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Overview

Rainer G. Ulrich is affiliated with the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut in Germany and has a research focus largely centered on medicine, particularly infectious diseases. Their scholarly work spans 207 publications within this field, exploring multiple subfields including infectious diseases, hepatology, epidemiology, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, as well as public health, environmental and occupational health.

Rainer G. Ulrich's research topics extensively address viral infections and vectors, viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology, hepatitis viruses studies and epidemiology, vector-borne animal diseases, viral infections and outbreaks research, mosquito-borne diseases and control, and virology and viral diseases.

Frequent publication venues for Ulrich include:

  • Viruses
  • Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
  • Pathogens

They have coauthored numerous papers with researchers such as Martin Beer, Stephan Drewes, Gerald Heckel, Jens Jacob, and Calvin Mehl, with collaboration counts ranging from 17 to 30 publications per individual.

Recent notable papers include:

  • ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Hepeviridae 2022 (2022, Journal of General Virology)
  • Relatives of rubella virus in diverse mammals (2020, Nature)
  • Borna disease outbreak with high mortality in an alpaca herd in a previously unreported endemic area in Germany (2020, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases)
  • Diversity of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in ticks and small mammals from different habitats (2022, Parasites & Vectors)
  • Serological and molecular survey of hepatitis E virus in cats and dogs in Spain (2021, Transboundary and Emerging Diseases)

Best Publications

  • Bats host major mammalian paramyxoviruses

    Jan Felix Drexler;Victor Max Corman;Marcel Alexander Müller;Gael Darren Maganga

  • Detection of a novel hepatitis E-like virus in faeces of wild rats using a nested broad-spectrum RT-PCR

    Reimar Johne;Anita Plenge-Bönig;Michael Hess;Rainer G. Ulrich

  • Proposed reference sequences for hepatitis E virus subtypes

    Donald B. Smith;Peter Simmonds;Jacques Izopet;Edmilson F. Oliveira-Filho

  • Bats Worldwide Carry Hepatitis E Virus-Related Viruses That Form a Putative Novel Genus within the Family Hepeviridae

    Jan Felix Drexler;Annika Seelen;Victor Max Corman;Adriana Fumie Tateno

  • Hantavirus infections and their prevention

    Detlev H. Krüger;Rainer Ulrich;Åke Lundkvist;Åke Lundkvist

  • A Variegated Squirrel Bornavirus Associated with Fatal Human Encephalitis

    Bernd Hoffmann;Dennis Tappe;Dirk Höper;Christiane Herden

  • 2020 taxonomic update for phylum Negarnaviricota (Riboviria: Orthornavirae), including the large orders Bunyavirales and Mononegavirales

    Jens H. Kuhn;Scott Adkins;Daniela Alioto;Sergey V. Alkhovsky

  • Novel hepatitis E virus genotype in Norway rats, Germany.

    Reimar Johne;Gerald Heckel;Anita Plenge-Bönig;Eveline Kindler

  • Evidence for novel hepaciviruses in rodents.

    Jan Felix Drexler;Victor Max Corman;Marcel Alexander Müller;Alexander N. Lukashev

  • Bats carry pathogenic hepadnaviruses antigenically related to hepatitis B virus and capable of infecting human hepatocytes

    Jan Felix Drexler;Andreas Geipel;Alexander König;Victor M. Corman

  • Different Outcomes of Experimental Hepatitis E Virus Infection in Diverse Mouse Strains, Wistar Rats, and Rabbits.

    Josephine Schlosser;Lisa Dähnert;Paul Dremsek;Kerstin Tauscher

  • Hantavirus‐induced immunity in rodent reservoirs and humans

    Günther Schönrich;Andreas Rang;Nina Lütteke;Martin J. Raftery

  • Seroprevalence study in forestry workers from eastern Germany using novel genotype 3- and rat hepatitis E virus-specific immunoglobulin G ELISAs

    Paul Dremsek;Jürgen J. Wenzel;Reimar Johne;Mario Ziller

  • Hantavirus infection of dendritic cells.

    Martin J. Raftery;Annette A. Kraus;Rainer Ulrich;Detlev H. Krüger

  • Genomic resources for wild populations of the house mouse, Mus musculus and its close relative Mus spretus

    Bettina Harr;Emre Karakoc;Rafik Neme;Meike Teschke

  • A five-year perspective on the situation of haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome and status of the hantavirus reservoirs in Europe, 2005-2010.

    P Heyman;C S Ceianu;I Christova;N Tordo

  • Molecular identification of small mammal species using novel cytochrome B gene-derived degenerated primers.

    Mathias Schlegel;Hanan Sheikh Ali;Nicole Stieger;Martin H. Groschup

  • Hepeviridae: an expanding family of vertebrate viruses.

    Reimar Johne;Paul Dremsek;Jochen Reetz;Gerald Heckel

  • Complex evolution and epidemiology of Dobrava-Belgrade hantavirus: definition of genotypes and their characteristics.

    Boris Klempa;Tatjana Avsic-Zupanc;Jan Clement;Tamara K. Dzagurova

  • Steep rise in notified hantavirus infections in Germany, April 2010

    Mirko Faber;Rainer Ulrich;Christina Frank;Stefan Brockmann

  • Differential Antiviral Response of Endothelial Cells after Infection with Pathogenic and Nonpathogenic Hantaviruses

    Annette A. Kraus;Martin J. Raftery;Thomas Giese;Rainer Ulrich

  • Corrigendum: Bats host major mammalian paramyxoviruses.

    Jan Felix Drexler;Victor Max Corman;Marcel Alexander Müller;Gael Darren Maganga

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerald Heckel
Gerald Heckel University of Bern
Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit
Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit Universität Hamburg
Reimar Johne
Reimar Johne Federal Institute for Risk Assessment
Martin H. Groschup
Martin H. Groschup Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Detlev H. Krüger
Detlev H. Krüger Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Boris Klempa
Boris Klempa Slovak Academy of Sciences
Martin Pfeffer
Martin Pfeffer Leipzig University
Martin Beer
Martin Beer Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Franz Josef Conraths
Franz Josef Conraths Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Sebastian Guenther
Sebastian Guenther University of Greifswald

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