Items where Author is "Pluschke, Gerd"

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Addison, Naa Okaikor and Pfau, Stefanie and Koka, Eric and Aboagye, Samuel Yaw and Kpeli, Grace and Pluschke, Gerd and Yeboah-Manu, Dorothy and Junghanss, Thomas. (2017) Assessing and managing wounds of Buruli ulcer patients at the primary and secondary health care levels in Ghana. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 11 (2). e0005331.

N'krumah, Raymond T. A. S. and Koné, Brama and Cissé, Guéladio and Tanner, Marcel and Utzinger, Jürg and Pluschke, Gerd and Tiembré, Issaka. (2017) Characteristics and epidemiological profile of Buruli ulcer in the district of Tiassalé, south Côte d'Ivoire. Acta Tropica, 175. pp. 138-144.

Lamelas, Araceli and Hauser, Julia and Dangy, Jean-Pierre and Hamid, Abdul-Wahab M. and Röltgen, Katharina and Abdul Sater, Mohamad R. and Hodgson, Abraham and Sie, Ali and Junghanss, Thomas and Harris, Simon R. and Parkhill, Julian and Bentley, Stephen D. and Pluschke, Gerd. (2017) Emergence and genomic diversification of a virulent serogroup W:ST-2881(CC175) Neisseria meningitidis clone in the African meningitis belt. Microbial genomics, 3 (8). e000120.

Owusu, Enid and Newman, Mercy J. and Akumwena, Amos and Bannerman, Elizabeth and Pluschke, Gerd. (2017) Evaluating decontamination protocols for the isolation of Mycobacterium ulcerans from swabs. BMC microbiology, 17. p. 2.

Ruf, Marie-Thérèse and Andreoli, Arianna and Vujic, Gabriel and Itin, Peter and Pluschke, Gerd and Schmid, Peter. (2017) Exudate collection using wound sponges - An easy, non-invasive and reliable method to explore protease activities in ulcers. Wound Repair and Regeneration, 25 (2). pp. 320-326.

Kpeli, Grace and Buultjens, Andrew H. and Giulieri, Stefano and Owusu-Mireku, Evelyn and Aboagye, Samuel Y. and Baines, Sarah L. and Seemann, Torsten and Bulach, Dieter and Gonçalves da Silva, Anders and Monk, Ian R. and Howden, Benjamin P. and Pluschke, Gerd and Yeboah-Manu, Dorothy and Stinear, Timothy. (2017) Genomic analysis of ST88 community-acquired methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Ghana. PeerJ, 5. e3047.

Ruf, Marie-Thérèse and Steffen, Christina and Bolz, Miriam and Schmid, Peter and Pluschke, Gerd. (2017) Infiltrating leukocytes surround early Buruli ulcer lesions, but are unable to reach the mycolactone producing mycobacteria. Virulence, 8 (8). pp. 1918-1926.

Röltgen, Katharina and Pluschke, Gerd and Johnson, Paul D. R. and Fyfe, Janet. (2017) Mycobacterium ulcerans DNA in bandicoot excreta in Buruli ulcer-endemic area, Northern Queensland, Australia. Emerging infectious diseases, 23 (12). pp. 2042-2045.

Favuzza, Paola and Guffart, Elena and Tamborrini, Marco and Scherer, Bianca and Dreyer, Anita M. and Rufer, Arne C. and Erny, Johannes and Hoernschemeyer, Joerg and Thoma, Ralf and Schmid, Georg and Gsell, Bernard and Lamelas, Araceli and Benz, Joerg and Joseph, Catherine and Matile, Hugues and Pluschke, Gerd and Rudolph, Markus G.. (2017) Structure of the malaria vaccine candidate antigen CyRPA and its complex with a parasite invasion inhibitory antibody. eLife, 6. e20383.

Bibert, Stéphanie and Bratschi, Martin W. and Aboagye, Samuel Y. and Collinet, Emilie and Scherr, Nicole and Yeboah-Manu, Dorothy and Beuret, Christian and Pluschke, Gerd and Bochud, Pierre-Yves. (2017) Susceptibility to mycobacterium ulcerans disease (buruli ulcer) is associated with IFNG and iNOS gene polymorphisms. Frontiers in Microbiology, 8. p. 1903.

