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Overview

Thomas Lehrnbecher is affiliated with Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany and has a research focus primarily within the medical field, with a specialization in infectious diseases as they relate to oncology and pediatrics. Their work extensively covers topics related to neutropenia and cancer infections, antifungal resistance and susceptibility, and fungal infections more broadly. Additional areas of study include childhood cancer survivors' quality of life, histiocytic disorders and treatments, acute lymphoblastic leukemia research, and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

The scientist's publication record features significant contributions to journals such as Blood, Pediatric Blood & Cancer, Journal of Fungi, Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature, and The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. These venues reflect an emphasis on hematology, pediatric oncology, infectious diseases, and clinical mycology.

Notable papers authored by Thomas Lehrnbecher include:

  • Guideline for the Management of Fever and Neutropenia in Pediatric Patients With Cancer and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Recipients: 2023 Update, 2023, Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Clinical Practice Guideline for Systemic Antifungal Prophylaxis in Pediatric Patients With Cancer and Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation Recipients, 2020, Journal of Clinical Oncology

Other highly cited works closely related to the field but led by different authors include global guidelines on fungal infections published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases and The Lancet Oncology.

Frequent collaborators identified in Lehrnbecher's research include Andreas H. Groll, Konrad Bochennek, Elio Castagnola, Arne Simon, and Roland A. Ammann, indicating a strong network within pediatric oncology and infectious disease communities.

The primary fields of study within the broader scope of medicine include:

  • Infectious Diseases
  • Oncology
  • Epidemiology
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
  • Hematology

The scientist's main research topics span:

  • Neutropenia and Cancer Infections
  • Antifungal resistance and susceptibility
  • Fungal Infections and Studies
  • Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
  • Histiocytic Disorders and Treatments
  • Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research
  • Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

Best Publications

  • Revision and Update of the Consensus Definitions of Invasive Fungal Disease From the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer and the Mycoses Study Group Education and Research Consortium

    J. Peter Donnelly;Sharon C. Chen;Carol A. Kauffman;William J. Steinbach

  • Global guideline for the diagnosis and management of mucormycosis: an initiative of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology in cooperation with the Mycoses Study Group Education and Research Consortium

    Oliver A. Cornely;Ana Alastruey-Izquierdo;Dorothee Arenz;Sharon C. A. Chen

  • Diagnosis and management of Aspergillus diseases: executive summary of the 2017 ESCMID-ECMM-ERS guideline

    A. J. Ullmann;J. M. Aguado;S. Arikan-Akdagli;D. W. Denning

  • Diagnosis and management of acute myeloid leukemia in children and adolescents: recommendations from an international expert panel.

    Ursula Creutzig;Marry M. van den Heuvel-Eibrink;Brenda Gibson;Michael N. Dworzak

  • Fourth European Conference on Infections in Leukaemia (ECIL-4): guidelines for diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of invasive fungal diseases in paediatric patients with cancer or allogeneic haemopoietic stem-cell transplantation

    Andreas H. Groll;Elio Castagnola;Simone Cesaro;Jean Hugues Dalle

  • Guideline for the Management of Fever and Neutropenia in Children With Cancer and Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation Recipients: 2017 Update

    Thomas Lehrnbecher;Thomas Lehrnbecher;Paula Robinson;Brian Fisher;Brian Fisher;Sarah Alexander

  • Global guideline for the diagnosis and management of rare mould infections: an initiative of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology in cooperation with the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology and the American Society for Microbiology

    Martin Hoenigl;Jon Salmanton-García;Thomas J. Walsh;Thomas J. Walsh;Marcio Nucci

  • Guideline for the Management of Fever and Neutropenia in Children With Cancer and/or Undergoing Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation

    Thomas Lehrnbecher;Robert Phillips;Sarah Alexander;Frank Alvaro

  • Host defense molecule polymorphisms influence the risk for immune-mediated complications in chronic granulomatous disease.

    Charles B. Foster;Thomas Lehrnbecher;Femke Mol;Seth M. Steinberg

  • Vaccination of haemopoietic stem cell transplant recipients: guidelines of the 2017 European Conference on Infections in Leukaemia (ECIL 7).

