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Mosquito trapping site "Weinheim" in southwest Germany.
Origin of the first German Usutu virus and Sindbis virus isolates.
Scientific Staff
Patrick Heinemann
Hanna Jöst
Support Staff
Alexandra Bialonski
Marcus Gräber-Gerberding
Ruth Suchowersky

Head
Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Dr. med. habil.
Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit
Tel: + 49 40 42818 959
Fax: + 49 40 42818 941
Alumni

Dr. med. Karoline Bleymehl




Dr. med. Stefanie Mikolajczak


 

 

Phenotypic and genetic characterization of varicella-zoster virus mutants resistant to acyclovir, brivudine and/or foscarnet.
summa cum laude, Goethe University Frankfurt, 2011

Nephropathia epidemica outbreak in Lower Franconia and the Eifel: molecular biological studies on the causative hantavirus species in summer/autumn 2007.
magna cum laude, Goethe University Frankfurt, 2010

 
Overview
 

The clinical virology laboratory investigates the molecular epidemiology and pathogenesis of rodent-borne (robo) viruses and mosquito-borne (mobo) viruses with projects in three areas:

  1. Characterization of the L protein of highly pathogenic New World hantaviruses
  2. The German arbovirus surveillance program
  3. Reassortant formation of mosquito-borne orthobunyaviruses endemic in Germany and the influence on vector range

Selected Publications
 

Becker N, Jöst H, Ziegler U, Eiden M, Höper D, Emmerich P, Fichet-Calvet E, Ehichioya DU, Czajka C, Gabriel M, Hoffmann B, Beer M, Tenner-Racz K, Racz P, Günther S, Wink M, Bosch S, Konrad A, Pfeffer M, Groschup MH, Schmidt-Chanasit J: Epizootic emergence of Usutu virus in wild and captive birds in Germany. PLoS One (2012) 7:e32604.

Jöst H, Bürck-Kammerer S, Hütter G, Lattwein E, Lederer S, Litzba N, Bock-Hensley O, Emmerich P, Günther S, Becker N, Niedrig M, Schmidt-Chanasit J: Medical importance of Sinbis virus in south-web Germany. J Clin Virol 52 (2011) 278-279.

Jöst H, Bialonski A, Maus D, Sambri V, Eiden M, Groschup MH, Günther S, Becker N, Schmidt-Chanasit J: Isolation of Usutu virus in Germany. Am J Trop Med Hyg 85 (2011) 551-553.

Jöst H, Bialonski A, Schmetz C, Günther S, Becker N, Schmidt-Chanasit J: Isolation and phylogenetic analysis of Batai virus, Germany. Am J Trop Med Hyg 84 (2011) 241-243.

Jöst H, Bialonski A, Storch V, Günther S, Becker N, Schmidt-Chanasit J: Isolation and phylogenetic analysis of Sindbis viruses from mosquitoes in Germany. J Clin Microbiol 48 (2010) 1900-1903.

Emmerich P, Avsic-Zupanc T, Chinikar S, Saksida A, Thomé-Bolduan C, Parczany-Hartmann A, Ghalyanchi Langroudi A, Moradi M, Ahmeti S, Günther S, Schmidt-Chanasit J: Early serodiagnosis of acute human Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus infections by novel capture assays. J Clin Virol 48 (2010) 294-295.

Schmidt-Chanasit J, Essbauer S, Petraityte R, Yoshimatsu K, Tackmann K, Conraths FJ, Sasnauskas K, Arikawa J, Thomas A, Pfeffer M, Scharninghausen JJ, Splettstoesser W, Wenk M, Heckel G, Ulrich RG: Extensive host sharing of Central European Tula virus. J Virol 84 (2010) 459-474.

Schmidt J, Meisel H, Hjelle B, Krüger DH, Ulrich R: Development and evaluation of serological assays for detection of human hantavirus infections caused by Sin Nombre virus. J Clin Virol 33 (2005) 247-253.

Schmidt J, Meisel H, Capria SG, Petraityte R, Lundkvist Å, Hjelle B, Vial PA, Padula P, Krüger DH, Ulrich R: Serological assays for the detection of human Andes hantavirus infections based on its yeast-expressed nucleocapsid protein. Intervirology 49 (2006) 173-184.

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