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2019-08-01Zeitschriftenartikel

Cytomegalovirus distribution and evolution in hominines

Murthy, Sripriya; O’Brien, Kathryn; Agbor, Anthony; Angedakin, Samuel; Arandjelovic, Mimi; Ayuk Ayimisin, Emmanuel; Bailey, Emma; Bergl, Richard A.; Brazzola, Gregory; Dieguez, Paula; Eno-Nku, Manasseh; Eshuis, Henk; Fruth, Barbara; Gillespie, Thomas R.; Ginath, Yisa; Maryke, Gray; Herbinger, Ilka; Jones, Sorrel; Kehoe, Laura; Kühl, Hjalmar; Kujirakwinja, Deo; Lee, Kevin; Madinda, Nadège F.; Mitamba, Guillain; Muhindo, Emmanuel; Nishuli, Radar; Ormsby, Lucy J.; Petrzelkova, Klara J.; Plumptre, Andrew J.; Robbins, Martha M.; Sommer, Volker; Ter Heegde, Martijn; Todd, Angelique; Tokunda, Raymond; Wessling, Erin; Jarvis, Michael V.; Leendertz, Fabian H.; Ehlers, Bernhard; Calvignac-Spencer, Sébastien

Herpesviruses are thought to have evolved in very close association with their hosts. This is notably the case for cytomegaloviruses (CMVs; genus Cytomegalovirus) infecting primates, which exhibit a strong signal of ...

2019-08-05Zeitschriftenartikel

Links between transactional sex and HIV/STI-risk and substance use among a large sample of European men who have sex with men

Berg, Rigmor C.; Weatherburn, Peter; Marcus, Ulrich; Schmidt, Axel J.

Background In Europe, the highest proportion of HIV diagnoses are in gay men and other men who have sex with men (MSM). Globally, HIV prevalence is particularly high among males who report selling sex, but rates among men ...

2019-07-22Zeitschriftenartikel

Susceptibility of livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA) to chlorhexidine digluconate, octenidine dihydrochloride, polyhexanide, PVP-iodine and triclosan in comparison to hospital-acquired MRSA (HA-MRSA) and community-aquired MRSA (CA-MRSA): a standardized comparison

Dittmann, Kathleen; Schmidt, Thomas; Müller, Gerald; Cuny, Christiane; Holtfreter, Silva; Troitzsch, Daniel; Pfaff, Peter; Hübner, Nils-Olaf

Background Recent publications have raised concerns of reduced susceptibilities of clinical bacterial isolates towards biocides. This study presents a comparative investigation of the susceptibility of livestock-associated ...

2019-08-07Zeitschriftenartikel

Indicator-based public health monitoring in old age in OECD member countries: a scoping review

Grube, Maike Miriam; Möhler, Ralph; Fuchs, Judith; Gaertner, Beate; Scheidt-Nave, Christa

Background The scoping review was conducted as part of the project “Improving Health Monitoring in Old Age” (IMOA) which aims at developing a conceptual framework with key indicators for a public health monitoring of the ...

2019-06-20Zeitschriftenartikel

Why all blood donations should be tested for hepatitis E virus (HEV)

Denner, Joachim; Pischke, Sven; Steinmann, Eike; Blümel, Johannes; Glebe, Dieter

Background Hepatitis E is a liver disease caused by a small RNA virus known as hepatitis E virus (HEV). Four major genotypes infect humans, of which genotype 1 and 2 (HEV-1, HEV-2) are endemic mainly in Asia and responsible ...

2019-07-08Zeitschriftenartikel

Incidence of advanced colorectal cancer in Germany: comparing claims data and cancer registry data

Oppelt, Katja Anita; Luttmann, Sabine; Kraywinkel, Klaus; Haug, Ulrike

Background Incidence rates of advanced cancer stages are important, e.g., for monitoring cancer screening programs. However, information from cancer registries on tumor stage is often incomplete. Exemplified by colorectal ...

2019-08-22Zeitschriftenartikel

An evolutionary framework to guide the hunt for human dsDNA viruses

Aghebatrafat, A.; Merkel, K.; Leendertz, F.; Krüger, D. H.; Calvignac-Spencer, S.

It is becoming increasingly obvious that we only know a fraction of the human virome. The development of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies has dramatically increased our ability to hunt viruses. Yet, the small ...

2018-05-09Zeitschriftenartikel

Epidemiologische Studien mit Umweltbezug in Deutschland

Schneider, Alexandra; Rückerl, Regina; Standl, Marie; Markevych, Iana; Hoffmann, Barbara; Moebus, Susanne; Jöckel, Karl-Heinz; Weber, Alisa; Herr, Caroline; Heißenhuber, Annette; Nennstiel-Ratzel, Uta; Heinze, Stefanie; Schulz, Christian; Kolossa-Gehring, Marike; Niemann, Hildegard; Gößwald, Antje; Schikowski, Tamara; Hüls, Anke; Sugiri, Dorothee; Peters, Annette

Unsere Umwelt beeinflusst Gesundheit und Wohlbefinden des Menschen, von der Geburt bis ins hohe Alter. In diesem Überblick werden die wichtigsten epidemiologischen Studien und Gesundheitsmonitoringsysteme in Deutschland ...

2019-07-23Zeitschriftenartikel

Where did you come from, where did you go: Refining metagenomic analysis tools for horizontal gene transfer characterisation

Seiler, Enrico; Trappe, Kathrin; Renard, Bernhard Y.

Abstract Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) has changed the way we regard evolution. Instead of waiting for the next generation to establish new traits, especially bacteria are able to take a shortcut via HGT that enables ...

2019-07-26Zeitschriftenartikel

Proficiency Testing of Virus Diagnostics Based on Bioinformatics Analysis of Simulated In Silico High-Throughput Sequencing Data Sets

Brinkmann, Annika; Andrusch, Andreas; Belka, Ariane; Wylezich, Claudia; Höper, Dirk; Pohlmann, Anne; Nordahl Petersen, Thomas; Lucas, Pierrick; Blanchard, Yannick; Papa, Anna; Melidou, Angeliki; Oude Munnink, Bas B.; Matthijnssens, Jelle; Deboutte, Ward; Ellis, Richard J.; Hansmann, Florian; Baumgärtner, Wolfgang; van der Vries, Erhard; Osterhaus, Albert; Camma, Cesare; Mangone, Iolanda; Lorusso, Alessio; Marcacci, Maurilia; Nunes, Alexandra; Pinto, Miguel; Borges, Vítor; Kroneman, Annelies; Schmitz, Dennis; Corman, Victor Max; Drosten, Christian; Jones, Terry C.; Hendriksen, Rene S.; Aarestrup, Frank M.; Koopmans, Marion; Beer, Martin; Nitsche, Andreas

Quality management and independent assessment of high-throughput sequencing-based virus diagnostics have not yet been established as a mandatory approach for ensuring comparable results. The sensitivity and specificity of ...

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