Cornick, Jennifer E. and Tastan Bishop, Özlem and Yalcin, Feyruz and Kiran, Anmol M. and Kumwenda, Benjamin and Chaguza, Chrispin and Govindpershad, Shanil and Ousmane, Sani and Senghore, Madikay and du Plessis, Mignon and Pluschke, Gerd and Ebruke, Chinelo and McGee, Lesley and Sigaùque, Beutel and Collard, Jean-Marc and Bentley, Stephen D. and Kadioglu, Aras and Antonio, Martin and von Gottberg, Anne and French, Neil and Klugman, Keith P. and Heyderman, Robert S. and Alderson, Mark and Everett, Dean B. and PAGe consortium, . (2017) The global distribution and diversity of protein vaccine candidate antigens in the highly virulent Streptococcus pnuemoniae serotype 1. Vaccine, 35 (6). pp. 972-980.

Bieri, Raphael and Scherr, Nicole and Ruf, Marie-Thérèse and Dangy, Jean-Pierre and Gersbach, Philipp and Gehringer, Matthias and Altmann, Karl-Heinz and Pluschke, Gerd. (2017) The macrolide toxin mycolactone promotes bim-dependent apoptosis in Buruli ulcer through inhibition of mTOR. ACS chemical biology, 12 (5). pp. 1297-1307.

Ampah, Kobina Assan and Nickel, Beatrice and Asare, Prince and Ross, Amanda and De-Graft, Daniel and Kerber, Sarah and Spallek, Ralf and Singh, Mahavir and Pluschke, Gerd and Yeboah-Manu, Dorothy and Röltgen, Katharina. (2016) A sero-epidemiological approach to explore transmission of Mycobacterium ulcerans. PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 10 (1). e0004387.

Dangy, Jean-Pierre and Scherr, Nicole and Gersbach, Philipp and Hug, Melanie N. and Bieri, Raphael and Bomio, Claudio and Li, Jun and Huber, Sylwia and Altmann, Karl-Heinz and Pluschke, Gerd. (2016) Antibody-Mediated Neutralization of the Exotoxin Mycolactone, the Main Virulence Factor Produced by Mycobacterium ulcerans. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 10 (6). e0004808.

Ampah, Kobina Assan and Asare, Prince and Binnah, Daniel De-Graft and Maccaulley, Samuel and Opare, William and Röltgen, Katharina and Pluschke, Gerd and Yeboah-Manu, Dorothy. (2016) Burden and historical trend of Buruli Ulcer prevalence in selected communities along the Offin River of Ghana. PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 10 (4). e0004603.

Tabah, Earnest Njih and Nsagha, Dickson Shey and Bissek, Anne-Cécile Zoung-Kanyi and Njamnshi, Alfred Kongnyu and Bratschi, Martin W. and Pluschke, Gerd and Um Boock, Alphonse. (2016) Buruli ulcer in Cameroon: the development and impact of the National Control Programme. PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 10 (1). e0004224.

Scherr, Nicole and Pluschke, Gerd and Panda, Manoranjan. (2016) Comparative study of activities of a diverse set of antimycobacterial agents against Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium ulcerans. Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, 60 (5). pp. 3132-3137.

Favuzza, Paola and Blaser, Simon and Dreyer, Anita M. and Riccio, Guy and Tamborrini, Marco and Thoma, Ralf and Matile, Hugues and Pluschke, Gerd. (2016) Generation of Plasmodium falciparum parasite-inhibitory antibodies by immunization with recombinantly-expressed CyRPA. Malaria journal, 15. p. 161.

Rose, Natalie and Pinho-Nascimento, Carlos Augusto and Ruggieri, Alessia and Favuzza, Paola and Tamborrini, Marco and Roth, Hanna and Baroni de Moraes, Marcia Terezinha and Matile, Hugues and Jänisch, Thomas and Pluschke, Gerd and Röltgen, Katharina. (2016) Generation of monoclonal antibodies against native viral proteins using antigen-expressing mammalian cells for mouse immunization. BMC biotechnology, 16. p. 83.

Bieri, Raphael and Bolz, Miriam and Ruf, Marie-Thérèse and Pluschke, Gerd. (2016) Interferon-γ is a crucial activator of early host immune defense against Mycobacterium ulcerans infection in mice. PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 10 (2). e0004450.

