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Marc Lütgehetmann is affiliated with the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany. Their research focuses extensively on the field of Medicine, with a primary concentration on Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology, Hepatology, Oncology, and Neurology.

Their work covers several main topics including:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • Hepatitis B Virus Studies
  • Hepatitis Viruses Studies and Epidemiology
  • Hepatitis C virus research
  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19

Marc Lütgehetmann has contributed to multiple high-impact publications in well-known venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie
  • Journal of Hepatology
  • Journal of Clinical Virology
  • Scientific Reports

They have collaborated frequently with several other researchers, including:

  • Martin Aepfelbacher
  • Julian Schulze zur Wiesch
  • Susanne Pfefferle
  • Dominik Nörz
  • Marylyn M. Addo

Among the recent papers associated with their research are:

  • Autopsy Findings and Venous Thromboembolism in Patients With COVID-19, 2020, Annals of Internal Medicine
  • Multiorgan and Renal Tropism of SARS-CoV-2, 2020, New England Journal of Medicine
  • Neuropathology of patients with COVID-19 in Germany: a post-mortem case series, 2020, The Lancet Neurology
  • Dying with SARS-CoV-2 infection-an autopsy study of the first consecutive 80 cases in Hamburg, Germany, 2020, International Journal of Legal Medicine
  • SARS-CoV-2 renal tropism associates with acute kidney injury, 2020, The Lancet

Best Publications

  • Autopsy Findings and Venous Thromboembolism in Patients With COVID-19: A Prospective Cohort Study.

    Dominic Wichmann;Jan-Peter Sperhake;Marc Lütgehetmann;Stefan Steurer

  • Multiorgan and Renal Tropism of SARS-CoV-2.

    Victor G. Puelles;Marc Lütgehetmann;Maja T. Lindenmeyer;Jan P. Sperhake

  • Neuropathology of patients with COVID-19 in Germany: a post-mortem case series.

    Jakob Matschke;Marc Lütgehetmann;Christian Hagel;Jan P Sperhake

  • Peginterferon alpha-2b plus adefovir induce strong cccDNA decline and HBsAg reduction in patients with chronic hepatitis B

    Karsten Wursthorn;Marc Lutgehetmann;Maura Dandri;Tassilo Volz

  • Prevention of hepatitis B virus infection in vivo by entry inhibitors derived from the large envelope protein.

    Joerg Petersen;Maura Dandri;Walter Mier;Marc Lütgehetmann

  • Dying with SARS-CoV-2 infection-an autopsy study of the first consecutive 80 cases in Hamburg, Germany.

    Carolin Edler;Ann Sophie Schröder;Martin Aepfelbacher;Antonia Fitzek

  • The entry inhibitor Myrcludex-B efficiently blocks intrahepatic virus spreading in humanized mice previously infected with hepatitis B virus

    Tassilo Volz;Lena Allweiss;Mounira Ben MBarek;Michael Warlich

  • Evaluation of a quantitative RT-PCR assay for the detection of the emerging coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 using a high throughput system

    Susanne Pfefferle;Svenja Reucher;Dominik Sebastian Nörz;Marc Lütgehetmann

  • SARS-CoV-2 renal tropism associates with acute kidney injury.

    Fabian Braun;Marc Lütgehetmann;Susanne Pfefferle;Milagros N Wong

  • Molecular consequences of SARS-CoV-2 liver tropism

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  • Humanized chimeric uPA mouse model for the study of hepatitis B and D virus interactions and preclinical drug evaluation.

    Marc Lütgehetmann;Lida V. Mancke;Tassilo Volz;Martina Helbig

  • Impaired intrahepatic hepatitis B virus productivity contributes to low viremia in most HBeAg-negative patients.

    Tassilo Volz;Marc Lutgehetmann;Paul Wachtler;Anna Jacob

  • Herpes simplex virus–1 encephalitis can trigger anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis: Case report

    Frank Leypoldt;Maarten J. Titulaer;Esther Aguilar;Janine Walther

  • Proliferation of primary human hepatocytes and prevention of hepatitis B virus reinfection efficiently deplete nuclear cccDNA in vivo.

    Lena Allweiss;Tassilo Volz;Katja Giersch;Janine Kah

  • Serum HBV pgRNA as a clinical marker for cccDNA activity.

    Katja Giersch;Lena Allweiss;Tassilo Volz;Maura Dandri

  • The liver stage of Plasmodium berghei inhibits host cell apoptosis

    Claudia Van De Sand;Sebastian Horstmann;Anja Schmidt;Angelika Sturm

  • Hepatitis B virus limits response of human hepatocytes to interferon-α in chimeric mice.

    Marc Lütgehetmann;Till Bornscheuer;Tassilo Volz;Lena Allweiss

  • Binding of hepatitis B virus to its cellular receptor alters the expression profile of genes of bile acid metabolism

    Nicola Oehler;Tassilo Volz;Oliver D. Bhadra;Janine Kah

  • RGB marking facilitates multicolor clonal cell tracking

    Kristoffer Weber;Michael Thomaschewski;Michael Warlich;Tassilo Volz

  • Entecavir plus tenofovir combination as rescue therapy in pre-treated chronic hepatitis B patients: An international multicenter cohort study

    Jorg Petersen;Vlad Ratziu;Maria Buti;Harry L.A. Janssen

  • Clonal expansion and activation of tissue-resident memory-like Th17 cells expressing GM-CSF in the lungs of severe COVID-19 patients.

    Yu Zhao;Christoph Kilian;Jan-Eric Turner;Lidia Bosurgi;Lidia Bosurgi

  • Clearance of persistent hepatitis C virus infection in humanized mice using a claudin-1-targeting monoclonal antibody

    Laurent Mailly;Laurent Mailly;Fei Xiao;Fei Xiao;Joachim Lupberger;Joachim Lupberger;Garrick K Wilson

  • Human liver chimeric mice as a new model of chronic hepatitis E virus infection and preclinical drug evaluation

    Lena Allweiss;Sofia Gass;Katja Giersch;Anne Groth

Frequent Co-Authors

Maura Dandri
Maura Dandri Universität Hamburg
Ansgar W. Lohse
Ansgar W. Lohse Universität Hamburg
Martin Aepfelbacher
Martin Aepfelbacher Universität Hamburg
Marylyn M. Addo
Marylyn M. Addo Universität Hamburg
Stephan Urban
Stephan Urban University Hospital Heidelberg
Camille Sureau
Camille Sureau Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Antonio Bertoletti
Antonio Bertoletti Duke NUS Graduate Medical School
Holger Rohde
Holger Rohde Universität Hamburg
Christoph Sarrazin
Christoph Sarrazin Goethe University Frankfurt
Adam Grundhoff
Adam Grundhoff Heinrich-Pette-Institute

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