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Tübingen

Clinical Research Unit for microbiome-host interactions

The Clinical Research Unit (CRU) at Tübingen University Hospital, headed by Christoph Stein-Thoeringer, combines expertise from the fields of clinical medicine, infectious diseases, microbiome research, immunology, basic sciences, and epidemiology. Scientists and physicians collaborate closely to study various aspects of hospital-acquired infections, develop personalized prevention and prediction strategies for severe [...]

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TIARA-IMPACT: Immunological and microbiome-based predictors of postoperative infections

Postoperative infections following major abdominal surgery remain common and difficult to predict. A key reason is the incomplete understanding of how individual differences in the gut microbiome, host immunity, and microbial metabolites shape infection susceptibility. Following completion of patient enrollment in the TIARA cohort study, "TIARA-IMPACT" conducts in-depth analyses of [...]

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