Bilde av Simonsen, Gunnar Skov
Bilde av Simonsen, Gunnar Skov
Professor Department of Medical Biology gunnar.s.simonsen@uit.no 91 84 86 80

Gunnar Skov Simonsen



  • Jannice Schau Slettemeås, Camilla Sekse, Marianne Sunde, Madelaine Norström, Astrid Louise Wester, Mohammed Umaer Naseer et al.:
    Comparative genomics of quinolone-resistant Escherichia coli from broilers and humans in Norway
    BMC Microbiology 2024 DATA / FULLTEKST / PROSJEKT / ARKIV / DOI
  • Marte Pettersen Mikalsen, Gunnar Skov Simonsen, Sveinung Sørbye :
    Impact of HPV Vaccination on the Incidence of High-Grade Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia (CIN2+) in Women Aged 20–25 in the Northern Part of Norway: A 15-Year Study
    Vaccines 2024 ARKIV / DOI
  • Lars-Jøran Andersson, Gunnar Skov Simonsen, Erik Solligård, Knut Endre Fredriksen :
    Timely empirical antibiotic therapy against sepsis in a rural Norwegian ambulance service: a prospective cohort study
    BMC Health Services Research 2024 ARKIV / DOI
  • Jørund Straand, Christoph Gradmann, Morten Lindbæk, Gunnar Skov Simonsen :
    Antibiotikaresistens – historien om da bakteriene slo tilbake
    Michael 2024 ARKIV / DOI
  • Jørund Straand, Christoph Gradmann, Morten Lindbæk, Gunnar Skov Simonsen :
    Antibiotika - oppdagelse og utvikling fra før bakteriologiens gjennombrudd til i dag
    Michael 2024 ARKIV / DOI
  • Zane Linde-Ozola, Annika Y. Classen, Christian G. Giske, Siri Göpel, Noa Eliakim-Raz, Makeda Semret et al.:
    Quality, availability and suitability of antimicrobial stewardship guidance: a multinational qualitative study
    JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance (JAC-AMR) 2024 ARKIV / DOI
  • Anna Kaarina Pöntinen, Rebecca Ashley Gladstone, Henri Pesonen, Maiju Pesonen, Francois Pierre Alexandre Cleon, Benjamin J Parcell et al.:
    Modulation of multidrug-resistant clone success in Escherichia coli populations: a longitudinal, multi-country, genomic and antibiotic usage cohort study
    Lancet Microbe 2024 ARKIV / DOI
  • Elise Uggen, Camilla Olaisen, Randi Valsø Lyng, Gunnar Skov Simonsen, Roar Magne Bævre-Jensen, Frode Width Gran et al.:
    Incidence of invasive infections with Group B streptococcus in adults in Norway 1996–2019: a nationwide registry-based case–control study
    Infection 2024 ARKIV / DOI
  • Madelaine Norström, Jannice Schau Slettemeås, Anne Margrete Urdahl, Gunnar Skov Simonsen, Anne-Sofie Furberg :
    Evaluation of the One Health-ness of 20 years of antimicrobial surveillance in Norway
    2023
  • Mushtaq al Rubaye, Jessin Janice, Jørgen Vildershøj Bjørnholt, Oliver Kacelnik, Bjørg C. Haldorsen, Randi M. Nygaard et al.:
    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
    Microbial Genomics 2023 ARKIV / FULLTEKST / DOI
  • Till T. Bachmann, Konstantinos Mitsakakis, John P. Hays, Alex van Belkum, Aman Russom, Gerd Luedke et al.:
    Expert guidance on target product profile development for AMR diagnostic tests
    BMJ Global Health 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Madelaine Norström, Gunnar Skov Simonsen, Jannice Schau Slettemeås, Anne-Sofie Furberg, Anne Margrete Urdahl :
    Evaluation of the One Health-Ness of 20 Years of Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance in Norway
    Antibiotics 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Niclas Peter Raffelsberger, Dorota Julia Buczek, Kristian Svendsen, Lars Småbrekke, Anna Kaarina Pöntinen, Iren Høyland Löhr et al.:
    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
    mSphere 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Kirsten Midttun Gravningen, Stian Henriksen, Olav Hungnes, Kristian Svendsen, Emily Ann Macdonald, Henrik Schirmer et al.:
    Risk factors, immune response and whole‐genome sequencing of SARS‐CoV‐2 in a cruise ship outbreak in Norway
    International Journal of Infectious Diseases 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Niels Frimodt-Møller, Gunnar Skov Simonsen, Anders Rhod Larsen, Gunnar Kahlmeter :
    Pivmecillinam, the paradigm of an antibiotic with low resistance rates in Escherichia coli urine isolates despite high consumption
    Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 2022 DOI
  • Gunnar Skov Simonsen :
    Gule stafylokokker hos barn
    Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Faheema Ebrahim Choonara, Bjørg Haldorsen, Jessin Janice, Joshua Mbanga, Isaac Ndhlovu, Osborne Saulosi et al.:
    Molecular Epidemiological Characterisation of ESBL- and Plasmid-Mediated AmpC-Producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae at Kamuzu Central Hospital, Lilongwe, Malawi
    Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Dina Benedicte Berg Stensen, Lars Småbrekke, Karina Olsen, Guri Grimnes, Christopher Sivert Nielsen, Johanna U Ericson et al.:
