endemic | German Center for Infection Research

Short description

“Endemic” means for example in that a disease is constantly at an elevated level in a particular region or population.

Detailed description

For instance, is endemic in about 100 tropical and subtropical countries.

Will COVID-19 vaccines need to be adapted regularly?

Influenza vaccines need to be evaluated every year to ensure they remain effective against new influenza viruses. Will the same apply to COVID-19 vaccines? In order to gauge whether and to what extent

HEVbnAb: Broadly neutralizing antibodies against the hepatitis E virus

Broadly neutralizing (bnAbs) were isolated from the serum of patients who had survived acute infection with the E virus (HEV). Several of these antibodies recognized the HEV

Dr. Silvia Portugal im Heidelberger Labor

Malaria: Playing hide and seek in the dry season

Joint press release of the DZIF and the Heidelberg University Hospital

Malaria parasites of the species Plasmodium need the Anopheles mosquito to enter the human body. In turn, mosquito larvae need

Mar 2020

Clin Microbiol Rev

Imported Malaria in Countries where Malaria Is Not Endemic: a Comparison of Semi-immune and Nonimmune Travelers

Autoren

Mischlinger J et al.

Infectious Disease Specialist Christian Keller receives the 2020 Memento Research Award

Dr Christian Keller, from Philipps-University Marburg and the German Center for Infection Research, and Dr Anke Osterloh, Research Center Borstel, were awarded this year’s "Memento Award for neglected

Jan 2020

Sci Rep

Author Correction: Placental gene expression and antibody levels of mother-neonate pairs reveal an enhanced risk for inflammation in a helminth endemic country

Autoren

Ludwig E et al.

Nov 2019

Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg

Focused Assessment with Sonography for Urinary Schistosomiasis (FASUS)-pilot evaluation of a simple point-of-care ultrasound protocol and short training program for detecting urinary tract morbidity in highly endemic settings

Autoren

Remppis J et al.

Measles infections erase immunological memory – measles vaccination confers protection

Measles infections are not harmless – they can cause disease courses that may be of fatal outcome. Researchers of the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (PEI) in co-operation with researchers from the UK and the

Mar 2019

Int J Antimicrob

Acinetobacter baumannii analysis by core genome MLST in two hospitals in Bolivia: endemicity of international clone 7 isolates (CC25)

Autoren

Cerezales M et al.

Hamburg - Lübeck - Borstel - Riems

Mosquitoes and mosquito-associated viral infections in Germany

Mosquitoes are transmitters of numerous viruses that are pathogenic to humans. Besides the known local species, new types of mosquitoes have been imported into Germany over the past few years. In order to prepare for the potential formation of colonies of these new types of mosquitoes and the ...