Høyland Löhr; Nils Fredrik Hülter; Eva Bernhoff et al. (2015). Persistence of a pKPN3-like CTX-M-15-encoding IncFIIK plasmid in a Klebsiella pneumonia ST17 host during two years of intestinal colonization. (external link)
• Kelly L. Wyres; Jane Hawkey; Marit Hetland et al. (2019). Emergence and rapid global dissemination of CTX-M-15-associated Klebsiella pneumoniae strain ST307. (external link)
• Siren Rettedal; Iren Høyland Löhr; Olav Bjarte Natås et al. (2012). First outbreak of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in a Norwegian neonatal intensive care unit; associated with contaminated breast milk and resolved by strict cohorting. (external link)
• Heidi Syre; Marit Hetland; Eva Bernhoff et al. (2019). Microbial risk factors for treatment failure of pivmecillinam in community‐acquired urinary tract infections caused by ESBL‐producing Escherichia coli. (external link)
• Marit Hetland; Jane Hawkey; Eva Bernhoff et al. (2023). Within-patient and global evolutionary dynamics of Klebsiella pneumoniae ST17. (external link)
• Håkon Kaspersen; Fiona Valerie Franklin-Alming; Marit Hetland et al. (2023). Highly conserved composite transposon harbouring aerobactin iuc3 in Klebsiella pneumoniae from pigs. (external link)
• Kanika Kuwelker; Nina Langeland; Iren Høyland Löhr et al. (2021). Use of probiotics to reduce infections and death and prevent colonization with extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing bacteria among newborn infants in Tanzania (ProRIDE Trial): study protocol for a randomized controlled clinical trial. (external link)
• Fiona Valerie Franklin-Alming; Håkon Kaspersen; Marit Andrea Klokkhammer Hetland et al. (2021). Exploring Klebsiella pneumoniae in Healthy Poultry Reveals High Genetic Diversity, Good Biofilm-Forming Abilities and Higher Prevalence in Turkeys Than Broilers. (external link)
• Paul Naaber; Jelena Stsepetova; Imbi Smidt et al. (2011). Quantification of Clostridium difficile in Antibiotic-Associated-Diarrhea Patients. (external link)
• Fredrik Håkonsholm; Marit Andrea Klokkhammer Hetland; Cecilie Smith Svanevik et al. (2022). Insights into the genetic diversity, antibiotic resistance and pathogenic potential of Klebsiella pneumoniae from the Norwegian marine environment using whole-genome analysis. (external link)
• Heidi Syre; Marius Eduardo Brå Obreque; Ingvild Dalen et al. (2022). The performances of three commercially available assays for the detection of SARS‐CoV‐2 antibodies at different time points following SARS‐CoV‐2 infection. (external link)
• Anne Vatland Krøvel; Marit Andrea Klokkhammer Hetland; Eva Bernhoff et al. (2023). Long-read sequencing for reliably calling the mompS allele in Legionella pneumophila sequence-based typing. (external link)
• Kirsten Midttun Gravningen; Oliver Kacelnik; Egil Lingaas et al. (2022). Pseudomonas aeruginosa countrywide outbreak in hospitals linked to pre-moistened non-sterile washcloths, Norway, October 2021 to April 2022. (external link)
• Mushtaq al Rubaye; Jessin Janice; Jørgen Vildershøj Bjørnholt et al. (2023). The population structure of vancomycin-resistant and -susceptible Enterococcus faecium in a low-prevalence antimicrobial resistance setting is highly influenced by circulating global hospital-associated clones. (external link)
• Mushtaq Talib Shawi al Rubaye; Jessin Janice; Jørgen Bjørnholt et al. (2023). The first vanE-type vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecalis isolates in Norway – phenotypic and molecular characteristics. (external link)
• Rebecca Ashley Gladstone; Alan McNally; Anna Kaarina Pöntinen et al. (2021). Emergence and dissemination of antimicrobial resistance in Escherichia coli causing bloodstream infections in Norway in 2002–17: a nationwide, longitudinal, microbial population genomic study. (external link)
• Bjørg Haldorsen; Christian G Giske; Dennis S Hansen et al. (2018). Performance of the EUCAST disc diffusion method and two MIC methods in detection of Enterobacteriaceae with reduced susceptibility to meropenem: the NordicAST CPE study.. (external link)
• Håkon Kaspersen; Anne Margrete Urdahl; Fiona Valerie Franklin-Alming et al. (2023). Population dynamics and characteristics of Klebsiella pneumoniae from healthy poultry in Norway. (external link)
• Niclas Peter Raffelsberger; Marit Andrea Klokkhammer Hetland; Kristian Svendsen et al. (2021). Gastrointestinal carriage of Klebsiella pneumoniae in a general adult population: a cross-sectional study of risk factors and bacterial genomic diversity. (external link)
