Publications 2023 (IVI)

Abdelnabi, R., Jochmans, D., Donckers, K., Trüeb, B., Ebert, N., Weynand, B., Thiel, V., and Neyts, J. (2023) Nirmatrelvir-resistant SARS-CoV-2 is efficiently transmitted in female Syrian hamsters and retains partial susceptibility to treatment. Nature Communications 14:1, 2124. (PubMed) (article)

Aboah, J., Apolloni, A., Duboz, R., Wieland, B., Kotchofa, P., Okoth, E., and Dione, M. (2023) Ex-ante impact of pest des petits ruminant control on micro and macro socioeconomic indicators in Senegal: A system dynamics modelling approach. PLoS ONE 18:7, e0287386. (PubMed) (article)

Avanthay, R.#, García-Nicolas, O., Zimmer, G., and Summerfield, A. (2023) NS1 and PA-X of H1N1/09 influenza virus act in a concerted manner to manipulate the innate immune response of porcine respiratory epithelial cells. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology 13, 1222805. (PubMed) (article)

Barut, G.T., Kreuzer, M., Bruggmann, R., Summerfield, A., and Talker, S.C. (2023) Single-cell transcriptomics reveals striking heterogeneity and functional organization of dendritic and monocytic cells in the bovine mesenteric lymph node. Frontiers in Immunology 13, 1099357. (PubMed) (article)

Bergant, V., Schnepf, D., de Andrade Krätzig, N., Hubel, P., Urban, C., Engleitner, T., Dijkman, R., Ryffel, B., Steiger, K., Knolle, P.A., Kochs, G., Rad, R., Staeheli, P., and Pichlmair, A. (2023) mRNA 3'UTR lengthening by alternative polyadenylation attenuates inflammatory responses and correlates with virulence of Influenza A virus. Nature Communications 14:1, 4906. (PubMed) (article)

Brigger, D., Guntern, P., Jonsdottir, H.R., Pennington, L.F., Weber, B., Taddeo, A., Zimmer, G., Leborgne, N.G.F., Benarafa, C., Jardetzky, T.S., and Eggel, A. (2023) Sex-specific differences in immune response to SARS-CoV-2 vaccination vanish with age. Allergy 78:6, 1683-1686. (PubMed) (article)

Brüggemann, Y., Kratzel, A.#, Almeida, L., Kelly, J.N., Thiel, V., and Pfaender, S. (2022) Conserved requirement of autophagy-related effectors during coronavirus replication. Autophagy 19:2, 731-733. (PubMed) (article)

Capoferri, G., Walti, C.S., Urwyler, P., Ragozzino, S., Passweg, J.R., Halter, J., Battegay, M., Baettig, V., Weisser, M., Arnold, B., Morin, B., Guetlin, Y., Torres, D.A., Barut, G.T., Thiel, V., Egli, A., Drexler, B., and Khanna, N. (2023) Dynamics of antibody titers to SARS-CoV-2 and clinical outcomes after sotrovimab pre-exposure prophylaxis early after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Bone Marrow Transplantation 58, 597-599. (PubMed) (article)

Chiu, W., Schepers, J., Francken, T., Vangeel, L., Abbasi, K., Jochmans, D., De Jonghe, S., Thibaut, H.J., Thiel, V., Neyts, J., Laporte, M., and Leyssen, P. (2023) Development of a robust and convenient dual-reporter high-throughput screening assay for SARS-CoV-2 antiviral drug discovery. Antiviral Research 210, 105506. (PubMed) (article)

Chui, Y.-C., Baud, D., Fahmi, A., Zumkehr, B., Vouga, M., Pomar, L., Musso, D., Thuong, B.C., Alves, M.P., and Stojanovic, M. (2023) Absence of Zika virus among pregnant women in Vietnam in 2008. Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines 9:1, 4. (PubMed) (article)

Daniels, A., Fletcher, S., Kerr, H.E.M., Kratzel, A., Pinto, R.M., Kriplani, N., Craig, N., Hastie, C.J., Davies, P., Digard, P., Thiel, V., and Tait-Burkard, C. (2023) One for all - human kidney Caki-1 cells are highly susceptible to infection with corona- and other respiratory viruses. Journal of Virology 97:9, e0055523. (PubMed) (article)

Dashraath, P., Alves, M.P., Schwartz, D.A., Nielsen-Saines, K., and Baud, D. (2023) Potential mechanisms of intrauterine transmission of monkeypox virus. The Lancet. Microbe 4:1, e14. (PubMed) (article)

de Melo, G.D., Perraud, V., Alvarez, F., Vieites-Prado, A., Kim, S., Kergoat, L., Coleon, A., Trüeb, B.S., Tichit, M., Piazza, A., Thierry, A., Hardy, D., Wolff, N., Munier, S., Koszul, R., Simon-Lorière, E., Thiel, V., Lecuit, M., Lledo, P.M., Renier, N., Larrous, F., and Bourhy, H. (2023) Neuroinvasion and anosmia are independent phenomena upon infection with SARS-CoV-2 and its variants. Nature Communications 14:1, 4485. (PubMed) (article)

