Sabine Dittrich
Department of Fever
Foundation_for_Innovative_New_Diagnostics_FIND/
Switzerland
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 Interest
Molecular Biochemistry Infection Molecular Virology Public Health Medical Microbiology
Publications
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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.
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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.
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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.
