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Tsagkaris, Christos; Rueger, Matthias; Tschudi, Samuel B; Dreher, Thomas (2024). White Coats at a Crossroads: Hygiene, Infection Risk, and Patient Trust in Healthcare Attire-An Umbrella Review with Quantitative Synthesis and Stress, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats Analysis. Microorganisms, 12(12):2659.
Ravasi, Damiana; Schnyder, Manuela; Guidi, Valeria; Haye, Tim; Parrondo Monton, Diego; Flacio, Eleonora (2024). Exploring Emerging Challenges: Survey on Phlebotomine Sand Flies and Leishmania infantum at the Northern Endemic Border in Europe. Pathogens, 13(12):1074.
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Zobrist, Yannik; Doulberis, Michael; Biedermann, Luc; Leventhal, Gabriel E; Rogler, Gerhard (2024). Anthocyanin-Rich Extract Mitigates the Contribution of the Pathobiont Genus Haemophilus in Mild-to-Moderate Ulcerative Colitis Patients. Microorganisms, 12(11):2376.
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Stephan, Roger; Horlbog, Jule Anna; Nüesch-Inderbinen, Magdalena; Dhima, Nicola (2024). Outbreak of Listeriosis Likely Associated with Baker’s Yeast Products, Switzerland, 2022–2024. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 30(11):2424-2426.
Bertagnolio, Silvia; Dobreva, Zlatina; Centner, Chad M; Olaru, Ioana Diana; Donà, Daniele; Burzo, Stefano; Huttner, Benedikt D; Chaillon, Antoine; Gebreselassie, Nebiat; Wi, Teodora; Hasso-Agopsowicz, Mateusz; Allegranzi, Benedetta; Sati, Hatim; Ivanovska, Verica; Kothari, Kavita U; Balkhy, Hanan H; Cassini, Alessandro; Hamers, Raph L; WHO Research Agenda for AMR in Human Health Collaborators; et al; Clack, Lauren (2024). WHO global research priorities for antimicrobial resistance in human health. The Lancet Microbe, 5(11):100902.
Leitner, Lorenz; McCallin, Shawna (2024). Guiding phage therapy with genomic surveillance. Nature Microbiology, 9(11):2799-2800.
Zingg, Sandra; Kuster, Sabine; von Rotz, Matthias; Portmann, Aurore; Egli, Adrian; Seth-Smith, Helena M B; Schlaepfer, Pascal; Goldenberger, Daniel; Bassetti, Stefano; Marsch, Stephan; Pargger, Hans; Kuehl, Richard; Tschudin-Sutter, Sarah (2024). Outbreak with OXA-23-producing Acinetobacter baumannii in a COVID-19 ICU cohort: unraveling routes of transmission. Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 13(1):127.
Kodde, Cathrin; Hohenstein, Sven; Nachtigall, Irit; Cavalli, Yvonne; Schuepbach, Reto; Graf, Raphael; Bollmann, Andreas; Kuhlen, Ralf (2024). Comparison of SARS-CoV-2 related in-hospital mortality, ICU admission and mechanical ventilation of 1.4 million patients in Germany and Switzerland, 2019 to 2022. Infection:Epub ahead of print.
Motos, Ghislain; Schaub, Aline; David, Shannon C; Costa, Laura; Terrettaz, Céline; Kaltsonoudis, Christos; Glas, Irina; Klein, Liviana K; Bluvshtein, Nir; Luo, Beiping; Violaki, Kalliopi; Pohl, Marie O; Hugentobler, Walter; Krieger, Ulrich K; Pandis, Spyros N; Stertz, Silke; Peter, Thomas; Kohn, Tamar; Nenes, Athanasios (2024). Dependence of aerosol-borne influenza A virus infectivity on relative humidity and aerosol composition. Frontiers in Microbiology, 15:1484992.