    Circulating sex-steroids and Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage in a general male population
    Epidemiology and Infection 2022 FULLTEKST / ARKIV / DOI
  • Randi Marie Mohus, Lise Tuset Gustad, Anne-Sofie Furberg, Martine Kjølberg Moen, Kristin Vardheim Liyanarachi, Åsa Susanne Askim et al.:
    Explaining sex differences in risk of bloodstream infections using mediation analysis in the population-based HUNT study in Norway
    Scientific Reports 2022 FULLTEKST / ARKIV / DOI
  • Kaare Magne Nielsen, Kyrre Linné Kausrud, Gunnar Skov Simonsen, Martin Steinbakk, Pål Trosvik, Astrid Louise Wester et al.:
    Surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in the environment. Scientific Opinion of the Panel on Microbial Ecology of the Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food and Environment
    VKM Report 2022 ARKIV
  • Dina Benedicte Berg Stensen, Rafael Nozal Cañadas, Lars Småbrekke, Karina Olsen, Christopher Sivert Nielsen, Kristian Svendsen et al.:
    Social network analysis of Staphylococcus aureus carriage in a general youth population
    International Journal of Infectious Diseases 2022 ARKIV / FULLTEKST / DOI
  • Faheema E. Choonara, Bjørg Haldorsen, Isaac Ndhlovu, Osborne Saulosi, Tarsizio Maida, Fanuel Lampiao et al.:
    Antimicrobial susceptibility profiles of clinically important bacterial pathogens at the Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi
    Malawi Medical Journal 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Rebecca Ashley Gladstone, Alan McNally, Anna Kaarina Pöntinen, Gerry Tonkin-Hill, John A. Lees, Kusti Onni Skytén et al.:
    Emergence and dissemination of antimicrobial resistance in Escherichia coli causing bloodstream infections in Norway in 2002–17: a nationwide, longitudinal, microbial population genomic study
    Lancet Microbe 29. June 2021 FULLTEKST / ARKIV / DOI
  • Abel F.N.D. Phiri, Akebe Luther King Abia, Daniel Gyamfi Amoako, Rajab Mkakosya, Arnfinn Sundsfjord, Sabiha Essack et al.:
    Burden, antibiotic resistance, and clonality of shigella spp. Implicated in community-acquired acute diarrhoea in Lilongwe, Malawi
    Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Marit Østlyngen Riibe, Sveinung Wergeland Sørbye, Gunnar Skov Simonsen, Arnfinn Sundsfjord, Josef Ekgren, Jan Martin Maltau :
    Risk of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 3 or higher (CIN3+) among women with HPV-test in 1990–1992, a 30-year follow-up study
    Infectious Agents and Cancer 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Helene Marie Flatby, Humaira Rasheed, Anuradha Ravi, Laurent Thomas, Kristin Vardheim Liyanarachi, Jan Egil Afset et al.:
    Risk of lower respiratory tract infections: a genome-wide association study with Mendelian randomization analysis in three independent European populations
    Clinical Microbiology and Infection (CMI) 08. November 2021 ARKIV / FULLTEKST / DOI
  • Adriana Maria Sanabria-Moreno, Jessin Janice James Peter, Erik Hjerde, Gunnar Skov Simonsen, Anne Merethe Hanssen :
    Shotgun-metagenomics based prediction of antibiotic resistance and virulence determinants in Staphylococcus aureus from periprosthetic tissue on blood culture bottles
    Scientific Reports 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Dina Benedicte Berg Stensen, Lars Småbrekke, Karina Olsen, Guri Grimnes, Christopher Sivert Nielsen, Johanna U Ericson et al.:
    Circulating sex-steroids and Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage in a general female population
    European Journal of Endocrinology (EJE) 2021 FULLTEKST / ARKIV / DOI
  • Calvina Estalva, Tomas Zimba, Sekyere John, Usha Govinden, Hafizah Y. Chenia, Gunnar Skov Simonsen et al.:
    High prevalence of multidrug resistant ESBL- and plasmid mediated AmpC-producing clinical isolates of Escherichia coli at Maputo Central Hospital, Mozambique
    BMC Infectious Diseases 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Carlo Gagliotti, Liselotte Diaz Högberg, Hanna Billström, Tim Eckmanns, Christian G. Giske, Ole E. Heuer et al.:
    Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections: Diverging trends of meticillin-resistant and meticillin-susceptible isolates, EU/EEA, 2005 to 2018
    Eurosurveillance 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Aasmund Fostervold, Marit Andrea Klokkhammer Hetland, Ragna-Johanne Bakksjø, Eva Bernhoff, Kathryn E. Holt, Ørjan Samuelsen et al.:
    A nationwide genomic study of clinical Klebsiella pneumoniae in Norway 2001–15: introduction and spread of ESBLs facilitated by clonal groups CG15 and CG307
    Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Veronika Vorobieva, Anne-Sofie Furberg, Hans-Christian Slotved, Tatiana Bazhukova, Bjørg Haldorsen, Dominique A Caugant et al.:
