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List of works by Rainer G. Ulrich

2020 taxonomic update for phylum Negarnaviricota (Riboviria: Orthornavirae), including the large orders Bunyavirales and Mononegavirales

scientific article published on 04 September 2020

A 10-year molecular survey of herpes simplex virus type 1 in Germany demonstrates a stable and high prevalence of genotypes A and B.

scientific article

A 12-year molecular survey of clinical herpes simplex virus type 2 isolates demonstrates the circulation of clade A and B strains in Germany

scientific article

A Look into the Melting Pot: The mecC-Harboring Region Is a Recombination Hot Spot in Staphylococcus stepanovicii

scientific article

A Novel Squirrel Respirovirus with Putative Zoonotic Potential

scholarly article by Leonie F Forth published in July 2018

A Putative Novel Hepatitis E Virus Genotype 3 Subtype Identified in Rabbit, Germany 2016

scientific article published on 04 June 2021

A Variegated Squirrel Bornavirus Associated with Fatal Human Encephalitis

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A broad spectrum screening of Schmallenberg virus antibodies in wildlife animals in Germany

scientific article published on 23 September 2015

A competitive ELISA for species-independent detection of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus specific antibodies

scientific article published on 10 September 2016

A hantavirus nucleocapsid protein segment exposed on hepatitis B virus core particles is highly immunogenic in mice when applied without adjuvants or in the presence of pre-existing anti-core antibodies

scientific article published on 16 March 2005

A highly divergent Puumala virus lineage in southern Poland

scientific article published on 16 January 2017

A novel method for cloning of non-cytolytic viruses

scientific article published on 28 February 2006

A red squirrel associated adenovirus identified by a combined microarray and deep sequencing approach

scientific article published on 6 July 2017

Age-related and regional differences in the prevalence of hepatitis E virus-specific antibodies in pigs in Germany

scientific article published on 21 October 2013

An amino-terminal segment of hantavirus nucleocapsid protein presented on hepatitis B virus core particles induces a strong and highly cross-reactive antibody response in mice.

scientific article published in May 2004

Analysis of clonal type-specific antibody reactions in Toxoplasma gondii seropositive humans from Germany by peptide-microarray

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Antigenic characterisation of yeast-expressed lyssavirus nucleoproteins

scientific article published on 06 July 2007

Assessing the Diversity of Rodent-Borne Viruses: Exploring of High-Throughput Sequencing and Classical Amplification/Sequencing Approaches

scientific article published on 28 September 2017

Author Correction: Relatives of rubella virus in diverse mammals

scientific article published on 17 November 2020

Autochthonous Dobrava-Belgrade virus infection in Eastern Germany

scientific article published on February 2015

Autochthonous Ratborne Seoul Virus Infection in Woman with Acute Kidney Injury

scientific article published on 01 December 2020

Bats carry pathogenic hepadnaviruses antigenically related to hepatitis B virus and capable of infecting human hepatocytes

scientific article (publication date: October 2013)

Bats host major mammalian paramyxoviruses

scientific article (publication date: 24 April 2012)

Bats worldwide carry hepatitis E virus-related viruses that form a putative novel genus within the family Hepeviridae

scientific article (publication date: September 2012)

Borna disease outbreak with high mortality in an alpaca herd in a previously unreported endemic area in Germany

scientific article published on 29 March 2020

Bringing together what belongs together: Optimizing murine infection models by using mouse-adapted Staphylococcus aureus strains

scientific article published in 2018

Bringing together what belongs together: Optimizing murine infection models by using mouse-adapted Staphylococcus aureus strains

scientific article published in 2019

British Red Squirrels Remain the Only Known Wild Rodent Host for Leprosy Bacilli

Broad geographical distribution and high genetic diversity of shrew-borne Seewis hantavirus in Central Europe

scientific article published on 31 March 2012

Cellular and humoral immunogenicity of hamster polyomavirus-derived virus-like particles harboring a mucin 1 cytotoxic T-cell epitope.

scientific article published in March 2008

Central European Dobrava Hantavirus isolate from a striped field mouse (Apodemus agrarius).