    Catherine Cordonnier;Sigrun Einarsdottir;Simone Cesaro;Roberta Di Blasi

  • Variant Genotypes of the Low-Affinity Fcγ Receptors in Two Control Populations and a Review of Low-Affinity Fcγ Receptor Polymorphisms in Control and Disease Populations

    Thomas Lehrnbecher;Charles B. Foster;Shaoxian Zhu;Susan F. Leitman

  • Early Deaths and Treatment-Related Mortality in Children Undergoing Therapy for Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Analysis of the Multicenter Clinical Trials AML-BFM 93 and AML-BFM 98

    Ursula Creutzig;Martin Zimmermann;Dirk Reinhardt;Michael Dworzak

  • Successes and challenges in the treatment of pediatric acute myeloid leukemia: a retrospective analysis of the AML-BFM trials from 1987 to 2012

    Mareike Rasche;Martin Zimmermann;Lisa Borschel;Jean-Pierre Bourquin

  • Less Toxicity by Optimizing Chemotherapy, but Not by Addition of Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor in Children and Adolescents With Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Results of AML-BFM 98

    Ursula Creutzig;Martin Zimmermann;Thomas Lehrnbecher;Norbert Graf

  • An IL6 promoter polymorphism is associated with a lifetime risk of development of Kaposi sarcoma in men infected with human immunodeficiency virus

    Charles B. Foster;Thomas Lehrnbecher;Susan Samuels;Steven Stein

  • Vemurafenib for Refractory Multisystem Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis in Children: An International Observational Study

    Jean Donadieu;Islam Amine Larabi;Mathilde Tardieu;Johannes Visser

  • Results from a prospective, international, epidemiologic study of invasive candidiasis in children and neonates.

    William J Steinbach;Emmanuel Roilides;David Berman;Jill A Hoffman

  • Guideline for the Management of Fever and Neutropenia in Pediatric Patients With Cancer and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Recipients: 2023 Update

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  • A Randomized, Double-Blind, Multicenter Study of Caspofungin Versus Liposomal Amphotericin B for Empiric Antifungal Therapy in Pediatric Patients With Persistent Fever and Neutropenia

    Johan A. Maertens;Luis Madero;Anne F. Reilly;Thomas Lehrnbecher

  • 8th European Conference on Infections in Leukaemia: 2020 guidelines for the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of invasive fungal diseases in paediatric patients with cancer or post-haematopoietic cell transplantation.

    Andreas H Groll;Dorothea Pana;Fanny Lanternier;Alessio Mesini

  • Galactomannan, β-D-Glucan, and Polymerase Chain Reaction–Based Assays for the Diagnosis of Invasive Fungal Disease in Pediatric Cancer and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Thomas Lehrnbecher;Paula D. Robinson;Brian T. Fisher;Elio Castagnola

  • Generation of highly purified and functionally active human TH1 cells against Aspergillus fumigatus.

    Olaf Beck;Max S. Topp;Ulrike Koehl;Emmanuel Roilides

  • Human natural killer cells exhibit direct activity against Aspergillus fumigatus hyphae, but not against resting conidia

    Stanislaw Schmidt;Lars Tramsen;Mitra Hanisch;Jean-Paul Latgé

  • Vaccination of patients with haematological malignancies who did not have transplantations: guidelines from the 2017 European Conference on Infections in Leukaemia (ECIL 7)

    Malgorzata Mikulska;Simone Cesaro;Hugues de Lavallade;Roberta Di Blasi

  • IL-2-driven regulation of NK cell receptors with regard to the distribution of CD16+ and CD16- subpopulations and in vivo influence after haploidentical NK cell infusion.

    Sabine Huenecke;Stefanie Yvonne Zimmermann;Stephan Kloess;Ruth Esser

  • Bronchoalveolar Lavage and Lung Biopsy in Patients With Cancer and Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation Recipients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Deepak Babu Chellapandian;Thomas Lehrnbecher;Bob Phillips;Brian T. Fisher

Frequent Co-Authors

Andreas H. Groll
Andreas H. Groll University Hospital Münster
Lillian Sung
Lillian Sung University of Toronto
Thomas Klingebiel
Thomas Klingebiel Goethe University Frankfurt
Dirk Reinhardt
Dirk Reinhardt University of Duisburg-Essen
Ulrike Koehl
Ulrike Koehl Leipzig University
Michael Dworzak
Michael Dworzak Medical University of Vienna
Joseph Beyene
Joseph Beyene McMaster University
William J. Steinbach
William J. Steinbach Duke University
Peter Bader
Peter Bader Goethe University Frankfurt
Adilia Warris
Adilia Warris University of Exeter

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