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Prof. Dr. med., PhD Nicole Ritz

Department of Clinical Research
Profiles & Affiliations

Area of Research

·      Novel and child-friendly diagnostics for childhood tuberculosis

·      Cytokines and other biomarkers for the diagnosis and prognosis of infections

·      Epidemiology and outcome of SARS-CoV-2 infections in neonates, children and

adolescents in Switzerland

·      Health care delivered to migrant and asylumseeking children

Selected Publications

Neudecker, Daniela, Fritisch, Nora, Sutter, Thomas, Lu, Lenette, Lu, Pei, Tebruegge, Marc, Santiago-Garcia, Begoña, & Ritz, Nicole. (2024). Evaluation of serological assays for the diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis disease: a study protocol. BMC Infectious Diseases, 24. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-024-09359-0

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Hauser M, Kabuya JB, Mantus M, Kamavu LK, Sichivula JL, Matende WM, Fritschi N, Shields T, Curriero F, Kvit A, Chongwe G, Moss WJ, Ritz N, & Ippolito MM. (2023). Malaria in Refugee Children Resettled to a Holoendemic Area of Sub-Saharan Africa. Clinical Infectious Diseases : An Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 76(3), e1104–e1113. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciac417

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Fritschi, N., Vaezipour, N., Buettcher, M., Portevin, D., Naranbhai, V., & Ritz, N. (2023). Ratios from full blood count as markers for TB diagnosis, treatment, prognosis: a systematic review. International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 27, 822–832. https://doi.org/10.5588/ijtld.22.0598

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Kissling, Mirjam, Fritschi, Nora, Baumann, Philipp, Buettcher, Michael, Bonhoeffer, Jan, Naranbhai, Vivek, Ritz, Nicole, & ProPAED and CITRUS study team. (2023). Monocyte, Lymphocyte and Neutrophil Ratios - Easy-to-Use Biomarkers for the Diagnosis of Pediatric Tuberculosis. -, 42, 520–527. https://doi.org/10.1097/inf.0000000000003901

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Zhu, Yanshan, Almeida, Flávia Jacqueline, Baillie, J. Kenneth, Bowen, Asha C., Britton, Philip N., Brizuela, Martin Eduardo, Buonsenso, Danilo, Burgner, David, Chew, Keng Yih, Chokephaibulkit, Kulkanya, Cohen, Cheryl, Cormier, Stephania A., Crawford, Nigel, Curtis, Nigel, Farias, Camila G. A., Gilks, Charles F., Von Gottberg, Anne, Hamer, Diana, Jarovsky, Daniel, et al. (2023). International Pediatric COVID-19 Severity over the Course of the Pandemic. JAMA Pediatrics, 177, 1073–1084. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2023.3117

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