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114

Overview

Detlev H. Krüger is affiliated with Charité - University Medicine Berlin in Germany and works primarily within the field of Medicine, focusing extensively on Infectious Diseases.

The scientist's research addresses topics such as:

  • Viral Infections and Vectors
  • Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Microbial infections and disease research

Frequent co-authors associated with their work include:

  • Jörg Hofmann
  • Sabrina Weiß
  • Rainer G. Ulrich
  • Andreas Herrmann
  • Roland Schwarzer

Research outputs have been published in several venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • Viruses
  • Emerging infectious diseases
  • DMW - Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift
  • Virus Genes
  • Journal of Virology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Detlev H. Krüger include:

  • Approaches to optimize therapeutic bacteriophage and bacteriophage-derived products to combat bacterial infections, 2020, Virus Genes
  • Tula Virus as Causative Agent of Hantavirus Disease in Immunocompetent Person, Germany, 2021, Emerging infectious diseases
  • Macropinocytosis and Clathrin-Dependent Endocytosis Play Pivotal Roles for the Infectious Entry of Puumala Virus, 2020, Journal of Virology
  • Replication in the Mononuclear Phagocyte System (MPS) as a Determinant of Hantavirus Pathogenicity, 2020, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
  • Meeting report: Eleventh International Conference on Hantaviruses, 2020, Antiviral Research

Best Publications

  • A nomenclature for restriction enzymes, DNA methyltransferases, homing endonucleases and their genes

    Richard J. Roberts;Marlene Belfort;Timothy Bestor;Ashok S. Bhagwat

  • Biology of DNA restriction.

    T A Bickle;D H Krüger

  • Bats host major mammalian paramyxoviruses

    Jan Felix Drexler;Victor Max Corman;Marcel Alexander Müller;Gael Darren Maganga

  • A novel method for efficient amplification of whole hepatitis B virus genomes permits rapid functional analysis and reveals deletion mutants in immunosuppressed patients.

    S. Gunther;Bi-Chen Li;S. Miska;D. H. Kruger

  • Hantavirus in African wood mouse, Guinea.

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

  • Gene expression analysis of plant host-pathogen interactions by SuperSAGE

    Hideo Matsumura;Stefanie Reich;Akiko Ito;Hiromasa Saitoh

  • Cytomegalovirus reactivation and tumour necrosis factor

    W.D. Döcke;E. Fietze;U. Syrbe;R. von Baehr

  • Bacteriophage survival: multiple mechanisms for avoiding the deoxyribonucleic acid restriction systems of their hosts.

    D H Krüger;T A Bickle

  • Cytomegalovirus infection in transplant recipients. The role of tumor necrosis factor.

    E Fietze;S Prösch;P Reinke;J Stein

  • Hantavirus infections and their prevention

    Detlev H. Krüger;Rainer Ulrich;Åke Lundkvist;Åke Lundkvist

  • CORE PARTICLES OF HEPATITIS B VIRUS AS CARRIER FOR FOREIGN EPITOPES

    Rainer Ulrich;Michael Nassal;Helga Meisel;Detlev H. Krüger

  • Stimulation of the Human Cytomegalovirus IE Enhancer/Promoter in HL-60 Cells by TNFα Is Mediated via Induction of NF-κB

    Susanna Prösch;Kerstin Staak;Joachim Stein;Christa Liebenthal

  • Serum hepatitis B virus RNA levels as an early predictor of hepatitis B envelope antigen seroconversion during treatment with polymerase inhibitors.

    Florian van Bömmel;Anne Bartens;Alena Mysickova;Jörg Hofmann

  • Liver transplant from a donor with occult HEV infection induced chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis in the recipient.

    B. Schlosser;A. Stein;R. Neuhaus;S. Pahl

  • Evidence for novel hepaciviruses in rodents.

    Jan Felix Drexler;Victor Max Corman;Marcel Alexander Müller;Alexander N. Lukashev

  • β2 integrin mediates hantavirus-induced release of neutrophil extracellular traps

    Martin J. Raftery;Pritesh Lalwani;Ellen Krautkrӓmer;Thorsten Peters

  • Tumour necrosis factor alpha stimulates the activity of the human cytomegalovirus major immediate early enhancer/promoter in immature monocytic cells.

    Joachim Stein;Hans-Dieter Volk;Christa Liebenthal;Detlev H. Krüger

  • Human pathogenic hantaviruses and prevention of infection

    Detlev H. Krüger;Günther Schönrich;Boris Klempa

  • A novel link between stress and human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection: sympathetic hyperactivity stimulates HCMV activation.

    Susanna Prösch;Cornelia E.C. Wendt;Petra Reinke;Christina Priemer

  • Novel hantavirus sequences in Shrew, Guinea.

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

  • Transmission of hepatitis C virus to children and husbands by women infected with contaminated anti-D immunoglobulin.

    H. Meisel;A. Reip;B. Faltus;D.H. Krüger

  • A nomenclature for restriction enzymes, DNA methyl transferases, homing endonucleases and their genes

    RJ Roberts;M Belford;T Bester;AS Bhagwat

  • Corrigendum: Bats host major mammalian paramyxoviruses.

    Jan Felix Drexler;Victor Max Corman;Marcel Alexander Müller;Gael Darren Maganga

Frequent Co-Authors

Boris Klempa
Boris Klempa Slovak Academy of Sciences
Helga Meisel
Helga Meisel Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Rainer G. Ulrich
Rainer G. Ulrich Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Ryohei Terauchi
Ryohei Terauchi Kyoto University
Ake Lundkvist
Ake Lundkvist Uppsala University
Stephan Günther
Stephan Günther Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine
Günter Kahl
Günter Kahl Goethe University Frankfurt
Wolfram H. Gerlich
Wolfram H. Gerlich University of Giessen
Petra Reinke
Petra Reinke Berlin-Brandenburger Centrum für Regenerative Therapien
Hans-Dieter Volk
Hans-Dieter Volk Charité - University Medicine Berlin

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