We are an institute of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. We are part of the Center for Infectious Medicine (ZIM) and our premises are accomodating the Core Unit Flow Cytometry (CUDZ).
Within the scope of extensive epidemiological studies, an interdisciplinary team around Dr. Michael Sieg was able to prove for the first time the presence of a new feline paramyxovirus in domestic cats in Germany. The results of this research were published in the internationally renowned magazine…
In cooperation with Dr. Volker Schmidt (Clinic for Birds and Reptiles) the West Nile Virus (WNV) was detected for the first time at the Institute of Virology of the Veterinary Faculty of the University of Leipzig. These are a blue tit, goldfinch, canary and swallow parakeet from Leipzig and the…
Mrs. Viktoria Rungelrath burns for bacteriology. She has demonstrated this with her outstanding dissertation on "Characterization of IgG proteolysis by Streptococcus phocae subsp. phocae and IgM proteolysis by Streptococcus suis". Their commitment was honoured accordingly on 28.06.2019 during the…
It's finally time. After the Centre for Infection Medicine had no website of its own for years, the website of the ZIM goes online on 01.07.2019.
Our facility is located in the southwest of Leipzig, only a short distance from the city center. You can reach us comfortably by public transport or car.