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Characterization of monoclonal antibodies against hantavirus nucleocapsid protein and their use for immunohistochemistry on rodent and human samples

scholarly article by Indre Kucinskaite-Kodze published in December 2010

Chimeric bacteriophage fr virus-like particles harboring the immunodominant C-terminal region of hamster polyomavirus VP1 induce a strong VP1-specific antibody response in rabbits and mice

scientific article published in January 2002

Chimeric polyomavirus-derived virus-like particles: the immunogenicity of an inserted peptide applied without adjuvant to mice depends on its insertion site and its flanking linker sequence

scientific article published in September 2007

Chlamydiaceae and Chlamydia-like organisms in free-living small mammals in Europe and Afghanistan

scientific article published on 31 January 2014

Clinical course and laboratory parameters of the first Dobrava-Belgrade hantavirus infection imported to Germany

scientific article published on 22 January 2008

Co-Circulation of Different Hepatitis E Virus Genotype 3 Subtypes in Pigs and Wild Boar in North-East Germany, 2019

scientific article published on 06 July 2022

Common vole (Microtus arvalis) and bank vole (Myodes glareolus) derived permanent cell lines differ in their susceptibility and replication kinetics of animal and zoonotic viruses

scientific article published on 09 September 2019

Comparison of Two PCR Systems for the Rapid Detection of Leptospira spp. from Kidney Tissue

scientific article published on December 4, 2010

Complete genome of a Puumala virus strain from Central Europe

scientific article published on 28 December 2014

Complex evolution and epidemiology of Dobrava-Belgrade hantavirus: definition of genotypes and their characteristics

scientific article

Corrigendum: Bats host major mammalian paramyxoviruses.

scientific article published in January 2014

Detection of Francisella tularensis in three vole species in Central Europe

scientific article published on 08 January 2019

Detection of a novel hepatitis E-like virus in faeces of wild rats using a nested broad-spectrum RT-PCR.

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Detection of pandemic B2-O25-ST131 Escherichia coli harbouring the CTX-M-9 extended-spectrum beta-lactamase type in a feral urban brown rat (Rattus norvegicus).

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Detection of rat hepatitis E virus in wild Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) and Black rats (Rattus rattus) from 11 European countries

scientific article published on 4 July 2017

Detection of rat hepatitis E virus, but not human pathogenic hepatitis E virus genotype 1-4 infections in wild rats from Lithuania

scientific article published on 18 June 2018

Detection of shrew-borne hantavirus in Eurasian pygmy shrew (Sorex minutus) in Central Europe

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Development and evaluation of serological assays for detection of Hantaanvirus-specific antibodies in human sera using yeast-expressed nucleocapsid protein

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Development and evaluation of serological assays for detection of human hantavirus infections caused by Sin Nombre virus

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Development of novel immunoglobulin G (IgG), IgA, and IgM enzyme immunoassays based on recombinant Puumala and Dobrava hantavirus nucleocapsid proteins.

scientific article published on 4 October 2006

Different Outcomes of Experimental Hepatitis E Virus Infection in Diverse Mouse Strains, Wistar Rats, and Rabbits.

scientific article published on 20 December 2018

Differential antiviral response of endothelial cells after infection with pathogenic and nonpathogenic hantaviruses

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Distantly Related Rotaviruses in Common Shrews, Germany, 2004-2014

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Distinct haplotype structure at the innate immune receptor Toll-like receptor 2 across bank vole populations and lineages in Europe

Distribution and frequency of VKORC1 sequence variants conferring resistance to anticoagulants in Mus musculus

scientific article published on 06 September 2011

Dobrava-Belgrade hantavirus from Germany shows receptor usage and innate immunity induction consistent with the pathogenicity of the virus in humans

scientific article

Dobrava-Belgrade virus in Apodemus flavicollis and A. uralensis mice, Turkey

scientific article published on January 2014

Dobrava-belgrade virus spillover infections, Germany

scientific article published on December 2009

Emerging viruses: the case 'hantavirus'.

