Vor dem Hintergrund der wachsenden Krankheitslast durch Diabetes mellitus entwickelt das Robert Koch-Institut im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Gesundheit eine Nationale Diabetes-Surveillance. Ein wesentliches Ziel ...

Basierend auf dem bundesweiten DPV-Register (Diabetes-Patienten-Verlaufsdokumentation), dem Diabetesregister in Nordrhein-Westfalen sowie Befragungen von Kliniken und Praxen in Baden-Württemberg und Sachsen wurden ...

Background Among all newly diagnosed HIV cases in Germany in 2015, 16% originated from sub-Saharan Africa. Twelve percent of these infections were contracted within Germany and migrants from sub-Saharan Africa (misSA) are ...

Apicomplexan parasites are auxotrophic for a range of amino acids which must be salvaged from their host cells, either through direct uptake or degradation of host proteins. Here, we describe a family of plasma membrane-localized ...

Background Knowledge of HIV-1 molecular transmission clusters (MTCs) is important, especially in large-scale datasets, for designing prevention programmes and public health intervention strategies. We used a large-scale ...

Antibiotic resistance is by far one of the most important health threats of our time. Only a global concerted effort of several disciplines based on the One-Health concept will help in slowing down this process and potentially ...

Background Although an “epidemic” of depression is frequently claimed, empirical evidence is inconsistent, depending on country, study design and depression assessment. Little is known about changes in depression over ...

Background Random glucose is widely measured in epidemiological studies and in the clinical setting when standardized fasting protocols and oral glucose tolerance testing or HbA1c measuring are not feasible. The relationship ...