Overview

The research group is associated with the National Reference Centre for Tropical Pathogens and focuses on the diagnosis, epidemiology, and immunology of emerging zoonotic diseases. We investigate highly pathogenic bacterial infections (typhus group rickettsiosis, scrub typhus, Q fever, tularemia, and plague), zoonotic bornavirus encephalitis (BoDV-1 and VSBV-1 infections), and neglected tissue-invasive parasitic infections (muscular sarcocystosis, visceral pentastomiasis, and larval tapeworm infections).