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Sascha Al Dahouk is affiliated with the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment in Germany. Their research spans multiple areas within the life sciences, particularly focusing on microbiology, infectious diseases, and food safety.

The primary fields of study addressed by Al Dahouk include Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Medicine. Their work is further specialized in subfields such as Food Science, Small Animals, Biotechnology, Molecular Biology, and Infectious Diseases.

Research topics frequently explored in their publications cover:

  • Brucella: diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment
  • Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology
  • Listeria monocytogenes in Food Safety
  • Viral Infections and Vectors
  • Burkholderia infections and melioidosis
  • Food Safety and Hygiene
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts

Al Dahouk's recent publications include:

  • Large Nationwide Outbreak of Invasive Listeriosis Associated with Blood Sausage, Germany, 2018-2019 (2020), Emerging Infectious Diseases
  • If You're Not Confused, You're Not Paying Attention: Ochrobactrum Is Not Brucella (2023), Journal of Clinical Microbiology
  • Nationwide outbreak of invasive listeriosis associated with consumption of meat products in health care facilities, Germany, 2014-2019 (2020), Clinical Microbiology and Infection
  • Backtracking and forward checking of human listeriosis clusters identified a multiclonal outbreak linked to Listeria monocytogenes in meat products of a single producer (2020), Emerging Microbes & Infections
  • Invasive listeriosis outbreaks and salmon products: a genomic, epidemiological study (2022), Emerging Microbes & Infections

Frequent coauthors in Al Dahouk's research include:

  • Ralf Dieckmann (13 collaborations)
  • Sylvia Kleta (9 collaborations)
  • Stefanie Lüth (8 collaborations)
  • Hendrik Wilking (6 collaborations)
  • Sven Halbedel (5 collaborations)

The scientist publishes predominantly in journals such as Microorganisms, Scientific Reports, Emerging Microbes & Infections, Microbial Genomics, and Microbiology Spectrum.

Best Publications

  • Evaluation and selection of tandem repeat loci for a Brucella MLVA typing assay

    Philippe Le Flèche;Isabelle Jacques;Maggy Grayon;Sascha Al Dahouk

  • Brucella microti sp. nov., isolated from the common vole Microtus arvalis.

    Holger C. Scholz;Zdenek Hubalek;Ivo Sedláček;Gilles Vergnaud

  • Brucella inopinata sp. nov., isolated from a breast implant infection.

    Holger C. Scholz;Karsten Nöckler;Cornelia Göllner;Peter Bahn

  • Evaluation of Brucella MLVA typing for human brucellosis

    Sascha Al Dahouk;Philippe Le Flèche;Karsten Nöckler;Isabelle Jacques;Isabelle Jacques

  • Brucellosis - regionally emerging zoonotic disease?

    Mayada Gwida;Sascha Al Dahouk;Falk Melzer;Uwe Rösler

  • A "One Health" surveillance and control of brucellosis in developing countries: moving away from improvisation.

    Jacques Godfroid;Sascha Al Dahouk;Sascha Al Dahouk;Georgios Pappas;Felix Roth

  • Brucella papionis sp. nov., isolated from baboons (Papio spp.).

    Adrian M. Whatmore;Nicholas Davison;Axel Cloeckaert;Axel Cloeckaert;Sascha Al Dahouk

  • A medical-toxicological view of tattooing

    Peter Laux;Tewes Tralau;Jutta Tentschert;Annegret Blume

  • Brucella vulpis sp. nov., isolated from mandibular lymph nodes of red foxes (Vulpes vulpes)

    Holger C. Scholz;Sandra Revilla-Fernández;Sascha Al Dahouk;Jens A. Hammerl

  • Implications of Laboratory Diagnosis on Brucellosis Therapy

    Sascha Al Dahouk;Karsten Nöckler

  • Isolation of Brucella microti from soil.

    Holger C. Scholz;Zdenek Hubalek;Jirina Nesvadbova;Herbert Tomaso

  • MLVA-16 typing of 295 marine mammal Brucella isolates from different animal and geographic origins identifies 7 major groups within Brucella ceti and Brucella pinnipedialis

    Marianne Maquart;Philippe Le Flèche;Geoffrey Foster;Morten Tryland

  • Isolation of Brucella microti from mandibular lymph nodes of red foxes, Vulpes vulpes, in lower Austria.

    Holger Christian Scholz;Erwin Hofer;Gilles Vergnaud;Philippe Le Fleche

  • Changing epidemiology of human brucellosis, Germany, 1962-2005

    Sascha Al Dahouk;Heinrich Neubauer;Andreas Hensel;Irene Schöneberg

  • Overview of validated alternative methods for the detection of foodborne bacterial pathogens

    Alexander Rohde;Alexander Rohde;Jens Andre Hammerl;Idesbald Boone;Wiebke Jansen;Wiebke Jansen

  • FISHing for bacteria in food--a promising tool for the reliable detection of pathogenic bacteria?

    Alexander Rohde;Jens Andre Hammerl;Bernd Appel;Ralf Dieckmann

  • Whole genome sequencing as a typing tool for foodborne pathogens like Listeria monocytogenes – The way towards global harmonisation and data exchange

    Stefanie Lüth;Sylvia Kleta;Sascha Al Dahouk;Sascha Al Dahouk

  • Rapid detection of Yersinia pestis with multiplex real-time PCR assays using fluorescent hybridisation probes

    Herbert Tomaso;Emil C Reisinger;Sascha Al Dahouk;Dimitrios Frangoulidis

  • Antibiotic susceptibility of 259 Listeria monocytogenes strains isolated from food, food-processing plants and human samples in Germany.

    Matthias Noll;Matthias Noll;Sylvia Kleta;Sascha Al Dahouk;Sascha Al Dahouk

  • Genetic diversity and phylogenetic relationships of bacteria belonging to the Ochrobactrum–Brucella group by recA and 16S rRNA gene-based comparative sequence analysis

    Holger C. Scholz;Sascha Al Dahouk;Herbert Tomaso;Heinrich Neubauer

Frequent Co-Authors

Herbert Tomaso
Herbert Tomaso Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Heinrich Neubauer
Heinrich Neubauer Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Holger C. Scholz
Holger C. Scholz Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology
Karsten Nöckler
Karsten Nöckler Federal Institute for Risk Assessment
Gilles Vergnaud
Gilles Vergnaud University of Paris-Saclay
Jens A. Hammerl
Jens A. Hammerl Federal Institute for Risk Assessment
Axel Cloeckaert
Axel Cloeckaert INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Martin Pfeffer
Martin Pfeffer Leipzig University
Adrian M. Whatmore
Adrian M. Whatmore Animal and Plant Health Agency
Jacques Godfroid
Jacques Godfroid University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway

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