Wolfgang Witte

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Wolfgang Witte (born April 20, 1945 ) is a German microbiologist . He is head of the national reference center for staphylococci in the Wernigerode area of the Robert Koch Institute and has taken over the management of this area as the successor to Helmut Tschäpe.

Life

Witte was at the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg with a thesis on the subject A 1972 DNA repair, mutability and caffeine effect in phage VIr of Proteus mirabilis doctorate .

From 1973 to 1990 Witte was department head at the Institute for Experimental Epidemiology in Wernigerode , where he specialized in the field of medical microbiology . In 1978 he completed his habilitation with the dissertation B on the subject of microbiological and genetic foundations of the epidemiological surveillance of Staphylococcus aureus at the University of Greifswald , the habilitation was recognized in 1990. In 1984 he was a Research Associate in the Department of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis , United States . After being incorporated into the Robert Koch Institute as the “Wernigerode Area” in 1990, he is the head of the “ Nosocomial Infections ” department, better known as hospital infections , with the National Reference Center for Staphylococci. Since 1997 he has also been an adjunct professor at the Medical Faculty of the University of Magdeburg and since 2006 head of the “Wernigerode Division” of the Robert Koch Institute.

Wolfgang Witte's area of ​​expertise primarily includes staphylococci and staphylococcal diseases, especially infections caused by multi-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus ( MRSA ). In addition, he deals with the molecular epidemiology of bacterial infectious agents and antibiotic resistance in bacteria.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c curriculum vitae (PDF; 64 kB) on an announcement for the lecture "The microbial infectious agents and we - who will have the last word?" At the Harz University of Applied Sciences , 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Witte, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German microbiologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1945