Wolfensberger, Aline; Désiron, Juliette C; Domenech-Jakob, Beatrice; Petko, Dominik; Zingg, Walter (2024). To see, or not to see… pathogens in virtual reality hand hygiene training. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, 45(10):1202-1207.
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Karakus, Umut; Sempere Borau, Milagros; Martínez-Barragán, Patricia; von Kempis, Josephine; Yildiz, Soner; Arroyo-Fernández, Laura M; Pohl, Marie O; Steiger, Julia A; Glas, Irina; Hunziker, Annika; García-Sastre, Adolfo; Stertz, Silke (2024). MHC class II proteins mediate sialic acid independent entry of human and avian H2N2 influenza A viruses. Nature Microbiology, 9(10):2626-2641.
Cherrak, Yassine; Salazar, Miguel Angel; Näpflin, Nicolas; Malfertheiner, Lukas; Herzog, Mathias K-M; Schubert, Christopher; von Mering, Christian; Hardt, Wolf-Dietrich (2024). Non-canonical start codons confer context-dependent advantages in carbohydrate utilization for commensal E. coli in the murine gut. Nature Microbiology, 9(10):2696-2709.
Bausch, Severin; Dräger, Sarah; Charitos-Fragkakis, Panteleimon; Egli, Adrian; Moser, Stephan; Hinic, Vladimira; Kuehl, Richard; Bassetti, Stefano; Siegemund, Martin; Rentsch, Katharina M; Hermann, Laura; Schöning, Verena; Hammann, Felix; Sendi, Parham; Osthoff, Michael (2024). Target Attainment and Population Pharmacokinetics of Cefazolin in Patients with Invasive Staphylococcus aureus Infections: A Prospective Cohort Study. Antibiotics, 13(10):928.
Tarrah, Armin; Meng, Lu; Tasara, Taurai; Gupta, Tanushree B (2024). Editorial: Impact of dairy farming on the safety of raw milk and milk products. Frontiers in Microbiology, 15:1491295.
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Attrah, Mustafa; Schärer, Milo R; Esposito, Mauro; Gionchetta, Giulia; Bürgmann, Helmut; Lens, Piet N L; Fenner, Kathrin; van de Vossenberg, Jack; Robinson, Serina L (2024). Disentangling abiotic and biotic effects of treated wastewater on stream biofilm resistomes enables the discovery of a new planctomycete beta-lactamase. Microbiome, 12(1):164.
Wissmann, Ramona; Kümmerlen, Dolf; Echtermann, Thomas (2024). Trends in Antimicrobial Usage on Swiss Pig Farms from 2018 to 2021: Based on an Electronic Treatment Journal. Antibiotics, 13(9):831.
Stevens, Marc J A; Horlbog, Jule Anna; Diethelm, Andrea; Stephan, Roger; Nüesch-Inderbinen, Magdalena (2024). Characteristics and comparative genome analysis of Yersinia enterocolitica and related species associated with human infections in Switzerland 2019–2023. Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 123:105652.
Bajka, Anahita; Said, Sadiq; Quiblier, Chantal; Schulthess, Bettina; Reinhold, Ilana; Barthelmes, Daniel; Zweifel, Sandrine Anne; Blaser, Frank (2024). Long-Term Prevalence of Fungal Keratitis at a Swiss Tertiary Eye Clinic. Microorganisms, 12(8):1637.
Tatham, Lee; Kipar, Anja; Sharp, Jo; Kijak, Edyta; Herriott, Joanne; Neary, Megan; Box, Helen; Gallardo Toledo, Eduardo; Valentijn, Anthony; Cox, Helen; Pertinez, Henry; Curley, Paul; Arshad, Usman; Rajoli, Rajith Kumar Reddy; Rannard, Steve; Stewart, James P; Owen, Andrew (2024). Ronapreve (REGN-CoV; casirivimab and imdevimab) reduces the viral burden and alters the pulmonary response to the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant (B.1.617.2) in K18-hACE2 mice using an experimental design reflective of a treatment use case. Microbiology Spectrum, 12(8):e0391623.