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Enhanced Replication of Hepatitis E Virus Strain 47832c in an A549-Derived Subclonal Cell Line

scientific article published on 29 September 2016

Epidemiological Investigations of Four Cowpox Virus Outbreaks in Alpaca Herds, Germany

scientific article published on 18 November 2017

Evidence for novel hepaciviruses in rodents

scientific article published in 2013

Evolutionary origins of hepatitis A virus in small mammals

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Experimental Cowpox Virus (CPXV) Infections of Bank Voles: Exceptional Clinical Resistance and Variable Reservoir Competence

scientific article published on 19 December 2017

Extensive host sharing of central European Tula virus

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Field vole-associated Traemmersee hantavirus from Germany represents a novel hantavirus species

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

First insights into antimicrobial resistance among faecal Escherichia coli isolates from small wild mammals in rural areas.

scientific article published on 31 May 2010

First molecular evidence for Puumala hantavirus in Poland.

scientific article published on 23 January 2014

First molecular identification of human Dobrava virus infection in central Europe

scientific article published on March 2004

Frequent combination of antimicrobial multiresistance and extraintestinal pathogenicity in Escherichia coli isolates from urban rats (Rattus norvegicus) in Berlin, Germany

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Generation in yeast and antigenic characterization of hepatitis E virus capsid protein virus-like particles.

scientific article published on 15 November 2017

Generation of virus-like particles consisting of the major capsid protein VP1 of goose hemorrhagic polyomavirus and their application in serological tests

scientific article published on 15 June 2006

Genetic interaction between distinct Dobrava hantavirus subtypes in Apodemus agrarius and A. flavicollis in nature

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Genome Sequences of a Rat Polyomavirus Related to Murine Polyomavirus, Rattus norvegicus Polyomavirus 1

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Genomic and spatial variability of a European common vole hepevirus

scientific article published on 09 August 2019

Genomic resources for wild populations of the house mouse, Mus musculus and its close relative Mus spretus

scientific article published on 13 September 2016

Geographical Distribution of Ljungan Virus in Small Mammals in Europe

scientific article published on 02 June 2020

Geographical distribution of hantaviruses in Thailand and potential human health significance of Thailand virus

scientific article

Hamster polyomavirus-derived virus-like particles are able to transfer in vitro encapsidated plasmid DNA to mammalian cells

scientific article published on 22 August 2006

Hantavirus infection of dendritic cells

scientific article published on November 2002

Hantavirus outbreak, Germany, 2007.

scientific article published on May 2008

Hantavirus-<i>Leptospira</i> coinfections in small mammals from central Germany

scientific article published on 22 February 2021

Hantavirus-induced immunity in rodent reservoirs and humans

scientific article published on October 2008

Hantaviruses as zoonotic pathogens in Germany

scientific article published on 08 July 2013

Hantaviruses in Germany: threat for zoo, pet, companion and farm animals?

scientific article published on November 2013

Harmonizing methods for wildlife abundance estimation and pathogen detection in Europe-a questionnaire survey on three selected host-pathogen combinations

scientific article

Hepatitis E virus in feral rabbits along a rural-urban transect in Central Germany

scientific article published on 26 March 2018

Hepatitis E virus in pork liver sausage, France

scientific article published on February 2013

Hepatitis E virus seroprevalence of domestic pigs in Germany determined by a novel in-house and two reference ELISAs

scientific article published on March 21, 2013

Hepeviridae: an expanding family of vertebrate viruses

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Heterogeneous Puumala orthohantavirus situation in endemic regions in Germany in summer 2019

scientific article published on 29 November 2019

High genetic structuring of Tula hantavirus.

scientific article published on 30 January 2016

High prevalence of Rickettsia helvetica in wild small mammal populations in Germany

scientific article published on 2 February 2018

High seroprevalence for indigenous spotted fever group rickettsiae in forestry workers from the federal state of Brandenburg, Eastern Germany

scientific article published on 22 October 2016

High yields of stable and highly pure nucleocapsid proteins of different hantaviruses can be generated in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

scientific article published in August 2004

Highly diversified shrew hepatitis B viruses corroborate ancient origins and divergent infection patterns of mammalian hepadnaviruses

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Highly prevalent bartonellae and other vector-borne pathogens in small mammal species from the Czech Republic and Germany

scientific article published on 03 July 2019

Host-Associated Absence of Human Puumala Virus Infections in Northern and Eastern Germany

scientific article published on January 2017

Human Exposure to Hantaviruses Associated with Rodents of the Murinae Subfamily, Madagascar

