List of works by Volker Fingerle

"Candidatus Borrelia kalaharica" Detected from a Febrile Traveller Returning to Germany from Vacation in Southern Africa

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A Coding Variant of ANO10, Affecting Volume Regulation of Macrophages, Is Associated with Borrelia Seropositivity

scientific article published on 23 February 2015

A case of relapsing-remitting neuroborreliosis? Challenges in the differential diagnosis of recurrent myelitis.

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A new Borrelia species defined by multilocus sequence analysis of housekeeping genes

scientific article published on 19 June 2009

Acylated cholesteryl galactosides are specific antigens of borrelia causing lyme disease and frequently induce antibodies in late stages of disease

scientific article published on 23 March 2009

Acylated cholesteryl galactosides are ubiquitous glycolipid antigens among Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato

scientific article published on 27 June 2011

Adhesion of Borrelia garinii to neuronal cells is mediated by the interaction of OspA with proteoglycans

scientific article published on 6 March 2006

An improved recombinant IgG immunoblot for serodiagnosis of Lyme borreliosis

scientific article published on 01 December 1999

An ospA-polymerase chain reaction/restriction fragment length polymorphism-based method for sensitive detection and reliable differentiation of all European Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato species and OspA types

scientific article published on 12 September 2003

Analysis of a flawed double-blind, placebo-controlled, clinical trial of patients claimed to have persistent Lyme disease following treatment.

scientific article published in April 2009

Anaplasma phagocytophilum infection in Ixodes ricinus, Bavaria, Germany

scientific article published on June 2008

Antibodies against Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato among Adults, Germany, 2008-2011.

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Assessing the risk of human granulocytic anaplasmosis and lyme borreliosis after a tick bite in Bavaria, Germany

scientific article published on 21 August 2015

Association of Borrelia and Rickettsia spp. and bacterial loads in Ixodes ricinus ticks

scientific article published on 27 October 2017

BGA66 and BGA71 facilitate complement resistance of Borrelia bavariensis by inhibiting assembly of the membrane attack complex.

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Borrelia bavariensis sp. nov. is widely distributed in Europe and Asia

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Borrelia bissettiae sp. nov. and Borrelia californiensis sp. nov. Prevail in Diverse Enzootic Transmission Cycles

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Borrelia burgdorferi and Anaplasma phagocytophilum coinfection.

scientific article published in February 2006

Borrelia burgdorferi in tick cell culture modulates expression of outer surface proteins A and C in response to temperature.

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Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. OspA-types are widespread in Bavaria but show distinct local patterns.

scientific article published in April 2004

Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato strains isolated from cutaneous Lyme borreliosis biopsies differentiated by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis

scientific article published on 01 January 1996

Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto and Borrelia afzelii: Population structure and differential pathogenicity

scientific article published on 21 August 2015

Borrelia garinii induces CXCL13 production in human monocytes through Toll-like receptor 2

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Borrelia kurtenbachii sp. nov., a widely distributed member of the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato species complex in North America

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Borrelia lanei sp. nov. extends the diversity of Borrelia species in California

scientific article published on 8 September 2017

Borrelia miyamotoi-Associated Neuroborreliosis in Immunocompromised Person

scientific article published on September 2016

Borrelia persica: In vitro cultivation and characterization via conventional PCR and multilocus sequence analysis of two strains isolated from a cat and ticks from Israel

scientific article published on 3 July 2015

Borrelia yangtzensis sp. nov. a rodent associated species in Asia is related to B. valaisiana

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CXCL13 may improve diagnosis in early neuroborreliosis with atypical laboratory findings

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Case Report and Genetic Sequence Analysis of Candidatus Borrelia kalaharica, Southern Africa

scientific article published in 2018

Characterization of a concealed antigen Hq05 from the hard tick Haemaphysalis qinghaiensis and its effect as a vaccine against tick infestation in sheep

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Cloning and characterization of a cDNA clone encoding calreticulin from Haemaphysalis qinghaiensis (Acari: Ixodidae).

