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Robert Koch Institute (RKI)
Institution
Section overview
Description
The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) is the central federal institution responsible for disease control and prevention and is therefore the central federal reference institution for both applied and response-orientated research as well as for the Public Health Sector.
Activities
- Research
Subordinate institutions
Coordinated projects
- Allergy awareness and monitoring are in the context of national health surveys of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) to assess the risk of allergy adult population
- Eating habits of children and young people with immigrant background
- Estimation of iodine and salt supply 2023
- Monitoring of the iodine and sodium supply in the adult population under the Federal Health Survey (BGS) at the RKI
Coordinated projects of subordinate institutions
Involved in research projects
- 2010: Development and validation of an ELISA for the detection of Leptospira infection
- Antibiotic Resistance Dynamics: the influence of geographic origin and management systems on resistance gene flows within humans, animals and the environment
- Characterization of biofilm formation by Listeria monocytogenes
- Characterization of Chronic Hepatitis E in Germany: Molecular Epidemiology, Pathophysiology and Clinic
- Experimental TBEV infection of bank voles (Myodes glareolus) (TBENAGER II)
- Genome-based surveillance of transmissible colistin and carbapenem resistances of Gram-negative bacteria
- German National Nutrition Survey III
- gern survey: Health and nutrition survey in Germany
- Improvement of next-generation sequencing methods for the detection of zoonotic pathogens
- Integrated genome-based surveillance of salmonellae
- Integrated genomic surveillance of zoonotic pathogens
- Integrated project: Epidemiological research network: Foodborne Infections in Germany; Project: Quantitative Risk Assessment fo human Campylobacter infections due to consumption of chicken meat
- International network for capacity building for the control of emerging viral vector borne zoonotic diseases (ARBO-ZOONET)
- Molecular typing of Listeria monocytogenes in food as basis for an efficient risk assessment and control of listeriosis in Germany
- One health - surveillance initiative on harmonization of data collection and interpretation
- Pathogenic Escherichia coli EC-Network (PEN)
- PCVD - The Control of Porcine Circovirus Diseases (PCVDs): Towards Improved Food Quality and Safety
- Pilot study investigating Leptospira serovars in wild boars
- Possible impact of climate change to emergences of rodentborne hantaviruses
- Possible influence of climate change on the distribution of Hanta-transmitting rodents
- Preventing and combating campylobacter infections: on track towards a 'One Health' approach
- Risk assessment and opinion on applications for placing on the market of GMOS and products derived from GMOs
- Serotype 4b variant (IVb-v1) of Listeria monocytogenes as source of an listeriosis outbreak in Germany
- Study on leptospirosis prevalence in dogs and humans
- The Control of Porcine Circovirus Diseases (PCVDs): Towards Improved Food Quality and Safety
- Zoonotic Borna viruses – virus reservoir, virus detection, in vitro and vivocharacterisation as well as epidemiology
Contact
Robert Koch Institute
(RKI)
Nordufer 20
13353 Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Phone: 030 - 18754-0
Fax: 030 - 18754-2328