Dagfinn Skaare

25.04.2023: Antimicrobial resistance is a threat to global public health and is driven mainly by use of antibiotics (1). One of the key goals of the 'Action Plan against Antibiotic Resistance in the Norwegian Health Service' was therefore to reduce the use of five selected groups of broad-spectrum antibiotics...

12.01.2023: Tidsskr Nor Legeforen 2016; 136: 121–5. On page 122 of issue no. 2/2016 of the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association, figure 1 should look like this in the English version of the article: We apologise for the error, which has been corrected online.

03.04.2020: A married couple noticed that the wife lost her sense of smell and the husband his sense of taste a few days after being in close contact with a person with COVID-19. They had no other symptoms, but both were found to be infected with SARS-CoV-2. A woman in her sixties was making waffles and was...

16.10.2017: The incidence of genital chlamydia infection in Norway has been stable for several years: in 2015, 488 cases were diagnosed per 100 000 inhabitants, a level almost identical to the peak of 2008 (496/100 000) (1). Patients with chlamydia are usually asymptomatic, and both opportunistic testing and...

26.01.2016: Mycoplasma genitalium and Ureaplasma urealyticum are transmitted through sexual contact and can cause urogenital infections. While M. genitalium is established as an aetiological agent of genital infections (1), U. urealyticum is still controversial as a pathogen (2, 3). Testing for these microbes...