    Epidemiological and molecular characterization of Streptococcus pneumoniae carriage strains in pre-school children in Arkhangelsk, northern European Russia, prior to the introduction of conjugate pneumococcal vaccines
    BMC Infectious Diseases 2020 FULLTEKST / ARKIV / DOI
  • Sara Lino Faife, Tomas Zimba, John Osei Sekyere, Usha Govinden, Hafizah Y. Chenia, Gunnar Skov Simonsen et al.:
    β-lactam and fluoroquinolone resistance in Enterobacteriaceae from imported and locally-produced chicken in Mozambique
    Journal of Infection in Developing Countries 2020 ARKIV / DOI
  • Adriana Maria Sanabria-Moreno, Erik Hjerde, Mona Johannessen, Johanna U Ericson Sollid, Gunnar Skov Simonsen, Anne Merethe Hanssen :
    Shotgun-Metagenomics on Positive Blood Culture Bottles Inoculated With Prosthetic Joint Tissue: A Proof of Concept Study
    Frontiers in Microbiology 2020 ARKIV / DOI
  • Alessandro Cassini, Liselotte Diaz Högberg, Diamantis Plachouras, Annalisa Quattrocchi, Ana Hoxha, Gunnar Skov Simonsen et al.:
    Attributable deaths and disability-adjusted life-years caused by infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the EU and the European Economic Area in 2015: a population-level modelling analysis
    The Lancet Infectious Diseases 2019 ARKIV / DOI
  • John P. Hays, Konstantinos Mitsakakis, Saturnino Luz, Alex van Belkum, Karsten Becker, Ann van den Bruel et al.:
    The successful uptake and sustainability of rapid infectious disease and antimicrobial resistance point-of-care testing requires a complex 'mix-and-match' implementation package
    European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 2019 ARKIV / DOI
  • Gunnar Skov Simonsen, Hege Salvesen Blix, Kari Marie Olli Helgesen, Anne Margrete Urdahl :
    NORM/NORM-VET 2022, Usage of Antimicrobial Agents and Occurrence of Antimicrobial Resistance in Norway
    2023
  • Gunnar Skov Simonsen, Hege Salvesen Blix, Kari Grave, Anne Margrete Urdahl, Per Espen Akselsen, Cecilie Torp Andersen et al.:
    NORM/NORM-VET 2021: Usage of Antimicrobial Agents and Occurrence of Antimicrobial Resistance in Norway
  • Gunnar Skov Simonsen, Hege Salvesen Blix, Kari Grave, Anne Margrete Urdahl :
    NORM/NORM-VET 2020
  • Dina Benedicte Berg Stensen, Lars Småbrekke, Karina Olsen, Christopher Sivert Nielsen, Johanna Ericson Sollid, Gunnar Skov Simonsen et al.:
    Circulating sex-steroids and Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage in a general population in Norway
    2021
  • Dina Benedicte Berg Stensen, Rafael A. Nozal Cañadas, Lars Småbrekke, Karina Olsen, Christopher Sivert Nielsen, Kristian Svendsen et al.:
    Social network analysis of Staphylococcus aureus carriage in a general youth population
    2021
  • Dina Benedicte Berg Stensen, Lars Småbrekke, Karina Olsen, Guri Grimnes, Christopher Sivert Nielsen, Johanna Ericson Sollid et al.:
    Circulating sex-steroids and Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage in a general female population
    2021
  • Jannice Schau Slettemeås, Camilla Sekse, Håkon Kaspersen, Marianne Sunde, Madelaine Norström, Astrid Louise Wester et al.:
    Quinolone resistant Escherichia coli from Norwegian livestock, wild animals and humans
    2021
  • Fredrik Müller, Truls Michael Leegaard, Gunnar Skov Simonsen, Iren H Løhr, Svein Arne Nordbø, Øyvind Kommedal et al.:
    Nye signaler om koronatester
    19. May 2020
  • Gunnar Skov Simonsen, Svein Arne Nordbø, Truls Michael Leegaard, Elling Ulvestad, Fredrik Müller :
    Svært viktig at fagmiljøer har fleksibilitet og ressurser til testing av koronavirus
    17. March 2020 DATA / OMTALE
  • Gunnar Skov Simonsen, Jan-Erik Berdal, Kari Grave, Lene Kristine Juvet, Bjørn Tore Lunestad, Ingvild Riisberg et al.:
    Antibiotikaresistens - Kunnskapshull, utfordringer og aktuelle tiltak. Status 2020.
    Folkehelseinstituttet 2020 ARKIV / FULLTEKST
  • Gunnar Skov Simonsen, Hege Salvesen Blix, Kari Grave, Anne Margrete Urdahl :
    NORM/NORM-vet 2019. Usage of Antimicrobial Agents and Occurrence of Antimicrobial Resistance in Norway
    2020
  • Elling Ulvestad, Øyvind Kommedal, Gunnar Skov Simonsen, Fredrik Müller, Truls Michael Leegaard, Iren Høyland Löhr et al.:
    Norges mikrobiologiske utbruddsberedskap er truet
    Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening 29. June 2020 DOI
  • Mette Løkeland-Stai, Mona Tornensis Hornæs, Jon Gunnar Tufta, Olaug Margrete Askeland, Elisabeth Lende Hammer, Marianne Sørlie Strøm et al.:
    Årlig driftsrapport 2019. Helseregistre ved Folkehelseinstituttet
    Folkehelseinstituttet 2020 FULLTEKST / ARKIV
  • Guri Rørtveit, Gunnar Skov Simonsen :
    The primary care perspective on the Norwegian national strategy against antimicrobial resistance
    Antibiotics 2020 ARKIV / DOI