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Cloning and characterization of a cDNA clone encoding troponin T from tick Haemaphysalis qinghaiensis (Acari: Ixodidae).

scientific article published on 3 August 2008

Coexistence of ehrlichiae of the phagocytophila group with Borrelia burgdorferi in Ixodes ricinus from Southern Germany

scientific article published on 01 December 1999

Coiling phagocytosis of Borrelia burgdorferi by primary human macrophages is controlled by CDC42Hs and Rac1 and involves recruitment of Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein and Arp2/3 complex.

scientific article published on March 2001

Comparison of the lifetime host-to-tick transmission between two strains of the Lyme disease pathogen Borrelia afzelii

scientific article published on 16 December 2016

Complementation of a Borrelia afzelii OspC mutant highlights the crucial role of OspC for dissemination of Borrelia afzelii in Ixodes ricinus

scientific article published on 30 January 2007

Completed Genome Sequences of Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Stricto B31(NRZ) and Closely Related Patient Isolates from Europe

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Cutaneous Lyme borreliosis: Guideline of the German Dermatology Society

scientific article published on 5 September 2017

Cytokine CXCL13--a possible early CSF marker for neuroborreliosis

scientific article published in April 2006

Detection of Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato genospecies and Anaplasma phagocytophilum in a tick population from Austria.

scientific article published on 15 December 2013

Detection of Mycoplasma pneumoniae DNA in cerebrospinal fluid of a patient with M. pneumoniae infection-"associated" stroke

scientific article published on 5 October 2001

Detection of a large linear plasmid in Borrelia spielmanii isolate

scientific article published on 01 April 2011

Diagnostic value of cerebrospinal fluid CXCL13 for acute Lyme neuroborreliosis. A systemic review and meta-analysis.

scientific article published on 16 April 2018

Differential expression of outer surface proteins A and C by individual Borrelia burgdorferi in different genospecies

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Distinct host species correlate with Anaplasma phagocytophilum ankA gene clusters

scientific article published on 22 December 2010

Diversity of OspA and OspC among cerebrospinal fluid isolates of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato from patients with neuroborreliosis in Germany

scientific article published in February 1996

Dynamics of <i>Borrelia burgdorferi</i>-Specific Antibodies: Seroconversion and Seroreversion between Two Population-Based, Cross-Sectional Surveys among Adults in Germany

scientific article published on 25 November 2020

Dynamics of dissemination and outer surface protein expression of different European Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato strains in artificially infected Ixodes ricinus nymphs

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Efficacy and Safety of Antibiotic Therapy in Early Cutaneous Lyme Borreliosis: A Network Meta-analysis

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Efficacy and safety of pharmacological agents in the treatment of erythema migrans in early Lyme borreliosis-systematic review protocol

scientific article published on 3 May 2016

Epidemiological Surveillance of Lyme Borreliosis in Bavaria, Germany, 2013–2020

scientific article published in 2021

Epidemiological and Serological Analysis of a SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak in a Nursing Home: Impact of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination and Enhanced Neutralizing Immunity Following Breakthrough Infection

scientific article published in 2022

Epidemiological aspects and molecular characterization of Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. from southern Germany with special respect to the new species Borrelia spielmanii sp. nov.

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Epidemiological aspects of human granulocytic Ehrlichiosis in southern Germany

scientific article published on 01 December 1999

Erratum to: Revisited: Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato infections in hard ticks (Ixodes ricinus) in the city of Hanover (Germany).

scientific article published on 29 April 2016

Evaluation of recombinant line immunoblot for detection of Lyme disease in Slovakia: comparison with two other immunoassays

scientific article published on 01 June 2008

Expression of outer surface proteins A and C of Borrelia burgdorferi in Ixodes ricinus ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 1995

Expression of outer surface proteins A and C of Borrelia burgdorferi in Ixodes ricinus ticks removed from humans

scientific article published on 01 October 1998

Facial palsy caused by Borrelia infection in a twin pregnancy in an area of nonendemicity

scientific article published on 01 October 1999

First insights in the variability of Borrelia recurrentis genomes

scientific article published on 13 September 2017

Functional characterization of Borrelia spielmanii outer surface proteins that interact with distinct members of the human factor H protein family and with plasminogen

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High prevalence of genetically diverse Borrelia bavariensis-like strains in Ixodes persulcatus from Selenge Aimag, Mongolia

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Host cell-specific expression of a p44 epitope by the human granulocytic ehrlichiosis agent

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Host dispersal shapes the population structure of a tick-borne bacterial pathogen

scientific article published on 09 January 2020

Human granulocytic ehrlichiosis in southern Germany: increased seroprevalence in high-risk groups

scientific article published on December 1997

Human pathogenic Borrelia spielmanii sp. nov. resists complement-mediated killing by direct binding of immune regulators factor H and factor H-like protein 1

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Identification and characterization of the factor H and FHL-1 binding complement regulator-acquiring surface protein 1 of the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia spielmanii sp. nov.

