HEV in Blood Donors in Switzerland: The Route to Safe Blood Products

Autor: Mauro Serricchio, Peter Gowland, Nadja Widmer, Martin Stolz, Christoph Niederhauser

Publikováno v: Pathogens, Vol 13, Iss 10, p 911 (2024)

The hepatitis E virus (HEV) is an emerging infectious disease with zoonotic potential, causing acute hepatitis in humans. Infections in healthy individuals are often acute, self-limiting and asymptomatic, thus leading to the underdiagnosis of HEV inf

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Epidemiology of HEV Infection in Blood Donors in Southern Switzerland

Autor: Stefano Fontana, Paolo Ripellino, Christoph Niederhauser, Nadja Widmer, Peter Gowland, Orlando Petrini, Manuela Aprile, Giorgio Merlani, Florian Bihl

Publikováno v: Microorganisms, Vol 11, Iss 10, p 2375 (2023)

From 2014 to 2016, the number of hepatitis E virus (HEV) infections in southern Switzerland increased dramatically and suggested food as a potential infection reservoir. We evaluated the effects of food control measures introduced to limit HEV infect

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Evolution of Blood Safety in Switzerland over the Last 25 Years for HIV, HCV, HBV and Treponema pallidum

Autor: Christoph Niederhauser, Caroline Tinguely, Martin Stolz, Michael Vock, Soraya Amar El Dusouqui, Peter Gowland

Publikováno v: Viruses, Vol 14, Iss 12, p 2611 (2022)

During the last few decades, efforts to increase the safety of blood and blood products have mainly focused on preventing the viral infections HCV, HIV, HBV and Treponema pallidum. The evolution of these approaches and the achieved increase in safety

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Comparison of a New IgG-EIA for the Detection of Anti-Plasmodium Antibodies with Two Currently Used Assays

Autor: Christoph Niederhauser, Jens Dreier, Beatrice Nickel, Caroline Tinguely, Hanspeter Marti, Jens Miguel Warnecke, Julia Maria Klemens, Peter Gowland, Tanja Vollmer

Publikováno v: Transfus Med Hemother
Niederhauser, Christoph; Tinguely, Caroline; Dreier, Jens; Vollmer, Tanja; Marti, Hans Peter; Nickel, Beatrice; Klemens, Julia Maria; Warnecke, Jens Miguel; Gowland, Peter (2021). Comparison of a New IgG-EIA for the Detection of Anti-Plasmodium Antibodies with Two Currently Used Assays. Transfusion medicine and hemotherapy, 48(5), pp. 265-271. Karger 10.1159/000515842
Transfusion medicine and hemotherapy, 48(5):265-271

Background: Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Plasmodium. As migration of populations from endemic areas to Europe and overseas recreational travel to endemic regions increase, there is also a g

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https://doi.org/10.1159/000515842

A multidimensional cross-sectional analysis of COVID-19 seroprevalence among a police officer cohort: The PoliCOV-19 study

Autor: Parham Sendi, Manuel R. Blum, Manon Wider, Nadja Widmer, Peter Gowland, Rossella Baldan, Cédric Maillat, Annina Elisabeth Büchi, Caroline Tinguely, Elitza S. Theel, Ronald Dijkman, Christoph Niederhauser, Marc Thierstein, Dominik Güntensperger, Brigitta Gahl, Elie F. Berbari

OBJECTIVETo determine the seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in employees of the Cantonal Police Bern, Switzerland; to investigate individual and work-related factors associated with seropositivity; and to assess the neutralizing capacity of the

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https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.09.21261789