Sabine Dittrich

Department of Fever
Foundation_for_Innovative_New_Diagnostics_FIND/
Switzerland

Professor Microbiology
Biography

Dr Sabine Dittrich is heading the fever work in FIND’s Fever, AMR and Outbreak programme. She completed her PhD in Biomolecular Science at the University of Manchester (UK) studying the folate pathway of P. falciparum and subsequently completed a Public Health Microbiology Fellowship (equivalent of EIS) which focused on outbreak response and preparedness with the European CDC (EPIET/EUPHEM), based at the Dutch National Institute of Public Health.

Research Intrest

Molecular Biochemistry Infection Molecular Virology Public Health Medical Microbiology

List of Publications
Weiss, S., Menezes, A., Woods, K., Chanthongthip, A., Dittrich, S., Opoku-Boateng, A., ... & Chalker, V. (2016). An Extended Multilocus Sequence Typing (MLST) Scheme for Rapid Direct Typing of Leptospira from Clinical Samples. PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 10(9), e0004996.
Rongkard, P., Hantrakun, V., Dittrich, S., Srilohasin, P., Amornchai, P., Langla, S., ... & Limmathurotsakul, D. (2016). Utility of a Lateral Flow Immunoassay (LFI) to Detect Burkholderia pseudomallei in Soil Samples. PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 10(12), e0005204.
Escadafal, C., Nsanzabana, C., Archer, J., Chihota, V., Rodriguez, W., & Dittrich, S. (2017). New Biomarkers and Diagnostic Tools for the Management of Fever in Low-and Middle-Income Countries: An Overview of the Challenges. Diagnostics, 7(3), 44.