Ampah, Kobina Assan and Pinho-Nascimento, Carlos Augusto and Kerber, Sarah and Asare, Prince and De-Graft, Daniel and Adu-Nti, Frank and Paixão, Izabel C. N. P. and Niel, Christian and Yeboah-Manu, Dorothy and Pluschke, Gerd and Röltgen, Katharina. (2016) Limited genetic diversity of Hepatitis b virus in the general population of the offin river valley in Ghana. PLoS one, 11 (6). e0156864.

Bolz, Miriam and Ruggli, Nicolas and Borel, Nicole and Pluschke, Gerd and Ruf, Marie-Thérèse. (2016) Local cellular immune responses and pathogenesis of buruli ulcer lesions in the experimental mycobacterium ulcerans pig infection model. PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 10 (4). e0004678.

Vogel, Moritz and Bayi, Pierre F. and Ruf, Marie-Thérèse and Bratschi, Martin W. and Bolz, Miriam and Um Boock, Alphonse and Zwahlen, Marcel and Pluschke, Gerd and Junghanss, Thomas. (2016) Local heat application for the treatment of Buruli ulcer : results of a phase II open label single center non comparative clinical trial. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 62 (3). pp. 342-350.

Bénard, Angèle and Sala, Claudia and Pluschke, Gerd. (2016) Mycobacterium ulcerans mouse model refinement for pre-clinical profiling of vaccine candidates. PLoS one, 11 (11). e0167059.

N'krumah, Raymond T. A. S. and Koné, Brama and Tiembre, Issaka and Cissé, Guéladio and Pluschke, Gerd and Tanner, Marcel and Utzinger, Jürg. (2016) Socio-environmental factors associated with the risk of contracting Buruli ulcer in Tiassalé, South Côte d'Ivoire : a case-control study. PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 10 (1). e0004327.

Ruf, Marie-Thérèse and Bolz, Miriam and Vogel, Moritz and Bayi, Pierre F. and Bratschi, Martin W. and Sopho, Ghislain Emmanuel and Yeboah-Manu, Dorothy and Um Boock, Alphonse and Junghanss, Thomas and Pluschke, Gerd. (2016) Spatial distribution of Mycobacterium ulcerans in Buruli ulcer lesions: implications for laboratory diagnosis. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 10 (6). e0004767.

Lamelas, Araceli and Ampah, Kobina Assan and Aboagye, Samuel and Kerber, Sarah and Danso, Emelia and Asante-Poku, Adwoa and Asare, Prince and Parkhill, Julian and Harris, Simon R. and Pluschke, Gerd and Yeboah-Manu, Dorothy and Röltgen, Katharina. (2016) Spatiotemporal co-existence of two Mycobacterium ulcerans clonal complexes in the Offin River Valley of Ghana. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 10 (7). e0004856.

Chaguza, Chrispin and Cornick, Jennifer E. and Harris, Simon R. and Andam, Cheryl P. and Bricio-Moreno, Laura and Yang, Marie and Yalcin, Feyruz and Ousmane, Sani and Govindpersad, Shanil and Senghore, Madikay and Ebruke, Chinelo and Du Plessis, Mignon and Kiran, Anmol M. and Pluschke, Gerd and Sigauque, Betuel and McGee, Lesley and Klugman, Keith P. and Turner, Paul and Corander, Jukka and Parkhill, Julian and Collard, Jean-Marc and Antonio, Martin and von Gottberg, Anne and Heyderman, Robert S. and French, Neil and Kadioglu, Aras and Hanage, William P. and Everett, Dean B. and Bentley, Stephen D. and PAGe Consortium, . (2016) Understanding pneumococcal serotype 1 biology through population genomic analysis. BMC infectious diseases, 16. p. 649.

Bolz, Miriam and Bénard, Angèle and Dreyer, Anita M. and Kerber, Sarah and Vettiger, Andrea and Oehlmann, Wulf and Singh, Mahavir and Duthie, Malcolm S. and Pluschke, Gerd. (2016) Vaccination with the surface proteins MUL_2232 and MUL_3720 of Mycobacterium ulcerans induces antibodies but fails to provide protection against Buruli ulcer. PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 10 (2). e0004431.

Tamborrini, Marco and Geib, Nina and Marrero-Nodarse, Aniebrys and Jud, Maja and Hauser, Julia and Aho, Celestine and Lamelas, Araceli and Zuniga, Armando and Pluschke, Gerd and Ghasparian, Arin and Robinson, John A.. (2015) A synthetic virus-like particle streptococcal vaccine candidate using B-cell epitopes from the proline-rich region of pneumococcal surface protein A. Vaccines, 3 (4). pp. 850-874.