Démoulins, T., Schulze, K., Ebensen, T., Techakriengkrai, N., Nedumpun, T., Englezou, P.C., Gerber, M., Hlushchuk, R., Toledo, D., Djonov, V., von Gunten, S., McCullough, K.C., Liniger, M., Guzmán, C.A., Suradhat, S., and Ruggli, N. (2023) Coatsome-replicon vehicles: Self-replicating RNA vaccines against infectious diseases. Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine 49, 102655. (PubMed) (article)

Emes, E., Wieland, B., Magnusson, U., and Dione, M. (2023) How farm practices and antibiotic use drive disease incidence in smallholder livestock farms: Evidence from a survey in Uganda. One Health 17:9, 100627. (PubMed) (article)

Emmenegger, M., De Cecco, E., Lamparter, D., Jacquat, R.P.B., Riou, J., Menges, D., Ballouz, T., Ebner, D., Schneider, M.M., Morales, I.C., Doğançay, B., Guo, J., Wiedmer, A., Domange, J., Imeri, M., Moos, R., Zografou, C., Batkitar, L., Madrigal, L., Schneider, D., Trevisan, C., Gonzalez-Guerra, A., Carrella, A., Dubach, I.L., Xu, C.K., Meisl, G., Kosmoliaptsis, V., Malinauskas, T., Burgess-Brown, N., Owens, R., Hatch, S., Mongkolsapaya, J., Screaton, G.R., Schubert, K., Huck, J.D., Liu, F., Pojer, F., Lau, K., Hacker, D., Probst-Müller, E., Cervia, C., Nilsson, J., Boyman, O., Saleh, L., Spanaus, K., von Eckardstein, A., Schaer, D.J., Ban, N., Tsai, C.J., Marino, J., Schertler, G.F.X., Ebert, N., Thiel, V., Gottschalk, J., Frey, B.M., Reimann, R.R., Hornemann, S., Ring, A.M., Knowles, T.P.J., Puhan, M.A., Althaus, C.L., Xenarios, I., Stuart, D.I., and Aguzzi, A. (2023) Continuous population-level monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence in a large European metropolitan region. iScience 26:2, 105928. (PubMed) (article)

García-Nicolás, O., Godel, A., Zimmer, G., and Summerfield, A. (2023) Macrophage phagocytosis of SARS-CoV-2-infected cells mediates potent plasmacytoid dendritic cell activation. Cellular & Molecular Immunology 20:7, 835-849. (PubMed) (article)

Gemeda, B.A., Wieland, B., Alemayehu, G., Knight-Jones, T.J.D., Wodajo, H.D., Tefera, M., Kumbe, A., Olani, A., Abera, S., and Amenu, K. (2023) Antimicrobial resistance of Escherichia coli isolates from livestock and the environment in extensive smallholder livestock production systems in Ethiopia. Antibiotics (Basel) 12:5, 941. (PubMed) (article)

Genfors, E., Lysholm, S., Moliso, M.M., Ayele, F., Wieland, B., Magnusson, U., and Båge, R. (2023) Herd health and reproductive management associated with lamb weight gain and mortality in sub-Saharan drylands - a case from Ethiopia. Tropical Animal Health and Production 55:5, 310. (PubMed) (article)

Genfors, E., Magnusson, U., Moliso, M.M., Wieland, B., König, U., Hallenberg, G.S., and Båge, R. (2023) Preventive herd management practices and their effect on lamb mortality in Ethiopia. Tropical Animal Health and Production 55:1, 42. (PubMed) (article)

Guimerà Busquets, M.G., Brown, F.V., Carpenter, S.T., Darpel, K.E., and Sanders, C.J. (2023) Visualisation of bluetongue virus in the salivary apparatus of Culicoides biting midges highlights the accessory glands as a primary arboviral infection site. Biological Procedures Online 25, 27. (PubMed) (article)

Herrero, M., Mason-D’Croz, D., Thornton, P.K., Fanzo, J., Rushton, J., Godde, C., Bellows, A., de Groot, A., Palmer, J., Chang, J., van Zanten, H., Wieland, B., DeClerck, F., Nordhagen, S., Beal, T., Gonzalez, C., and Gill, M. (2023) Livestock and Sustainable Food Systems: Status, Trends, and Priority Actions. In: Science and Innovations for Food Systems Transformation. von Braun, J., Afsana, K., Fresco, L.O., and Hassan, M.H.A. (eds.), Springer International Publishing, Cham, p. 375-399. (article)

Jochmans, D., Liu, C., Donckers, K., Stoycheva, A., Boland, S., Stevens, S.K., De Vita, C., Vanmechelen, B., Maes, P., Trüeb, B., Ebert, N., Thiel, V., De Jonghe, S., Vangeel, L., Bardiot, D., Jekle, A., Blatt, L.M., Beigelman, L., Symons, J.A., Raboisson, P., Chaltin, P., Marchand, A., Neyts, J., Deval, J., and Vandyck, K. (2023) The substitutions L50F, E166A, and L167F in SARS-CoV-2 3CLpro are selected by a protease inhibitor in vitro and confer resistance to nirmatrelvir. mBio 14:1, e0281522. (PubMed) (article)

