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Oliver Liesenfeld

Oliver Liesenfeld

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Microbiology

D-Index
65
Citations
12677
World Ranking
2541
National Ranking
1027

Overview

Oliver Liesenfeld is affiliated with Inflammatix in the United States and has made contributions primarily within the field of Medicine. Their work focuses on subfields such as Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, Clinical Biochemistry, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Nephrology.

The main research topics addressed in their publications include Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment, Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing, Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections, COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies, Neonatal and Maternal Infections, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, and Respiratory viral infections research.

Liesenfeld's frequent coauthors include Timothy E. Sweeney, James Wacker, Evangelos J. Giamarellos-Bourboulis, Uros Midic, and Ljubomir Buturović.

The scientist commonly publishes in journals such as Critical Care Medicine, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Personalized Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine Experimental, and Critical Care.

Significant recent papers include:

  • A Novel 29-Messenger RNA Host-Response Assay From Whole Blood Accurately Identifies Bacterial and Viral Infections in Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department With Suspected Infections: A Prospective Observational Study, 2021, Critical Care Medicine
  • A Multi-mRNA Host-Response Molecular Blood Test for the Diagnosis and Prognosis of Acute Infections and Sepsis: Proceedings from a Clinical Advisory Panel, 2020, Journal of Personalized Medicine
  • Validation of Inflammopathic, Adaptive, and Coagulopathic Sepsis Endotypes in Coronavirus Disease 2019, 2020, Critical Care Medicine
  • The Optimization and Biological Significance of a 29-Host-Immune-mRNA Panel for the Diagnosis of Acute Infections and Sepsis, 2021, Journal of Personalized Medicine
  • Prospective validation of a transcriptomic severity classifier among patients with suspected acute infection and sepsis in the emergency department, 2022, European Journal of Emergency Medicine

Best Publications

  • Treatment of Toxoplasmosis: Historical Perspective, Animal Models, and Current Clinical Practice.

    Ildiko Rita Dunay;Kiran Gajurel;Reshika Dhakal;Oliver Liesenfeld

  • Association of CD4+ T cell-dependent, interferon-gamma-mediated necrosis of the small intestine with genetic susceptibility of mice to peroral infection with Toxoplasma gondii.

    O Liesenfeld;J Kosek;J S Remington;Y Suzuki

  • Gram-Negative Bacteria Aggravate Murine Small Intestinal Th1-Type Immunopathology following Oral Infection with Toxoplasma gondii

    Markus M. Heimesaat;Stefan Bereswill;André Fischer;David Fuchs

  • False-positive results in immunoglobulin M (IgM) toxoplasma antibody tests and importance of confirmatory testing: the Platelia Toxo IgM test.

    Oliver Liesenfeld;Cynthia Press;Jose G. Montoya;Raj Gill

  • Interleukin (IL)-23 mediates Toxoplasma gondii-induced immunopathology in the gut via matrixmetalloproteinase-2 and IL-22 but independent of IL-17.

    Melba Muñoz;Markus M. Heimesaat;Kerstin Danker;Daniela Struck

  • IL-10 Is Required for Prevention of Necrosis in the Small Intestine and Mortality in Both Genetically Resistant BALB/c and Susceptible C57BL/6 Mice Following Peroral Infection with Toxoplasma gondii

    Yasuhiro Suzuki;Yasuhiro Suzuki;Alan Sher;George Yap;Daniel Park

  • Immunology of Toxoplasma gondii.

    Melba Munoz;Oliver Liesenfeld;Markus M. Heimesaat

  • Effect of Testing for IgG Avidity in the Diagnosis of Toxoplasma gondii Infection in Pregnant Women: Experience in a US Reference Laboratory

    Oliver Liesenfeld;Jose G. Montoya;Jose G. Montoya;Sandra Kinney;Cynthia Press

  • Molecular diagnosis of sepsis: New aspects and recent developments

    O. Liesenfeld;L. Lehman;K.-P. Hunfeld;G. Kost

  • Ocular toxoplasmosis past, present and new aspects of an old disease.

    M. Maenz;D. Schlüter;O. Liesenfeld;Gereon Schares

  • Shift towards pro-inflammatory intestinal bacteria aggravates acute murine colitis via Toll-like receptors 2 and 4.

    Markus M. Heimesaat;André Fischer;Britta Siegmund;Andreas Kupz

  • Multiplex PCR allows rapid and accurate diagnosis of bloodstream infections in newborns and children with suspected sepsis

    Barbara Lucignano;Stefania Ranno;Oliver Liesenfeld;Beatrice Pizzorno

  • Oral Infection of C57BL/6 Mice with Toxoplasma gondii: A New Model of Inflammatory Bowel Disease?

    Oliver Liesenfeld

  • TNF-α, nitric oxide and IFN-γ are all critical for development of necrosis in the small intestine and early mortality in genetically susceptible mice infected perorally with Toxoplasma gondii

    Oliver Liesenfeld;Hoil Kang;Hoil Kang;Daniel Park;Thu A. Nguyen

  • Interleukin-22 induces interleukin-18 expression from epithelial cells during intestinal infection

    Melba Muñoz;Celine Eidenschenk;Naruhisa Ota;Kit Wong

  • VIDAS Test for Avidity of Toxoplasma-Specific Immunoglobulin G for Confirmatory Testing of Pregnant Women

    Jose G. Montoya;Jose G. Montoya;Oliver Liesenfeld;Sandra Kinney;Cynthia Press

  • Exacerbation of murine ileitis by Toll-like receptor 4 mediated sensing of lipopolysaccharide from commensal Escherichia coli

    Markus M Heimesaat;André Fischer;Hannah-Katharina Jahn;Julia Niebergall

  • Atovaquone nanosuspensions show excellent therapeutic effect in a new murine model of reactivated toxoplasmosis.

    Nadja Schöler;Karsten Krause;Oliver Kayser;Rainer H. Müller

  • Impaired resistance to the development of toxoplasmic encephalitis in interleukin-6-deficient mice.

    Y Suzuki;S Rani;O Liesenfeld;T Kojima

  • Surfactant, but not the size of solid lipid nanoparticles (SLN) influences viability and cytokine production of macrophages

    N Schöler;C Olbrich;K Tabatt;R.H Müller

  • Use of the polymerase chain reaction for diagnosis of ocular toxoplasmosis.

    Jose G Montoya;Jose G Montoya;Steve Parmley;Steve Parmley;Oliver Liesenfeld;Oliver Liesenfeld;Glenn J Jaffe

Frequent Co-Authors

Jack S. Remington
Jack S. Remington Stanford University
Markus M. Heimesaat
Markus M. Heimesaat Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Yasuhiro Suzuki
Yasuhiro Suzuki University of Kentucky
Martin Zeitz
Martin Zeitz Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Anja A. Kühl
Anja A. Kühl Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Jose G. Montoya
Jose G. Montoya Stanford University
Jitender P. Dubey
Jitender P. Dubey Agricultural Research Service
Edward W. Hook
Edward W. Hook University of Alabama at Birmingham
Stefan Bereswill
Stefan Bereswill Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Ulf B. Göbel
Ulf B. Göbel Charité - University Medicine Berlin

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