Claus Nielsen

Forskningsområder

• Generel virologi og patogenese
• Antiviral terapi og variabilitet

Ansvarsområder

Afdelingschef for Virus og Mikrobiologisk Specialdiagnostik. Afdelingen udfører specialdiagnostik og rådgivning for humane og veterinære virusinfektioner samt serologiske undersøgelser for både bakterier og virus.

Afdelingen er landets centrale laboratorium for human virologi med overvågning af virusinfektioner samt forskning og udvikling inden for området.

Publikationer

• Audelin AM, Cowan SA, Obel N, Nielsen C, Jørgensen LB, Gerstoft J (2013). Phylogenetics of the Danish HIV epidemic: the role of very late presenters in sustaining the epidemic. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2013 Jan 1;62(1):102-8.

• Bruhn CA, Audelin AM, Helleberg M, Bjorn-Mortensen K, Obel N, Gerstoft J, Nielsen C, Melbye M, Medstrand P, Gilbert MT, Esbjörnsson J. (2014) The origin and emergence of an HIV-1 epidemic: from introduction to endemicity. AIDS. Apr 24;28(7):1031-40

• Fonager J, Larsson JT, Hussing C, Engsig FN, Nielsen C, Fischer TK. (2015). Identification of minority resistance mutations in the HIV-1 integrase coding region using next generation sequencing. J Clin Virol. Dec;73:95-100. 

• Esbjörnsson J, Mild M, Audelin A, Fonager J, Skar H, Bruun Jørgensen L, Liitsola K, Björkman P, Bratt G, Gisslén M, Sönnerborg A, Nielsen C; SPREAD/ESAR Programme, Medstrand P, Albert J. (2016). HIV-1 transmission between MSM and heterosexuals, and increasing proportions of circulating recombinant forms in the Nordic Countries. Virus Evol. Apr 27;2(1)

• Westergaard UB, van Overeem Hansen B, Rud KA, Nielsen C, Stawski G, Hasløv KR. (2018). A risk assessment on extraneous virus contamination in a viral vaccine production environment justifies waiving of in vivo testing. Biologicals. Nov;56:9-12.