Content:
This seminar discusses virus examples varying from year to year dependent on the topics presently of interest. Usually we include lectures on

• Influenza as a paradigm of a zoonotic virus with pandemic potential (One Health)
• Measles, mumps and rubella, discussing vaccination, global elimination, molecular surveillance and laboratory tests to confirm acute infections
• Bacteriophages as founders of modern virology and nowadays meeting growing interest due to their medical application
• New (and old) emerging viruses presenting global threats like Ebola, SARS, Yellow fever and Poxvirus
• Hepatitis viruses, as taxonomically and evolutionary completely different viruses which all induce the same clinical symptoms
• Herpesviruses, discussing their ability to infect and to hide in cells of the nervous system

Participants have to present a newly published research paper relating to one of the lectures in a 10 min PowerPoint presentation with subsequent discussion with the participants.

Prof. Dr. A. Mankertz:mankertza@rki.de PD Dr. J. Mankertz: joachim.mankertz@bvl.bund.de close