Professor

Rune Andersson

Institute: Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Biomedicine, the Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg University, Sweden
Other affiliation: Department of Clinical Microbiology, The Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
Research area: Health
Research region: Africa, Europe-Central Asia, Global

About

Professor emeritus in global health. Medical doctor, specialist in infectious diseases and internal medicine,  senior consultant in infection control

Professional experience

Co-supervisor of PhD
Lecturing
Main supervisor of PhD
PhD defence
Supervision of Bachelor’s students

Featured work

Rune Andersson

Publications

Household fuel use and its association with potential respiratory pathogens among healthy mothers and children in Ethiopia

PLOS ONE
Household air pollution and pneumococcal density related to nasopharyngeal inflammation in mothers and children in Ethiopia: A cross-sectional study

PLOS ONE
Giant Cell Arteritis

Drugs & Aging
CD4+ and CD8+ T cell expansions using selected TCR V and J gene segments at the onset of giant cell arteritis

Arthritis & Rheumatism
EPIDEMIOLOGY AND MORTALITY IN 220 PATIENTS WITH POLYMYALGIA RHEUMATICA

Rheumatology
C-Reactive protein is more sensitive than erythrocyte sedimentation rate for diagnosis of infective endocarditis

Infection
Quantification of Cytomegalovirus DNA in BAL Fluid

Chest
Vertebral Osteomyelitis in Go¨teborg, Sweden: A Retrospective Study of Patients During 1990?95

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
Bartonella and Coxiella Antibodies in 334 Prospectively Studied Episodes of Infective Endocarditis in Sweden

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Medicine
Pacemaker Endocarditis During 18 Years in Göteborg

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
Pneumocystis pneumonia – a retrospective study 1991–2001 in Gothenburg, Sweden

Journal of Infection
Effect of antiretroviral treatment and counselling on disclosure of HIV-serostatus in Johannesburg, South Africa

AIDS Care
The epidemiology of and risk factors for invasive Staphylococcus aureus infections in western Sweden

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
Antimicrobial susceptibility of invasive pneumococcal isolates from a region in south-west Sweden 1998–2001

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
A Traditional Society in Change Encounters HIV/AIDS: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Risk Behavior Among Students in Northwestern China

AIDS Patient Care and STDs
Obayashi et al. (Clin Infect Dis 2008; 46:1864–70)

Clinical Infectious Diseases
Reply to Garbino and Ambrosi

Clinical Infectious Diseases
Outcome for invasive Staphylococcus aureus infections

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
HIV/AIDS awareness and risk behaviour among pregnant women in Semey, Kazakhstan, 2007

BMC Public Health