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Wolfram H. Gerlich

Wolfram H. Gerlich

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71
Citations
17593
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National Ranking
158

Overview

Wolfram H. Gerlich is affiliated with the University of Giessen in Germany, specializing extensively in medical research with a particular focus on hepatitis viruses. Their primary field of study is Medicine, encompassing 32 publications, with significant contributions to epidemiology, hepatology, immunology, health, and molecular biology.

Their research topics prominently include:

  • Hepatitis B Virus Studies
  • Hepatitis C Virus Research
  • Hepatitis Viruses Studies and Epidemiology
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Immunotherapy and Immune Responses
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • Vaccines and Immunoinformatics Approaches

Frequent publication venues for Wolfram H. Gerlich comprise:

  • Virus Genes
  • Journal of Hepatology
  • Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz
  • EBioMedicine
  • Vaccines

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Gerlich are:

  • "Composition of HBsAg is predictive of HBsAg loss during treatment in patients with HBeAg-positive chronic hepatitis B," 2020, Journal of Hepatology
  • "Peculiarities in the designations of hepatitis B virus genes, their products, and their antigenic specificities: a potential source of misunderstandings," 2020, Virus Genes
  • "Efficacy of Birth Dose Vaccination in Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission of Hepatitis B: A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Engerix-B and Sci-B-Vac," 2021, Vaccines
  • "A Novel Insertion in the Hepatitis B Virus Surface Protein Leading to Hyperglycosylation Causes Diagnostic and Immune Escape," 2023, Viruses
  • "Hepatitis-B-Impfstoffe - Geschichte, Erfolge, Herausforderungen und Perspektiven," 2022, Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz

Collaborations have frequently been maintained with several co-authors, including:

  • Dieter Glebe
  • Felix Lehmann
  • Christian G. Schüttler
  • Heiko Slanina
  • John Ziebuhr

Best Publications

  • Large surface proteins of hepatitis B virus containing the pre-s sequence.

    K H Heermann;U Goldmann;W Schwartz;T Seyffarth

  • Statements from the Taormina expert meeting on occult hepatitis B virus infection.

    Giovanni Raimondo;Jean Pierre Allain;Maurizia R. Brunetto;Marie Annick Buendia

  • Short statement of the first European Consensus Conference on the treatment of chronic hepatitis B and C in HIV co-infected patients.

    Alfredo Alberti;Nathan Clumeck;Simon Collins;Wolfram Gerlich

  • Nucleic Acid Testing to Detect HBV Infection in Blood Donors

    Susan L. Stramer;Ulrike Wend;Daniel Candotti;Gregory A. Foster

  • Hepatitis delta virus: protein composition of delta antigen and its hepatitis B virus-derived envelope.

    F Bonino;K H Heermann;M Rizzetto;W H Gerlich

  • Medical Virology of Hepatitis B: how it began and where we are now

    Wolfram H Gerlich

  • Phosphorylation-dependent Binding of Hepatitis B Virus Core Particles to the Nuclear Pore Complex

    Michael Kann;Beate Sodeik;Angelika Vlachou;Wolfram H. Gerlich

  • Serological pattern "anti-HBc alone": report on a workshop.

    P. Grob;W. Jilg;H. Bornhak;G. Gerken

  • An international collaborative study to establish a World Health Organization international standard for hepatitis B virus DNA nucleic acid amplification techniques

    J. Saldanha;W. Gerlich;N. Lelie;P. Dawson

  • Hepatitis B virus contains protein attached to the 5′ terminus of its complete DNA strand

    Wolfram H. Gerlich;William S. Robinson

  • Mapping of the Hepatitis B Virus Attachment Site by Use of Infection-Inhibiting preS1 Lipopeptides and Tupaia Hepatocytes

    Dieter Glebe;Stephan Urban;Eva V Knoop;Nilgün Cag

  • Variant of hepatitis B virus with primary resistance to adefovir

    Oliver Schildgen;Hueseyin Sirma;Anneke Funk;Cynthia Olotu

  • Secretion of human hepatitis B virus is inhibited by the imino sugar N-butyldeoxynojirimycin.

    Timothy M. Block;Xuanyong Lu;Frances M. Platt;Graham R. Foster

  • Pre-s1 antigen-dependent infection of Tupaia hepatocyte cultures with human hepatitis B virus

    Dieter Glebe;Mehriar Aliakbari;Peter Krass;Eva V. Knoop

  • Hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections in health care workers (HCWs): guidelines for prevention of transmission of HBV and HCV from HCW to patients.

    RN Gunson;D Shouval;M Roggendorf;H Zaaijer

  • Bats carry pathogenic hepadnaviruses antigenically related to hepatitis B virus and capable of infecting human hepatocytes

    Jan Felix Drexler;Andreas Geipel;Alexander König;Victor M. Corman

  • Suppression of hepatitis B virus enhancer 1 and 2 by hepatitis C virus core protein.

    Christian G Schüttler;Nicola Fiedler;Katja Schmidt;Reinald Repp

  • Effect of core protein phosphorylation by protein kinase C on encapsidation of RNA within core particles of hepatitis B virus.

    M Kann;W H Gerlich

  • Mutations of the core promoter and response to interferon treatment in chronic replicative hepatitis B

    A. Erhardt;U. Reineke;D. Blondin;W.H. Gerlich

  • Identification of a new hepatitis B virus (HBV) genotype from Brazil that expresses HBV surface antigen subtype adw4

    Heike Naumann;Stephan Schaefer;Clara Fumiko Tachibana Yoshida;Ana Maria Coimbra Gaspar

  • [Prophylaxis, diagnosis and therapy of hepatitis B virus infection - the German guideline].

    M. Cornberg;U. Protzer;J. Petersen;H. Wedemeyer

Frequent Co-Authors

Dieter Glebe
Dieter Glebe University of Giessen
Detlev H. Krüger
Detlev H. Krüger Charité - University Medicine Berlin
David F. Stroncek
David F. Stroncek National Institutes of Health
Sébastien Lacroix-Desmazes
Sébastien Lacroix-Desmazes Sorbonne University
Michel D. Kazatchkine
Michel D. Kazatchkine Université Paris Cité
Jagadeesh Bayry
Jagadeesh Bayry Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad
Srini V. Kaveri
Srini V. Kaveri Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Helga Meisel
Helga Meisel Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Hans Will
Hans Will Heinrich-Pette-Institute
Michael Roggendorf
Michael Roggendorf Technical University of Munich

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