Lassa fever is a viral haemorrhagic fever caused by an arenavirus. The disease is endemic in West African countries, including Guinea. The rodents Mastomys natalensis and Mastomys erythroleucus have been identified as Lassa ...

Campylobacter (C.)-Infektionen des Menschen, vorwiegend durch C. jejuni und C. coli, nehmen gegenwärtig – mit steigendem Anteil – nach den Salmonellen den 2. Platz unter den bakteriell bedingten Durchfallerkrankungen in ...

Mammals harbor trillions of microorganisms and understanding the ecological and evolutionary processes structuring these ecosystems may provide insights relevant to public health and medicine. Comparative studies with our ...

EuroRotaNet, a laboratory network, was established in order to determine the diversity of co-circulating rotavirus strains in Europe over three or more rotavirus seasons from 2006/2007 and currently includes 16 countries. ...

Dysregulated and maladaptive immune responses are at the forefront of human diseases caused by infection with zoonotic viral hemorrhagic fever viruses. Elucidating mechanisms of how the natural animal reservoirs of these ...

Die Seroprävalenzstudien aus den Jahren 1990 bis 1998 spiegeln die aktuelle Rötelnsituation wider. Selektive Impfungen von jungen Mädchen und Frauen haben in der weiblichen Population ab dem 13. Lebensjahr erreicht, dass ...

On April 21, 2009, for the first time the isolation of a new variant of the influenza virus A(H1N1) taken from two patients in California was reported (CDC 2009). The newly isolated virus was a reassortant from four ...