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2022-11-22ZeitschriftenartikelThe BDSF quorum sensing receptor RpfR regulates Bep exopolysaccharide synthesis in Burkholderia cenocepacia via interaction with the transcriptional regulator BerB The polysaccharide Bep is essential for in vitro biofilm formation of the opportunistic pathogen Burkholderia cenocepacia. We found that the Burkholderia diffusible signaling factor (BDSF) quorum sensing receptor RpfR is ...
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2016-06-17ZeitschriftenartikelThe Bead Assay for Biofilms: A Quick, Easy and Robust Method for Testing Disinfectants Bacteria live primarily in microbial communities (biofilms), where they exhibit considerably higher biocide tolerance than their planktonic counterparts. Current standardized efficacy testing protocols of disinfectants, ...
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2022-06-28Berichte und sonstige TexteThe burden of antimicrobial resistance in G7 countries and globally: AN URGENT CALL FOR ACTION
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2023-10-13ZeitschriftenartikelThe Burden of Disease due to COVID-19 (BoCO-19): A study protocol for a secondary analysis of surveillance data in Southern and Eastern Europe, and Central Asia Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has had an extensive impact on public health worldwide. However, in many countries burden of disease indicators for COVID-19 have not yet been calculated or used for monitoring. The ...
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2013-03-21ZeitschriftenartikelThe burden of extrapulmonary and meningitis tuberculosis: an investigation of national surveillance data, Germany, 2002 to 2009 Tuberculosis (TB) surveillance commonly focuses on pulmonary (PTB) where the main organ affected is the lung. This might lead to underestimate extrapulmonary TB (EPTB) forms, where in addition to the lung other sites are ...
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2022-05-20ZeitschriftenartikelThe burden of injury in Central, Eastern, and Western European sub-region: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease 2019 Study Background Injury remains a major concern to public health in the European region. Previous iterations of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study showed wide variation in injury death and disability adjusted life year ...
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2017-01-11ZeitschriftenartikelThe Case for Adopting the “Species Complex” Nomenclature for the Etiologic Agents of Cryptococcosis Cryptococcosis is a potentially lethal disease of humans/animals caused by Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii. Distinction between the two species is based on phenotypic and genotypic characteristics. Recently, ...
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2021-05-04ZeitschriftenartikelThe case for developing a cohesive systems approach to research across unhealthy commodity industries Objectives Most non-communicable diseases are preventable and largely driven by the consumption of harmful products, such as tobacco, alcohol, gambling and ultra-processed food and drink products, collectively termed ...
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2010-04-02ZeitschriftenartikelThe Case of Botulinum Toxin in Milk: Experimental Data Botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT) is the most toxic substance known to man and the causative agent of botulism. Due to its high toxicity and the availability of the producing organism Clostridium botulinum, BoNT is regarded as ...
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2019-01-16ZeitschriftenartikelThe cell cycle regulator GpsB functions as cytosolic adaptor for multiple cell wall enzymes Bacterial growth and cell division requires precise spatiotemporal regulation of the synthesis and remodelling of the peptidoglycan layer that surrounds the cytoplasmic membrane. GpsB is a cytosolic protein that affects ...
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2008-06-04ZeitschriftenartikelThe challenge of comprehensively mapping children's health in a nation-wide health survey: Design of the German KiGGS-Study Background: From May 2003 to May 2006, the Robert Koch Institute conducted the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS). Aim of this first nationwide interview and examination ...
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2020-01-10ZeitschriftenartikelThe concept of acculturation in epidemiological research among migrant populations: A systematic review •Acculturation is a widely used concept in epidemiological research.•There are various ways to measure acculturation using proxies or scales; often an acculturation score is calculated.•Studies often show inconsistencies ...
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2021-09-03ZeitschriftenartikelThe Containment Scouts: First Insights into an Initiative to Increase the Public Health Workforce for Contact Tracing during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany The COVID-19 pandemic in Germany has demanded a substantially larger public health workforce to perform contact tracing and contact management of COVID-19 cases, in line with recommendations of the World Health Organization ...
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2022-06-04ZeitschriftenartikelThe cost of living in larger primate groups includes higher fly densities Flies are implicated in carrying and mechanically transmitting many primate pathogens. We investigated how fly associations vary across six monkey species (Cercopithecus ascanius, Cercopithecus mitis, Colobus guereza, ...
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2021ZeitschriftenartikelThe COVID-19 Disease Burden in Germany in 2020 Background: The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic presented major challenges to the health sector in 2020. The burden of disease arising from COVID-19 can be expressed as the number of years of life lost to disease or death. For example, ...
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2020-07-30ZeitschriftenartikelThe COVID-19 pandemic: diverse contexts; different epidemics—how and why? It is very exceptional that a new disease becomes a true pandemic. Since its emergence in Wuhan, China, in late 2019, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes COVID-19, has spread ...
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2007-04-10ZeitschriftenartikelThe current MLVA typing scheme for Enterococcus faecium is less discriminatory than MLST and PFGE for epidemic-virulent, hospital-adapted clonal types Background: MLVA (multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis) is a reliable typing technique introduced recently to differentiate also isolates of Enterococcus faecium. We used the established VNTR (variable ...
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2010-02-28ZeitschriftenartikelThe death-scene investigation The death-scene investigation is an important and increasingly recognized step in the process of diagnosing Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). According to current definitions, information from death-scene investigations ...
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2009-06-11ZeitschriftenartikelThe denominator problem: Estimating MSM-specific incidence of sexually transmitted infections and prevalence of HIV using population sizes of MSM derived from Internet surveys Background: Measuring prevalence and incidence of sexually transmitted infections in hard to reach populations like men who have sex with men (MSM) is hampered by unknown size and regional distribution of this population. ...
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2022-01-18ZeitschriftenartikelThe DONALD study as a longitudinal sensor of nutritional developments: iodine and salt intake over more than 30 years in German children Purpose: Mild-to-moderate iodine deficiency was present in large parts of Germany up to the beginning 1990s and improved from then on. Current epidemiological data on spot urine iodine measurements in German children ...