Lutz Gürtler
Lutz Gürtler (born April 26, 1942 in Bielefeld ) is a German virologist and the discoverer of the HIV subtype O.
During his studies on HIV in Africa (1985–1998) he collected blood samples from AIDS patients at the CHU Department of Hematology in Yaoundé, Cameroon . From one of these samples, at the Max von Pettenkofer Institute at the University of Munich , he isolated a variant of HIV-1 for the first time, which after gene sequencing was given the name subtype O because of its fundamentally different structure from other HIV-1 subtypes .
Life
Lutz Gürtler his doctorate in 1969 at the University of Munich, where he was in 1987 apl. Professor of Anthropology and Human Genetics and Microbiology and Hygiene appointed. After the discovery of the HIV subtype O, he carried out numerous studies on the variability of the “O viruses” together with the research teams of Francois Simon in Paris and Sushil Devare in Chicago. From 1986 he was committed to setting up reference laboratories for HIV diagnostics in Africa, and from 1998 he headed the Institute for Medical Microbiology at the University of Greifswald . After his retirement in 2008, he returned to the Max von Pettenkofer Institute in Munich as a visiting professor . He also teaches virology and bacteriology at the University of Bangangté in Cameroon.
Web links
- fodb.uni-egoswald.de: Institute for Medical Microbiology , accessed on December 13, 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gürtler LG et al .: A new subtype of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (MVP-5180) from Cameroon . J Virol 1994; 68 (3): 1581-1585
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| SURNAME | Gürtler, Lutz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German virologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 26, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bielefeld |