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- Hofmann J, Ulrich RG, Mehl C, Drewes S, Esser J, Loyen M, Zeichhardt H, Schoppmeyer K, Essen L, Güthoff W, Krüger DH. (2024). Hantavirus Disease Cluster Caused by Seoul Virus, Germany. Emerg Infect Dis. 2024 Jan;30(1):133-135. doi: 10.3201/eid3001.230855.PMID: 38147030
- Buchta C, Zeichhardt H, Osterman A, Perrone LA, Griesmacher A. (2023). Do not blindly trust negative diagnostic test results! Lancet Microbe. 2023 Nov 14:S2666-5247(23)00340-3. doi: 10.1016/S2666-5247(23)00340-3. Online ahead of print. PMID: 37977166
- Valiente E, Falak S, Kummrow A, Kammel M, Corman VM, Macdonald R, Zeichhardt H. (2023). Correlation of SARS-CoV-2 RNA and nucleocapsid concentrations in samples used in INSTAND external quality assessment schemes BMC Res Notes. 2023 Sep 11;16(1):210. doi: 10.1186/s13104-023-06497-7. PMID: 37697348
- Vierbaum L, Wojtalewicz N, Grunert HP, Zimmermann A, Scholz A, Goseberg S, Kaiser P, Duehring U, Drosten C, Corman V, Niemeyer D, Rabenau HF, Obermeier M, Nitsche A, Michel J, Puyskens A, Huggett JF, O'Sullivan DM, Busby E, Cowen S, Vallone PM, Cleveland MH, Falak S, Kummrow A, Schellenberg I, Zeichhardt H, Kammel M. Results of German external quality assessment schemes for SARS-CoV-2 antigen detection. Sci Rep. 2023 Aug 14;13(1):13206. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-40330-2. PMID: 37580353
- Buchta C, Zeichhardt H, Badrick T, Coucke W, Wojtalewicz N, Griesmacher A, Aberle SW, Schellenberg I, Jacobs E, Nordin G, Schweiger C, Schwenoha K, Luppa PB, Gassner UM, Wagner T, Kammel M. Classification of "Near-patient" and "Point-of-Care" SARS-CoV-2 Nucleic Acid Amplification Test Systems and a first approach to evaluate their analytical independence of operator activities. J Clin Virol. 2023 Jun 8;165:105521. doi: 10.1016/j.jcv.2023.105521. Epub 2023 Jun 8. PMID: 37302248
- Buchta C, Zeichhardt H, Aberle SW, Camp JV, Görzer I, Weseslindtner L, Puchhammer-Stöckl E, Huf W, Benka B, Allerberger F, Mielke M, Griesmacher A, Müller MM, Schellenberg I, Kammel M. (2023). Design of external quality assessment schemes and definition of the roles of their providers in future epidemics. Lancet Microbe. 2023 May 5: S2666-5247(23)00072-1. doi: 10.1016/S2666-5247(23)00072-1. Online ahead of print. PMID: 37156257
- Vierbaum L, Wojtalewicz N, Kaufmann A, Goseberg S, Kaiser P, Grunert HP, Dühring U, Zimmermann A, Scholz A, Michel J, Nitsche A, Rabenau HF, Obermeier M, Schellenberg I, Zeichhardt H, Kammel M. (2023). Results of the first German external quality assessment scheme for the detection of monkeypox virus DNA. PLoS One. 2023 Apr 28;18(4):e0285203. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0285203. eCollection 2023. PMID: 37115793
- Buchta C, Zeichhardt H, Griesmacher A, Schellenberg I, Kammel M. (2023). Ignoring SARS-CoV-2 testing performance during COVID-19. Lancet Microbe. Lancet Microbe. 2023 May;4(5):e296. doi: 10.1016/S2666-5247(23)00030-7. Epub 2023 Feb 3. PMID: 36746168.
