Dr. Astrid Collingro
Department für Mikrobielle Ökologie
Wiener Ökologiezentrum
Universität Wien
Althanstr. 14
A-1090 Wien
Austria
 
phone: +43 1 4277 54394
fax: +43 1 4277 54389
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Topics
 Environmental chlamydia genomics and post-genomics
 •  Prevalence of chlamydia-related bacteria in clinical samples
 
Publications in peer reviewed journals
  1. Haider S, Collingro A, Walochnik J, Wagner M, Horn M. 2008. Chlamydia-like bacteria in respiratory samples of community-acquired pneumonia patients. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 281: 198-202.
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  2. Strous M, Pelletier E, Mangenot S, Rattei T, Lehner A, Taylor MW, Horn M, Daims H, Bartol-Mave D, Wincker P, Barbe V, Fonknechten N, Vallenet D, Segurens B, Schenowitz-Truong C, Médigue C, Collingro A, Snel B, Dutilh BE, Op den Camp HJM, van der Drift C, Cirpus I, van de Pas-Schoonen KT, Harhangi HR, van Niftrik L, Schmid MC, Keltjens J, van de Vossenberg J, Kartal B, Meier H, Frishman D, Huynen MA, Mewes HW, Weissenbach J, Jetten MSM, Wagner M, Le Paslier D. 2006. Deciphering the evolution and metabolism of an anammox bacterium from a community genome. Nature 440: 790-794.
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  3. Collingro A, Toenshoff ER, Taylor MW, Fritsche TR, Wagner M, Horn M. 2005. 'Candidatus Protochlamydia amoebophila', an endosymbiont of Acanthamoeba spp. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 55: 1863-1866.
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  4. Collingro A, Poppert S, Heinz E, Schmitz-Esser S, Essig A, Schweikert M, Wagner M, Horn M. 2005. Recovery of an environmental chlamydia strain from activated sludge by co-cultivation with Acanthamoeba sp. Microbiology 151: 301-309.
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  5. Haferkamp I, Schmitz-Esser S, Linka N, Urbany C, Collingro A, Wagner M, Horn M, Neuhaus HE. 2004. A candidate NAD+ transporter in an intracellular bacterial symbiont related to chlamydiae. Nature 432: 622-625.
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  6. Horn M, Collingro A, Schmitz-Esser S, Beier CL, Purkhold U, Fartmann B, Brandt P, Nyakatura GJ, Droege M, Frishman D, Rattei T, Mewes HW, Wagner M. 2004. Illuminating the evolutionary history of chlamydiae. Science 304: 728-730.
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     Press release [PDF]
     Press release (German) [PDF]
     Movie showing environmental chlamydia UWE25 within its amoeba host cells.
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     Movie showing environmental chlamydia UWE25 within its amoeba host cells.
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     Environmental chlamydia genome database
  7. Collingro A, Walochnik J, Baranyi C, Michel R, Wagner M, Horn M, Aspöck H. 2004. Chlamydial endocytobionts of free-living amoebae differentially affect the growth rate of their hosts. Europ. J. Protist. 40: 57-60.
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  8. Schmitz-Esser S, Linka N, Collingro A, Beier CL, Neuhaus HE, Wagner M, Horn M. 2004. ATP/ADP translocases: A common feature of obligate intracellular amoebal symbionts related to chlamydiae and rickettsiae. J. Bacteriol. 186: 683-691.
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     ARB/FastA database

Book chapters and other publications
  1. Horn M, Collingro A, Schmitz-Esser S, Wagner M. 2006. Environmental chlamydia genomics. In Chlamydia: genomics and pathogenesis, pp. 25-44. (Bavoil PM, Wyrick PB, ed.). Horizon Scientific Press, Norfolk.
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  2. Collingro A, Horn M. 2005. Chlamydien als Symbionten frei lebender Amöben. BioSpektrum 4: 393-394.
  3. Collingro A, Horn, M, Wagner M. 2004. Die Evolution der Chlamydien - Einblicke in die Entwicklungsgeschichte bedeutender bakterieller Krankheitserreger aus einer genomischen Perspektive. GenomXPress 2: 13-14.
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