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Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Occupation: hHead of the National Reference Laboratory for Avian Influenza.
Timm C. Harder graduated in 1989 as a veterinarian from Hannover Veterinary School, Germany. He completed PhD studies on morbilli- and herpesviruses of marine mammals in Hannover in 1990, and at the Department of Virology, Medical Faculty, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, in 1996.He is now affiliated with the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute (FLI, Federal Institute for Animal Health), Isle of Riems, Germany, where he is assigned head of the National Reference Laboratory for Avian Influenza.
Location: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Article published the June 28, 2024
Introduction:Influenza A virus infections causing economic losses are widely spread among swine populations worldwide. Swine can be infected by avian as well as by human influenza viruses. In Europe, over the last decade, three stable lineages of reassortant viruses between avian and human viruses have formed. The human pandemic H1N1/2009 virus has become a fourth player in this field and is curre ...
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