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Michael Kabesch is affiliated with St. Hedwig-Krankenhaus in Germany and has an extensive research portfolio focused primarily on medicine with a specialization in infectious diseases, physiology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, epidemiology, and general health professions.

Their recent work includes a range of topics within health sciences, notably asthma and respiratory diseases, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, respiratory viral infections research, pediatric health and respiratory diseases, SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing, child and adolescent health, and IL-33, ST2, and ILC pathways.

Among their notable recent papers are the following:

  • Maturation of the gut microbiome during the first year of life contributes to the protective farm effect on childhood asthma, 2020, Nature Medicine
  • Performance evaluation of the Roche Elecsys Anti-SARS-CoV-2 S immunoassay, 2021, Journal of Virological Methods
  • Recent findings in the genetics and epigenetics of asthma and allergy, 2020, Seminars in Immunopathology
  • Association of neuronal injury blood marker neurofilament light chain with mild-to-moderate COVID-19, 2020, Journal of Neurology
  • Parents' intention to get vaccinated and to have their child vaccinated against COVID-19: cross-sectional analyses using data from the KUNO-Kids health study, 2021, European Journal of Pediatrics

Michael Kabesch has frequently published in these venues:

  • Pediatric Allergy and Immunology (12 publications)
  • Klinische Pädiatrie (8 publications)
  • Allergy (6 publications)
  • Das Gesundheitswesen (5 publications)
  • Journal of Clinical Virology (4 publications)

The scientist's collaborations include frequent co-authors such as Susanne Brandstetter, Christian Apfelbacher, Michael Melter, Andreas Ambrosch, and Anke H. Maitland-van der Zee.

Best Publications

  • Genetic risk and a primary role for cell-mediated immune mechanisms in multiple sclerosis

    Stephen Sawcer;Garrett Hellenthal;Matti Pirinen;Chris C. A. Spencer

  • Genetic variants regulating ORMDL3 expression contribute to the risk of childhood asthma

    Miriam F. Moffatt;Michael Kabesch;Liming Liang;Anna L. Dixon

  • A cluster of seven tightly linked polymorphisms in the IL-13 gene is associated with total serum IgE levels in three populations of white children

    Penelope E. Graves;Michael Kabesch;Michael Kabesch;Marilyn Halonen;Catharine J. Holberg

  • Multiancestry association study identifies new asthma risk loci that colocalize with immune-cell enhancer marks

    Florence Demenais;Florence Demenais;Patricia Margaritte-Jeannin;Patricia Margaritte-Jeannin;Kathleen C. Barnes;William O.C. Cookson

  • Filaggrin mutations, atopic eczema, hay fever, and asthma in children

    Stephan Weidinger;Maureen O'Sullivan;Thomas Illig;Hansjoerg Baurecht

  • Positional cloning of a novel gene influencing asthma from Chromosome 2q14

    Maxine Allen;Andrea Heinzmann;Emiko Noguchi;Gonçalo Abecasis

  • Combined Analysis of Genome-wide Association Studies for Crohn Disease and Psoriasis Identifies Seven Shared Susceptibility Loci

    David Ellinghaus;Eva Ellinghaus;Rajan P. Nair;Philip E. Stuart

  • Variants of DENND1B Associated with Asthma in Children

    Patrick M. A. Sleiman;James Flory;Marcin Imielinski;Jonathan P. Bradfield

  • IL-4/IL-13 Pathway Genetics Strongly Influence Serum IgE Levels and Childhood Asthma

    Michael Kabesch;Michaela Schedel;David Carr;Bernd Woitsch

  • Genome-wide scan on total serum IgE levels identifies FCER1A as novel susceptibility locus.

    Stephan Weidinger;Christian Gieger;Elke Rodriguez;Hansjörg Baurecht

  • Maturation of the gut microbiome during the first year of life contributes to the protective farm effect on childhood asthma.

    Martin Depner;Diana Hazard Taft;Pirkka V. Kirjavainen;Pirkka V. Kirjavainen

  • NOD1 variation, immunoglobulin E and asthma

    Pirro Hysi;Michael Kabesch;Miriam F. Moffatt;Michaela Schedel

  • Glutathione S transferase deficiency and passive smoking increase childhood asthma

    M Kabesch;C Hoefler;D Carr;W Leupold

  • A genome-wide association study of atopic dermatitis identifies loci with overlapping effects on asthma and psoriasis

    Stephan Weidinger;Saffron A.G. Willis-Owen;Yoichiro Kamatani;Hansjörg Baurecht

  • Identification of Der p 23, a Peritrophin-like Protein, as a New Major Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus Allergen Associated with the Peritrophic Matrix of Mite Fecal Pellets

    Margit Weghofer;Monika Grote;Yvonne Resch;Anne Casset

  • Association between polymorphisms in caspase recruitment domain containing protein 15 and allergy in two German populations.

    Michael Kabesch;Wilfried Peters;David Carr;Wolfgang Leupold

  • Increased regulatory T-cell numbers are associated with farm milk exposure and lower atopic sensitization and asthma in childhood

    Anna Lluis;Martin Depner;Beatrice Gaugler;Philippe Saas

  • Clinical and epidemiologic phenotypes of childhood asthma.

    Martin Depner;Oliver Fuchs;Jon Genuneit;Anne M. Karvonen

  • Atopic dermatitis is associated with an increased risk for rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease, and a decreased risk for type 1 diabetes

    Jochen Schmitt;Kristin Schwarz;Hansjörg Baurecht;Melanie Hotze

  • A genome-wide association study on African-ancestry populations for asthma.

    Rasika A. Mathias;Audrey V. Grant;Nicholas Rafaels;Tracey Hand

  • Multiancestry association study identifies new asthma risk loci that colocalize with immune-cell enhancer marks

    Florence Demenais;Patricia Margaritte-Jeannin;Kathleen C. Barnes;William O. C. Cookson

Frequent Co-Authors

Erika von Mutius
Erika von Mutius Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Jon Genuneit
Jon Genuneit Leipzig University
Thomas Illig
Thomas Illig Hannover Medical School
Erik Melén
Erik Melén Karolinska Institute
Charlotte Braun-Fahrländer
Charlotte Braun-Fahrländer University of Basel
Juha Pekkanen
Juha Pekkanen University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Roger Lauener
Roger Lauener Children's Hospital of Eastern Switzerland St. Gallen
Andre Franke
Andre Franke Kiel University
Stephan Weidinger
Stephan Weidinger Kiel University
Stephan K. Weiland
Stephan K. Weiland University of Ulm

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