Bittel, Pascal

Banholzer, Nicolas; Bittel, Pascal; Jent, Philipp; Furrer, Lavinia; Zürcher, Kathrin; Egger, Matthias; Hascher, Tina; Fenner, Lukas (2024). Molecular detection of SARS-CoV-2 and other respiratory viruses in saliva and classroom air: a two winters tale. Clinical microbiology and infection, 30(6), 829.e1-829.e4. Elsevier 10.1016/j.cmi.2024.03.002

Banholzer, Nicolas; Jent, Philipp; Bittel, Pascal; Zürcher, Kathrin; Furrer, Lavinia; Bertschinger, Simon; Weingartner, Ernest; Ramette, Alban; Egger, Matthias; Hascher, Tina; Fenner, Lukas (2024). Air Cleaners and Respiratory Infections in Schools: A Modeling Study Based on Epidemiologic, Environmental, and Molecular Data. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 11(4), ofae169. Oxford University Press 10.1093/ofid/ofae169

Terrazos Miani, Miguel A; Borcard, Loïc; Gempeler, Sonja; Baumann, Christian; Bittel, Pascal; Leib, Stephen L; Neuenschwander, Stefan; Ramette, Alban Nicolas (2024). NASCarD (Nanopore Adaptive Sampling with Carrier DNA): A Rapid, PCR-Free Method for SARS-CoV-2 Whole-Genome Sequencing in Clinical Samples. Pathogens, 13(1) MDPI AG 10.3390/pathogens13010061

Banholzer, Nicolas; Jent, Philipp; Bittel, Pascal; Zürcher, Kathrin; Furrer, Lavinia; Bertschinger, Simon; Weingartner, Ernest; Ramette, Alban; Egger, Matthias; Hascher, Tina; Fenner, Lukas (30 December 2023). Air cleaners and respiratory infections in schools: A modeling study using epidemiological, environmental, and molecular data. medRxiv 10.1101/2023.12.29.23300635

Oberli, Alexander; Furrer, Lavinia; Skoko, Lena; Müller, Norbert; Gottstein, Bruno; Bittel, Pascal (2023). A novel multiplex real-time PCR for the molecular diagnosis of metacestode infections in human patients. Clinical microbiology and infection, 29(11), 1451.e1-1451.e5. Elsevier 10.1016/j.cmi.2023.07.032

Hartnack, Sonja; Nilius, Henning; Jegerlehner, Sabrina; Suter-Riniker, Franziska; Bittel, Pascal; Jent, Philipp; Nagler, Michael (2023). Determination of the Diagnostic Performance of Laboratory Tests in the Absence of a Perfect Reference Standard: The Case of SARS-CoV-2 Tests. Diagnostics, 13(18) MDPI 10.3390/diagnostics13182892

Banholzer, Nicolas; Zürcher, Kathrin; Jent, Philipp; Bittel, Pascal; Furrer, Lavinia; Egger, Matthias; Hascher, Tina; Fenner, Lukas (2023). SARS-CoV-2 transmission with and without mask wearing or air cleaners in schools in Switzerland: A modeling study of epidemiological, environmental, and molecular data. PLoS medicine, 20(5), e1004226. Public Library of Science 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004226

Prajwal, Prajwal; Neary, Turlough; Rohrbach, Katja; Bittel, Pascal; Göller, Pauline C; Buch, Thorsten; Dümcke, Sebastian; Keller, Peter M (2023). Optimizing mycobacteria molecular diagnostics: No decontamination! Human DNA depletion? Greener storage at 4 °C! Frontiers in Microbiology, 14, p. 1104752. Frontiers 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1104752

Terrazos Miani, Miguel A.; Borcard, Loïc; Gempeler, Sonja; Baumann, Christian; Bittel, Pascal; Leib, Stephen L.; Neuenschwander, Stefan; Ramette, Alban (2023). NASCarD (Nanopore Adaptive Sampling with Carrier DNA): A rapid, PCR-free method for whole genome sequencing of pathogens in clinical samples (Submitted) (medRxiv). Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 10.1101/2023.03.10.23287094

Piezzi, Vanja; Wassilew, Nasstasja; Atkinson, Andrew; D'Incau, Stéphanie; Kaspar, Tanja; Seth-Smith, Helena MB; Casanova, Carlo; Bittel, Pascal; Jent, Philipp; Sommerstein, Rami; Buetti, Niccolò; Marschall, Jonas (2022). Nosocomial outbreak of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VRE) ST796, Switzerland, 2017 to 2020. Eurosurveillance, 27(48) European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2022.27.48.2200285

Jegerlehner, Sabrina; Suter-Riniker, Franziska; Jent, Philipp; Bittel, Pascal; Nagler, Michael (2022). Diagnostic accuracy of SARS-CoV-2 saliva antigen testing in a real-life clinical setting. International journal of infectious diseases, 119, pp. 38-40. Elsevier 10.1016/j.ijid.2022.03.037

