Background: We aimed to quantify the frequency of HIV serosorting among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Germany, and evaluate the association of serosorting with other sexual risk management approaches (RMA) and with ...

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, ...

Objective: This study examines the degree of divergence between BMI calculated from subjective assessments and BMI calculated from measured height and weight as a function of gender and body image. Methods: In the German ...

In February 2008, five patients were infected with the H1N1 subtype of influenza A virus in one hospital ward for immunocompromised patients at a hospital in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. All of these patients had an ...

Background: To prevent importations of wild polioviruses into a polio free region a high level of population immunity must be kept. Standard methodology for determination of polio antibodies is a feature aimed at obtaining ...

Background: Echoviruses are the commonest cause of aseptic meningitis. Echovirus type 13 which has not been isolated in Germany over a long period of time was the predominant enterovirus serotype associated with different ...

In Deutschland werden jährlich 150 bis 200 Kinder von HIV-1-positiven Schwangeren entbunden. Seit 1995/96 beträgt in Deutschland die Rate der vertikalen HIV-1-Transmission nur noch ein bis zwei Prozent. Diese niedrige ...

Background: Peptide microarrays offer an enormous potential as a screening tool for peptidomics experiments and have recently seen an increased field of application ranging from immunological studies to systems biology. ...

Die antiretrovirale Therapie der HIV-Infektion hat sich in den letzten zwei Jahren aufgrund neuer Therapieoptionen und -strategien deutlich gewandelt. Die Empfehlungen zur antiretroviralen Therapie wurden daher in Abhängigkeit ...

Präventionsstrategien zielen auf Einhaltung von Hygienemaßnahmen und eine bessere Zusammenarbeit der Beschäftigten im Gesundheitswesen.