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1. Extracting key information from historical data to quantify the transmission dynamics of smallpox

   2008 - Background Quantification of the transmission dynamics of smallpox is crucial for optimizing intervention strategies in the event of a bioterrorist attack. This article reviews basic methods and …

2. Vibrational Spectroscopy in Microbiology and Medical Diagnostics

3. Human Borna disease virus-infection and its therapy in affective disorders. [Review]

   2008 - Patients with affective disorders show an enhanced prevalence of Borna disease virus (BDV)-infection. Furthermore, BDV causes latent infection preferably in limbic central nervous structures and is …

4. Filoviruses: Interactions with the host cell

   2008 - The highly pathogenic filoviruses, Marburg and Ebola virus, are difficult to handle and knowledge of the interactions between filoviruses and their host cells remained enigmatic for many years. Two …

5. Lyme-Borreliose: Forschungsbedarf und Forschungsansätze. Ergebnisse eines interdisziplinären Expertentreffens am Robert Koch-Institut.

   2008 - Die Lyme-Borreliose ist in der nördlichen Hemisphäre nach aktuellem Kenntnisstand die häufigste durch Zecken übertragene Infektionskrankheit.  Deutschland ist neben anderen europäischen Ländern ein …

6. Signaling pathways induced by Influenza Virus

   2008 - Influenza viruses remain a continuous and severe global health threat to man as well as to many other mammals and birds. The re-emerging disease causes thousands of deaths and significant economic …

7. Clinical and microbiological features of melioidosis in northern Vietnam

   2008 - Sporadic cases of melioidosis have been reported from Vietnam for decades, but clinical and epidemiological data for the indigenous population are still scarce. In this study, we reviewed clinical and …

8. Isolation of sabin-like polioviruses from wastewater in a country using inactivated polio vaccine

   2008 - From 2001 to 2004, Switzerland switched from routine vaccination with oral polio vaccine (OPV) to inactivated polio vaccine (IPV), using both vaccines in the intervening period. Since IPV is less …

9. V 36

   December 7, 2007 - A Standardized Identification code for Blood Components to Facilitate Foolproof Documentation in Germany

10. Fast and reliable diagnostic methods for the detection of human poxvirus infections

    2007 - Although the most prominent poxvirus, Variola virus, was successfully eradicated in the last century, several other poxviruses cause zoonotic infections which in the early stages resemble Variola …

11. Pitfalls in diagnosing human poxvirus infections

12. Viremia in human Cowpox virus infection

    2007 - Background Several poxviruses can infect humans and cause diseases of varying severity. Besides the eradicated Variola virus that induced high mortality rates, numerous further human pathogenic …

13. Sporadic human cases of cowpox in Germany

14. Genetic diversity and recombination of murine noroviruses in immunocompromised mice

    2007 - Murine noroviruses (MNV) are newly identified pathogens which infect laboratory mice. In this study, we found a high prevalence (64.3%) of MNV in various breeding colonies of immunocompromised, …

15. Diagnostik von Infektionserregern und Toxinen

16. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST398 in humans and animals, Central Europe

    2007 - Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus of clonal lineage ST398 that exhibits related spa types and contains SCCmec elements of types IVa or V has been isolated from colonized and infected humans …

17. The current MLVA typing scheme for Enterococcus faecium does not discriminate enough to resolve epidemic-virulent, hospital-adapted clonal types

    2007 - 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 …

18. Detection of Resistance Mutations to Linezolid in Enterococcus spp. by Fluorescence in situ Hybridization (FISH)

    2007 - A fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) assay was established to detect linezolid resistance (mutation 2576G>T in 23S rDNA) in enterococci. The assay was evaluated on 106 Enterococcus isolates; it …

19. Increasing rates of vancomycin resistance among Enterococcus faecium isolated from German hospitals between 2004 and 2006 are due to wide clonal dissemination of vancomycin-resistant enterococci and horizontal spread of vanA clusters

    2007 - Results of national and international surveillance studies revealed increasing rates of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREF) among German hospital patients since 2003. To investigate the …

20. DNA microarray for the detection of therapeutically relevant antibiotic resistance determinants in clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus

    2007 - An oligonucleotide microarray was constructed for the rapid and sensitive molecular detection of antibiotic resistance determinants in Staphylococcus aureus. The array is equipped with oligonucleotide …

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