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54
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10667
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Klaus Überla publication distribution in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Microbiology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Klaus Überla sits on this spectrum.

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55 publications 679+

This scientist: 231 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 679 publications or more.

Klaus Überla D-index placement in Microbiology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Microbiology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Klaus Überla sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 127+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 127 D-Index or more.

Overview

Klaus Überla is affiliated with the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. Their research primarily falls within the field of Medicine, with a focus on Infectious Diseases, Immunology, and Molecular Biology. They have contributed significantly to understanding SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 as well as related areas such as vaccine coverage and hesitancy, HIV research and treatment, and immunotherapy and immune responses.

Their main research topics include:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • HIV Research and Treatment
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses

Klaus Überla's work has been published extensively in various scientific venues. The most frequent venues in which they publish are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • Viruses
  • Nature Communications
  • Vaccines

Some of their recent notable papers include:

  • "Targeting zonulin and intestinal epithelial barrier function to prevent onset of arthritis," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Three exposures to the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 by either infection or vaccination elicit superior neutralizing immunity to all variants of concern," 2022, Nature Medicine
  • "Class switch toward noninflammatory, spike-specific IgG4 antibodies after repeated SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination," 2022, Science Immunology
  • "Protective mucosal immunity against SARS-CoV-2 after heterologous systemic prime-mucosal boost immunization," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Heterologous prime-boost vaccination with ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 and BNT162b2," 2021, The Lancet Infectious Diseases

They have collaborated with other researchers frequently, including:

  • Philipp Steininger
  • Matthias Tenbusch
  • Antonia Sophia Peter
  • Armin Ensser
  • Ulrike Protzer

Their work spans a range of subfields, with a dominant focus on Infectious Diseases, followed by Immunology, Molecular Biology, Health, and Virology. Their publications often address the interplay between immune responses and infectious disease mechanisms, particularly related to viral pathogens like SARS-CoV-2 and HIV.

Best Publications

  • Three exposures to the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 by either infection or vaccination elicit superior neutralizing immunity to all variants of concern

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  • Targeting zonulin and intestinal epithelial barrier function to prevent onset of arthritis

    Narges Tajik;Michael Frech;Oscar Schulz;Fabian Schälter

  • Croup is associated with the novel coronavirus NL63.

    Lia van der Hoek;Klaus Sure;Gabriele Ihorst;Alexander Stang

  • Class switch towards non-inflammatory, spike-specific IgG4 antibodies after repeated SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination

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  • Evaluation of pepper mild mottle virus, human picobirnavirus and Torque teno virus as indicators of fecal contamination in river water

    Ibrahim Ahmed Hamza;Lars Jurzik;Klaus Überla;Michael Wilhelm

  • S Protein of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Associated Coronavirus Mediates Entry into Hepatoma Cell Lines and Is Targeted by Neutralizing Antibodies in Infected Patients

    Heike Hofmann;Kim Hattermann;Andrea Marzi;Thomas Gramberg

  • The efficacy of DNA vaccination is enhanced in mice by targeting the encoded protein to dendritic cells

    Godwin Nchinda;Janelle Kuroiwa;Margarita Oks;Christine Trumpfheller

  • Detection of human viruses in rivers of a densly-populated area in Germany using a virus adsorption elution method optimized for PCR analyses.

    Ibrahim Ahmed Hamza;Lars Jurzik;Alexander Stang;Klaus Sure

  • Synthetic Double-Stranded RNAs Are Adjuvants for the Induction of T Helper 1 and Humoral Immune Responses to Human Papillomavirus in Rhesus Macaques

    Christiane Stahl-Hennig;Martin Eisenblätter;Edith Jasny;Tamara Rzehak

  • Rev-independent expression of synthetic gag-pol genes of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 and simian immunodeficiency virus : Implications for the safety of lentiviral vectors

    Ralf Wagner;Marcus Graf;Kurt Bieler;Hans Wolf

  • Exosomal vaccines containing the S protein of the SARS coronavirus induce high levels of neutralizing antibodies.

    Seraphin Kuate;Jindrich Cinatl;Hans Wilhelm Doerr;Klaus Überla

  • Protective mucosal immunity against SARS-CoV-2 after heterologous systemic prime-mucosal boost immunization.

    Dennis Lapuente;Jana Fuchs;Jonas Willar;Ana Vieira Antão

  • Animal model for the therapy of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome with reverse transcriptase inhibitors.

    K Uberla;C Stahl-Hennig;D Böttiger;K Mätz-Rensing

  • A Pathogenic Threshold of Virus Load Defined in Simian Immunodeficiency Virus- or Simian-Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Macaques

    Peter Ten Haaft;Babs Verstrepen;Klaus Überla;Brigitte Rosenwirth

  • Replication Properties of Human Adenovirus In Vivo and in Cultures of Primary Cells from Different Animal Species

    Christian Jogler;Dennis Hoffmann;Dirk Theegarten;Thomas Grunwald

  • Methods to detect infectious human enteric viruses in environmental water samples

    Ibrahim Ahmed Hamza;Lars Jurzik;Klaus Überla;Michael Wilhelm

  • Development of a self-inactivating, minimal lentivirus vector based on simian immunodeficiency virus.

    Tanja Schnell;Paul Foley;Melanie Wirth;Jan Munch

  • Inhibition of early steps in the lentiviral replication cycle by cathelicidin host defense peptides.

    Lars Steinstraesser;Bettina Tippler;Janine Mertens;Evert Lamme

  • Immunogenicity and efficacy of codon optimized DNA vaccines encoding the F-protein of respiratory syncytial virus.

    Nicola Ternette;Bettina Tippler;Klaus Überla;Thomas Grunwald

  • Rev Proteins of Human and Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Enhance RNA Encapsidation

    Sabine Brandt;Maik Blißenbach;Bastian Grewe;Rebecca Konietzny

  • Nuclear RNA Export and Packaging Functions of HIV-1 Rev Revisited

    Maik Blissenbach;Bastian Grewe;Bianca Hoffmann;Sabine Brandt

  • Heterologous prime-boost vaccination with ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 and BNT162b2.

    Matthias Tenbusch;Sofie Schumacher;Emanuel Vogel;Alina Priller

  • Simian immunodeficiency virus variants with differential T-cell and macrophage tropism use CCR5 and an unidentified cofactor expressed in CEMx174 cells for efficient entry.

    F Kirchhoff;S Pöhlmann;M Hamacher;R E Means

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Racz
Paul Racz Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine
Ralph M. Steinman
Ralph M. Steinman Rockefeller University
Klara Tenner-Racz
Klara Tenner-Racz Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine
Ralf Wagner
Ralf Wagner University of Regensburg
Jonathan L. Heeney
Jonathan L. Heeney University of Cambridge
Peter Proksch
Peter Proksch Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Ulf Dittmer
Ulf Dittmer University of Duisburg-Essen
Benjamin Frey
Benjamin Frey University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Bernhard Fleckenstein
Bernhard Fleckenstein University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Ben Berkhout
Ben Berkhout University of Amsterdam

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