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Immune evasion of Borrelia miyamotoi: CbiA, a novel outer surface protein exhibiting complement binding and inactivating properties

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Immunoblot analysis of the seroreactivity to recombinant Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato antigens, including VlsE, in the long-term course of treated patients with erythema migrans

scientific article published on 23 January 2008

Immunoblot using recombinant antigens derived from different genospecies of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato

scientific article published on 01 February 1994

Immunological and molecular variability of OspA and OspC. Implications for Borrelia vaccine development

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Improvement of Lyme borreliosis serodiagnosis by a newly developed recombinant immunoglobulin G (IgG) and IgM line immunoblot assay and addition of VlsE and DbpA homologues

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In Vitro Rapid Antigen Test Performance with the SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern B.1.1.7 (Alpha), B.1.351 (Beta), P.1 (Gamma), and B.1.617.2 (Delta)

scientific article published in 2021

Incidence of notified Lyme borreliosis in Germany, 2013-2017

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Leptospira spp. strain identification by MALDI TOF MS is an equivalent tool to 16S rRNA gene sequencing and multi locus sequence typing (MLST).

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Long-term in vitro cultivation of Borrelia miyamotoi

scientific article published on 22 December 2014

Long-term intrathecal infusion of outer surface protein C from Borrelia burgdorferi causes axonal damage

scientific article published in September 2011

Louse-borne relapsing fever (Borrelia recurrentis) diagnosed in 15 refugees from northeast Africa: epidemiology and preventive control measures, Bavaria, Germany, July to October 2015.

scientific article published on October 2015

Low prevalence of Borrelia bavariensis in Ixodes ricinus ticks in southeastern Austria

scientific article published on 2 July 2014

Lyme borreliae prevalence and genospecies distribution in ticks removed from humans

scientific article published on 13 May 2017

Lyme borreliosis: clinical case definitions for diagnosis and management in Europe

scientific article published on 01 January 2011

Lyme borreliosis: the challenge of accuracy

scientific article published on 01 January 2012

Lyme neuroborreliosis-epidemiology, diagnosis and management

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Microbiological and serological diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis

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Molecular analysis of decorin-binding protein A (DbpA) reveals five major groups among European Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato strains with impact for the development of serological assays and indicates lateral gene transfer of the dbpA gene

scientific article published on 10 March 2006

Molecular detection of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato - An analytical comparison of real-time PCR protocols from five different Scandinavian laboratories

scientific article published on 22 September 2017

Molecular identification of Borrelia genus in questing hard ticks from Portugal: Phylogenetic characterization of two novel Relapsing Fever-like Borrelia sp.

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Multilocus sequence analysis of Borrelia bissettii strains from North America reveals a new Borrelia species, Borrelia kurtenbachii

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NGS population genetics analyses reveal divergent evolution of a Lyme Borreliosis agent in Europe and Asia

scientific article published on 10 March 2015

Neuroborreliosis and acute encephalopathy: The use of CXCL13 as a biomarker in CNS manifestations of Lyme borreliosis

scientific article published on 11 December 2017

Occurrence of different Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato genospecies including B. afzelii, B. bavariensis, and B. spielmanii in hedgehogs (Erinaceus spp.) in Europe.

scientific article published on 10 November 2011

Osp17, a novel immunodominant outer surface protein of Borrelia afzelii: recombinant expression in Escherichia coli and its use as a diagnostic antigen for serodiagnosis of Lyme borreliosis

scientific article published in May 1999

Presence of Borrelia spp. DNA in ticks, but absence of Borrelia spp. and of Leptospira spp. DNA in blood of fever patients in Madagascar

scientific article published on 3 October 2017

Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. OspA types in Ixodes ricinus ticks from selected localities in Slovakia and Poland

scientific article published on 10 March 2006

Prevalence of Borrelia miyamotoi and Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in questing ticks from a recreational coniferous forest of East Saxony, Germany

scientific article published on 18 August 2017

Prevalence of four species of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato and coinfection with Anaplasma phagocytophila in Ixodes ricinus ticks in central Germany.

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Prevalence of granulocytic Ehrlichiae in Ixodes ricinus ticks in Middle Germany (Thuringia) detected by PCR and sequencing of a 16S ribosomal DNA fragment

scientific article published on 01 June 2002

Prevalence of spotted fever group rickettsiae in Ixodes ricinus (Acari: Ixodidae) in southern Germany

scientific article published on September 2008

Prevention of tick-borne diseases: an overview

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Prospective study on nontuberculous mycobacteria in patients with and without cystic fibrosis.

scientific article published on 3 September 2003

PubMLST.org--The new home for the Borrelia MLSA database

scientific article published on 17 June 2015

Published data do not support the notion that Borrelia valaisiana is human pathogenic

scientific article published in June 2017

Pulmonary toxoplasmosis in bone marrow transplant recipients: report of two cases and review.

