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Overview

Roland Zell is affiliated with Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, encompassing a wide range of subfields including Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, Plant Science, Ecology, and Animal Science and Zoology.

Their work covers several main research topics:

  • Plant Virus Research Studies
  • Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
  • Respiratory viral infections research
  • Animal Virus Infections Studies
  • Influenza Virus Research Studies
  • Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
  • Viral Infections and Immunology Research

Zell has contributed scholarly articles to multiple scientific journals, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • Archives of Virology
  • Journal of General Virology
  • Viruses
  • European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
  • Antiviral Research

Their recent papers include:

  • "Recommendations for the nomenclature of enteroviruses and rhinoviruses," 2020, Archives of Virology
  • "SARS-CoV-2 Causes Severe Epithelial Inflammation and Barrier Dysfunction," 2021, Journal of Virology
  • "Laser spectroscopic technique for direct identification of a single virus I: FASTER CARS," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "A proposed division of the family Picornaviridae into subfamilies based on phylogenetic relationships and functional genomic organization," 2021, Archives of Virology
  • "Cocirculation of Swine H1N1 Influenza A Virus Lineages in Germany," 2020, Viruses

Collaborations have been a part of Zell's research output, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Marco Groth
  • Andi Krumbholz
  • Lukas Selinka
  • Hans-Christoph Selinka
  • Peter Simmonds

Best Publications

  • ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Picornaviridae

    R. Zell;E. Delwart;A. E. Gorbalenya;T. Hovi

  • DNA mismatch-repair in Escherichia coli counteracting the hydrolytic deamination of 5-methyl-cytosine residues.

    R. Zell;H. J. Fritz

  • Pandemic Influenza A Viruses Escape from Restriction by Human MxA through Adaptive Mutations in the Nucleoprotein

    Benjamin Mänz;Dominik Dornfeld;Veronika Götz;Roland Zell

  • Picornaviridae-the ever-growing virus family.

    Roland Zell

  • Pathogenesis of murine enterovirus myocarditis: virus dissemination and immune cell targets.

    K Klingel;S Stephan;M Sauter;R Zell

  • Prevalence of PB1-F2 of influenza A viruses.

    Roland Zell;Andi Krumbholz;Annett Eitner;Reimar Krieg

  • Apoptosis in Coxsackievirus B3-Caused Diseases: Interaction between the Capsid Protein VP2 and the Proapoptotic Protein Siva

    Andreas Henke;Heike Launhardt;Katrin Klement;Axel Stelzner

  • Recommendations for the nomenclature of enteroviruses and rhinoviruses

    P Simmonds;A E Gorbalenya;H Harvala;T Hovi

  • Global climate change and the emergence/re-emergence of infectious diseases.

    Roland Zell

  • Evolution of poliovirus type I during 5.5 years of prolonged enteral replication in an immunodeficient patient.

    Andreas Bellmunt;Günter May;Roland Zell;Patricia Pring-Åkerblom

  • Prevalence of hepatitis E virus-specific antibodies in humans with occupational exposure to pigs.

    Andi Krumbholz;Ulrich Mohn;Jeannette Lange;Manfred Motz

  • Porcine Teschoviruses Comprise at Least Eleven Distinct Serotypes: Molecular and Evolutionary Aspects

    Roland Zell;Malte Dauber;Andi Krumbholz;Andreas Henke

  • Low-Level Expression of a Mutant Coxsackieviral cDNA Induces a Myocytopathic Effect in Culture An Approach to the Study of Enteroviral Persistence in Cardiac Myocytes

    Rainer Wessely;Andreas Henke;Roland Zell;Reinhard Kandolf

  • Biology, evolution, and medical importance of polyomaviruses: An update.

    Ugo Moens;Andi Krumbholz;Bernhard Ehlers;Roland Zell

  • Sequencing of Porcine Enterovirus Groups II and III Reveals Unique Features of Both Virus Groups

    Andi Krumbholz;Malte Dauber;Andreas Henke;Eckhard Birch-Hirschfeld

  • Current knowledge on PB1-F2 of influenza A viruses.

    Andi Krumbholz;Anja Philipps;Hartmut Oehring;Katja Schwarzer

  • Detection of porcine enteroviruses by nRT-PCR: differentiation of CPE groups I-III with specific primer sets.

    Roland Zell;Andi Krumbholz;Andreas Henke;Eckard Birch-Hirschfeld

  • Phenotypic and genotypic characterization of acyclovir-resistant clinical isolates of herpes simplex virus.

    A. Sauerbrei;S. Deinhardt;R. Zell;P. Wutzler

  • Molecular pathogenesis of enterovirus-induced myocarditis: virus persistence and chronic inflammation.

    R Kandolf;K Klingel;R Zell;H C Selinka

  • High prevalence of amantadine resistance among circulating European porcine influenza A viruses

    Andi Krumbholz;Michaela Schmidtke;Silke Bergmann;Susann Motzke

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Wutzler
Peter Wutzler Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Reinhard Kandolf
Reinhard Kandolf University of Tübingen
Ralf Dürrwald
Ralf Dürrwald Robert Koch Institute
Marco Groth
Marco Groth Leibniz Institute on Aging – Fritz Lipmann Institute
Nick J. Knowles
Nick J. Knowles The Pirbright Institute
Volker Deckert
Volker Deckert Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Alexander E. Gorbalenya
Alexander E. Gorbalenya Leiden University
Albert Heim
Albert Heim Hannover Medical School
Jürgen Popp
Jürgen Popp Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Matthias Platzer
Matthias Platzer Leibniz Association

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