- Mercer T, Almond N, Chain P, Crone M, Deshpande A, Eveleigh D, Fuchs S, Garlick R, Huggett J, Kammel M, Li P-E, Milavec M, Marlowe E, O'Sullivan D, Page M, Pestano G, Suliman S, Simen B, Sninsky J, Sopchak L, Tato C, Vandesompele J, Vallone P, White T, Zeichhardt H, Salit M (2022). A roadmap to better COVID-19 testing from the Coronavirus Standards Working Group. Research Gate, Preprint DOI:10.21203/rs.3.rs-1066221/v1; Nature Biotechnology, 2022 Nov;40(11):1563-1568. doi: 10.1038/s41587-022-01538-1. PMID: 36323792
- LWindsor WJ, Roell Y, Tucker H, Cheng CA, Suliman S, Peek LJ, Pestano GA, Lee WT, Zeichhardt H, Lamb MM, Kammel M, Wang H, Kedl R, Rester C, Morrison TE, Davenport BJ, Carson K, Yates J, Howard K, Kulas K, Walt DR, Dafni A, Taylor D, Chu M. (2022). Harmonization of Multiple SARS-CoV-2 Reference Materials Using the WHO IS (NIBSC 20/136): Results and Implications. Harmonization of Multiple SARS-CoV-2 Reference Materials Using the WHO IS (NIBSC 20/136): Results and Implications. Front Microbiol. 2022 May 30;13:893801. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.893801. eCollection 2022. PMID: 35707164
- Vierbaum L, Wojtalewicz N, Grunert HP, Lindig V, Duehring U, Drosten C, Corman V, Niemeyer D, Ciesek S, Rabenau HF, Berger A, Obermeier M, Nitsche A, Michel J, Mielke M, Huggett J, O'Sullivan D, Busby E, Cowen S, Vallone PM, Cleveland MH, Falak S, Kummrow A, Keller T, Schellenberg I, Zeichhardt H, Kammel M. (2022). RNA reference materials with defined viral RNA loads of SARS-CoV-2-A useful tool towards a better PCR assay harmonization. PLoS One. 2022 Jan 20;17(1): e0262656. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0262656. eCollection 2022. PMID: 35051208
- Mikaty G, Matheus S, Donoso Mantke O, McCulloch E, Zeichhardt H, Manuguerra JC; MediLabSecure. (2021). Evaluation of the diagnostic capacities for emerging arboviral diseases in the international network MediLabSecure from 2014 to 2018 - Importance of external quality assessments. J Infect Public Health. 2022 Feb;15(2):203-209. doi: 10.1016/j.jiph.2021.12.005. Epub 2021 Dec 9. PMID: 35038668
- Evans D, Cowen S, Kammel M, O'Sullivan DM, Stewart G, Grunert HP, Moran-Gilad J, Verwilt J, In J, Vandesompele J, Harris K, Hong KH, Storey N, Hingley-Wilson S, Dühring U, Bae YK, Foy C, Braybrook J, Zeichhardt H, Huggett JF. (2021). The dangers of using Cq to quantify nucleic acid in biological samples; a lesson from COVID-19. Clin Chem. 2021 Oct 11: hvab219.
doi: 10.1093/clinchem/hvab219. Online ahead of print. PMID: 34633030
- Mojca Milavec, Jernej Pavšič, Alexandra Bogožalec Košir, Gerwyn M Jones, Denise M O'Sullivan, Alison S Devonshire, Fran Van Heuverswyn, Maria Karczmarczyk, Jannika Neeb, Annabell Plauth, Philippe Corbisier, Heinz Schimmel, Andreas Kummrow, Jörg Neukammer, Carole A Foy, Martin Kammel, Hans-Peter Grunert, Heinz Zeichhardt, Jim F Huggett (2021). The performance of human cytomegalovirus digital PCR Reference Measurement Procedure in seven External Quality Assessment schemes over four years. Methods. 2021 Mar 31; S1046-2023(21)00090-6. doi: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2021.03.016. Online ahead of print.