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

Identification of Two Novel Members of the Tentative Genus Wukipolyomavirus in Wild Rodents

scientific article published on 16 October 2015

Identification of a novel hantavirus strain in the root vole (Microtus oeconomus) in Lithuania, Eastern Europe

scientific article published on 02 September 2020

Identification of novel rodent herpesviruses, including the first gammaherpesvirus of Mus musculus

scientific article published on 16 May 2007

In Vivo Characterization of a Bank Vole-Derived Cowpox Virus Isolate in Natural Hosts and the Rat Model

scientific article published on 20 February 2020

In vitro replication of varicella-zoster virus in human retinal pigment epithelial cells

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Inactivation of Hantaan virus-containing samples for subsequent investigations outside biosafety level 3 facilities

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Influence of Season, Population and Individual Characteristics on the Prevalence of Leptospira spp. in Bank Voles in North-West Germany

scientific article published in 2021

Inhibition of interferon I induction by non-structural protein NSs of Puumala virus and other vole-associated orthohantaviruses: phenotypic plasticity of the protein and potential functional domains

Is fecal carriage of extended-spectrum-β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli in urban rats a risk for public health?

scientific article published on 4 March 2013

Isolation and characterization of new Puumala orthohantavirus strains from Germany

scientific article published on 23 April 2020

Isolation of Three Novel Rat and Mouse Papillomaviruses and Their Genomic Characterization

scientific article published on October 15, 2012

Leptospira Genomospecies and Sequence Type Prevalence in Small Mammal Populations in Germany

scientific article published on 22 February 2018

Leptospira spp. in Rodents and Shrews from Afghanistan

scientific article published on 30 October 2018

Leptospira spp. in Small Mammals from Areas with Low and High Human Hantavirus Incidences in South-West Germany

scientific article published on 23 March 2017

Leptospira spp. in rodents and shrews in Germany.

scientific article

Lymphoma outbreak in a GASH:Sal hamster colony.

scientific article published on 30 May 2013

Lysogenic conversion of atypical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (aEPEC) from human, murine, and bovine origin with bacteriophage Φ3538 Δstx::cat proves their enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) progeny

scientific article published on 19 June 2018

Meeting report: Eleventh International Conference on Hantaviruses

scientific article published on 15 February 2020

Metagenomic identification of novel enteric viruses in urban wild rats and genome characterization of a group A rotavirus

scientific article published on 13 August 2014

Microbiological characterization of a newly established pig breed, Aachen Minipigs

scientific article published on 17 March 2016

Molecular Detection and Characterization of the First Cowpox Virus Isolate Derived from a Bank Vole

scientific article published on 18 November 2019

Molecular Epidemiology of Methicillin-Susceptible and Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Wild, Captive and Laboratory Rats: Effect of Habitat on the Nasal S. aureus Population

scientific article published on 24 January 2020

Molecular Identification of Small Mammal Species Using Novel Cytochrome b Gene-Derived Degenerated Primers

scientific article published on December 23, 2011

Molecular analysis of varicella-zoster virus strains circulating in Tanzania demonstrating the presence of genotype M1

scientific article published on 13 August 2008

More novel hantaviruses and diversifying reservoir hosts--time for development of reservoir-derived cell culture models?

scientific article published on 26 February 2014

Mosaic particles formed by wild-type hepatitis B virus core protein and its deletion variants consist of both homo- and heterodimers

scientific article published in August 2003

Multiple Synchronous Outbreaks of Puumala Virus, Germany, 2010

scientific article published on September 1, 2012

Multiple detection of zoonotic variegated squirrel bornavirus 1 RNA in different squirrel species suggests a possible unknown origin for the virus

scientific article published on 07 June 2017

Multiple infections of rodents with zoonotic pathogens in Austria

scientific article

Natural and experimental hepatitis E virus genotype 3-infection in European wild boar is transmissible to domestic pigs.

scientific article

Negative Purifying Selection Drives Prion and Doppel Protein Evolution

scientific article published on 20 July 2014

Nephropathia epidemica in metropolitan area, Germany

scientific article published on August 2007

Norway and black rats in Europe: potential reservoirs for zoonotic arthropod-borne pathogens?