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    Research interests

    Gunnar Skov Simonsen MD, PhD (born 1965) is Professor of Clinical Microbiology at the University of Tromsø and Director of the Department of Microbiology and Infection Control at the University Hospital of North Norway in Tromsø, Norway. He is also in charge of NORM – The Norwegian Organization for Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance and editor of the yearly report on antibiotic consumption and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) among humans and animals in Norway (NORM / NORM-VET). His research interests are within molecular epidemiology of AMR as well as population-based studies of host-microbe interactions in bacterial colonization and infection. He has co-authored around 135 papers in international peer-reviewed scientific journals.
    Simonsen has previously served as Medical Officer at WHO HQ in Geneva (2002 – 2003) working with surveillance issues and implementation of the WHO Global Strategy for Containment of Antimicrobial Resistance. Since 2003 he has regularly contributed at WHO consultations at regional and global levels. He has been involved in surveillance activities in North-Western Russia and is presently enganged in a project for AMR-related capacity building in education and health services in Malawi and Mozambique. Within Europe, Simonsen is the Norwegian National Focal Point for AMR at the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) as well as member (from 2019 chair) of the Coordination Group for the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network (EARS-Net). He worked 2012-2013 with the WHONET group at the WHO Collaborating Center for Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance at Brigham and Women´s Hospital / Harvard Medical School in Boston (USA). From 2015-2018 he served as member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the EU Joint Programming Initiative for Antimicrobial Resistance (JPI-AMR). Since September 2024 he is a visiting academic at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK. 

    Teaching

    Associate professor in clinical microbiology at the Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT Arctic University of Tromsø, Norway 2005-2011. Since 2011 professor II with responsibilty for clinical microbiology training of medical students including supervision of bachelor and master theses.


    Member of research group