Andreas Nitsche

This study reports the first detection of Nipah virus in Sri Lanka, showing genetic similarity to Indian strains and linking viral shedding to the breeding season of Pteropus medius.

This study identifies Leptospira in Sri Lankan bats, suggesting they may act as reservoirs for leptospirosis, with implications for public health.

The paper investigates how aging and viral mutations affect pan-coronavirus immunity, finding reduced T cell responses in older individuals and mutation-driven impact on humoral immunity.

MpoxRadar tracks Mpox virus mutations globally through an interactive dashboard, allowing users to analyze mutation profiles and filter data by various parameters.

The paper analyzes five Monkeypox virus genomes to identify gene duplications and losses as potential adaptations to the human host during the 2022 outbreak.

The paper describes an amplicon-based method for sequencing Monkeypox virus genomes using MinION Nanopore technology, achieving high-quality results even from samples with high Ct values.

This study compares the virome composition of different shedding routes in M. fuliginosus bats, identifying novel viruses and shedding patterns.

PathoLive detects pathogens in real-time from metagenomic data, improving speed and accuracy by prioritizing clinically relevant hits over contaminants and irrelevant sequences.

This study compares protein expression changes in SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 infected Calu-3 cells, revealing stronger interferon-stimulated gene induction by SARS-CoV-2.

The paper investigates SARS-CoV-2 entry into the CNS via the olfactory mucosa in COVID-19 patients and demonstrates neurotropism and cerebral thromboembolism.

TaxIt is an iterative pipeline for strain-level classification using MS/MS spectra, improving accuracy over non-iterative methods by incorporating strain data and abundance weighting.

The paper shows that 2019-nCoV uses ACE2 and TMPRSS2 for cell entry, identifies TMPRSS2 as a therapeutic target, and demonstrates neutralization by SARS patient serum.