Christian heinrich maria drosten born 1972 in lingen is a german virologist whose research focus is on novel viruses emergent viruses. In june 1978, it was returned to the cas and renamed wuhan institute of virology. Program registration still for eqa term june 2020 shipment date of the preponed eqa scheme. Diagnostic detection of wuhan coronavirus 2019 by realtime. University hospital lmu munich, munich, germany camilla rothe, m. The sequence of the complete genome of sarscov was determined, and the initial characterization of the viral genome is presented in this report. Performance of the novel qiagen artus qsrgq viral load. The rnasynthesizing machinery of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus sarscov is composed of 16 nonstructural proteins nsp116 encoded by orf1a1b. Jones 1,2, barbara muhlemann 1,3, talitha veith 1,3, marta zuchowski 4, jorg hofmann 4, angela stein 4, anke edelmann 4, victor max corman 1,3, christian drosten 1,3 affiliations. Evidence that tmprss2 activates the severe acute respiratory. Coronavirus nsp10, a critical cofactor for activation of. Crimeancongo hemorrhagic fever cchf is a severe viral disease transmitted to humans by tick bite or contact with blood. During the covid19 pandemic, drosten came to national prominence as an expert on the implications and actions required to combat the outbreak in germany. Drexler jf, glozarausch f, glende j, corman vm, muth d, goettsche m, et al.
Christian drosten hat sarscov2 so gut erforscht wie kaum ein anderer. The 148amino acid nsp10 subunit contains two zinc fingers and is known to interact with both nsp14 and nsp16, stimulating their respective 3. Joint meeting of the german research platform for zoonoses and the research network of zoonotic infectious diseases martin h. The program will have plenary sessions on themes that we feel will be informative and inspiring to virologists from all areas of expertise, as well as sessions for. Improved detection of lassa virus by reverse transcription. Christian heinrich maria drosten 1972, lingen ems is een duits viroloog. Christian drosten wikimili, the best wikipedia reader. No significant difference between children and adults. An analysis of sarscov2 viral load by patient age charite.
Daniela niemeyer this changed coronavirus eqa scheme will be preponed to spring 2020 and replaces the announced eqa scheme shipment of june 2020. Christian drosten institute of virology university of bonn medical centre sigmund freudstr. Mitentdeckern of the sars virus, institute of virology at the university hospital bonn, germany. Dvv, german association for the control of virus diseases. Program program we aim to convene scientists from across the virosphere, ranging from basic to clinical virology, mixing medical, veterinary, wildlife, invertebrate and plant virology.
Realtime rtpcr is widely deployed in diagnostic virology. Followup on diagnostic proficiency of laboratories. Institute of virology, chariteuniversitatsmedizin berlin, corporate member of freie. Identification of a novel coronavirus in patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome. Coronavirus update podcast mit virologe christian drosten. Christian heinrich maria drosten born 1972 is a german virologist whose research focus is. Nicolas ruggli, ivi classical swine fever virus, a smart manipulator of the host 10. We compared two novel qiagen qsrgq viral load assays with the established abbott realti m e assays on a highly diversified panel of 121 human immunodeficiency virus hiv and 107 hepatitis c virus hcv specimens. Detection of 2019 novel coronavirus 2019ncov by realtime rt.
Hospital wuhan institute of virology, chinese academy of sciences, china. Virological assessment of hospitalized patients with covid2019. Kerstin gnirss, daniela niemeyer, heike schneider, christian drosten, stefan pohlmann. The genome of sarscov is 29,727 nucleotides in length and has 11 open reading frames, and its genome.
Hoelscher, tobias bleicker, sebastian bruenink, julia schneider, rosina ehmann, katrin zwirglmaier, christian drosten, clemens wendtner. Kindergarten kg, grade school gs, highschool hs, etc. The quantifications correlated well for all hiv and hcv types, but qiagen yielded higher hcv concentrations than abbott, predominantly in genotypes 4 and 5. Laboratory readiness and response for novel coronavirus.
Duitsland bereidt zich voor op tweede, zwaardere golf van coronavirus. Characterization of a novel coronavirus associated with. Two years after the first external quality assurance study on bioterrorismrelevant viruses, we have conducted a followup study on orthopoxvirus detection by pcr. The natural host of lassa virus is the small rodent mastomys natalensis, which lives close to human settlements. Thirtythree laboratories 27 european, 4 australasian, and 2 american participated. Lassa virus may also be transmitted from human to human, which. Clinical presentation and virological assessment of hospitalized. The children are of an analysis in germany, according to the present coronavirus pandemic, probably as contagious as adults. Samples contained 0 to 40,000,000 dna copies of lyophilized monkeypox, cowpox, and vaccinia virus per ml. Christian drosten is head of the institute of virology at the university of bonn medical centre, one of germanys largest medical virology centres. Virologe christian drosten zum coronavirus youtube. From 1994, he studied medicine at the johann wolfgang goethe university frankfurt am main and completed his third state examination in may 2000.
An estimated 300,000 cases of lassa fever occur annually. Corman, 4, 5 anna papa, 6 remi charrel, 7 christian drosten, 4, 5 marion koopmans, 2 katrin leitmeyer, 3 and on behalf of evdlabnet and erlinet 8. Christian heinrich maria drosten born 1972 is a german virologist whose research focus is on novel viruses emergent viruses. Diagnostic detection of wuhan coronavirus 2019 by real.
Coronavirus disease 2019 covid19 is an acute respiratory tract infection that emerged in late 20191,2. From 2007, drosten headed the institute of virology at university hospital bonn. An analysis of sarscov2 viral load by patient age terry c. Christian drosten, institute of virology, university of bonn medical centre d merscoronavirus ecology and epidemiology 10. During the 20192020 coronavirus pandemic, drosten came to national prominence as an expert on the implications and actions required to combat the outbreak in germany. A n a n a l ysi s o f s a r s c o v 2 vi ra l l o a d b y p a t i e n t a g e t e rry c. Lassa virus is a negativestrand rna virus that belongs to the family arenaviridae. Broberg, 3 bart haagmans, 2 adam meijer, 1 victor m. A n a n a l ysi s o f s a r s c o v 2 vi ra l l o a d b. Viral load and crimeancongo hemorrhagic fever to the editor. In march 2003, a novel coronavirus sarscov was discovered in association with cases of severe acute respiratorysyndrome sars.
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