scientific article published on 28 February 2019

Novel Polyomaviruses in Mammals from Multiple Orders and Reassessment of Polyomavirus Evolution and Taxonomy

scientific article published on 10 October 2019

Novel approach for genotyping varicella-zoster virus strains from Germany

scientific article published on 12 September 2007

Novel approach to differentiate subclades of varicella-zoster virus genotypes E1 and E2 in Germany

scientific article

Novel hantavirus identified in European bat species Nyctalus noctula

scientific article published on 23 December 2016

Novel hepatitis E virus genotype in Norway rats, Germany.

scientific article published on September 2010

Novel mammalian herpesviruses and lineages within the Gammaherpesvirinae: cospeciation and interspecies transfer

scientific article (publication date: April 2008)

Novel polyomaviruses in shrews (Soricidae) with close similarity to human polyomavirus 12.

scientific article published on 2 November 2017

Novel serological tools for detection of Thottapalayam virus, a Soricomorpha-borne hantavirus

scientific article published on July 25, 2012

Novel varicella-zoster virus glycoprotein E gene mutations associated with genotypes A and D

scientific article

Nucleocapsid protein of cell culture-adapted Seoul virus strain 80-39: analysis of its encoding sequence, expression in yeast and immuno-reactivity

scientific article published on January 2005

Occurrence and distribution of Giardia species in wild rodents in Germany

scientific article published on 27 March 2018

Occurrence of renal and pulmonary syndrome in a region of northeast Germany where Tula hantavirus circulates

scientific article

Orthohantavirus Isolated in Reservoir Host Cells Displays Minimal Genetic Changes and Retains Wild-Type Infection Properties

scientific article published on 17 April 2020

Orthopox virus infections in Eurasian wild rodents

scientific article published on 31 March 2011

Out of the Reservoir: Phenotypic and Genotypic Characterization of a Novel Cowpox Virus Isolated from a Common Vole

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Patchy Occurrence of Cowpox Virus in Voles from Germany

scientific article published on 03 February 2020

Peptide microarray analysis of in silico-predicted epitopes for serological diagnosis of Toxoplasma gondii infection in humans

scientific article published on 11 April 2012

Phylogenetic analysis of Puumala virus strains from Central Europe highlights the need for a full-genome perspective on hantavirus evolution.

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Phylogenetic analysis of Puumala virus subtype Bavaria, characterization and diagnostic use of its recombinant nucleocapsid protein

scientific article published on 20 May 2011

Prevalence of Hepatitis E virus-specific antibodies in sera of German domestic pigs estimated by using different assays

scientific article published on 16 December 2009

Proposed reference sequences for hepatitis E virus subtypes.

scientific article published on 7 January 2016

Puumala Virus in Bank Voles, Lithuania

scientific article published on January 2017

Puumala hantavirus infections in bank vole populations: host and virus dynamics in Central Europe.

scientific article

RNA helicase retinoic acid-inducible gene I as a sensor of Hantaan virus replication

scientific article published on June 2011

Rat hepatitis E virus: geographical clustering within Germany and serological detection in wild Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus).

scientific article published on 28 March 2012

Rats as potential reservoirs for neglected zoonotic Bartonella species in Flanders, Belgium

scientific article published on 07 May 2020

Recombinant IFN-γ from the bank vole Myodes glareolus: a novel tool for research on rodent reservoirs of zoonotic pathogens

scientific article published on 12 February 2018

Relatives of rubella virus in diverse mammals

scientific article published on 07 October 2020

Replication in the Mononuclear Phagocyte System (MPS) as a Determinant of Hantavirus Pathogenicity

scientific article published on 12 June 2020

Replicative Capacity of MERS Coronavirus in Livestock Cell Lines

scientific article published on February 2014

Revised time scales of RNA virus evolution based on spatial information.

