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Clinical & Applied Virology group
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Research group at the Luxembourg Institute of Health. 👩‍🔬 Key interests: infectious diseases, immunization, pandemic preparedness, one health 🔬🦠🧬 Opinions are our own.
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#virology #measles #vaccination #childhealth #ticks #diseasesurveillance #hepatitis #zoonoses #Covid19

We wish you all a happy holiday season 🌟

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Alexandre Stockholm, from the Université de Lorraine, successfully completed his ten-week internship with us. 🎉👏
He explored the role of birds in the tick-borne disease borreliosis, under the supervision of Dr. Aleksandra Krawczyk. Alexandre will continue to work with us in August as summer student!
July 25, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Together with Dr Ben Mamou from WHO EURO, Dr Judith Hübschen and Emilie Charpentier conducted an onsite accreditation visit to the National Measles and Rubella Laboratory in North Macedonia in June 2025. Congratulation to the team for successful accreditation!
#WHO #Measles #Rubella
July 22, 2025 at 2:43 AM
On May 14th, we participated to a workshop at the Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg organized by the Division de l'inspection sanitaire. There, we shared our expertise on vector-borne disease surveillance with the medical community.
#vectorbornediseases #luxembourg
July 15, 2025 at 7:49 AM
In April, we started our monthly tick 🕷️ sampling at various sites in Luxembourg, as part of the One Health 4 Surveillance project. Stay tuned for updates on ticks in Luxembourg #OneHealth #TickSurveillance #Luxembourg
July 7, 2025 at 6:21 AM
We’ve recently published several articles in peer-reviewed journals🎉. Stay tuned for more science from the Clinical and Applied Virology group!

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June 30, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Influenza A and B were reliably detected in wastewater, closely aligning with clinical trends📈. Novel methods to define flu seasons using wastewater data show promise for complementary community-level disease surveillance👩‍🔬. #PublicHealth #WastewaterSurveillance #Luxembourg
June 26, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Dr. Lisa Hefele joined the celebration of Luxembourg’s National Day at the Luxembourg Embassy in Vientiane, Laos. Wishing everyone a joyful National Day! ✨
@lhefele.bsky.social
#luxembourg
#luxembourgNationalDay
#Laos
June 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
We took part in the 8th Luxembourg Microbiology Day hosted in the House of BioHealth! Congrats to the Luxembourg Society for Microbiology for organizing a great event. Here are some snapshots from the day! 📸 #Microbiology #Luxembourg
May 27, 2025 at 11:39 AM
We are happy to announce that we will participate to the 8th Luxembourg Microbiology Day. We will share with the scientific community one poster on ticks and tick-borne diseases, and one poster on virus surveillance in wild birds. Join us there! 👩‍🔬🎉

#MicrobiologyDay #Luxembourg
May 8, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Are you interested in ticks and tick borne diseases? Recently four team members participated to the 16th international symposium in Germany. Dr. Krawczyk and Dr. Reteng shared their results and insights through an oral presentation, a panel discussion and a poster.

#Ticks #TickBorneDiseases
April 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Happy Lao New year!

🎉We have been visiting our collaborators around Laos with a customary basket, to celebrate with them the Lao New Year🎉

#Laos #LaoNewYear #LaoPDR
April 17, 2025 at 2:53 PM
🎉In February, we met our partners from the One Health for Surveillance international project in Uppsala. Dr. Merten (left) from ALVA, Dr. Hübschen (middle) and Dr. Snoeck (right) from LIH formed the Luxembourgish delegation.
Learn more at: tinyurl.com/OH4S-LIH

#OneHealth #EU #Zoonoses
April 15, 2025 at 10:01 AM
🎉Happy Lao New Year!🎉
April 15, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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February 18, 2025 at 12:21 PM
🎉 We won! A big shout-out to our team for winning the Luxembourg Institute of Health’s Christmas decoration contest! 🎄✨ Our "snow globe" theme brought a magical winter wonderland to life. We thank the rest of our team and everyone else who helped make this happen! #TeamVictory #HolidaySpirit 🎅🏆
January 13, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Wishing everyone a Happy New Year! 🎆 May 2025 bring you joy, prosperity, and countless opportunities. 🌟 #HappyNewYear #Welcome2025
January 9, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Our research team is now also on @bsky.app 😀 Follow us for news on #InfectiousDiseaseResearch 👩‍🔬🦠🧪

#virology #measles #vaccination #childhealth #ticks #diseasesurveillance #hepatitis #zoonoses #Covid19

We wish you all a happy holiday season 🌟

#Science #AcademicTwitter #Research #readyfor2025
December 9, 2024 at 2:50 PM