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Resource-efficient internally controlled in-house real-time PCR detection of SARS-CoV-2

Virology Journal, 2021
Background The reliable detection of SARS-CoV-2 has become one of the most important contributions to COVID-19 crisis management. With the publication of the first sequences of SARS-CoV-2, several diagnostic PCR assays have been developed and published ...
Janine Michel, Markus Neumann, Eva Krause, Thomas Rinner, Therese Muzeniek, Marica Grossegesse, Georg Hille, Franziska Schwarz, Andreas Puyskens, Sophie Förster, Barbara Biere, Daniel Bourquain, Cristina Domingo, Annika Brinkmann, Lars Schaade, Livia Schrick, Andreas Nitsche   +16 more
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Canine Coronavirus Highly Pathogenic for Dogs [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2006
Canine coronavirus (CCoV) is usually responsible for mild, self-limiting infections restricted to the enteric tract. We report an outbreak of fatal disease in puppies caused by a pathogenic variant of CCoV that was isolated from organs with severe lesions.
BUONAVOGLIA C, DECARO N, MARTELLA V, ELIA G, CAMPOLO M, DESARIO C, CASTAGNARO, MASSIMO, TEMPESTA M.   +7 more
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Analysis of Sporulation in Bacillus cereus Biovar anthracis Which Contains an Insertion in the Gene for the Sporulation Factor σ^K

Pathogens, 2023
Bacillus cereus biovar anthracis (Bcbva) is an untypical pathogen causing a fatal anthrax-like disease in a variety of wildlife species in African rainforest areas. In contrast to Bacillus anthracis and most species of the B. cereus group, all strains of
Constanze Gummelt, Susann Dupke, Sabine Howaldt, Fee Zimmermann, Holger C. Scholz, Michael Laue, Silke R. Klee   +6 more
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Francisella tularensis subsp. holarctica wild-type is able to colonize natural aquatic ex vivo biofilms

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023
Biofilms are a matrix-associated lifestyle of microbial communities, often enabling survivability and persistence of such bacteria. The objective of this study was to investigate the survival of the wild-type strain A-271 of Francisella tularensis subsp.
Christoph Schaudinn, Kerstin Rydzewski, Kerstin Rydzewski, Beate Meister, Roland Grunow, Klaus Heuner, Klaus Heuner   +6 more
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Highly pathogenic coronaviruses and the kidney

Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2022
Since the end of 2019, the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has triggered a pneumonia epidemic, posing a significant public health challenge in 236 countries, territories, and regions worldwide. Clinically, in addition to the symptoms of pulmonary infection, many patients with SARS-CoV-2 infections, especially ...
Wang, Fang, Suo, Xiao-Guo, Wang, Cong, Wang, Jia-Nan, He, Xiao-Yan, Wang, Fa-Cai, Jin, Juan, Wen, Jia-Gen, Ni, Wei-Jian, Shen, Bing-Xiang, Meng, Xiao-Ming   +10 more
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A global dataset of sequence, diversity and biosafety recommendation of arbovirus and arthropod-specific virus

Scientific Data, 2023
Arthropod-borne virus (arbovirus) and arthropod-specific virus (ASV) are viruses circulating amongst hematophagous arthropods that are broadly transmitted in ecological systems.
Ying Huang, Shunlong Wang, Hong Liu, Evans Atoni, Fei Wang, Wei Chen, Zhaolin Li, Sergio Rodriguez, Zhiming Yuan, Zhaoyan Ming, Han Xia   +10 more
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Virulence and resistance patterns of Vibrio cholerae non-O1/non-O139 acquired in Germany and other European countries

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023
Global warming has caused an increase in the emergence of Vibrio species in marine and estuarine environments as well as fresh water bodies. Over the past decades, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has evolved among Vibrio species toward various antibiotics
Katarzyna Schmidt, Katarzyna Schmidt, Holger C. Scholz, Sandra Appelt, Jana Michel, Daniela Jacob, Susann Dupke   +6 more
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Pathogenicity of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus in mammals [PDF]

Vaccine, 2008
In recent years, there has been an increase in outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in poultry. Occasionally, these outbreaks have resulted in transmission of influenza viruses to humans and other mammals, with symptoms ranging from conjunctivitis to pneumonia and death.
de Wit, Emmie, Kawaoka, Yoshihiro, de Jong, Menno D., Fouchier, Ron A. M.   +3 more
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Avian influenza A (H7N9) virus: from low pathogenic to highly pathogenic [PDF]

Frontiers of Medicine, 2021
AbstractThe avian influenza A (H7N9) virus is a zoonotic virus that is closely associated with live poultry markets. It has caused infections in humans in China since 2013. Five waves of the H7N9 influenza epidemic occurred in China between March 2013 and September 2017.
William J. Liu, Haixia Xiao, Lianpan Dai, Di Liu, Jianjun Chen, Xiaopeng Qi, Yang Bi, Yi Shi, George F. Gao, Yingxia Liu   +9 more
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Phenotypic and genotypic discrimination of Francisella tularensis ssp. holarctica clades

International Journal of Medical Microbiology, 2023
Francisella tularensis is the causative agent of tularemia, a zoonotic disease with a wide host range. F. tularensis ssp. holarctica (Fth) is of clinical relevance for European countries, including Germany.
Kristin Köppen, Kerstin Rydzewski, Joerg Doellinger, Kerstin Myrtennäs, Mats Forsman, Sandra Appelt, Holger Scholz, Klaus Heuner   +7 more
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