PMID: 33812016
- Falak S, Macdonald R, Busby EJ, O'Sullivan DM, Milavec M, Plauth A, Kammel M, Zeichhardt H, Grunert HP, Kummrow A, Huggett JF. (2021). An assessment of the reproducibility of reverse transcription digital PCR quantification of HIV-1. Methods. 2021 Mar 12;
S1046-2023(21)00072-4. doi: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2021.03.006. Online ahead of print. PMID: 33722693
- Samreen Falak, Rainer Macdonald, Eloise J Busby, Denise M O'Sullivan, Mojca Milavec, Annabell Plauth, Martin Kammel, Heinz Zeichhardt, Hans-Peter Grunert, Andreas Kummrow, Jim F Huggett (2021). An assessment of the reproducibility of reverse transcription digital PCR quantification of HIV-1. Methods. 2021 Mar 12; S1046-2023(21)00072-4. doi: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2021.03.006. Online ahead of print. PMID: 33722693
- Sarrazin C, Zimmermann T, Berg T, Hinrichsen H, Mauss S, Wedemeyer H, Zeuzem S; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gastroenterologie, Verdauungs- und Stoffwechselkrankheiten (DGVS); Deutsche Gesellschaft für Pathologie e. V. (DGP) und Bundesverband Deutscher Pathologen (BDP); Deutsche Leberstiftung; Gesellschaft für Virologie e. V. (GfV); Gesellschaft für Pädiatrische Gastroenterologie und Ernährung (GPGE); Österreichische Gesellschaft für Gastroenterologie und Hepatologie (ÖGGH); Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Gastroenterologie (SGG); Deutsche Transplantationsgesellschaft e. V. (DTG); Deutsche Leberhilfe e. V.; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Infektiologie e. V. (DGI); Deutsche Gesellschaft für Suchtmedizin e. V. (DGS); Deutsche AIDS-Gesellschaft e. V. (DAIG); Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft niedergelassener Ärzte für die Versorgung HIV-Infizierter (DAGNÄ); Robert Koch-Institut (RKI);
Collaborators:. M Backmund, S Beckebaum, C Berg, C Boesecke, P Buggisch, S Christensen, S Ciesek, M Cornberg, U Drebber, P Ferenci, M Friedrich-Rust, P Gerner, I Graziadei, M Gschwantler, H Heinzow, K Herzer, H Holzmann, D Hüppe, P Ingiliz, H Kasper, A Kautz, H Kessler, H Klinker, M Kraus, T Lang, J Langhorst, M Manns, M Melter, D Moradpour, B Müllhaupt, U Neumann, C Niederau, M Peck-Radosavljevic, J Petersen, E Pfister, U Protzer, A Rauch, J Reimer, J Rockstroh, M Schäfer, P Schirmacher, H Schmidt, J Schulze Zur Wiesch, U Spengler, R Stauber, E Steinmann, M Sterneck, C Strassburg, G Teuber, R Thimme, J Timm, M Trauner, I van Thiel, J Vermehren, M Welker, J Wiegand, S Wirth, H Zeichhardt, R Zimmermann
Prophylaxe, Diagnostik und Therapie der Hepatitis-C-Virus(HCV)-Infektion (2020).
Z Gastroenterol. 2020 Nov;58(11):1110-1131. doi: 10.1055/a-1226-0241. Epub 2020 Nov 16.
- Huggett JF, Benes V, Bustin SA, Garson JA, Harris K, Kammel M, Kubista M, McHugh TD, Moran-Gilad J, Nolan T, Pfaffl MW, Salit M, Shipley G, Vallone PM, Vandesompele J, Wittwer C, Zeichhardt H. (2020). Cautionary Note on Contamination of Reagents Used for Molecular Detection of SARS-CoV-2. Clin Chem. 2020 Nov 1;66(11):1369-1372. doi: 10.1093/clinchem/hvaa214. PMID: 32894756
- Schmidt M, Hoehl S, Berger A, Zeichhardt H, Hourfar K, Ciesek S, Seifried E. (2020). Novel multiple swab method enables high efficiency in SARS-CoV-2 screenings without loss of sensitivity for screening of a complete population. Transfusion. 2020 Jul 6:10.1111/trf.15973. doi: 10.1111/trf.15973. Online ahead of print. PMID: 32627200
- Bogožalec Košir A, Cvelbar T, Kammel M, Grunert HP, Zeichhardt H, Milavec M. (2020). Digital PCR method for detection and quantification of specific antimicrobial drug-resistance mutations in human cytomegalovirus. J Virol Methods. 2020 Jul;281:113864. doi: 10.1016/j.jviromet.2020.113864. Epub 2020 May 4. PMID: 32380093
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