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Franz-Rainer Matuschka

Franz-Rainer Matuschka

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Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
34
Citations
4743
World Ranking
1851
National Ranking
64

Overview

Franz-Rainer Matuschka is affiliated with the University of Potsdam in Germany. Their research spans several interconnected fields within the life sciences, with a focus on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Environmental Science.

Their work contributes notably to subfields such as Ecology, Insect Science, Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology, and Genetics. These areas reflect a broad engagement with both organismal and molecular aspects of biology.

Matuschka's research topics include Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Insect and Pesticide Research, Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus, Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing, Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology, Pesticide Exposure and Toxicity, and Vector-borne infectious diseases. These topics emphasize their involvement in understanding interactions between animals, pathogens, and the effects of pesticides in ecological and biomedical contexts.

The scientist has published in journals including Toxins, the Journal of Pest Science, and the European Journal of Wildlife Research. Their recent papers are:

  • Molecular Epidemiology of Methicillin-Susceptible and Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Wild, Captive and Laboratory Rats: Effect of Habitat on the Nasal S. aureus Population (2020, Toxins)
  • The stop-feed effect of cholecalciferol (vitamin D3) and the efficacy of brodifacoum combined with cholecalciferol in Y139C-resistant Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) (2023, Journal of Pest Science)
  • Differential reservoir competence of forest dormice (Dryomys nitedula) for various Lyme disease spirochetes (2025, European Journal of Wildlife Research)

Frequent collaborators include Jens Jacob, Bernd Walther, D. Richter, Dina Raafat, and Daniel M. Mrochen. These partnerships reflect cooperative research efforts primarily within the domains of pest science, infectious disease, and molecular epidemiology.

Best Publications

  • Delineation of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato species by multilocus sequence analysis and confirmation of the delineation of Borrelia spielmanii sp. nov.

    Dania Richter;Danièle Postic;Natacha Sertour;Ian Livey

  • Relationships of a Novel Lyme Disease Spirochete, Borrelia spielmani sp. nov., with Its Hosts in Central Europe

    Dania Richter;Daniela B. Schlee;Rainer Allgöwer;Franz-Rainer Matuschka

  • Competence of American robins as reservoir hosts for Lyme disease spirochetes.

    Dania Richter;Andrew Spielman;Nicholas Komar;Franz-Rainer Matuschka

  • Relapsing Fever-Like Spirochetes Infecting European Vector Tick of Lyme Disease Agent

    Dania Richter;Daniela B. Schlee;Franz-Rainer Matuschka

  • Perpetuation of the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia lusitaniae by lizards.

    Dania Richter;Franz-Rainer Matuschka

  • Absence of Lyme disease spirochetes in larval Ixodes ricinus ticks.

    Dania Richter;Alina Debski;Zdenek Hubalek;Franz-Rainer Matuschka

  • Mating strategies and spermiogenesis in ixodid ticks

    Anthony E. Kiszewski;Franz-Rainer Matuschka;Andrew Spielman

  • Hosts on which nymphal Ixodes ricinus most abundantly feed.

    Franz-Rainer Matuschka;Peter Fischer;Karl Musgrave;Dania Richter

  • Identification of Novel Rodent Herpesviruses, Including the First Gammaherpesvirus of Mus musculus

    Bernhard Ehlers;Judit Küchler;Nezlisah Yasmum;Güzin Dural

  • Diversionary role of hoofed game in the transmission of Lyme disease spirochetes.

    Franz-Rainer Matuschka;Mirjam Heiler;Helmut Eiffert;Peter Fischer

  • Nondifferentiation between Lyme Disease Spirochetes from Vector Ticks and Human Cerebrospinal Fluid

    Helmut Eiffert;reas Ohlenbusch;Hans-Jürgen Christen;Reiner Thomssen

  • “Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis”, Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Lyme disease spirochetes in questing European vector ticks and in feeding ticks removed from people

    Dania Richter;Franz-Rainer Matuschka

  • Prevalence of Bartonella henselae and Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato DNA in ixodes ricinus ticks in Europe.

    Florian Dietrich;Thomas Schmidgen;Thomas Schmidgen;Ricardo G. Maggi;Dania Richter

  • Besnoitia besnoiti : Studies on the definitive host and experimental infections in cattle

    L. Diesing;A.O. Heydorn;F.R. Matuschka;C. Bauer

  • Co-feeding transmission and its contribution to the perpetuation of the lyme disease spirochete Borrelia afzelii.

    Dania Richter;Rainer Allgöwer;Franz-Rainer Matuschka

  • Etiology of the acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans lesion in Lyme disease.

    Andreas Ohlenbusch;Franz-Rainer Matuschka;Dania Richter;Hans-Jürgen Christen

  • Adaptation of Diverse Lyme Disease Spirochetes in a Natural Rodent Reservoir Host

    Dania Richter;Birte Klug;Andrew Spielman;Franz-Rainer Matuschka

  • Vaccination against Lyme disease caused by diverse Borrelia burgdorferi.

    Erol Fikrig;Sam R. Telford;Reinhard Wallich;Manchuan Chen

  • Reservoir Competence of Various Rodents for the Lyme Disease Spirochete Borrelia spielmanii

    Dania Richter;Daniela B. Schlee;Franz-Rainer Matuschka

  • Loss of Lyme disease spirochetes from Ixodes ricinus ticks feeding on European blackbirds.

    Franz-Rainer Matuschka;Andrew Spielman

  • Subadult Ixodes ricinus (Acari: Ixodidae) on rodents in Berlin, West Germany.

    Franz-Rainer Matuschka;Franz-Rainer Matuschka;Robert Lange;Andrew Spielman;Dania Richter;Dania Richter

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Spielman
Andrew Spielman Harvard University
Bernhard Ehlers
Bernhard Ehlers Robert Koch Institute
Rainer G. Ulrich
Rainer G. Ulrich Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Peter F. Zipfel
Peter F. Zipfel Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Peter Kraiczy
Peter Kraiczy Goethe University Frankfurt
Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit
Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit Universität Hamburg
Reinhard Wallich
Reinhard Wallich Heidelberg University
Jürgen Krücken
Jürgen Krücken Freie Universität Berlin
Georg von Samson-Himmelstjerna
Georg von Samson-Himmelstjerna Freie Universität Berlin
Gereon Schares
Gereon Schares Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut

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