Verena Kufner

Verena Kufner

Universität Zürich

H-index: 13

Europe-Switzerland

About Verena Kufner

Verena Kufner, With an exceptional h-index of 13 and a recent h-index of 13 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Universität Zürich, specializes in the field of next-generation sequencing, metagenomic sequencing, virology.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

How much should we sequence? An analysis of the Swiss SARS-CoV-2 surveillance effort

Multicenter benchmarking of short and long read wet lab protocols for clinical viral metagenomics

Exploring viral aetiology in upper respiratory tract infections: insights from metagenomic next-generation sequencing in Swiss outpatients before and during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

Rapid and sensitive single-sample viral metagenomics using Nanopore Flongle sequencing

Antibodies from convalescent plasma promote SARS-CoV-2 clearance in individuals with and without endogenous antibody response

External quality assessment of SARS-CoV-2 sequencing: an ESGMD-SSM pilot trial across 15 European laboratories

Swiss public health measures associated with reduced SARS-CoV-2 transmission using genome data

Nosocomial COVID-19 incidence and secondary attack rates among patients of tertiary care center, Zurich, Switzerland

Verena Kufner Information

University

Position

Institute of Medical Virology

Citations(all)

427

Citations(since 2020)

421

Cited By

95

hIndex(all)

13

hIndex(since 2020)

13

i10Index(all)

13

i10Index(since 2020)

13

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Verena Kufner Skills & Research Interests

next-generation sequencing

metagenomic sequencing

virology

Top articles of Verena Kufner

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

How much should we sequence? An analysis of the Swiss SARS-CoV-2 surveillance effort

Fanny Wegner

Blanca Cabrera Gil

Tanguy Araud

Christiane Beckmann

Niko Beerenwinkel

...

2023

Multicenter benchmarking of short and long read wet lab protocols for clinical viral metagenomics

medRxiv

F Xavier Lopez-Labrador

Michael Huber

Igor A Sidorov

Julianne R Brown

Lize Cuypers

...

2024

Exploring viral aetiology in upper respiratory tract infections: insights from metagenomic next-generation sequencing in Swiss outpatients before and during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

Swiss Medical Weekly

Verena Kufner

Andrea C Frey

Sara H Burkhard

Stefan Schmutz

Gabriela Ziltener

...

2024/4/5

Rapid and sensitive single-sample viral metagenomics using Nanopore Flongle sequencing

Journal of Virological Methods

Ian Pichler

Stefan Schmutz

Gabriela Ziltener

Maryam Zaheri

Verena Kufner

...

2023/10/1

Antibodies from convalescent plasma promote SARS-CoV-2 clearance in individuals with and without endogenous antibody response

The Journal of Clinical Investigation

Maddalena Marconato

Irene A Abela

Anthony Hauser

Magdalena Schwarzmüller

Rheliana Katzensteiner

...

2022/6/15

External quality assessment of SARS-CoV-2 sequencing: an ESGMD-SSM pilot trial across 15 European laboratories

Journal of clinical microbiology

Fanny Wegner

Tim Roloff

Michael Huber

Samuel Cordey

Alban Ramette

...

2022/1/19

Swiss public health measures associated with reduced SARS-CoV-2 transmission using genome data

Science translational medicine

Sarah A Nadeau

Timothy G Vaughan

Christiane Beckmann

Ivan Topolsky

Chaoran Chen

...

2022/11/8

Nosocomial COVID-19 incidence and secondary attack rates among patients of tertiary care center, Zurich, Switzerland

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Aline Wolfensberger

Verena Kufner

Maryam Zaheri

Marius Zeeb

Isabelle Nortes

...

2022/10

Recommendations for the introduction of metagenomic high-throughput sequencing in clinical virology, part I: Wet lab procedure

Journal of Clinical Virology

Jutte JC de Vries

Julianne R Brown

Natacha Couto

Martin Beer

Philippe Le Mercier

...

2021/5/1

Contribution of endogenous and exogenous antibodies to clearance of SARS-CoV-2 during convalescent plasma therapy

medRxiv

Maddalena Marconato

Irene A Abela

Anthony Hauser

Magdalena Schwarzmüller

Rheliana Katzensteiner

...

2021/12/11

Benchmark of thirteen bioinformatic pipelines for metagenomic virus diagnostics using datasets from clinical samples

Journal of Clinical Virology

Jutte JC de Vries

Julianne R Brown

Nicole Fischer

Igor A Sidorov

Sofia Morfopoulou

...

2021/8/1

SARS-CoV-2 variants reveal features critical for replication in primary human cells

PLOS Biology

Marie O Pohl

Idoia Busnadiego

Verena Kufner

Irina Glas

Umut Karakus

...

2021/3/24

Remdesivir Metabolite GS-441524 Efficiently Inhibits SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Mouse Model (preprint)

Yingjun Li

Liu Cao

Ge Li

Feng Cong

Yunfeng Li

...

2020

Does respiratory co-infection facilitate dispersal of SARS-CoV-2? investigation of a super-spreading event in an open-space office

Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control

Dana Weissberg

Jürg Böni

Silvana K Rampini

Verena Kufner

Maryam Zaheri

...

2020/12

Distinct phenotypes of SARS-CoV-2 isolates reveal viral traits critical for replication in primary human respiratory cells

Marie O Pohl

Idoia Busnadiego

Verena Kufner

Irina Glas

Umut Karakus

...

2020

Quantifying SARS-CoV-2 spread in Switzerland based on genomic sequencing data

medRxiv

Sarah Nadeau

Christiane Beckmann

Ivan Topolsky

Timothy Vaughan

Emma Hodcroft

...

2020/10/27

Metagenomic Sequencing of Viral Pathogens in Clinical Samples for Improved Infectious Disease Diagnostics and Management

Verena Kufner

2020/2/13

SARS-CoV-2 viroporin triggers the NLRP3 inflammatory pathway (preprint)

Huanzhou Xu

Siddhi A Chitre

Ibukun A Akinyemi

Julia C Loeb

John A Lednicky

...

2020

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