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2015-03-12ZeitschriftenartikelComprehensive molecular, genomic and phenotypic analysis of a major clone of Enterococcus faecalis MLST ST40 Background: Enterococcus faecalis is a multifaceted microorganism known to act as a beneficial intestinal commensal bacterium. It is also a dreaded nosocomial pathogen causing life-threatening infections in hospitalised ...
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2019-12-09ZeitschriftenartikelComputational pan-genome mapping and pairwise SNP-distance improve detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission clusters Next-generation sequencing based base-by-base distance measures have become an integral complement to epidemiological investigation of infectious disease outbreaks. This study introduces PANPASCO, a computational pan-genome ...
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2020-11-04ZeitschriftenartikelComputational strategies to combat COVID-19: useful tools to accelerate SARS-CoV-2 and coronavirus research SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) is a novel virus of the family Coronaviridae. The virus causes the infectious disease COVID-19. The biology of coronaviruses has been studied for many years. ...
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2016-09-01ZeitschriftenartikelConcordance between self-reported and measured HIV and hepatitis C virus infection status among people who inject drugs in Germany Background: People who inject drugs (PWID) are disproportionately affected by both HIV and hepatitis C infection (HCV). Awareness of infection status is essential to ensure linkage to appropriate healthcare for those ...
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2018-05-22ZeitschriftenartikelConditio sine qua non: Umwelt und Gesundheit
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2012-09-27ZeitschriftenartikelConfidence-based Somatic Mutation Evaluation and Prioritization Next generation sequencing (NGS) has enabled high throughput discovery of somatic mutations. Detection depends on experimental design, lab platforms, parameters and analysis algorithms. However, NGS-based somatic mutation ...
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2010-06-30ZeitschriftenartikelConfirmed Exposure to Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus and Probable Human Cases of Tick-Borne Encephalitis in Central/Northern Anatolia, Turkey Tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) is the aetiological agent of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), a potentially fatal central nervous system infection of humans. TBE is endemic in many areas of Europe and Asia; however, ...
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2021-01-22ZeitschriftenartikelConsistency of Social Interactions in Sooty Mangabeys and Chimpanzees Predictability of social interactions can be an important measure for the social complexity of an animal group. Predictability is partially dependent on how consistent interaction patterns are over time: does the behavior ...
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2022-02-02ZeitschriftenartikelConstruction and validation of safe Clostridium botulinum Group II surrogate strain producing inactive botulinum neurotoxin type E toxoid Botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs), produced by the spore-forming bacterium Clostridium botulinum, cause botulism, a rare but fatal illness affecting humans and animals. Despite causing a life-threatening disease, BoNT is a ...
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2011-07-27ZeitschriftenartikelConstruction of a lytically replicating Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) Karposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) is found predominantly in a latent state in most cell types, impeding investigations of the lytic replication cycle. Here, we engineered the cloned KSHV genome, bacterial ...
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2018-03-14ZeitschriftenartikelConstruction of a New Phage Integration Vector pFIV-Val for Use in Different Francisella Species We recently identified and described a putative prophage on the genomic island FhaGI-1 located within the genome of Francisella hispaniensis AS02-814 (F. tularensis subsp. novicida-like 3523). In this study, we constructed ...
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2017-03-23ZeitschriftenartikelContact investigation after a fatal case of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) in an aircraft, Germany, July 2013 In July 2013, a passenger died of infectious extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) on board of an aircraft after a 3-hour flight from Turkey to Germany. Initial information indicated the patient had moved about ...
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2014-03-17ZeitschriftenartikelContact Investigation for Imported Case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, Germany On March 19, 2013, a patient from United Arab Emirates who had severe respiratory infection was transferred to a hospital in Germany, 11 days after symptom onset. Infection with Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus ...
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2013-02-21ZeitschriftenartikelContact investigation of a case of human novel coronavirus infection treated in a German hospital, October-November 2012 On 24 October 2012, a patient with acute respiratory distress syndrome of unknown origin and symptom onset on 5 October was transferred from Qatar to a specialist lung clinic in Germany. Late diagnosis on 20 November of ...
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2019-05-09ZeitschriftenartikelContact tracing following measles exposure on three international flights, Germany, 2017 When a person with contagious measles has travelled by aircraft, European guidelines recommend contact tracing of passengers and crew within 5 days of exposure for post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), and within 12 days of ...
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2016-04-28ZeitschriftenartikelContamination during production of heater-cooler units by Mycobacterium chimaera potential cause for invasive cardiovascular infections: results of an outbreak investigation in Germany, April 2015 to February 2016 Invasive infections with Mycobacterium chimaera were reported in patients with previous open chest surgery and exposure to contaminated heater-cooler units (HCUs). We present results of the surveillance of clinical cases ...
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2021-12-16ZeitschriftenartikelContext-aware genomic surveillance reveals hidden transmission of a carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae Genomic surveillance can inform effective public health responses to pathogen outbreaks. However, integration of non-local data is rarely done. We investigate two large hospital outbreaks of a carbapenemase-carrying ...
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2022-05-14ZeitschriftenartikelContinued False-Positive Detection of SARS-CoV-2 by Electron Microscopy
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2014-04-14ZeitschriftenartikelContinued vigilance – development of an online evaluation tool for assessing preparedness of medical facilities for biological events Objective: Effective response to biological events necessitates ongoing evaluation of preparedness. This study was a bilateral German–Israeli collaboration aimed at developing an evaluation tool for assessing preparedness ...
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2022-07-01ZeitschriftenartikelContinuous development of the semantic search engine preVIEW: from COVID-19 to long COVID preVIEW is a freely available semantic search engine for Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)-related preprint publications. Currently, it contains >43 800 documents indexed with >4000 semantic concepts, annotated automatically. ...