Major abdominal surgery in particular is associated with high postoperative infection rates. Despite well-established surveillance systems for surgical wound infections, there is a lack of comprehensive reporting on infectious complications and the impact of the use of anti-infectives during and after surgery. The TIARA project aims to close this knowledge [...]

A large number of innovative methods are available today to specifically target bacterial pathogens: DZIF scientists in the "TARGET" project use modern sequencing technologies to classify and characterize multi-resistant gram negative pathogens on a genome-by-genome basis. Conceptually, they are pursuing a "one-health-one-world strategy", since antibiotic resistance is not restricted to [...]