16th JPIAMR transnational call for research projects - AMR diagnostics and surveillance 2023 (DISTOMOS)

General Information

• Project title: Occurrence of antimicrobial use and antimicrobial resistance in hospitals wastewater
• Type: Project looking for partner
• Organisation: Sciensano
• Country: Belgium (BE)
• Career stage: Other.

Research area

• Scientific area(s) of the call:
  1. Topic 2: to develop or improve existing strategies, technologies or methods, or data use strategies to support One Health AMR surveillance
• One Health Setting:

  Human Health

  Animal Health (incl. wild-life, livestock, acquatic organisms, and companion animals)
  Environment (incl. natural and built)

• Keywords:

  waste water surveillance

• Brief description of your expertise / expertise you are looking for:

  Sciensano is a Belgian scientific institute bringing together microbiologists, epidemiologists and molecular biology experts, working together under the One Health concept for AMR surveillance in food producing animals, food and wastewater. We have expertise in - Techniques such as FT-IR, dPCR, WGS, and bioinformatic analysis, but also basic techniques such as classical microbiological methods, qPRC, and MALDI-TOF. We are the Belgian national reference laboratory for antimicrobial resistance, but also Salmonella, Campylobacter, Listeria monocytogenes, Escherichia coli, - epidemiological research, including observational studies in slaughterhouses, food, - the development of high throughput resolution techniques for qualitative and quantitative mapping of emerging threats in different settings, such as wastewater. - the development of tools for detection and identification of emerging genetic determinants. - Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE)

• Brief description of your project / the project you would like to join:

  We are looking for partners to join our project which aims to expand AMR surveillance to environmental settings, namely wastewater and hospital effluents, and compare data across countries with existing surveillance programs.

Cristina Garcia Graells

• Organisation: Sciensano
• Position: Scientist
• E-mail: MariaCristina.GarciaGraells@sciensano.be
• Web: www.sciensano.be/en