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Expert en Médecine, Optimisation des Parcours de Soins et Révision Médicale
Validation scientifique effectuée le 06/07/2026
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8 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, German National Reference Centre for Borrelia, Veterinärstr. 2, 85764 Oberschleissheim, Germany. Electronic address: gabriele.margos@lgl.bayern.de.
8 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, German National Reference Centre for Borrelia, Veterinärstr. 2, 85764 Oberschleissheim, Germany.
5 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, German National Reference Centre for Borrelia, Veterinärstr. 2, 85764 Oberschleissheim, Germany.
Publications dans "Borrelia" :
4 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Chair for Bacteriology and Mycology, Institute for Infectious Diseases and Zoonoses, Department of Veterinary Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany. Electronic address: R.Straubinger@lmu.de.
Publications dans "Borrelia" :
4 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Pediatrics, Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
Publications dans "Borrelia" :
4 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Bacterial Diseases Branch, Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, CO, USA. Electronic address: rbg9@cdc.gov.
Publications dans "Borrelia" :
4 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Departamento de Medicina Veterinária Preventiva e Saúde Animal, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. munoz-leal@usp.br.
Publications dans "Borrelia" :
4 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Biology Centre Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Parasitology.
Publications dans "Borrelia" :
4 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Biology Centre Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Parasitology; natasha@paru.cas.cz.
Publications dans "Borrelia" :
4 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Institute of Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
Publications dans "Borrelia" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Bacterial Diseases Branch, Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
Publications dans "Borrelia" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Bacterial Diseases Branch, Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
Publications dans "Borrelia" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, USA.
Publications dans "Borrelia" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
German National Reference Centre for Borrelia, Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Veterinärstr. 2, Oberschleissheim, 85764, Germany. Electronic address: Sabrina.Hepner@lgl.bayern.de.
Publications dans "Borrelia" :
3 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
German National Reference Centre for Borrelia, Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Veterinärstr. 2, Oberschleissheim, 85764, Germany.
Publications dans "Borrelia" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
California Department of Public Health, Sacramento, California, United States of America.
Publications dans "Borrelia" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America.
Publications dans "Borrelia" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States of America.
Publications dans "Borrelia" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, and Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States of America.
Publications dans "Borrelia" :
2 publications dans cette catégorie
Affiliations :
Chair for Bacteriology and Mycology, Institute for Infectious Diseases and Zoonoses, Department of Veterinary Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
Publications dans "Borrelia" :
Borrelia, spirochetes transmitted by ticks, are the etiological agents of numerous multisystemic diseases, such as Lyme borreliosis (LB) and tick-borne relapsing fever (TBRF). This study focuses on tw...
Lyme disease, caused by vector-borne Borrelia bacteria, can present with diverse multi-system symptoms that resemble other conditions. The objective of this study was to evaluate disease presentations...
Bacteriophages of Borrelia burgdorferi are a biologically important but under-investigated feature of the Lyme disease-causing spirochete. No virulent borrelial viruses have been identified, but all B...
Bovine borreliosis, caused by Borrelia theileri which is transmitted via hard tick bites, is associated with mild clinical symptoms, such as fever, lethargy, hemoglobinuria, anorexia, and anemia. Borr...
The tick-borne multisystemic infection caused by...
Relapsing fever (RF) remains a neglected human disease that is caused by a number of diverse pathogenic...
Binding of CihC/FbpC orthologs to different human proteins and conversion of protein-bound plasminogen to proteolytic active plasmin were examined by ELISA. To analyze the inhibitory capacity of CihC/...
Here, we elucidate the binding properties of CihC/FbpC-orthologs from distinct RF spirochetes including...
A Borrelia miyamotoi gene with partial homology to bipA of relapsing fever spirochetes Borrelia hermsii and Borrelia turicatae was identified by a GenBank basic alignment search analysis. We hypothesi...
Emerging and re-emerging pathogens often stem from zoonotic origins, cycling between humans and animals, and are frequently vectored and maintained by hematophagous arthropod vectors. The efficiency b...
In a nationwide, matched cohort study, we aimed to investigate risks of haematologic cancers among individuals tested for Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb) antibodies, and among serum Bb seropositive individu...
We identified all Bb seropositive individuals in Denmark (1993-2020) (n = 52 200) and constructed two age- and sex-matched comparison cohorts: (a) Bb seronegative controls (n = 104 400) and (b) backgr...
Compared with the background population, individuals tested for Bb antibodies had increased short-term (aOR: 12.6, 95% CI: 10.1-15.6) and long-term (aHR: 1.3, 95% CI: 1.2-1.4) risk of haematologic can...
Our results suggest that Bb antibody testing is included in the work-up of unspecific symptoms preceding diagnosis of haematologic cancers. Bb-IgM-and-IgG seropositivity was associated with a two-fold...
Borrelia theileri is a tick-borne spirochete causative agent of fever, apathy and reduced food consumption in cattle. Molecular diagnosis has expanded the understanding of Borrelia theileri with new h...