Walker, Karen M. and Okitsu, Shinji and Porter, David W. and Duncan, Christopher and Amacker, Mario and Pluschke, Gerd and Cavanagh, David R. and Hill, Adrian V. S. and Todryk, Stephen M.. (2015) Antibody and T-cell responses associated with experimental human malaria infection or vaccination show limited relationships. Immunology, Vol. 145, H. 1. pp. 71-81.

Tuffour, Joseph and Owusu-Mireku, Evelyn and Ruf, Marie-Therese and Aboagye, Samuel and Kpeli, Grace and Akuoku, Victor and Pereko, Janet and Paintsil, Albert and Bonney, Kofi and Ampofo, William and Pluschke, Gerd and Yeboah-Manu, Dorothy. (2015) Challenges associated with management of Buruli ulcer/human immunodeficiency virus coinfection in a treatment center in Ghana : a case series study. American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 93 (2). pp. 216-223.

Andreoli, Arianna and Mou, Ferdinand and Minyem, Jacques C. and Wantong, Fidèle G. and Noumen, Djeunga and Awah, Paschal K. and Pluschke, Gerd and Boock, Alphonse Um and Bratschi, Martin W.. (2015) Complete healing of a laboratory-confirmed Buruli ulcer lesion after receiving only herbal household remedies. PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 9 (11). e0004102.

Sater, Mohamad R. Abdul and Lamelas, Araceli and Wang, Guilin and Clark, Tyson A. and Röltgen, Katharina and Mane, Shrikant and Korlach, Jonas and Pluschke, Gerd and Schmid, Christoph D.. (2015) DNA methylation assessed by SMRT sequencing is linked to mutations in Neisseria meningitidis isolates. PLoS one, 10 (12). e0144612.

Silbereisen, Angelika and Tamborrini, Marco and Wittwer, Matthias and Schürch, Nadia and Pluschke, Gerd. (2015) Development of a bead-based Luminex assay using lipopolysaccharide specific monoclonal antibodies to detect biological threats from Brucella species. BMC microbiology, 15. p. 198.

Dreyer, Anita and Röltgen, Katharina and Dangy, Jean Pierre and Ruf, Marie Thérèse and Scherr, Nicole and Bolz, Miriam and Tobias, Nicholas Jay and Moes, Charles and Vettiger, Andrea and Stinear, Timothy Paul and Pluschke, Gerd. (2015) Identification of the Mycobacterium ulcerans protein MUL_3720 as a promising target for the development of a diagnostic test for Buruli ulcer. PLoS neglected tropical diseases, Vol. 9, H. 2 , e0003477.

Bolz, Miriam and Bratschi, Martin W. and Kerber, Sarah and Minyem, Jacques C. and Um Boock, Alphonse and Vogel, Moritz and Bayi, Pierre Franklin and Junghanss, Thomas and Brites, Daniela and Harris, Simon R. and Parkhill, Julian and Pluschke, Gerd and Lamelas Cabello, Araceli. (2015) Locally confined clonal complexes of Mycobacterium ulcerans in two Buruli ulcer endemic regions of Cameroon. PLoS neglected tropical diseases, Vol. 9, H. 6 , e0003802.

Ogbechi, Joy and Ruf, Marie-Thérèse and Hall, Belinda S. and Bodman-Smith, Katherine and Vogel, Moritz and Wu, Hua-Lin and Stainer, Alexander and Esmon, Charles T. and Ahnström, Josefin and Pluschke, Gerd and Simmonds, Rachel E.. (2015) Mycolactone-dependent depletion of endothelial cell thrombomodulin is strongly associated with fibrin deposition in Buruli ulcer lesions. PLoS Pathogens, Vol. 11, H. 7 , e1005011.

Scherr, Nicole and Pluschke, Gerd and Thompson, Charles J. and Ramón-García, Santiago. (2015) Selamectin is the avermectin with the best potential for Buruli ulcer treatment. PLoS neglected tropical diseases, Vol. 9, H. 8 , e0003996.

Bolz, Miriam and Kerber, Sarah and Zimmer, Gert and Pluschke, Gerd. (2015) Use of recombinant virus replicon particles for vaccination against Mycobacterium ulcerans disease. PLoS neglected tropical diseases, Vol. 9, H. 8 , e0004011.

