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Overview

Boris Klempa is affiliated with the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Slovakia. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a particular emphasis on infectious diseases, public health, molecular biology, parasitology, and animal science and zoology.

Key areas of study in Klempa's work include:

  • Infectious Diseases
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Molecular Biology
  • Parasitology
  • Animal Science and Zoology

The scientist's research covers several main topics, such as viral infections and vectors, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing, mosquito-borne diseases and control, viral infections and outbreaks research, COVID-19 clinical research studies, and vector-borne infectious diseases.

  • Viral Infections and Vectors
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Vector-borne infectious diseases

Boris Klempa has published extensively in several scientific venues. Frequent publication venues associated with their work include:

  • Viruses
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of General Virology
  • Acta Virologica
  • Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Collaborations with other researchers are also a notable aspect of their career. Frequent co-authors are:

  • Monika Slavíková
  • Kristína Boršová
  • Martina Ličková
  • Broňa Brejová
  • Tomáš Vinař

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Boris Klempa include:

  • "2022 taxonomic update of phylum Negarnaviricota (Riboviria: Orthornavirae), including the large orders Bunyavirales and Mononegavirales" (2022), published in Archives of Virology
  • "Dermacentor reticulatus is a vector of tick-borne encephalitis virus" (2020), published in Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases
  • "Annual (2023) taxonomic update of RNA-directed RNA polymerase-encoding negative-sense RNA viruses (realm Riboviria: kingdom Orthornavirae: phylum Negarnaviricota)" (2023), published in Journal of General Virology
  • "Alimentary Infections by Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus" (2021), published in Viruses
  • "Loop-mediated isothermal amplification for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 in saliva" (2021), published in Microbial Biotechnology

Best Publications

  • Hantavirus in African wood mouse, Guinea.

    Boris Klempa;Elisabeth Fichet-Calvet;Emilie Lecompte;Brita Auste

  • Taxonomy of the order Bunyavirales : update 2019

    Abulikemu Abudurexiti;Scott Adkins;Daniela Alioto;Sergey V. Alkhovsky

  • 2020 taxonomic update for phylum Negarnaviricota (Riboviria: Orthornavirae), including the large orders Bunyavirales and Mononegavirales

    Jens H. Kuhn;Scott Adkins;Daniela Alioto;Sergey V. Alkhovsky

  • Human pathogenic hantaviruses and prevention of infection

    Detlev H. Krüger;Günther Schönrich;Boris Klempa

  • Hantaviruses—Globally emerging pathogens

    Detlev H. Kruger;Luiz Tadeu Moraes Figueiredo;Jin Won Song;Boris Klempa

  • Novel hantavirus sequences in Shrew, Guinea.

    Boris Klempa;Elisabeth Fichet-Calvet;Emilie Lecompte;Brita Auste

  • Hantavirus in bat, Sierra Leone.

    Sabrina Weiss;Peter T. Witkowski;Brita Auste;Kathrin Nowak

  • Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome Caused by 2 Lineages of Dobrava Hantavirus, Russia

    Boris Klempa;Evgeniy A. Tkachenko;Tamara K. Dzagurova;Yulia V. Yunicheva

  • A five-year perspective on the situation of haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and status of the hantavirus reservoirs in Europe, 2005-2010.

    P Heyman;C S Ceianu;I Christova;N Tordo

  • Complex evolution and epidemiology of Dobrava-Belgrade hantavirus: definition of genotypes and their characteristics.

    Boris Klempa;Tatjana Avsic-Zupanc;Jan Clement;Tamara K. Dzagurova

  • Hantaviruses and climate change

    Boris Klempa

  • Occurrence of Renal and Pulmonary Syndrome in a Region of Northeast Germany Where Tula Hantavirus Circulates

    Boris Klempa;Helga Meisel;Silvana Räth;Jan Bartel

  • Taxonomy of the order Bunyavirales: second update 2018

    Piet Maes;Scott Adkins;Sergey V. Alkhovsky;Tatjana Avšič-Županc

  • Detection and Typing of Human Pathogenic Hantaviruses by Real-Time Reverse Transcription-PCR and Pyrosequencing

    Marit Kramski;Helga Meisel;Boris Klempa;Boris Klempa;Detlev H. Krüger

  • Recurrent high level parvovirus B19/genotype 2 viremia in a renal transplant recipient analyzed by real-time PCR for simultaneous detection of genotypes 1 to 3.

    Lutz Liefeldt;Annelie Plentz;Boris Klempa;Olivia Kershaw

  • Hantaviridae: Current Classification and Future Perspectives

    Lies Laenen;Lies Laenen;Valentijn Vergote;Charles H. Calisher;Boris Klempa

  • Genetic Interaction between Distinct Dobrava Hantavirus Subtypes in Apodemus agrarius and A. flavicollis in Nature

    Boris Klempa;Heiko A. Schmidt;Rainer Ulrich;Stefan Kaluz

  • 2022 taxonomic update of phylum Negarnaviricota (Riboviria: Orthornavirae), including the large orders Bunyavirales and Mononegavirales

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  • Counterattacking the tick bite: Towards a rational design of anti-tick vaccines targeting pathogen transmission

    Ryan O. M. Rego;Jos J. A. Trentelman;Juan Anguita;Ard M. Nijhof

  • A proposal for new criteria for the classification of hantaviruses, based on S and M segment protein sequences.

    Piet Maes;Boris Klempa;Boris Klempa;Jan Clement;Jelle Matthijnssens

  • Serological Evidence of Human Hantavirus Infections in Guinea, West Africa

    Boris Klempa;Boris Klempa;Lamine Koivogui;Oumar Sylla;Kekoura Koulemou

  • Central European Dobrava Hantavirus isolate from a striped field mouse (Apodemus agrarius).

    Boris Klempa;Michal Stanko;Milan Labuda;Rainer Ulrich

Frequent Co-Authors

Detlev H. Krüger
Detlev H. Krüger Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Rainer G. Ulrich
Rainer G. Ulrich Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Helga Meisel
Helga Meisel Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Martin H. Groschup
Martin H. Groschup Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit
Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit Universität Hamburg
Rémi N. Charrel
Rémi N. Charrel Aix-Marseille University
Christian Drosten
Christian Drosten Charité - University Medicine Berlin
José de la Fuente
José de la Fuente University of Castilla-La Mancha
Piet Maes
Piet Maes KU Leuven
Stephan Günther
Stephan Günther Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine

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