Most important recent publications
Burgey C, Kern WV, Römer W, Sakinc T, Rieg S. The innate defense antimicrobial peptides hBD3 and RNase7 are induced in human umbilical vein endothelial cells by classical inflammatory cytokines but not Th17 cytokines. Microbes Infect. 2015 Jan 28. pii: S1286-4579(15)00018-0. doi: 10.1016/j.micinf.2015.01.005. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 25637949.
Hos NJ, Rieg S, Kern WV, Jonas D, Fowler VG Jr, Higgins PG, Seifert H, Kaasch AJ. Amino acid alterations in fibronectin binding protein A (FnBPA) and bacterial genotype are associated with cardiac device related infection in Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia. J Infect. 2015 Feb;70(2):153-9.
Kaasch AJ, Barlow G, Edgeworth JD, Fowler VG Jr, Hellmich M, Hopkins S, Kern WV, Llewelyn MJ, Rieg S, Rodriguez-Baño J, Scarborough M, Seifert H, Soriano A, Tilley R, Tőrők ME, Weiß V, Wilson AP, Thwaites GE; ISAC, INSTINCT, SABG, UKCIRG, and Colleagues. Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection: a pooled analysis of five prospective, observational studies. J Infect. 2014 Mar;68(3):242-51.
Kaasch AJ, Rieg S, Hellmich M, Kern WV, Seifert H. Differential time to positivity is not predictive for central line-related Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection in routine clinical care. J Infect. 2014 Jan;68(1):58-61.
Rieg S, Jonas D, Kaasch AJ, Porzelius C, Peyerl-Hoffmann G, Theilacker C, Küpper MF, Schneider C, Seifert H, Kern WV. Microarray-based genotyping and clinical outcomes of Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection: an exploratory study. PLoS One. 2013 Aug 14;8(8):e71259.
Rieg S, Saborowski V, Kern WV, Jonas D, Bruckner-Tuderman L, Hofmann SC. Expression of the sweat-derived innate defence antimicrobial peptide dermcidin is not impaired in Staphylococcus aureus colonization or recurrent skin infections. Clin Exp Dermatol. 2014 Mar;39(2):209-12.
Herrmann M, Abdullah S, Alabi A, Alonso P, Friedrich AW, Fuhr G, Germann A, Kern WV, Kremsner PG, Mandomando I, Mellmann AC, Pluschke G, Rieg S, Ruffing U, Schaumburg F, Tanner M, Peters G, von Briesen H, von Eiff C, von Müller L, Grobusch MP. Staphylococcal disease in Africa: another neglected 'tropical' disease. Future Microbiol. 2013 Jan;8(1):17-26.
Hofmann SC, Saborowski V, Lange S, Kern WV, Bruckner-Tuderman L, Rieg S. Expression of innate defense antimicrobial peptides in hidradenitis suppurativa. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2012 Jun;66(6):966-74.
Kaasch AJ, Fowler VG Jr, Rieg S, Peyerl-Hoffmann G, Birkholz H, Hellmich M, Kern WV, Seifert H. Use of a Simple Criteria Set for Guiding Echocardiography in nosocomial Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. Clin Infect Dis. 2011 Jul;53(1):1-9.
Rieg S, Kaasch AJ, Wehrle J, Hofmann SC, Szymaniak-Vits M, Saborowski V, Jonas D, Kalbacher H, Seifert H, Kern WV. Susceptibility of clinical Staphylococcus aureus isolates to innate defense antimicrobial peptides. Microbes Infect. 2011 Aug;13(8-9):761-5.
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 Oct;59(4):232-9.