Koeberling, Oliver and Ispasanie, Emma and Hauser, Julia and Rossi, Omar and Pluschke, Gerd and Caugant, Dominique A. and Saul, Allan and Maclennan, Calman A.. (2014) A broadly-protective vaccine against meningococcal disease in sub-Saharan Africa based on Generalized Modules for Membrane Antigens (GMMA). Vaccine, 32 (23). pp. 2688-2695.

Ispasanie, Emma and Pluschke, Gerd and Hodgson, Abraham and Sie, Ali and MacLennan, Calman and Koeberling, Oliver. (2014) Characterization of vaccine antigens of meningococcal serogroup W isolates from Ghana and Burkina Faso from 2003 to 2009. Faculty of 1000, Vol. 3. p. 264.

Lamelas, Araceli and Harris, Simon R. and Röltgen, Katharina and Dangy, Jean-Pierre and Hauser, Julia and Kingsley, Robert A. and Connor, Thomas R. and Sie, Ali and Hodgson, Abraham and Dougan, Gordon and Parkhill, Julian and Bentley, Stephen D. and Pluschke, Gerd. (2014) Emergence of a new epidemic Neisseria meningitidis serogroup A clone in the African meningitis belt : high-resolution picture of genomic changes that mediate immune evasion. mBio, Vol. 5, H. 5 , e01974-14.

Bolz, Miriam and Ruggli, Nicolas and Ruf, Marie-Thérèse and Ricklin, Meret E. and Zimmer, Gert and Pluschke, Gerd. (2014) Experimental infection of the pig with Mycobacterium ulcerans : a novel model for studying the pathogenesis of Buruli ulcer disease. PLoS neglected tropical diseases, Vol. 8, H. 7 , e2968.

Hilty, Markus and Wüthrich, Daniel and Salter, Susannah J. and Engel, Hansjürg and Campbell, Samuel and Sá-Leão, Raquel and de Lencastre, Hermínia and Hermans, Peter and Sadowy, Ewa and Turner, Paul and Chewapreecha, Claire and Diggle, Mathew and Pluschke, Gerd and McGee, Lesley and Köseoğlu Eser, Özgen and Low, Donald E. and Smith-Vaughan, Heidi and Endimiani, Andrea and Küffer, Marianne and Dupasquier, Mélanie and Beaudoing, Emmanuel and Weber, Johann and Bruggmann, Rémy and Hanage, William P. and Parkhill, Julian and Hathaway, Lucy J. and Mühlemann, Kathrin and Bentley, Stephen D.. (2014) Global phylogenomic analysis of nonencapsulated Streptococcus pneumoniae reveals a deep-branching classic lineage that is distinct from multiple sporadic lineages. Genome biology and evolution, Vol. 6, H. 12. pp. 3281-3294.

Andreoli, Arianna and Ruf, Marie-Thérèse and Sopoh, Ghislain Emmanuel and Schmid, Peter and Pluschke, Gerd. (2014) Immunohistochemical monitoring of wound healing in antibiotic treated buruli ulcer patients. PLoS neglected tropical diseases, Vol. 8, H. 4 , e2809.

Röltgen, Katharina and Bratschi, Martin W. and Ross, Amanda and Aboagye, Samuel Y. and Ampah, Kobina A. and Bolz, Miriam and Andreoli, Arianna and Pritchard, James and Minyem, Jacques C. and Noumen, Djeunga and Koka, Eric and Um Boock, Alphonse and Yeboah-Manu, Dorothy and Pluschke, Gerd. (2014) Late onset of the serological response against the 18 kDa small heat shock protein of Mycobacterium ulcerans in children. PLoS neglected tropical diseases, Vol. 8, H. 5 , e2904.

Bratschi, Martin W. and Ruf, Marie-Thérèse and Andreoli, Arianna and Minyem, Jacques C. and Kerber, Sarah and Wantong, Fidèle G. and Pritchard, James and Chakwera, Victoria and Beuret, Christian and Wittwer, Matthias and Noumen, Djeunga and Schürch, Nadia and Um Book, Alphonse and Pluschke, Gerd. (2014) Mycobacterium ulcerans persistence at a village water source of Buruli ulcer patients. PLoS neglected tropical diseases, Vol. 8, H. 3 , e2756.

