Arne Broch Brantsæter

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Arne Broch Brantsæter er ph.d., spesialist i indremedisin og i infeksjonssykdommer og overlege ved Infeksjonsmedisinsk avdeling og Nasjonal behandlingstjeneste for CBRNE-medisin, Oslo universitetssykehus.

Articles by Arne Broch Brantsæter

Doctors should not shake the hands of patients

Arne Broch Brantsæter

19.08.2024: It was common practice for doctors to greet patients with a handshake until March 2020, when Norway was hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. There are still good reasons to avoid handshaking in healthcare settings. Art and literature dating back several thousand years illustrate the practice of sealing a...

Investigational treatment of COVID-19

Arne Broch Brantsæter

24.08.2020: What to do in the absence of drugs with proven effect? In 2003, the world stood on the brink of a pandemic of a severe respiratory infection caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV. The virus succeeded in spreading from China to 28 countries before it was defeated in only a few of months under the...

Non-tuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary infections

Hallgeir Tveiten,
Arne Broch Brantsæter,
Anne Torunn Mengshoel

26.11.2018: Mycobacteria are aerobic, non-spore-forming rod bacteria, are non-motile and acid-fast, i.e. they cannot be decolourised by acid-alcohol in special staining. Their growth rate is generally low, but varies. This forms the basis for their subdivision into fast- and slow-growing species, defined as...

Hepatitis E – a neglected disease in Norway

Arne Broch Brantsæter

25.10.2016: One in seven Norwegians is infected, but little is being done to prevent it. Hepatitis E is a major global public health problem. Each year, at least 20 million people are infected, more than three million become ill (1) and around 50 000 die (2). The existence of a new virus with many of the...