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Overview

Dirk Höper is affiliated with the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with substantial contributions in Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Agronomy and Crop Science, and Animal Science and Zoology.

The scientist's work focuses on topics including Vector-Borne Animal Diseases, Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology, Viral Infections and Vectors, Animal Virus Infections Studies, Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, Virology and Viral Diseases, as well as Mosquito-borne diseases and control.

Several recent papers illustrate their research scope and collaborations. Notable publications include:

  • SARS-CoV-2 in fruit bats, ferrets, pigs, and chickens: an experimental transmission study (2020), published in The Lancet Microbe
  • 2020 taxonomic update for phylum Negarnaviricota (Riboviria: Orthornavirae), including the large orders Bunyavirales and Mononegavirales (2020), published in Archives of Virology
  • Susceptibility of Raccoon Dogs for Experimental SARS-CoV-2 Infection (2020), published in Emerging infectious diseases
  • Zoonotic spillover infections with Borna disease virus 1 leading to fatal human encephalitis, 1999-2019: an epidemiological investigation (2020), published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • West Nile Virus Epidemic in Germany Triggered by Epizootic Emergence, 2019 (2020), published in Viruses

Frequent co-authors include Martin Beer, Claudia Wylezich, Rainer G. Ulrich, Angele Breithaupt, and Martin H. Groschup, highlighting collaborations across multiple studies.

Publication venues where Dirk Höper has frequently contributed include:

  • Viruses
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Emerging infectious diseases
  • Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
  • Virus Evolution

Best Publications

  • Novel orthobunyavirus in Cattle, Europe, 2011.

    Bernd Hoffmann;Matthias Scheuch;Dirk Höper;Ralf Jungblut

  • SARS-CoV-2 in fruit bats, ferrets, pigs, and chickens: an experimental transmission study.

    Kore Schlottau;Melanie Rissmann;Annika Graaf;Jacob Schön

  • A Variegated Squirrel Bornavirus Associated with Fatal Human Encephalitis

    Bernd Hoffmann;Dennis Tappe;Dirk Höper;Christiane Herden

  • 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

  • Extracellular proteins of Staphylococcus aureus and the role of SarA and σB

    Anne-Kathrin Ziebandt;Harald Weber;Jens Rudolph;Roland Schmid

  • Influence of the Two-Component System SaeRS on Global Gene Expression in Two Different Staphylococcus aureus Strains

    Kathrin Rogasch;Vanessa Rühmling;Jan Pané-Farré;Dirk Höper

  • Epizootic emergence of Usutu virus in wild and captive birds in Germany

    Norbert Becker;Hanna Jöst;Hanna Jöst;Ute Ziegler;Martin Eiden

  • Influenza A viruses escape from MxA restriction at the expense of efficient nuclear vRNP import

    Veronika Götz;Linda Magar;Dominik Dornfeld;Sebastian Giese

  • Deletion at the 5'-end of Estonian ASFV strains associated with an attenuated phenotype.

    Laura Zani;Jan Hendrik Forth;Leonie Forth;Imbi Nurmoja

  • Susceptibility of Raccoon Dogs for Experimental SARS-CoV-2 Infection.

    Conrad M Freuling;Angele Breithaupt;Thomas Müller;Julia Sehl

  • Schmallenberg virus as possible ancestor of Shamonda virus.

    Katja V. Goller;Dirk Höper;Horst Schirrmeier;Thomas C. Mettenleiter

  • Comprehensive Characterization of the Contribution of Individual SigB-Dependent General Stress Genes to Stress Resistance of Bacillus subtilis

    Dirk Höper;Uwe Völker;Michael Hecker

  • Comparison of porcine epidemic diarrhea viruses from Germany and the United States, 2014.

    Dennis Hanke;Maria Jenckel;Anja Petrov;Mathias Ritzmann

  • West Nile virus epizootic in Germany, 2018.

    Ute Ziegler;Renke Lühken;Markus Keller;Daniel Cadar

  • Fatal Encephalitic Borna Disease Virus 1 in Solid-Organ Transplant Recipients

    Kore Schlottau;Leonie Forth;Klemens Angstwurm;Dirk Höper

  • Salt stress adaptation of Bacillus subtilis: a physiological proteomics approach.

    Dirk Höper;Jörg Bernhardt;Michael Hecker

  • Identification of ςB-Dependent Genes in Bacillus subtilis Using a Promoter Consensus-Directed Search and Oligonucleotide Hybridization

    Anja Petersohn;Jörg Bernhardt;Ulf Gerth;Dirk Höper

  • A Versatile Sample Processing Workflow for Metagenomic Pathogen Detection.

    Claudia Wylezich;Anna Papa;Martin Beer;Dirk Höper

  • Related strains of African swine fever virus with different virulence: genome comparison and analysis

    Raquel Portugal;João Coelho;Dirk Höper;Nicole S. Little

  • Outbreaks among Wild Birds and Domestic Poultry Caused by Reassorted Influenza A(H5N8) Clade 2.3.4.4 Viruses, Germany, 2016.

    Anne Pohlmann;Elke Starick;Timm Harder;Christian Grund

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Beer
Martin Beer Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Bernd Hoffmann
Bernd Hoffmann Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Thomas C. Mettenleiter
Thomas C. Mettenleiter Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Anne Pohlmann
Anne Pohlmann Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Thomas Müller
Thomas Müller Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Rainer G. Ulrich
Rainer G. Ulrich Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Timm C. Harder
Timm C. Harder Kiel University
Udo Reichl
Udo Reichl Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit
Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit Universität Hamburg
Martin H. Groschup
Martin H. Groschup Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut

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