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Franz Allerberger

Franz Allerberger

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Microbiology

D-Index
64
Citations
14770
World Ranking
2611
National Ranking
13

Overview

Franz Allerberger is affiliated with the University of Innsbruck in Austria. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a total of 82 and 61 publications respectively. Within these broad fields, they focus on subfields such as Infectious Diseases, Endocrinology, Food Science, Epidemiology, and Molecular Biology.

The main topics of research conducted by Allerberger include SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing, antibiotic resistance in bacteria, pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts, COVID-19 clinical research studies, biosensors and analytical detection, as well as Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology.

Frequent publication venues for Allerberger's work include Microbiology Resource Announcements and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), each with seven publications, Clinical Microbiology and Infection with five, Nature Communications and the International Journal of Molecular Sciences with four publications each.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Allerberger are:

  • European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases: 2021 update on the treatment guidance document for Clostridioides difficile infection in adults, 2021, Clinical Microbiology and Infection
  • Genomic epidemiology of superspreading events in Austria reveals mutational dynamics and transmission properties of SARS-CoV-2, 2020, Science Translational Medicine
  • Genomic analysis of sewage from 101 countries reveals global landscape of antimicrobial resistance, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Viral variant-resolved wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 at national scale, 2022, Nature Biotechnology
  • SARS-CoV-2 mutations in MHC-I-restricted epitopes evade CD8 + T cell responses, 2021, Science Immunology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Allerberger include Werner Ruppitsch, Adriana Cabal Rosel, Anna Stöger, Andreas Bergthaler, and Thomas Penz. The collaboration counts range from 9 to 31 publications with these colleagues.

Best Publications

  • Listeriosis: a resurgent foodborne infection.

    F. Allerberger;M. Wagner

  • European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases: 2021 update on the treatment guidance document for Clostridioides difficile infection in adults.

    J. van Prehn;E. Reigadas;E.H. Vogelzang;E. Bouza

  • Clinical Course and the Role of Shiga Toxin–Producing Escherichia coli Infection in the Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome in Pediatric Patients, 1997–2000, in Germany and Austria: A Prospective Study

    Angela Gerber;Helge Karch;Franz Allerberger;Hege M. Verweyen

  • Update of Clostridium difficile infection due to PCR ribotype 027 in Europe, 2008.

    E J Kuijper;F Barbut;J S Brazier;N Kleinkauf

  • Listeria rocourtiae sp. nov.

    Alexandre Leclercq;Dominique Clermont;Chantal Bizet;Patrick A. D. Grimont

  • Defining and Evaluating a Core Genome Multilocus Sequence Typing Scheme for Whole-Genome Sequence-Based Typing of Listeria monocytogenes

    Werner Ruppitsch;Ariane Pietzka;Karola Prior;Stefan Bletz

  • Genomic analysis of sewage from 101 countries reveals global landscape of antimicrobial resistance

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  • Livestock-associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Humans, Europe

    Brigitte A G L van Cleef;Dominique Louis Monnet;Andreas Voss;Karina K. Krziwanek

  • Viral variant-resolved wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 at national scale.

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  • Characterization of Clostridium difficile isolates using capillary gel electrophoresis-based PCR ribotyping.

    A. Indra;S. Huhulescu;M. Schneeweis;P. Hasenberger

  • Spectrum of enteropathogens detected by the FilmArray GI Panel in a multicentre study of community-acquired gastroenteritis

    A. Spina;K.G. Kerr;M. Cormican;F. Barbut

  • Genomic epidemiology of superspreading events in Austria reveals mutational dynamics and transmission properties of SARS-CoV-2.

    Alexandra Popa;Jakob-Wendelin Genger;Michael D. Nicholson;Thomas Penz

  • Update of Clostridium difficile-associated disease due to PCR ribotype 027 in Europe.

    E J Kuijper;B Coignard;J S Brazier;C Suetens

  • Strain-specific differences in the amount of Shiga toxin released from enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157 following exposure to subinhibitory concentrations of antimicrobial agents.

    K. Grif;M. P. Dierich;H. Karch;F. Allerberger

  • Strategies to enhance rational use of antibiotics in hospital: a guideline by the German Society for Infectious Diseases

    F. Allerberger;S. Amann;P. Apfalter

  • Listeria: growth, phenotypic differentiation and molecular microbiology

    Franz Allerberger

  • SARS-CoV-2 mutations in MHC-I-restricted epitopes evade CD8 + T cell responses.

    Benedikt Agerer;Maximilian Koblischke;Venugopal Gudipati;Luis Fernando Montaño-Gutierrez

  • In vitro activity of fosfomycin in combination with various antistaphylococcal substances

    Katharina Grif;Manfred P. Dierich;Kristian Pfaller;Pier A. Miglioli

  • Update: Multinational listeriosis outbreak due to ‘Quargel’, a sour milk curd cheese, caused by two different L. monocytogenes serotype 1/2a strains, 2009-2010

    Rainer Fretz;J. Pichler;U. Sagel;P. Much

  • Changing bacterial ecology during a five year period of selective intestinal decontamination

    W. Lingnau;J. Berger;F. Javorsky;M. Fille

  • Whole genome sequencing as a tool to investigate a cluster of seven cases of listeriosis in Austria and Germany, 2011-2013.

    D. Schmid;F. Allerberger;S. Huhulescu;A. Pietzka

  • Emerging linezolid-resistant Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium isolated from two Austrian patients in the same intensive care unit.

    A P Johnson;L Tysall;M V Stockdale;N Woodford

Frequent Co-Authors

Helge Karch
Helge Karch University of Münster
Norbert Nowotny
Norbert Nowotny University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Martin Wagner
Martin Wagner University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Stephan W. Aberle
Stephan W. Aberle Medical University of Vienna
Robert Krause
Robert Krause Medical University of Graz
Manfred P. Dierich
Manfred P. Dierich Innsbruck Medical University
Christoph Bock
Christoph Bock Austrian Academy of Sciences
Rita Prager
Rita Prager Robert Koch Institute
Lothar Beutin
Lothar Beutin Federal Institute for Risk Assessment

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