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Dagfinn Skaare

MD PhD, Vestfold Hospital Trust, Norway
Verified email at siv.no
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[HTML][HTML] Loss of smell or taste as the only symptom of COVID-19

J Hjelmesæth, D Skaare - Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening, 2020 - tidsskriftet.no
… Dagfinn Skaare, PhD, specialist in clinical microbiology and senior consultant. He is head
of a research group on antimicrobial resistance, financed by strategic research funds from …

[HTML][HTML] Twenty-two years of candidaemia surveillance: results from a Norwegian national study

…, C Grub, A Onken, C Thielsen, D Skaare… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2015 - Elsevier
Several studies have reported an increased incidence of candidaemia and a redistribution
of species, with a decrease in the number of Candida albicans isolates. In Norway, a …

[HTML][HTML] Antibiotic resistance patterns of bacteria causing urinary tract infections in the elderly living in nursing homes versus the elderly living at home: an …

…, N Grude, H Reiso, M Romøren, D Skaare, D Berild - BMC geriatrics, 2015 - Springer
Background Antibiotic resistance is a problem in nursing homes. Presumed urinary tract
infections (UTI) are the most common infection. This study examines urine culture results from …

Emergence of clonally related multidrug resistant Haemophilus influenzae with penicillin-binding protein 3-mediated resistance to extended-spectrum cephalosporins …

D Skaare, IL Anthonisen, G Kahlmeter… - …, 2014 - eurosurveillance.org
Resistance to cephalosporins in Haemophilus influenzae is usually caused by characteristic
alterations in penicillin-binding protein 3 (PBP3), encoded by the ftsI gene. Resistance to …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular epidemiology and antibiotic resistance profiles of invasive Haemophilus influenzae from Norway 2017–2021

…, JC Lindstrøm, AL Wester, D Skaare - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Invasive Haemophilus influenzae (Hi) disease has decreased in countries that included Hi
type b (Hib) vaccination in their childhood immunization programs in the 1990s. Non-typeable …

[HTML][HTML] Multilocus sequence typing and ftsI sequencing: a powerful tool for surveillance of penicillin-binding protein 3-mediated beta-lactam resistance in nontypeable …

D Skaare, IL Anthonisen, DA Caugant, A Jenkins… - BMC microbiology, 2014 - Springer
… PBP3 types A, B and D were confined to distinct clusters (lambda, zeta and omicron), all
highly divergent from the reference sequence. Type A was encoded by three closely related …

Role of horizontal gene transfer in the development of multidrug resistance in Haemophilus influenzae

…, J Janice, E Josefsen, A Sivertsen, D Skaare - Msphere, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
… The contribution of Dagfinn Skaare was partly funded by a research grant from the South-Eastern
Norway Regional Health Authority project number 2016132. The publication charges …

[HTML][HTML] Mutant ftsI genes in the emergence of penicillin-binding proteinmediated β-lactam resistance in Haemophilus influenzae in Norway

D Skaare, AG Allum, IL Anthonisen, A Jenkins… - Clinical microbiology …, 2010 - Elsevier
The most important mechanism for β-lactam resistance in β-lactamase-negative ampicillin-resistant
(BLNAR) isolates of Haemophilus influenzae is the alteration of penicillin-binding …

Symptomatic and asymptomatic secondary transmission of Cryptosporidium parvum following two related outbreaks in schoolchildren

…, A Carlson, T Stachurska-Hagen, D Skaare… - Epidemiology & …, 2015 - cambridge.org
Two related outbreaks (in 2009 and 2012) of cryptosporidiosis in Norwegian schoolchildren
during a stay at a remote holiday farm provided us with a natural experiment to investigate …

Haemophilus influenzae with non-beta-lactamase-mediated beta-lactam resistance: easy to find but hard to categorize

D Skaare, A Lia, A Hannisdal, Y Tveten… - Journal of Clinical …, 2015 - Am Soc Microbiol
Haemophilus influenzae is a major pathogen, and beta-lactams are first-line drugs. Resistance
due to altered penicillin-binding protein 3 (rPBP3) is frequent, and susceptibility testing of …