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2014-07-03Zeitschriftenartikel

European survey on laboratory preparedness, response and diagnostic capacity for Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, 2012

Fernandez-García, M. D.; Negredo, A.; Papa, Anna; Mantke, Oliver Donoso; Niedrig, Matthias; Zeller, Hervé; Tenorio, Antonio; Franco, Leticia

Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is an infectious viral disease that has (re-)emerged in the last decade in south-eastern Europe, and there is a risk for further geographical expansion to western Europe. Here we ...

2013-07-03Zeitschriftenartikel

Measles outbreak spreading from the community to an anthroposophic school, Berlin, 2011

Lassen, Sofie Gillesberg; Schuster, Melanie; Stemmler, M.; Steinmüller, A.; Matysiak-Klose, Dorothea; Mankertz, Annette; Santibanez, Sabine; Wichmann, Ole; Falkenhorst, Gerhard

Between April and July 2011 there was an outbreak of measles virus, genotype D4, in Berlin, Germany. We identified 73 case-patients from the community and among students of an anthroposophic school, who participated in a ...

2015-02-06Zeitschriftenartikel

Isolation and Functional Characterization of the Novel Clostridium botulinum Neurotoxin A8 Subtype

Kull, Skadi; Schulz, Melanie; Strotmeier, Jasmin Weisemann née; Kirchner, Sebastian; Schreiber, Tanja; Bollenbach, Alexander; Dabrowski, Piotr Wojtek; Nitsche, Andreas; Kalb, Suzanne R.; Dorner, Martin; Barr, John R.; Rummel, Andreas; Dorner, Brigitte

Botulism is a severe neurological disease caused by the complex family of botulinum neurotoxins (BoNT). Based on the different serotypes known today, a classification of serotype variants termed subtypes has been proposed ...

2015-02-06Zeitschriftenartikel

Visceral leishmaniasis diagnosis and reporting delays as an obstacle to timely response actions in Nepal and India

Böttcher, Jan Peter; Siwakoti, Yubaraj; Milojkovic, Ana; Siddiqui, Niyamat A.; Gurung, Chitra K.; Rijal, Suman; Das, Pradeep; Kroeger, Axel; Banjara, Megha R.

Background: To eliminate visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in India and Nepal, challenges of VL diagnosis, treatment and reporting need to be identified. Recent data indicate that VL is underreported and patients face delays ...

2014-12-22Zeitschriftenartikel

Mode differences in a mixed-mode health interview survey among adults

Hoebel, Jens; Lippe, Elena von der; Lange, Cornelia; Ziese, Thomas

Background: Health interview surveys are important data sources for empirical research in public health. However, the diversity of methods applied, such as in the mode of data collection, make it difficult to compare ...

2014-12-18Zeitschriftenartikel

Foodborne hepatitis A outbreak associated with bakery products in northern Germany, 2012

Harries, Manuela; Monazahian, M.; Wenzel, J.; Jilg, Wolfgang; Weber, M.; Ehlers, J.; Dreesman, Johannes; Mertens, Elke

In October 2012, a hepatitis A (HA) outbreak with 83 laboratory-confirmed cases occurred in Lower Saxony. We defined primary outbreak cases as people with laboratory-confirmed HA and symptom onset between 8 October and 12 ...

2015-02-02Zeitschriftenartikel

Metagenomic Profiling of Known and Unknown Microbes with MicrobeGPS

Lindner, Martin S.; Renard, Bernhard Y.

Microbial community profiling identifies and quantifies organisms in metagenomic sequencing data using either reference based or unsupervised approaches. However, current reference based profiling methods only report the ...

2015-02-16Zeitschriftenartikel

Relation between Overweight/Obesity and Self-Rated Health Among Adolescents in Germany. Do Socio-Economic Status and Type of School Have an Impact on That Relation?

Krause, Laura; Lampert, Thomas

This study investigates the relation between overweight/obesity and self-rated health (SRH), and whether this relation varies by social factors. Data was taken from the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for ...

2015-02-10Zeitschriftenartikel

Evaluation of Virus Inactivation by Formaldehyde to Enhance Biosafety of Diagnostic Electron Microscopy

Möller, Lars; Schünadel, Livia; Nitsche, Andreas; Schwebke, Ingeborg; Hanisch, Manuela; Laue, Michael

Formaldehyde (FA) fixation of infectious samples is a well-established protocol in diagnostic electron microscopy of viruses. However, published experimental data that demonstrate virus inactivation by these fixation ...

2015-02-04Zeitschriftenartikel

Mouse conventional dendritic cells can be universally classified based on the mutually exclusive expression of XCR1 and SIRPα

Gurka, Stephanie; Hartung, Evelyn; Becker, Martina; Kroczek, Richard

Since the identification of mouse dendritic cells (DC) in the early 70s, all attempts to consistently classify the identified functional DC subpopulations according to their surface molecule expression failed. In the absence ...

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