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Oct. 11, 2021: Research for our drinking water

The Inter-University Cooperation Center for Water and Health (ICC Water & Health), in which Regina Sommer and Alexander Kirschner from our institute as well as the Vienna University of Technology and the Karl Landsteiner Private...more

 

Oct. 1, 2021: Trend magazine elected René Platzer, BSc MSc PhD as its next generation top researcher

To the press release more

 

Sept. 17, 2021: 'EFIS Best Poster Award'

Congratulations! Philipp Schatzlmaier, PostDoc at the Molecular Immunology Unit (HAI), won the 'EFIS Best Poster Award' at the 6th European Congress of Immunology, taking place September 1st to 4th. He was selected as one of...more

 

Sept. 14, 2021: Venugopal Gudipati was selected to give a talk in the Bright Sparks session at the European Congress of Immunology (ECI) 2021.

At the 6th European Congress of Immunology, held online from September 1 – 4, 2021, Venugopal Gudipati (HAI) from the Institute for Hygiene and Applied Immunology (HAI), was selected as one of the 24 Bright Sparks out of the...more

 

Sept. 3, 2021: Water hygiene department

is now the test center of the Austrian Association for Gas and Water ("ÖVGW")more

 

August 2, 2021: MedUni Wien "Researcher of the Month" August 2021, René Platzer, BSc MSc PhD

The “Researcher of the Month” jury gives the award for this month to René Platzer on the occasion of the work published in the top journal “Nature Communications” (IF 13.610) „Unscrambling fluorophore blinking for comprehensive...more

 

Poster price at the PhD Symposium 2021

Congratulation to Dr. Romana Klasinc and MSc. Carmen Rehm for their Poster price!more

 

MedUni Wien Researcher of the month, Mai 2021, Dr. Venugopal Gudipati

Inefficient CAR-proximal signaling blunts antigen detection.more

 

Honuring with the "Ehrennadel der Medizinischen Universität Wien"

On Friday , 2nd of October 2020 Prof. Dr. Hannes Stockinger and Univ. Prof. Dr. Gerhard Zalbinger were honoured by the Rector for their yearlong engagement and remarkable achievements for the Medical University with the...more

 

MedUni Wien "Researcher of the month", Juli 2020: Dr.in Sílvia Cervero-Aragó

Dr.in Sílvia Cervero-Aragó What are legionella bacteria, why can they become a problem and what can be done to prevent them from spreading? next...more

 

Empfehlungen zur Auswahl von Desinfektionsmitteln in Einrichtungen des Gesundheitswesens

Von Assoc. Prof. Dr. Miranda Suchomel, Institut für Hygiene und Angewandte Immunologiemore

 

Wie schütze ich mich am besten vor einer Ansteckung mit dem neuartigen Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2

Da noch keine Schutzimpfungen gegen SARS-CoV-2 existieren, stehen im Moment vor allem Hygienemaßnahmen zur Infektionsprävention im Vordergrund. more

 

Hannes Stockinger honored with Karl Landsteiner-Medal

At the annual meeting of the Austrian Society for Allergology and Immunology (ÖGAI) in Graz, Hannes Stockinger received the Karl Landsteiner-Medal for his merits for immunology, the highest immunological distinction awarded by...more

 

Markus Kraller wins Best Presentation Prize at Medical Postgraduate Conference

At the 16th International Medical Postgraduate Conference, held from 21 - 22 November 2019 in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic, Markus Kraller was awarded a Best Presentation Prizemore

 

Doctoral thesis completed: René Platzer

René Platzer, MSc, PhD – Molecular Immunology Unit – completed his doctoral thesis.more

 

Sílvia Cervero-Aragó wins Forum Water Hygiene Award

The Forum Water Hygiene awards the Science Prize 2018/19 for our latest work on the relevance of VBNC (viable but nonculturable) Legionella, which was recently published in the number 1 journal in the water sector "Water...more

 

Great success of the 20th symposium of the IWA Specialist Group Health-Related Water Microbiology in Vienna

The 20th symposium of the IWA Specialist Group Health-Related Water Microbiology, organized by ICC Water & Health and the Austrian Society for Hygiene, Microbiology and Preventive Medicine in Vienna (September 15–20, 2019, Campus...more