• Oskar Ekelund; Marit Andrea Klokkhammer Hetland; Iren Høyland Löhr et al. (2021). Rapid high-resolution detection of colistin resistance in Gram-negative bacteria using flow cytometry: A comparison with broth microdilution, a commercial screening test and WGS. (external link)
• Niclas Peter Raffelsberger; Dorota Julia Buczek; Kristian Svendsen et al. (2023). Community carriage of ESBL-producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae: a cross-sectional study of risk factors and comparative genomics of carriage and clinical isolates. (external link)
• Marit Hetland; Eva Bernhoff; Iren Høyland Löhr et al. (2023). Long-read sequencing for reliably calling the mompS allele in Legionella pneumophila sequence-based typing. (external link)
• Margaret M.C. Lam; Kelly L. Wyres; Ryan R. Wick et al. (2019). Convergence of virulence and MDR in a single plasmid vector in MDR Klebsiella pneumoniae ST15. (external link)
• Oskar Ljungquist; Bjørg Haldorsen; Anna Kaarina Pöntinen et al. (2023). Nationwide, population-based observational study of the molecular epidemiology and temporal trend of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales in Norway, 2015 to 2021. (external link)
• Eva Bernhoff; Iren Høyland Löhr; Elin Austerheim et al. (2022). Legionella pneumophila in Municipal Shower Systems in Stavanger, Norway; A Longitudinal Surveillance Study Using Whole Genome Sequencing in Risk Management. (external link)
• Iren Høyland Löhr; Siren Rettedal; Olav Bjarte Natås et al. (2013). Long-term faecal carriage in infants and intra-household transmission of CTX-M-15-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae following a nosocomial outbreak. (external link)
• Fredrik Håkonsholm; Marit Hetland; Iren Høyland Löhr et al. (2023). Co-localization of clinically relevant antibiotic- and heavy metal resistance genes on plasmids in Klebsiella pneumoniae from marine bivalves. (external link)
• Sergio Arredondo Alonso; Anna Kaarina Pöntinen; João Alves Gama et al. (2025). Plasmid-driven strategies for clone success in Escherichia coli. (external link)
• Claus Andreas Klingenberg; Museveni Ntwalibalilimba Justine; Sabrina John Moyo et al. (2025). Home administration of a multistrain probiotic once per day for 4 weeks to newborn infants in Tanzania (ProRIDE): a double-blind, placebo-controlled randomised trial. (external link)
• Siren Rettedal; Iren Høyland Löhr; Olav Bjarte Natås et al. (2013). Risk factors for acquisition of CTX-M-15 extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae during an outbreak in a neonatal intensive care unit in Norway. (external link)
• Aasmund Fostervold; Marit Andrea Klokkhammer Hetland; Ragna-Johanne Bakksjø et al. (2021). A nationwide genomic study of clinical Klebsiella pneumoniae in Norway 2001–15: introduction and spread of ESBLs facilitated by clonal groups CG15 and CG307. (external link)
• Anne Vatland Krøvel; Eva Bernhoff; Elin Austerheim et al. (2022). Legionella pneumophila in Municipal Shower Systems in Stavanger, Norway; A Longitudinal Surveillance Study Using Whole Genome Sequencing in Risk Management. (external link)
• Epp Sepp; Jelena Stsepetova; Imbi Smidt et al. (2011). Intestinal lactoflora in Estonian and Norwegian patients with antibiotic associated diarrhea. (external link)
• Einar Sverre Berg; Astrid Lousie Wester; J Ahrenfeldt et al. (2017). Norwegian patients and retail chicken meat share cephalosporin-resistant Escherichia coli and IncK/blaCMY-2 resistance plasmids. (external link)
• Arne Michael Taxt; Vegard Eldholm; Nicola Isabelle Kols et al. (2025). A national outbreak of Serratia marcescens complex: investigation reveals genomic population structure but no source, Norway, June 2021 to February 2023. (external link)
• Aasmund Fostervold; Niclas Peter Raffelsberger; Marit Hetland et al. (2024). Risk of death in Klebsiella pneumoniae bloodstream infections is associated with specific phylogenetic lineages. (external link)
• Marit Hetland; Mia Angelique Winkler; Håkon Kaspersen et al. (2025). Complete genomes of 568 diverse Klebsiella pneumoniae species complex isolates from humans, animals, and marine sources in Norway from 2001 to 2020. (external link)
• Siren Rettedal; Iren Høyland Löhr; Eva Bernhoff et al. (2015). Extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae among pregnant women in Norway: Prevalence and maternal-neonatal transmission. (external link)
• Olav Bjarte Natås; Anita Løvås Brekken; Eva Bernhoff et al. (2019). Susceptibility of Legionella pneumophila to antimicrobial agents and the presence of the efflux pump LpeAB. (external link)