scientific article published in August 2017

Revisiting the genetic diversity of emerging hantaviruses circulating in Europe using a pan-viral resequencing microarray

scientific article published on 27 August 2019

Rodents as sentinels for the prevalence of tick-borne encephalitis virus

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Search for polyoma-, herpes-, and bornaviruses in squirrels of the family Sciuridae

scientific article published on 27 March 2020

Secondary contact between diverged host lineages entails ecological speciation in a European hantavirus

scientific article published on 20 February 2019

Segments of puumala hantavirus nucleocapsid protein inserted into chimeric polyomavirus-derived virus-like particles induce a strong immune response in mice

scientific article published on January 2004

Sentinel birds in wild-bird resting sites as potential indicators for West Nile virus infections in Germany

scientific article published on May 2010

Seroepidemiological study in a Puumala virus outbreak area in South-East Germany

scientific article published on 16 January 2009

Seroepidemiological study on hantavirus infections in India

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Serologic and Molecular Survey of Hepatitis E Virus in German Deer Populations.

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Serological assays for the detection of human andes hantavirus infections based on its yeast-expressed nucleocapsid protein

scientific article published in January 2006

Serological evidence of hepatitis E virus infection in zoo animals and identification of a rodent-borne strain in a Syrian brown bear

scientific article published on 9 November 2017

Seroprevalence of hepatitis E virus (HEV) in humans living in high pig density areas of Germany

scientific article published on 18 April 2014

Seroprevalence study in forestry workers from eastern Germany using novel genotype 3- and rat hepatitis E virus-specific immunoglobulin G ELISAs

scientific article published on 18 December 2011

Seroprevalence study in forestry workers of a non-endemic region in eastern Germany reveals infections by Tula and Dobrava–Belgrade hantaviruses

scientific article published on May 25, 2011

Small Mammals as Reservoir for Zoonotic Agents in Afghanistan

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Spatial and Temporal Evolutionary Patterns in Puumala Orthohantavirus (PUUV) S Segment

scientific article published on 08 July 2020

Spatial dynamics of a zoonotic orthohantavirus disease through heterogenous data on rodents, rodent infections, and human disease

scientific article published on 20 February 2019

Spatiotemporal dynamics of Puumala hantavirus associated with its rodent host, Myodes glareolus

scientific article published on 29 May 2015

Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae in Ticks and Small Mammals from Grassland and Forest Habitats in Central Germany

scientific article published in 2023

Stop codon insertion restores the particle formation ability of hepatitis B virus core-hantavirus nucleocapsid protein fusions.

scientific article published in January 2002

Survey for zoonotic pathogens in Norway rat populations from Europe

scientific article published on 14 June 2016

The simultaneous occurrence of human norovirus and hepatitis E virus in a Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus)

scientific article published on February 27, 2013

The use of chimeric virus-like particles harbouring a segment of hantavirus Gc glycoprotein to generate a broadly-reactive hantavirus-specific monoclonal antibody.

scientific article published on 7 February 2014

Tula virus infections in the Eurasian water vole in Central Europe

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Vaccination with Prion Peptide-Displaying Polyomavirus-Like Particles Prolongs Incubation Time in Scrapie-Infected Mice

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Variegated Squirrel Bornavirus 1 in Squirrels, Germany and the Netherlands

scientific article published on March 2017

Virus-like particles derived from major capsid protein VP1 of different polyomaviruses differ in their ability to induce maturation in human dendritic cells.

scientific article published on 10 August 2006

West Nile virus monitoring of migratory and resident birds in Germany

scientific article published on October 2010

White-Toothed Shrews (Genus Crocidura): Potential Reservoirs for Zoonotic Leptospira spp. and Arthropod-Borne Pathogens?

scientific article published in 2023

Widespread occurrence of squirrel adenovirus 1 in red and grey squirrels in Scotland detected by a novel real-time PCR assay

article by Kerstin Wernike et al published 15 September 2018 in Virus Research

Wild rodents and shrews are natural hosts of Staphylococcus aureus.

scientific article published on 22 September 2017

Yeast-expressed Puumala hantavirus nucleocapsid protein induces protection in a bank vole model

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Zoonotic pathogen screening of striped field mice ( Apodemus agrarius ) from Austria

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[Leptospirosis in Germany: current knowledge on pathogen species, reservoir hosts, and disease in humans and animals]

scientific article published on 01 December 2019