 

Great success for the 11th EFIS-EJI South Eastern European Immunology School (SEEIS2019)

At this year's summer school, held from 27 – 30 September 2019 in Pristina, Kosovo, 65 participants from 15 countries, especially from Eastern Europe, could benefit from lectures and workshops in basic and clinical immunology.more

 

Best Presentation Prizes for Alexandra-Cristina Petre, Michael Reiter and Anna-Margarita Schötta at the 10th Center's Retreat

At the 10th Retreat of the Center, held on September 24, 2019, 74 projects were presented as short presentations and posters.more

 

Microbiological survey of the Danube: no critical levels were measured in Austria

As part of the microbiological research program Joint Danube Survey 4, Assoc. Prof. Alexander Kirschner – with the Interuniversity Cooperation Center Water & Health – analyzed the Danube water for fecal loads.more

 
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Austrian Hygiene Award 2017 to Carina Pretzer

Within the frame of the 24th Dosch-Symposium on Hospital Hygiene, which takes place at Velden am Wörthersee from May 15 to 17, the Austrian Hygiene Award 2017 has been awarded to our former diploma student Carina Pretzer. The distinguished publication is a result of our ICC Water & Health Cooperation with the TU Wien.

The Austrian Hygiene Award 2017 has been awarded to Mag. Carina Pretzer, our former diploma student at the Interuniversity Cooperation Centre for Water and Health (ICC Water & Health) from the Department for Water Hygiene, working group of Assoc. Prof. Alexander Kirschner.

The title of the distinguished publication is "High genetic diversity of Vibrio cholerae in the European lake Neusiedler See is associated with intensive recombination in the reed habitat and the long-distance transfer of strains” and was published in January 2017 in the Top-Journal „Environmental Microbiology“*.

With great international participation and in cooperation with a specialist in molecular ecology (Prof. Andreas Farnleitner) and in molecular evolution (Prof. Irina Druzhinina) from the TU Wien, Carina investigated the genetic diversity of Vibrio cholerae strains in Lake Neusiedler See. All of the Vibrio cholerae strains in the lake can be classified as non-cholera vibrios (NCV), as they are not able to cause epidemic cholera due to their genetic background. However, each year they are responsible for several ear and wound infections of bathing guests, with one case of a fatal sepsis of a chemotherapy patient. Currently, NCV infections experience increasing topicality in Europe, because due to climate change and concomitant increase in water temperatures, significant increases of NCV infections have been reported.

In this study, we could show that the Lake Neusiedler See supports a genetically highly diverse population of Vibrio cholerae, which is especially rich in the reed stand. It can be assumed that the unique chemophysical properties of the lake (slight salinity, high pH, rich nutrients and increased water temperature in summer) make it a hot-spot of Vibrio cholerae in the Central Europe. The molecular evolutionary analysis of the strains from the lake and the comparison with the isolates from remote European countries revealed the factors that contribute to the outstanding genetic variability of Vibrio cholerae. First, the intensive genetic recombination in the reed stand makes this habitat a natural ‘bioreactor’ that produces endemic strains. Second, we showed the influx of strains from a variety of European reservoirs of Vibrio cholerae. Isolates from Sweden, the Netherlands, France, and Romania were closely related to the endemic Austrian strains, which can only be explained by the transfer of these bacteria between different European aquatic ecosystems. Because the lake Neusiedler See – and especially the reed belt – is an important habitat for migrating waterfowl species, we propose that birds may play a significant role in the transport of strains over long distances. This study is thus the first which elucidates the main mechanisms for the spreading and evolution of these increasingly emerging pathogens within the European context with the background of climate change. The study was financed by the FWF (project P21625-B20).

*Pretzer C, Druzhinina IS, Amaro C, Benediktsdóttir E, Hedenström I, Hervio-Heath D, Huhulescu S, Schets FM, Farnleitner AH, Kirschner AKT (2017) High genetic diversity of Vibrio cholerae in the European lake Neusiedler See is associated with intensive recombination in the reed habitat and the long-distance transfer of strains. Environmental Microbiology 19(1): 328-344

15.05.2017

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