Research report

• Miriam Sare; Ørjan Samuelsen; Niclas Peter Raffelsberger et al. (2024). Risikovurdering av hypervirulente Klebsiella pneumoniae i Norge : en norsk risikovurdering av ECDC sin Rapid Risk Assessment "Emergence of hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae ST23 carrying carbapenemase genes in EU/EEA countries, first update". (external link)

Doctoral thesis (PhD)

• Iren Høyland Löhr (2014). Extended-spectrum β-lactamase producing Klebsiella pneumoniae. A neonatal intensive care unit outbreak, long-term colonization in children and plasmid characteristics. (external link)

Conference lecture

• Marit Hetland; Jane Hawkey; Eva Bernhoff et al. (2022). Within-patient and global evolutionary dynamics of Klebsiella pneumoniae ST17. (external link)
• Marit Hetland; Mia Angelique Winkler; Thomas D Stanton et al. (2023). Klebsiella pneumoniae ecology and antimicrobial resistance in a One Health perspective. (external link)

Media feature article

• Paul Christoffer Lindemann; Karianne Wiger Gammelsrud; Iren Høyland Löhr et al. (2019). Valg av antibiotika - viktig endring i prøvesvar fra mikrobiologen. (external link)

Letter to the editor

• Elling Ulvestad; Øyvind Kommedal; Gunnar Skov Simonsen et al. (2020). Norges mikrobiologiske utbruddsberedskap er truet. (external link)

Conference poster

• Anne Vatland Krøvel; Marius Eduardo Brå Obreque; Heidi Syre et al. (2024). Improving the first line diagnostics of Legionnaires’ disease using the LIAISON Legionella Urinary Ag kit. (external link)
• Eva Berhoff; Iren Høyland Löhr; PC Lindemann et al. (2018). Genomic analyses reveal dissemination of an Enterococcus faecium ST117 strain, containing a vanB Tn1549 integrated at the same site in the chromosome, in three hospitals in Western Norway. (external link)
• Einar Sverre Berg; Astrid Lousie Wester; Solveig Sølverød Mo et al. (2015). Highly similar cephalosporin resistant Escherichia coli and AmpC resistance plasmids found in both patients and poultry meat in Norway. (external link)
• Marit Hetland; Anna Steensen Bjørheim; Eva Bernhoff et al. (2023). ONTmompS - a tool for in silico sequence-based typing (SBT) of Legionella pneumophila completed genomes. (external link)
• Marit Hetland; Anna Steensen Bjørheim; Eva Bernhoff et al. (2023). Legionella pneumophila sequence-based typing: lessons learned in the transition from Sanger- to whole-genome sequencing. (external link)
• Mushtaq Talib Shawi Al-Rubaye; Jessin Janice; Iren Høyland Löhr et al. (2019). THE FIRST VANE VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS IN NORWAY. (external link)

Academic literature review

• Kara K. Tsang; Margaret M C Lam; Ryan R. Wick et al. (2024). Diversity, functional classification and genotyping of SHV β-lactamases in Klebsiella pneumoniae. (external link)

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