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Volker Fingerle is affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of medicine, immunology and microbiology, and agricultural and biological sciences.

The scientist's work focuses on several subfields including infectious diseases, parasitology, insect science, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and public health, environmental and occupational health. Their main research topics reflect an emphasis on vector-borne infectious diseases, viral infections and vectors, vector-borne animal diseases, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing, insect and pesticide research, and insect symbiosis and bacterial influences.

Volker Fingerle has contributed to multiple publications in notable scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Microorganisms
  • Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Infection
  • Research Square (Research Square)

The scientist has co-authored extensively with several researchers, with the most frequent collaborators being:

  • Gabriele Margos (38 publications)
  • Andreas Sing (31 publications)
  • Ute Eberle (16 publications)
  • Robert E. Rollins (15 publications)
  • Nikolaus Ackermann (14 publications)

Representative recent papers by Volker Fingerle illustrate their contribution to studies on infectious diseases and vector-borne pathogens. Selected publications include:

  • "Investigation of a COVID-19 outbreak in Germany resulting from a single travel-associated primary case: a case series," 2020, The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • "Three exposures to the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 by either infection or vaccination elicit superior neutralizing immunity to all variants of concern," 2022, Nature Medicine
  • "Rapid establishment of laboratory diagnostics for the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 in Bavaria, Germany, February 2020," 2020, Eurosurveillance
  • "Host association of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato: A review," 2021, Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases
  • "Transovarial transmission of Borrelia spp., Rickettsia spp. and Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Ixodes ricinus under field conditions extrapolated from DNA detection in questing larvae," 2020, Parasites & Vectors

Best Publications

  • EFNS guidelines on the diagnosis and management of European Lyme neuroborreliosis

    Å. Mygland;U. Ljøstad;V. Fingerle;T. Rupprecht

  • Lyme borreliosis: Clinical case definitions for diagnosis and management in Europe

    G. Stanek;V. Fingerle;K. P. Hunfeld;B. Jaulhac

  • Investigation of a COVID-19 outbreak in Germany resulting from a single travel-associated primary case: a case series.

    Merle M Böhmer;Udo Buchholz;Victor M Corman;Martin Hoch

  • Three exposures to the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 by either infection or vaccination elicit superior neutralizing immunity to all variants of concern

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  • Microbiological and serological diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis

    Bettina Wilske;Volker Fingerle;Ulrike Schulte-Spechtel

  • A new Borrelia species defined by multilocus sequence analysis of housekeeping genes.

    Gabriele Margos;Stephanie A. Vollmer;Muriel Cornet;Martine Garnier

  • Lyme neuroborreliosis—epidemiology, diagnosis and management

    Uwe Koedel;Volker Fingerle;Hans-Walter Pfister

  • The Pathogenesis of Lyme Neuroborreliosis: From Infection to Inflammation

    Tobias A. Rupprecht;Uwe Koedel;Volker Fingerle;Hans-Walter Pfister

  • Epidemiological aspects and molecular characterization of Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. from southern Germany with special respect to the new species Borrelia spielmanii sp. nov.

    Volker Fingerle;Ulrike C. Schulte-Spechtel;Eva Ruzic-Sabljic;Sarah Leonhard

  • Rickettsia monacensis sp. nov., a spotted fever group Rickettsia, from ticks (Ixodes ricinus) collected in a European city park.

    Jason A. Simser;Ann T. Palmer;Volker Fingerle;Bettina Wilske

  • The diagnostic accuracy of serological tests for Lyme borreliosis in Europe: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    M. M. G. Leeflang;C. W. Ang;J. Berkhout;H. A. Bijlmer

  • Invasion and Intracellular Development of the Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis Agent in Tick Cell Culture

    Ulrike G. Munderloh;Steven D. Jauron;Volker Fingerle;Lorenz Leitritz

  • Distinct Host Species Correlate with Anaplasma phagocytophilum ankA Gene Clusters

    Wiebke Scharf;Sonja Schauer;Felix Freyburger;Miroslav Petrovec

  • Rapid establishment of laboratory diagnostics for the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 in Bavaria, Germany, February 2020.

    Regina Konrad;Ute Eberle;Alexandra Dangel;Bianca Treis

  • Diversity of OspA and OspC among cerebrospinal fluid isolates of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato from patients with neuroborreliosis in Germany.

    Bettina Wilske;Uli Busch;Helmut Eiffert;Volker Fingerle

  • To test or not to test? Laboratory support for the diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis: a position paper of ESGBOR, the ESCMID study group for Lyme borreliosis

    R. B. Dessau;A. P. van Dam;V. Fingerle;J. Gray

  • Improvement of Lyme Borreliosis Serodiagnosis by a Newly Developed Recombinant Immunoglobulin G (IgG) and IgM Line Immunoblot Assay and Addition of VlsE and DbpA Homologues

    Gereon Goettner;Ulrike Schulte-Spechtel;Ruth Hillermann;Gabi Liegl

  • Three species of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (B. burgdorferi sensu stricto, B afzelii, and B. garinii) identified from cerebrospinal fluid isolates by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and PCR.

    U Busch;C Hizo-Teufel;R Boehmer;V Fingerle

  • Immunological and molecular variability of OspA and OspC. Implications for Borrelia vaccine development.

    Bettina Wilske;U. Busch;V. Fingerle;S. Jauris-Heipke

  • Multilocus sequence analysis of Borrelia bissettii strains from North America reveals a new Borrelia species, Borrelia kurtenbachii.

    Gabriele Margos;Andrias Hojgaard;Robert S. Lane;Muriel Cornet

  • Recombinant immunoblot in the serodiagnosis of Lyme borreliosis. Comparison with indirect immunofluorescence and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.

    B. Wilske;V. Fingerle;P. Herzer;A. Hofmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Gabriele Margos
Gabriele Margos Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Bettina Wilske
Bettina Wilske Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Peter F. Zipfel
Peter F. Zipfel Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Peter Kraiczy
Peter Kraiczy Goethe University Frankfurt
Reinhard Wallich
Reinhard Wallich Heidelberg University
Christine Skerka
Christine Skerka Leibniz Association
Brian Stevenson
Brian Stevenson University of Kentucky
Ulrike G. Munderloh
Ulrike G. Munderloh University of Minnesota
Hans-Walter Pfister
Hans-Walter Pfister Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Franc Strle
Franc Strle University of Ljubljana

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