Burch, Andrea R; Ledergerber, Bruno; Ringer, Martin; Padrutt, Maria; Reiber, Claudine; Mayer, Fabienne; Zinkernagel, Annelies S; Eberhard, Nadia; Kaelin, Marisa B; Hasse, Barbara (2024). Improving antimicrobial treatment in terms of antimicrobial stewardship and health costs by an OPAT service. Infection, 52(4):1367-1376.
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Bracha, Shahar; Johnson, Hannah J; Pranckevicius, Nicole A; Catto, Francesca; Economides, Athena E; Litvinov, Sergey; Hassi, Karoliina; Rigoli, Marco Tullio; Cheroni, Cristina; Bonfanti, Matteo; Valenti, Alessia; Stucchi, Sarah; Attreya, Shruti; Ross, Paul D; Walsh, Daniel; Malachi, Nati; Livne, Hagay; Eshel, Reut; Krupalnik, Vladislav; Levin, Doron; Cobb, Stuart; Koumoutsakos, Petros; Caporale, Nicolò; Testa, Giuseppe; Aguzzi, Adriano; Koshy, Anita A; Sheiner, Lilach; Rechavi, Oded (2024). Engineering Toxoplasma gondii secretion systems for intracellular delivery of multiple large therapeutic proteins to neurons. Nature Microbiology, 9(8):2051-2072.
Mills, Dominic Christopher; Huder, Jon Barduot; Bloemberg, Guido Vincent; Huber, Michael (2024). Comparison of three cartridge-based platforms for syndromic testing for respiratory viruses. Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease, 109(3):116308.
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de Miranda, Luisa Helena Monteiro; Santiago, Marta de Almeida; Frankenfeld, Julia; Reis, Erica Guerino dos; Menezes, Rodrigo Caldas; Pereira, Sandro Antonio; Gremião, Isabella Dib Ferreira; Hofmann-Lehmann, Regina; Conceição-Silva, Fátima (2024). Neutrophil Oxidative Burst Profile Is Related to a Satisfactory Response to Itraconazole and Clinical Cure in Feline Sporotrichosis. Journal of Fungi, 10(6):422.
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van Ackeren, Vanessa; Schmutz, Stefan; Pichler, Ian; Ziltener, Gabriela; Zaheri, Maryam; Kufner, Verena; Huber, Michael (2024). Retrospective Genotyping of Enteroviruses Using a Diagnostic Nanopore Sequencing Workflow. Pathogens, 13(5):390.
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Jeevannavar, Aditya; Narwani, Anita; Matthews, Blake; Spaak, Piet; Brantschen, Jeanine; Mächler, Elvira; Altermatt, Florian; Tamminen, Manu (2024). Foundation species stabilize an alternative eutrophic state in nutrient-disturbed ponds via selection on microbial community. Frontiers in Microbiology, 15:1310374.
Hannula, Liina; Kuivanen, Suvi; Lasham, Jonathan; Kant, Ravi; Kareinen, Lauri; Bogacheva, Mariia; Strandin, Tomas; Sironen, Tarja; Hepojoki, Jussi; Sharma, Vivek; Saviranta, Petri; Kipar, Anja; Vapalahti, Olli; Huiskonen, Juha T; Rissanen, Ilona (2024). Nanobody engineering for SARS-CoV-2 neutralization and detection. Microbiology Spectrum, 12(4):e0419922.
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Stevens, Marc J A; Stephan, Roger; Horlbog, Jule Anna; Cernela, Nicole; Nüesch-Inderbinen, Magdalena (2024). Whole genome sequence-based characterization of Campylobacter isolated from broiler carcasses over a three-year period in a big poultry slaughterhouse reveals high genetic diversity and a recurring genomic lineage of Campylobacter jejuni. Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 119:105578.
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