Kahlert, C.R., Nigg, S., Onder, L., Dijkman, R., Diener, L., Vidal, A.G.J., Rodriguez, R., Vernazza, P., Thiel, V., Vidal, J.E., and Albrich, W.C. (2023) The quorum sensing com system regulates pneumococcal colonisation and invasive disease in a pseudo-stratified airway tissue model. Microbiological Research 268, 127297. (PubMed) (article)

Kristen-Burmann, C., Rogger, P., Veiga, I.B., Riebesehl, S., Rappe, J., Ebert, N., Sautter, C.A., Kelly, J.N., Stalder, H., Ehmann, R., Huber, M., Posthaus, H., Ruggli, N., Thiel, V., and Tekes, G. (2023) Reverse genetic assessment of the roles played by the spike protein and ORF3 in porcine epidemic diarrhea virus pathogenicity. Journal of Virology 97:7, e0196422. (PubMed) (article)

Kratzel, A., and Thiel, V. (2023) RTN3 and RTN4: Architects of SARS-CoV-2 replication organelles. Journal of Cell Biology 222:7, e202306020. (PubMed) (article)

Mhlekude, B., Postmus, D., Stenzel, S., Weiner, J., Jansen, J., Zapatero-Belinchón, F.J., Olmer, R., Richter, A., Heinze, J., Heinemann, N., Mühlemann, B., Schroeder, S., Jones, T.C., Müller, M.A., Drosten, C., Pich, A., Thiel, V., Martin, U., Niemeyer, D., Gerold, G., Beule, D., and Goffinet, C. (2023) Pharmacological inhibition of bromodomain and extra-terminal proteins induces an NRF-2-mediated antiviral state that is subverted by SARS-CoV-2 infection. PLoS Pathogens 19:9, e1011657. (PubMed) (article)

Nkamwesiga, J., Lumu, P., Nalumenya, D.P., Korennoy, F., Roesel, K., Wieland, B., Perez, A., Kiara, H., and Muhanguzi, D. (2023) Seroprevalence and risk factors of Peste des petits ruminants in different production systems in Uganda. Preventive Veterinary Medicine 221, 106051. (PubMed) (article)

Oba, P., Dione, M., Mwiine, F.N., Wieland, B., Erume, J., and Ouma, E. (2023) Economic losses associated with respiratory and helminth infections in domestic pigs in Lira district, Northern Uganda. Frontiers in Veterinary Science 10, 1198461. (PubMed) (article)

Oba, P., Wieland, B., Mwiine, F.N., Erume, J., and Dione, M.M. (2023) Co-infections of respiratory pathogens and gastrointestinal parasites in smallholder pig production systems in Uganda. Parasitology Research 122:4, 953-962. (PubMed) (article)

Radzikowska, U., Eljaszewicz, A., Tan, G., Stocker, N., Heider, A., Westermann, P., Steiner, S.#, Dreher, A., Wawrzyniak, P., Ruckert, B., Rodriguez-Coira, J., Zhakparov, D., Huang, M., Jakiela, B., Sanak, M., Moniuszko, M., O'Mahony, L., Jutel, M., Kebadze, T., Jackson, D.J., Edwards, M.R., Thiel, V., Johnston, S.L., Akdis, C.A., and Sokolowska, M. (2023) Rhinovirus-induced epithelial RIG-I inflammasome suppresses antiviral immunity and promotes inflammation in asthma and COVID-19. Nature Communications 14:1, 2329. (PubMed) (article)

Rosato, G., Abril, C., Hilbe, M., and Seehusen, F. (2023) A combined approach for detection of ovine small ruminant retrovirus co-infections. Viruses 15:2, 376. (PubMed) (article)

Stegmüller, S., Qi, W., Torgerson, P.R., Fraefel, C., and Kubacki, J. (2023) Hazard potential of Swiss Ixodes ricinus ticks: Virome composition and presence of selected bacterial and protozoan pathogens. PLoS ONE 18:11, e0290942. (PubMed) (article)

Stojkov, D., Claus, M.J., Kozlowski, E., Oberson, K., Schären, O.P., Benarafa, C., Yousefi, S., and Simon, H.-U. (2023) NET formation is independent of gasdermin D and pyroptotic cell death. Science Signaling 16:769, eabm0517. (PubMed) (article)

Thalmann, P., Ehrhard, S., Summerfield, A., and Ricklin, M.E (2023) Retrospective study of tick bites associated with neurological disease in a level three university hospital in Switzerland. Infectious Disease Reports 15:2, 150-157. (PubMed) (article)

Thompson, D.#, Cismaru, C.V.#, Rougier, J.S., Schwemmle, M., and Zimmer, G. (2023) The M2 proteins of bat influenza A viruses reveal atypical features compared to conventional M2 proteins. Journal of Virology 97:8, e0038823. (PubMed) (article)

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