Borcard, Loïc; Gempeler, Sonja; Terrazos Miani, Miguel A; Baumann, Christian; Grädel, Carole; Dijkman, Ronald; Suter-Riniker, Franziska; Leib, Stephen L; Bittel, Pascal; Neuenschwander, Stefan; Ramette, Alban (2022). Investigating the Extent of Primer Dropout in SARS-CoV-2 Genome Sequences During the Early Circulation of Delta Variants. Frontiers in Virology, 2 Frontiers 10.3389/fviro.2022.840952

Wegner, Fanny; Roloff, Tim; Huber, Michael; Cordey, Samuel; Ramette, Alban; Gerth, Yannick; Bertelli, Claire; Stange, Madlen; Seth-Smith, Helena M B; Mari, Alfredo; Leuzinger, Karoline; Cerutti, Lorenzo; Harshman, Keith; Xenarios, Ioannis; Le Mercier, Philippe; Bittel, Pascal; Neuenschwander, Stefan; Opota, Onya; Fuchs, Jonas; Panning, Marcus; ... (2022). External quality assessment of SARS-CoV-2-sequencing: An ESGMD-SSM pilot trial across 15 European laboratories. Journal of clinical microbiology, 60(1), e0169821. American Society for Microbiology 10.1128/JCM.01698-21

Ramírez Mena, Adrià; Tine, Judicaël M; Fortes, Louise; Ndiaye, Ousseynou; Ka, Daye; Ngom, Ndeye Fatou; Ramette, Alban Nicolas; Bittel, Pascal; Seydi, Moussa; Wandeler, Gilles (2022). Hepatitis B screening practices and viral control among persons living with HIV in urban Senegal. Journal of viral hepatitis, 29(1), pp. 60-68. Blackwell Science 10.1111/jvh.13615

Jegerlehner, Sabrina; Suter-Riniker, Franziska; Jent, Philipp; Bittel, Pascal; Nagler, Michael (2021). Diagnostic accuracy of a SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen test in real-life clinical settings. International journal of infectious diseases, 109, pp. 118-122. Elsevier 10.1016/j.ijid.2021.07.010

Hofmann, Eveline; Sidler, Daniel; Dahdal, Suzan; Bittel, Pascal; Suter-Riniker, Franziska; Manuel, Oriol; Walti, Laura N.; Hirzel, Cédric (2021). Emergence of letermovir resistance in solid organ transplant recipients with ganciclovir resistant cytomegalovirus infection: A case series and review of the literature. Transplant infectious disease, 23(3), e13515. Wiley 10.1111/tid.13515

Goncalves Cabecinhas, Ana Rita; Roloff, Tim; Stange, Madlen; Bertelli, Claire; Huber, Michael; Ramette, Alban; Chen, Chaoran; Nadeau, Sarah; Gerth, Yannick; Yerly, Sabine; Opota, Onya; Pillonel, Trestan; Schuster, Tobias; Metzger, Cesar M J A; Sieber, Jonas; Bel, Michael; Wohlwend, Nadia; Baumann, Christian; Koch, Michel C.; Bittel, Pascal; ... (2021). SARS-CoV-2 N501Y Introductions and Transmissions in Switzerland from Beginning of October 2020 to February 2021-Implementation of Swiss-Wide Diagnostic Screening and Whole Genome Sequencing. Microorganisms, 9(4), p. 677. MDPI 10.3390/microorganisms9040677

Borcard, Loïc; Gempeler, Sonja; Terrazos Miani, Miguel A.; Baumann, Christian; Grädel, Carole; Dijkman, Ronald; Suter-Riniker, Franziska; Leib, Stephen L; Bittel, Pascal; Neuenschwander, Stefan; Ramette, Alban (2021). Investigating the biological and technical origins of unknown bases in the S region of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant genome sequences (medRxiv). Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 10.1101/2021.09.09.21262951

Neuenschwander, Stefan Moritz; Terrazos Miani, Miguel Angel; Amlang, Heiko; Perroulaz, Carmen; Bittel, Pascal; Casanova, Carlo; Droz, Sara; Flandrois, Jean-Pierre; Leib, Stephen L.; Suter-Riniker, Franziska; Ramette, Alban (2020). A Sample-to-Report Solution for Taxonomic Identification of Cultured Bacteria in the Clinical Setting Based on Nanopore Sequencing. Journal of clinical microbiology, 58(6) American Society for Microbiology 10.1128/JCM.00060-20

Sendi, Parham; Moser Schaub, Eva Maria; Nirgianakis, Konstantinos; Hathaway, Lucy J; Bittel, Pascal; Goldblatt, David; Streit, Sven (2017). An uncommon site of Streptococcus pneumoniae colonization leading to recurrent pneumococcal disease. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 4(1), ofw257. Oxford University Press 10.1093/ofid/ofw257

Bittel, Pascal; Mayor, Désirée; Iseli, P; Bodmer, T; Suter-Riniker, Franziska (2014). IGRA-positive patients and interferon-gamma/interleukin-2 signatures: can the Fluorospot assay provide further information? Infection, 42(3), pp. 539-543. Springer-Medizin-Verlag 10.1007/s15010-014-0588-2