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Rational diagnostic strategies for Lyme borreliosis in children and adolescents: recommendations by the Committee for Infectious Diseases and Vaccinations of the German Academy for Pediatrics and Adolescent Health.

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Real-time PCR-based identification of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato species in ticks collected from humans in Romania.

scientific article published on 29 June 2014

Recombinant immunoblot in the serodiagnosis of Lyme borreliosis. Comparison with indirect immunofluorescence and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.

scientific article published in November 1993

Recurrent evolution of host and vector association in bacteria of the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato species complex

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Relapsing fever: an almost forgotten disease in focus again

scientific article published on 12 July 2016

Revisited: Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato infections in hard ticks (Ixodes ricinus) in the city of Hanover (Germany).

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Rickettsia monacensis sp. nov., a spotted fever group Rickettsia, from ticks (Ixodes ricinus) collected in a European city park

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Risk factors in Lyme borreliosis: a German case-control study.

scientific article published in June 2002

Role of birds in Thuringia, Germany, in the natural cycle of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, the Lyme disease spirochaete

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Screening for infectious diseases among newly arrived asylum seekers, Bavaria, Germany, 2015.

scientific article published in March 2018

Sequence data management for scientific purposes

scientific article published on 5 July 2017

Seropositivity of Lyme borreliosis and associated risk factors: a population-based study in Children and Adolescents in Germany (KiGGS).

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Seroprevalence of human granulocytic anaplasmosis in Berlin/Brandenburg, Germany: an 8-year survey

scientific article published in September 2006

Shifts in Borrelia burgdorferi (s.l.) geno-species infections in Ixodes ricinus over a 10-year surveillance period in the city of Hanover (Germany) and Borrelia miyamotoi-specific Reverse Line Blot detection.

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Significant improvement of the recombinant Borrelia IgG immunoblot for serodiagnosis of early neuroborreliosis.

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Significant improvement of the recombinant Borrelia-specific immunoglobulin G immunoblot test by addition of VlsE and a DbpA homologue derived from Borrelia garinii for diagnosis of early neuroborreliosis

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Species Identification and Phylogenetic Analysis of Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato Using Molecular Biological Methods

scientific article published in January 2018

The lymphocyte transformation test for the diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis has currently not been shown to be clinically useful

scientific article published on 06 March 2014

The pathogenesis of lyme neuroborreliosis: from infection to inflammation

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The relapsing fever spirochete Borrelia miyamotoi resists complement-mediated killing by human serum

scientific article published on 22 July 2014

Three species of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (B. burgdorferi sensu stricto, B afzelii, and B. garinii) identified from cerebrospinal fluid isolates by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and PCR.

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Tick-borne human pathogenic microorganisms found in Europe and those considered nonpathogenic. Part II: Bacteria, parasites and mixed infections

scientific article published on May 2004

To test or not to test? Laboratory support for the diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis

scientific article published on 5 September 2017

Toxoplasmosis after heart transplantation: diagnosis by endomyocardial biopsy

scientific article published on 01 September 1994

Transmission of Borrelia garinii OspA serotype 4 to BALB/c mice by Ixodes ricinus ticks collected in the field

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Tropical diseases invade Europe. Dengue: entry via container ship

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Unclear dermatological finding in a 35-year-old patient

scientific article published on 31 March 2015

Upregulation of matrix metalloproteinase-9 in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with acute Lyme neuroborreliosis.

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Within European margins.

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[CXCL13: a biomarker for acute Lyme neuroborreliosis: investigation of the predictive value in the clinical routine]

scientific article published on 01 April 2014

[Lyme borreliosis in children. Epidemiology, diagnosis, clinical treatment, and therapy]

scientific article published on 01 June 2007

[Lyme borreliosis: research gaps and research approaches. Results from an interdisciplinary expert meeting at the Robert Koch Institute].

scientific article published in November 2008

[Lyme borreliosis]

scientific article published on 01 July 2014

[Lyme borreliosis].

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[Neuroborreliosis].

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[Patient with questionable Lyme borreliosis. Which laboratory parameters validate your clinical suspicion?]

scientific article published on 01 May 2002

[Stage-oriented treatment of Lyme borreliosis]

scientific article published on 01 June 2006

[Therapy of Lyme borreliosis. Stage-appropriate antibiotic selection and dosage]

scientific article published on 01 April 2000

[Threat of transmission of infectious pathogens by Ixodes ricinus ticks in Germany].

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[Tick removed. Sending on to examination?]

scientific article published on 01 September 2002

[Ticks, tick bites and how best to remove the tick]

scientific article published on 01 June 2006

[What is the value of a rapid tick test for borrelia (interview by Dr. Judith Neumaier)]

scientific article published in July 2008

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