Projects

The development of potent antiretroviral treatment (ART) strategies has significantly changed the face of the HIV/AIDS pandemic from a lethal disease to a chronic livable condition for infected individuals with access to care. However, in spite of ground-breaking advances in anti-HIV treatment, cure ...

With ten million cases and 1.4 million deaths in 2021 alone, Mycobacterium tuberculosis remains one of the world's most dangerous pathogens. Early diagnosis of the disease and tracking of people at increased risk of developing TB are critical to minimising infection and containing TB. The ongoing ...

Major abdominal surgery in particular is associated with high postoperative infection rates. Despite well-established surveillance systems for surgical wound infections, there is a lack of comprehensive reporting on infectious complications and the impact of the use of anti-infectives during and ...

Bacterial infections are one of the most severe complications in patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis. The immune system of this patient group is weakened due to a complex dysfunction of the immune system (cirrhosis-associated immune dysfunction, CAID). The cause of the immune system ...

Acute hepatitis is usually caused by known (hepatitis) viruses, toxic substances, or autoimmune diseases. In about 10-20 percent of cases of acute hepatitis, however, no such cause can be found. Many of these cases show laboratory or histologic evidence of a viral etiology, but the known viruses ...