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Lange B, Vavra M, Kern WV, Wagner D. Indeterminate Results of a TB-specific INFγ Release Assay in Immunocompromised Patients. Europ Resp Journal 2010 (in press).

Rieg S, Meier B, Fähnrich E, Huth A,Wagner D, Kern WV, Kalbacher H. Differential activity of innate defense antimicrobial peptides against Nocardia species. BMC Microbiol 2010 (in press).

Rieg S, Bauer TM, Peyerl-Hoffmann G, Held J, Ritter W, Wagner D, Kern WK, Serr A. Paenibacillus larvae bacteremia in injection drug users. Emerg Inf Dis. 2010 (in press).

Li Y, Danelishvili L, Wagner D, Petrofsky M, Bermudez LE. Identification of virulence determinants of Mycobacterium avium which impact the ability to resist host killing mechanisms. J Med Microbiol 2009, Sep 10. doi: 10.1099/jmm.0.012864-0 

Rieg S, Peyerl-Hoffmann G, de With K, Theilacker C, Wagner D, Hübner J, Dettenkofer M, Kaasch A, Seifert H, Schneider C, Kern WV. Mortality of S. aureus bacteremia and infectious diseases specialist consultation - A study of 521 patients in Germany. J Infect. 2009 Aug 3. doi:10.1016/j.jinf.2009.07.015

Rodrigues L, Wagner D, Viveiros M, Sampaio D, Couto I, Vavra M, Kern WV, Amaral L. Thioridazine and chlorpromazine inhibition of ethidium bromide efflux in Mycobacterium avium and Mycobacterium smegmatis. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2008 May;61(5):1076-82.

Wagner D, Horster R, Lange B, Lange C. [Evaluation of T-cell interferon-gamma-release assays for the diagnosis of latent and active tuberculosis]. Dtsch Med Wochenschr 2008; 133(8):354-357.

Linder K, Zia M, Kern WV, Pfau RK, Wagner D. Relapses vs. reactions in multibacillary leprosy: proposal of new relapse criteria. Trop Med Int Health 2008; 13(3):295-309.

Lange C, Grobusch MP, Wagner D. [Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis]. Dtsch Med Wochenschr 2008; 133(8):374-376.

Eker B, Ortmann J, Migliori GB et al. Multidrug- and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, Germany. Emerg Infect Dis 2008; 14(11):1700-1706

Wagner D, Vos M, Buiting AG, Serr A, Bergmans AM, Kern W, Schouls LM. "Mycobacterium tilburgii" infections. Emerg Infect Dis 2006; 12(3): 532-534.

Wagner D, Maser J, Moric I, Vogt S, Kern WV, Bermudez LE. Elemental analysis of the Mycobacterium avium phagosome in Balb/c mouse macrophages. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2006; 344(4): 1346-1351.

Schwacha H, Kern WV, Wagner D. Perforation of a Dacron vascular endoprosthesis into the duodenum. Endoscopy 2006; 38 Suppl 2:E51.

Wagner D, Sangari FJ, Parker A, Bermudez LE. fecB, a gene potentially involved in iron transport in Mycobacterium avium, is not induced within macrophages. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2005; 247(2):185-191.

Wagner D, Sander A, Bertz H, Finke J, Kern WV. Breakthrough invasive infection due to Debaryomyces hansenii (teleomorph Candida famata) and Scopulariopsis brevicaulis in a stem cell transplant patient receiving liposomal amphotericin B and caspofungin for suspected aspergillosis. Infection 2005; 33(5-6):397-400.

Wagner D, Maser J, Moric I, Boechat N, Vogt S, Gicquel B, Lai B, Reyrat JM, Bermudez L.. Changes of the phagosomal elemental concentrations by Mycobacterium tuberculosis Mramp. Microbiology 2005; 151(Pt 1):323-332.

Wagner D, Maser J, Lai B, Barry CE 3rd, Höner Zu Bentrup K, Russell DG, Bermudez LE. Elemental analysis of Mycobacterium avium-, Mycobacterium tuberculosis-, and Mycobacterium smegmatis-containing phagosomes indicates pathogen-induced microenvironments within the host cell's endosomal system. J Immunol 2005; 174(3):1491-1500.

Kern WV, Wagner D, Hirsch HH. [Infections after organ transplantation]. Internist (Berl) 2005; 46(6):630-642.

Wagner D, Young LS. Nontuberculous mycobacterial infections: a clinical review. Infection 2004; 32(5):257-270.

Wagner D, de WK, Huzly D, Hufert F, Weidmann M, Breisinger S, Eppinger S, Kern WV, Bauer TM. Nosocomial acquisition of dengue. Emerg Infect Dis 2004; 10(10):1872-1873.

McGarvey JA, Wagner D, Bermudez LE. Differential gene expression in mononuclear phagocytes infected with pathogenic and non-pathogenic mycobacteria. Clin Exp Immunol 2004; 136(3):490-500.

Wagner D, Sangari FJ, Kim S, Petrofsky M, Bermudez LE. Mycobacterium avium infection of macrophages results in progressive suppression of interleukin-12 production in vitro and in vivo. J Leukoc Biol 2002; 71(1):80-88.

Broxmeyer L, Sosnowska D, Miltner E, Chacón O, Wagner D, McGarvey J, Barletta RG, Bermudez LE. Killing of Mycobacterium avium and Mycobacterium tuberculosis by a mycobacteriophage delivered by a nonvirulent mycobacterium: a model for phage therapy of intracellular bacterial pathogens. J Infect Dis 2002; 186(8):1155-1160.

Limia A, Sangari FJ, Wagner D, Bermudez LE. Characterization and expression of secA in Mycobacterium avium. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2001; 197(2):151-157.

Bermudez LE, Wagner D, Sosnowska D. Mechanisms of Mycobacterium avium pathogenesis. Arch Immunol Ther Exp (Warsz ) 2000; 48(6):521-527.

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