Bratschi, Martin W. and Bolz, Miriam and Grize, Leticia and Kerber, Sarah and Minyem, Jacques C. and Um Boock, Alphonse and Yeboah-Manu, Dorothy and Ruf, Marie-Thérèse and Pluschke, Gerd. (2014) Primary cultivation : factors affecting contamination and Mycobacterium ulcerans growth after long turnover time of clinical specimens. BMC infectious diseases, Vol. 14 , 636.

Micoli, Francesca and Romano, Maria Rosaria and Tontini, Marta and Cappelletti, Emilia and Gavini, Massimiliano and Proietti, Daniela and Rondini, Simona and Swennen, Erwin and Santini, Laura and Filippini, Sara and Balocchi, Cristiana and Adamo, Roberto and Pluschke, Gerd and Norheim, Gunnstein and Pollard, Andrew and Saul, Allan and Rappuoli, Rino and Maclennan, Calman A. and Berti, Francesco and Costantino, Paolo. (2013) Development of a glycoconjugate vaccine to prevent meningitis in Africa caused by meningococcal serogroup X. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 110, H. 47. pp. 19077-19082.

Bratschi, Martin W. and Bolz, Miriam and Minyem, Jacques C. and Grize, Leticia and Wantong, Fidèle G. and Kerber, Sarah and Njih Tabah, Earnest and Ruf, Marie-Thérèse and Mou, Ferdinand and Noumen, Djeunga and Um Boock, Alphonse and Pluschke, Gerd. (2013) Geographic distribution, age pattern and sites of lesions in a cohort of buruli ulcer patients from the mapé basin of cameroon. PLoS neglected tropical diseases, Vol. 7, H. 6 , e2252.

Huber, Charlotte A. and Pflüger, Valentin and Hamid, Abdul-Wahab M. and Forgor, Abudulai A. and Hodgson, Abraham and Sié, Ali and Junghanss, Thomas and Pluschke, Gerd. (2013) Lack of antigenic diversification of major outer membrane proteins during clonal waves of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup A colonization and disease. Pathogens and Disease, Vol. 67. pp. 4-10.

Altmann, Danny and Aseffa, Abraham and Bash, Margaret and Basta, Nicole and Borrow, Ray and Broome, Claire and Caugant, Dominique and Clark, Tom and Collard, Jean-Marc and Djingarey, Mamoudou and Goldblatt, David and Greenwood, Brian and Griffiths, Ulla and Hajjeh, Rana and Hassan-King, Musa and Hugonnet, Stephane and Kimball, Ann Marie and LaForce, Marc and MacLennan, Calman and Maiden, Martin C. J. and Manigart, Olivier and Mayer, Leonard and Messonnier, Nancy and Moisi, Jennifer and Moore, Katie and Moto, Daugla Doumagoum and Mueller, Judith and Nascimento, Maria and Obaro, Stephen and Ouedraogo, Rasmata and Page, Anne-Laure and Perea, Willima and Pluschke, Gerd and Preziosi, Mari-Pierre and Sow, Samba and Stephens, David and Stuart, James and Thomson, Madeleiene and Tiendrebeogo, Sylvestre and Trape, Jean-Francois and Vernet, Guy. (2013) Priorities for research on meningococcal disease and the impact of serogroup A vaccination in the African meningitis belt. Vaccine : the official journal of the International Society for Vaccines, 31 (11). pp. 1453-1457.

Yeboah-Manu, Dorothy and Kpeli, Grace S. and Ruf, Marie-Thérèse and Asan-Ampah, Kobina and Quenin-Fosu, Kwabena and Owusu-Mireku, Evelyn and Paintsil, Albert and Lamptey, Isaac and Anku, Benjamin and Kwakye-Maclean, Cynthia and Newman, Mercy and Pluschke, Gerd. (2013) Secondary bacterial infections of buruli ulcer lesions before and after chemotherapy with streptomycin and rifampicin. PLoS neglected tropical diseases, Vol. 7, H. 5 , e2191.

Herrmann, Mathias and Abdullah, Salim and Alabi, Abraham and Alonso, Pedro and Friedrich, Alexander W. and Fuhr, Günther and Germann, Anja and Kern, Winfried V. and Kremsner, Peter G. and Mandomando, Inacio and Mellmann, Alexander C. and Pluschke, Gerd and Rieg, Siegbert and Ruffing, Ulla and Schaumburg, Frieder and Tanner, Marcel and Peters, Georg and von Briesen, Hagen and von Eiff, Christof and von Müller, Lutz and Grobusch, Martin P.. (2013) Staphylococcal disease in Africa : another neglected 'tropical' disease. Future microbiology, Vol. 8. pp. 17-26.

