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Timm C. Harder

Timm C. Harder

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Microbiology

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11580
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Overview

Timm C. Harder is affiliated with Kiel University in Germany and works primarily in the fields of Medicine and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research focuses on epidemiology and infectious diseases, with additional involvement in agronomy, animal science, and ecology.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Influenza Virus Research Studies
  • Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • Viral Infections and Vectors
  • Animal Virus Infections Studies
  • Respiratory viral infections research
  • Virology and Viral Diseases

Harder has published extensively, with frequent contributions to several scientific journals. They have authored ten papers in Emerging Microbes & Infections, seven in Viruses, six in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), five in Emerging Infectious Diseases, and five in Porcine Health Management.

Some of their recent publications include:

  • "SARS-CoV-2 in fruit bats, ferrets, pigs, and chickens: an experimental transmission study", 2020, The Lancet Microbe
  • "Emergence and spread of novel H5N8, H5N5 and H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4 highly pathogenic avian influenza in 2020", 2021, Emerging Microbes & Infections
  • "Has Epizootic Become Enzootic? Evidence for a Fundamental Change in the Infection Dynamics of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Europe, 2021", 2022, mBio
  • "Surveillance of European Domestic Pig Populations Identifies an Emerging Reservoir of Potentially Zoonotic Swine Influenza A Viruses", 2020, Cell Host & Microbe
  • "Genetic characterization of a new candidate hemagglutinin subtype of influenza A viruses", 2023, Emerging Microbes & Infections

Throughout their career, Harder has collaborated frequently with other researchers, including:

  • Martin Beer (60 coauthored works)
  • Anne Pohlmann (37 coauthored works)
  • Christian Grund (31 coauthored works)
  • Jacqueline King (26 coauthored works)
  • Annika Graaf (24 coauthored works)

Their work extends over various subfields such as Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, Agronomy and Crop Science, Animal Science and Zoology, and Ecology. This interdisciplinary approach supports research that spans both human and animal health, with particular emphasis on viral infections and their management in agricultural settings.

Best Publications

  • SARS-CoV-2 in fruit bats, ferrets, pigs, and chickens: an experimental transmission study.

    Kore Schlottau;Melanie Rissmann;Annika Graaf;Jacob Schön

  • Effect of Lactobacillus gasseri PA 16/8, Bifidobacterium longum SP 07/3, B. bifidum MF 20/5 on common cold episodes: a double blind, randomized, controlled trial.

    Michael de Vrese;Petra Winkler;Peter Rautenberg;Timm Harder

  • Probiotic bacteria reduced duration and severity but not the incidence of common cold episodes in a double blind, randomized, controlled trial

    Michael de Vrese;Petra Winkler;Peter Rautenberg;Timm Harder

  • Emergence and spread of novel H5N8, H5N5 and H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4 highly pathogenic avian influenza in 2020

    Nicola S. Lewis;Ashley C. Banyard;Elliot Whittard;Talgat Karibayev

  • Canine distemper virus--a morbillivirus in search of new hosts?

    Timm C. Harder;Albert D.M.E. Osterhaus

  • Canine distemper virus from diseased large felids: Biological properties and phylogenetic relationships.

    T. C. Harder;M. Kenter;H. Vos;K. Siebelink

  • Has Epizootic Become Enzootic? Evidence for a Fundamental Change in the Infection Dynamics of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Europe, 2021

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  • European surveillance network for influenza in pigs: surveillance programs, diagnostic tools and Swine influenza virus subtypes identified in 14 European countries from 2010 to 2013.

    Gaëlle Simon;Lars E. Larsen;Ralf Dürrwald;Emanuela Foni

  • Pathogenicity of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus (H5N1) in Adult Mute Swans

    Donata Kalthoff;Angele Breithaupt;Jens P. Teifke;Anja Globig

  • Phylogenetic analyses of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus isolates from Germany in 2006 and 2007 suggest at least three separate introductions of H5N1 virus

    Elke Starick;Martin Beer;Bernd Hoffmann;Christoph Staubach

  • Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus Infection of Mallards with Homo- and Heterosubtypic Immunity Induced by Low Pathogenic Avian Influenza Viruses

    Sasan R. Fereidouni;Elke Starick;Martin Beer;Hendrik Wilking

  • Pathology of natural infections by H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus in mute (Cygnus olor) and whooper (Cygnus cygnus) swans

    Jens Peter Teifke;Robert Klopfleisch;Anja Globig;Elke Starick

  • Riems influenza a typing array (RITA): An RT-qPCR-based low density array for subtyping avian and mammalian influenza a viruses.

    Bernd Hoffmann;Donata Hoffmann;Dinah Henritzi;Martin Beer

  • Molecular analysis of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus of subtype H5N1 isolated from wild birds and mammals in northern Germany.

    Siegfried Weber;Timm Harder;Elke Starick;Martin Beer

  • Neurotropism of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus A/Chicken/Indonesia/2003 (H5N1) in Experimentally Infected Pigeons (Columbia livia f. domestica)

    Robert Klopfleisch;Ortrud Werner;Egbert Mundt;Timm C. Harder

  • Influenza virus infections in dogs and cats.

    Timm C. Harder;Thomas W. Vahlenkamp

  • Epidemiological and ornithological aspects of outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1 of Asian lineage in wild birds in Germany, 2006 and 2007.

    Anja Globig;Christoph Staubach;Martin Beer;U. Köppen

  • Outbreaks among Wild Birds and Domestic Poultry Caused by Reassorted Influenza A(H5N8) Clade 2.3.4.4 Viruses, Germany, 2016.

    Anne Pohlmann;Elke Starick;Timm Harder;Christian Grund

  • Experimental Infection and Natural Contact Exposure of Dogs with Avian Influenza Virus (H5N1)

    Matthias Giese;Timm C. Harder;Jens Peter Teifke;Robert Klopfleisch

  • Rapid and Highly Sensitive Pathotyping of Avian Influenza A H5N1 Virus by Using Real-Time Reverse Transcription-PCR

    Bernd Hoffmann;Timm C. Harder;Elke Starick;Klaus Robert Depner

  • Surveillance of European Domestic Pig Populations Identifies an Emerging Reservoir of Potentially Zoonotic Swine Influenza A Viruses

    Dinah Henritzi;Philipp Peter Petric;Nicola Sarah Lewis;Nicola Sarah Lewis;Annika Graaf

  • Reassorted pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza A virus discovered from pigs in Germany

    Elke Starick;Elke Lange;Sasan Fereidouni;Claudia Bunzenthal

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Beer
Martin Beer Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Thomas C. Mettenleiter
Thomas C. Mettenleiter Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Franz Josef Conraths
Franz Josef Conraths Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Christoph Staubach
Christoph Staubach Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Hafez M. Hafez
Hafez M. Hafez Freie Universität Berlin
Bernd Hoffmann
Bernd Hoffmann Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Anne Pohlmann
Anne Pohlmann Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Albert D. M. E. Osterhaus
Albert D. M. E. Osterhaus University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation
Dirk Höper
Dirk Höper Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Ursula Siebert
Ursula Siebert University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation

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