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Overview

Albert Heim is affiliated with Hannover Medical School in Germany and primarily publishes research in the field of Medicine, with a focus on Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, and Genetics. Their work spans subfields including Animal Science and Zoology and Molecular Biology.

Their research covers several main topics, including:

  • Virus-based gene therapy research
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research
  • Herpesvirus infections and treatments
  • Animal virus infections studies
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing

Among recent publications, several address SARS-CoV-2 and related viral studies:

  • Tracking the international spread of SARS-CoV-2 lineages B.1.1.7 and B.1.351/501Y-V2 with grinch (2021), published in Wellcome Open Research
  • Tracking the international spread of SARS-CoV-2 lineages B.1.1.7 and B.1.351/501Y-V2 (2021), published in Wellcome Open Research
  • Posttransplantation MRD monitoring in patients with AML by next-generation sequencing using DTA and non-DTA mutations (2021), published in Blood Advances
  • Rapid random access detection of the novel SARS-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2, previously 2019-nCoV) using an open access protocol for the Panther Fusion (2020), published in Journal of Clinical Virology
  • The Zinc Finger Antiviral Protein ZAP Restricts Human Cytomegalovirus and Selectively Binds and Destabilizes Viral UL4 / UL5 Transcripts (2021), published in mBio

Frequent coauthors featured alongside Albert Heim include:

  • Anne K. Cordes
  • Lars Steinbrück
  • Heiner Wedemeyer
  • Tina Ganzenmueller
  • Thomas F. Schulz

Albert Heim has regularly published in several journal venues, including:

  • Journal of Clinical Virology
  • Journal of Hepatology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Wellcome Open Research
  • Virus Evolution

Best Publications

  • Rapid and quantitative detection of human adenovirus DNA by real-time PCR.

    Albert Heim;Carmen Ebnet;Gabi Harste;Patricia Pring-Åkerblom

  • Measurable residual disease monitoring by NGS before allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation in AML.

    Felicitas Thol;Razif Gabdoulline;Alessandro Liebich;Piroska Klement

  • Evidence of molecular evolution driven by recombination events influencing tropism in a novel human adenovirus that causes epidemic keratoconjunctivitis.

    Michael P. Walsh;Ashish Chintakuntlawar;Christopher M. Robinson;Ijad Madisch

  • Risk groups for clinical complications of norovirus infections: an outbreak investigation.

    F. Mattner;D. Sohr;A. Heim;P. Gastmeier

  • Hepatitis E virus infection as a cause of graft hepatitis in liver transplant recipients

    Sven Pischke;Pothakamuri V. Suneetha;Christine Baechlein;Hannelore Barg-Hock

  • Phylogenetic analysis of the main neutralization and hemagglutination determinants of all human adenovirus prototypes as a basis for molecular classification and taxonomy.

    Ijad Madisch;Gabi Harste;Heidi Pommer;Albert Heim

  • Tracking the international spread of SARS-CoV-2 lineages B.1.1.7 and B.1.351/501Y-V2

    Áine O'Toole;Verity Hill;Oliver G. Pybus;Alexander Watts

  • Evolution of poliovirus type I during 5.5 years of prolonged enteral replication in an immunodeficient patient.

    Andreas Bellmunt;Günter May;Roland Zell;Patricia Pring-Åkerblom

  • Basal Core Promoter and Precore Mutations in the Hepatitis B Virus Genome Enhance Replication Efficacy of Lamivudine-Resistant Mutants

    Frank Tacke;Christina Gehrke;Tom Luedde;Albert Heim

  • Tracking the international spread of SARS-CoV-2 lineages B.1.1.7 and B.1.351/501Y-V2 with grinch.

    Áine O'Toole;Verity Hill;Oliver G. Pybus;Alexander Watts

  • Chronic Hepatitis E in Heart Transplant Recipients

    S. Pischke;P. Stiefel;B. Franz;B. Bremer

  • Molecular Evolution of Human Adenovirus (HAdV) Species C.

    Akshay Dhingra;Elias Hage;Tina Ganzenmueller;Sindy Böttcher

  • Rapid routine detection of enterovirus RNA in cerebrospinal fluid by a one-step real-time RT-PCR assay

    Uta Dierssen;Fabienne Rehren;Cornelia Henke-Gendo;Gabi Harste

  • Prevalence, quantification and typing of adenoviruses detected in river and treated drinking water in South Africa

    J. van Heerden;J. van Heerden;M.M. Ehlers;A. Heim;W.O.K. Grabow

  • Monitoring of Adenovirus Infection in Pediatric Transplant Recipients by Quantitative PCR: Report of Six Cases and Review of the Literature

    Kathrin Seidemann;Albert Heim;Eva D Pfister;Harald Köditz

  • Virus-associated hemophagocytic syndrome as a major contributor to death in patients with 2009 influenza A (H1N1) infection.

    Gernot Beutel;Olaf Wiesner;Matthias Eder;Carsten Hafer

  • Patient, Virus, and Treatment-Related Risk Factors in Pediatric Adenovirus Infection after Stem Cell Transplantation: Results of a Routine Monitoring Program

    Martin Mynarek;Tina Ganzenmueller;Annika Mueller-Heine;Christopher Mielke

  • Attachment of coxsackievirus B3 variants to various cell lines: mapping of phenotypic differences to capsid protein VP1.

    M. Schmidtke;H.-C. Selinka;A. Heim;B. Jahn

  • Posttransplantation MRD monitoring in patients with AML by next-generation sequencing using DTA and non-DTA mutations.

    Michael Heuser;Bennet Heida;Konstantin Büttner;Clara Philine Wienecke

  • Viral Origin, Clinical Course, and Renal Outcomes in Patients With BK Virus Infection After Living-Donor Renal Transplantation.

    Anke Schwarz;Silvia Linnenweber-Held;Albert Heim;Theodor Framke

  • Myocardial enterovirus infection with left ventricular dysfunction: A benign disease compared with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy

    Hans R. Figulla;Michael Stille-Siegener;Gerhard Mall;Albert Heim

  • Adenoviruses and enteroviruses as pathogens in myocarditis and dilated cardiomyopathy.

    I M Grumbach;A Heim;P Pring-Akerblom;S Vonhof

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas F. Schulz
Thomas F. Schulz Hannover Medical School
Michael P. Manns
Michael P. Manns Hannover Medical School
Christian P. Strassburg
Christian P. Strassburg University Hospital Bonn
Christian Trautwein
Christian Trautwein RWTH Aachen University
Heiner Wedemeyer
Heiner Wedemeyer Hannover Medical School
Axel Haverich
Axel Haverich Hannover Medical School
Reinhard Kandolf
Reinhard Kandolf University of Tübingen
Arnold Ganser
Arnold Ganser Hannover Medical School
Frank Tacke
Frank Tacke Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Roland Zell
Roland Zell Friedrich Schiller University Jena

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