Scherr, Nicole and Gersbach, Philipp and Dangy, Jean-Pierre and Bomio, Claudio and Li, Jun and Altmann, Karl-Heinz and Pluschke, Gerd. (2013) Structure-activity relationship studies on the macrolide exotoxin mycolactone of Mycobacterium ulcerans. PLoS neglected tropical diseases, Vol. 7, H. 3 , e2143.

Pluschke, Gerd and Tamborrini, Marco. (2012) Development of a virosomal malaria vaccine candidate : from synthetic peptide design to clinical concept validation. Future virology, Vol. 7, H. 8. pp. 779-790.

Cech, Patrick Georges and Aebi, Thomas and Abdallah, Mwanajaa Shomari and Mpina, Maxmillian and Machunda, Ester Barnabas and Westerfeld, Nicole and Stoffel, Sabine Alexandra and Zurbriggen, Rinaldo and Pluschke, Gerd and Tanner, Marcel and Daubenberger, Claudia and Genton, Blaise and Abdulla, Salim. (2011) Virosome-formulated Plasmodium falciparum AMA-1 & CSP derived peptides as malaria vaccine : randomized phase 1b trial in semi-immune adults & children. PLoS one, Vol. 6, H. 7 , e22273.

Pluschke, Gerd and Tamborrini, Marco. (2010) Virosomal technology in malaria vaccine development. Future virology, Vol. 5, H. 3. pp. 247-250.

Schütte, Daniela and Pluschke, Gerd. (2009) Immunosuppression and treatment-associated inflammatory response in patients with Mycobacterium ulcerans infection (Buruli ulcer). Expert opinion on biological therapy, 9 (2). pp. 187-200.

Leimkugel, Julia and Hodgson, Abraham and Forgor, Abudulai Adams and Pflüger, Valentin and Dangy, Jean-Pierre and Smith, Tom and Achtman, Mark and Gagneux, Sébastien and Pluschke, Gerd. (2007) Clonal waves of Neisseria colonisation and disease in the African meningitis belt : eight- year longitudinal study in northern Ghana. PLoS medicine, Vol. 4, H. 3 , e101.

Leimkugel, Julia and Forgor, Abudulai Adams and Dangy, Jean-Pierre and Pflüger, Valentin and Gagneux, Sebastien and Hodgson, Abraham and Pluschke, Gerd. (2007) Genetic diversification of Neisseria meningitidis during waves of colonization and disease in the meningitis belt of sub-Saharan Africa. Vaccine : the official journal of the International Society for Vaccines, 25 (1). A18-A23.

Leimkugel, Julia and Adams Forgor, Abudulai and Gagneux, Sébastien and Pflüger, Valentin and Flierl, Christian and Awine, Elizabeth and Naegeli, Martin and Dangy, Jean-Pierre and Smith, Tom and Hodgson, Abraham and Pluschke, Gerd. (2005) An outbreak of serotype 1 Streptococcus pneumoniae meningitis in northern Ghana with features that are characteristic of Neisseria meningitidis meningitis epidemics. The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 192, H. 2. pp. 192-199.

Forgor, Abdulai Adams and Leimkugel, Julia and Hodgson, Abraham and Bugri, Akalifa and Dangy, Jean-Pierre and Gagneux, Sébastien and Smith, Tom and Pluschke, Gerd. (2005) Emergence of W135 meningococcal meningitis in Ghana. Tropical medicine and international health : TM & IH : a European journal, 10 (12). pp. 1229-1234.

Gagneux, Sébastien and Wirth, Thierry and Hodgson, Abraham and Ehrhard, Ingrid and Morelli, Giovanna and Kriz, Paula and Genton, Blaise and Smith, Tom and Binka, Fred and Pluschke, Gerd and Achtman, Mark. (2002) Clonal groupings in serogroup X Neisseria meningitidis. Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol. 8, H. 5. pp. 462-466.

Gagneux, Sébastien P. and Hodgson, Abraham and Smith, Tom A. and Wirth, Thierry and Ehrhard, Ingrid and Morelli, Giovanna and Genton, Blaise and Binka, Fred N. and Achtman, Mark and Pluschke, Gerd. (2002) Prospective study of a serogroup X Neisseria meningitidis outbreak in northern Ghana. The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 185, H. 5. pp. 618-626.