A5061540049- Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
- Leptospirosis research and findings
- Animal Virus Infections Studies
- Veterinary medicine and infectious diseases
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Viral Infections and Immunology Research
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Plant and animal studies
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Vector-borne infectious diseases
- Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments
- Humic Substances and Bio-Organic Studies
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety
2017-2025
Gesundheit Österreich
2017-2021
University of Graz
2020
University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
2008-2018
Porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED) is an acute and highly contagious enteric disease of swine caused by the eponymous virus (PEDV) which belongs to genus Alphacoronavirus within Coronaviridae family. Following disastrous outbreaks in Asia United States, PEDV has been detected also Europe. In order better understand overall situation, molecular epidemiology, factors that might influence most variable impact; 40 samples from feces were collected different PED Germany other European countries...
The European subtype of tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV-Eur; species Orthoflavivirus encephalitidis, family Flaviviridae) was the only flavivirus present in central Europe known to cause neurologic disease humans and several animal species. Here, we report a isolated from Alpine chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra rupicapra) with attached ticks, over wide area Alps. Cases were detected 2017 Salzburg, Austria, 2023 Lombardy Piedmont, Italy. strains exhibit 94.8–97.3% nucleotide identities each...
Effective vaccines against porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV), especially highly pathogenic (HP) PRRSV are still missing. The objective of this study was to evaluate the protective efficacy an experimental live attenuated 2 vaccine, composed two strains, heterologous challenge with a Vietnamese HP field strain. For reason, 20 negative piglets were divided into groups. pigs group 1 vaccinated remained unvaccinated. All received intranasal on day 0 (42 days after...
Transmission mitigation of SARS-CoV-2 requires the availability accurate and sensitive detection methods. There are several commercial ad hoc molecular diagnostic kits currently on market, many which have been evaluated by different groups. However, in low resource settings cost these can be a limiting factor for laboratories. In such cases alternatives need to identified. With this mind, eight reverse transcription quantitative real-time PCR (RT-qPCR) master mixes from Applied Biosystems...
Leptospiraceae comprise a diverse family of spirochetal bacteria, which many are involved in infectious diseases animals and humans. Local leptospiral diversity domestic is often poorly understood. Here we describe the incidental detection Leptospira (L.) licerasiae an Austrian pig.
Leptospira spp. cause the zoonotic disease leptospirosis, which occurs in numerous mammalians worldwide. Isolation is still important for serotyping and genotyping of Leptospira, turn essential epidemiological surveillance leptospirosis development diagnostic tests vaccines. However, isolation from clinical specimens inherently insensitive. This study was conducted to examine influence selective agents, sample filtration, pH use phosphate buffered saline (PBS) buffer storage improve success...
Leptospira is a pathogen involved in fertility problems pigs. Nevertheless, little information available on pathogenicity, transmission, tissue tropism, and immune response. The objective of this preliminary study was to induce diagnostically detectable infection naïve gilts using interrogans serovar Icterohaemorrhagiae gain the knowledge required for designing large-scale trial. Eight seronegative fertile were divided into three groups: control (n = 2), challenge 3; 10 mL 108 leptospires/mL...
Bee viruses pose a considerable risk for the health of honeybee colonies all over world. In this project we aim to collect representative data eight bee in Austrian identify most problematic virus species. Additionally, want raise awareness beekeepers infections and encourage them integrate preventive measures into their beekeeping routine. September 2018, 198 sampled bees from five sent living AGES (Austrian Agency Health Food Safety Ltd.) analysis. Bees were killed by freezing upon arrival...
In December 2019, the People's Republic of China and World Health Organization first reported on a cluster pneumonia with an unknown cause. Nine months later more than 1.4 million people have died from COVID 19. this work, effects 19 pandemic five nursing homes in Austria, which cared for 889 residents half 2020, were examined. The research question was whether measures taken appropriate to prevent outbreak within individual facilities. To detect previously unrecognized infections, present...