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  1. Rapid spread of MPXV clade Ib with high genetic relatedness among men who have sex with men, Berlin, Germany, week 50 2025 up to week 10 2026

    Article • Eurosurveillance, March 2026, European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC)

    Alexander Bartel

  2. Drying-off practices and cell count–based new infection and cure risk over the dry period on 765 German dairy farms

    Article • JDS Communications, March 2026, American Dairy Science Association

    Alexander Bartel

  3. Effective Inhibitor Removal from Wastewater Samples Increases Sensitivity of RT-dPCR and Sequencing Analyses and Enhances the Stability of Wastewater-Based Surveillance

    Article • Microorganisms, December 2024, MDPI AG

    Alexander Bartel

  4. Nuclear pleomorphism in canine cutaneous mast cell tumors: Comparison of reproducibility and prognostic relevance between estimates, manual morphometry, and algorithmic morphometry

    Article • Veterinary Pathology, November 2024, SAGE Publications

    Alexander Bartel

  5. Third-generation cephalosporin resistant Escherichia coli in dogs and cats in Germany in 2019–2021

    Article • PLOS One, August 2024, PLOS

    Alexander Bartel

  6. Do concentrations of non‐esterified fatty acids change during gestation and lactation in healthy bitches?

    Article • Reproduction in Domestic Animals, July 2024, Wiley

    Alexander Bartel

  7. Comparative Analysis of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus pseudintermedius Prevalence and Resistance Patterns in Canine and Feline Clinical Samples: Insights from a Three-Year Study in Germany

    Article • Antibiotics, July 2024, MDPI AG

    Alexander Bartel

  8. Prevalence of MRSA in canine and feline clinical samples from one-third of veterinary practices in Germany from 2019–2021

    Article • Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, July 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Alexander Bartel

  9. The relationship between lameness prevalence and pasture access in 659 dairy herds in Germany

    Article • PLOS One, June 2024, PLOS

    Alexander Bartel

  10. Automated Nuclear Morphometry: A Deep Learning Approach for Prognostication in Canine Pulmonary Carcinoma to Enhance Reproducibility

    Article • Veterinary Sciences, June 2024, MDPI AG

    Alexander Bartel

  11. Mitotic activity: A systematic literature review of the assessment methodology and prognostic value in canine tumors

    Article • Veterinary Pathology, March 2024, SAGE Publications

    Alexander Bartel

  12. Mitotic activity: A systematic literature review of the assessment methodology and prognostic value in feline tumors

    Article • Veterinary Pathology, March 2024, SAGE Publications

    Alexander Bartel

  13. Blood‐based assessment of oxidative stress, inflammation, endocrine and metabolic adaptations in eventing horses accounting for plasma volume shift after exercise

    Article • Veterinary Medicine and Science, March 2024, Wiley

    Alexander Bartel

  14. Impact of air humidity on the tenacity of different agents in bioaerosols

    Article • PLOS One, January 2024, PLOS

    Alexander Bartel

  15. Timely Monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 RNA Fragments in Wastewater Shows the Emergence of JN.1 (BA.2.86.1.1, Clade 23I) in Berlin, Germany

    Article • Viruses, January 2024, MDPI AG

    Alexander Bartel

  16. Atypical Mitotic Figures Are Prognostically Meaningful for Canine Cutaneous Mast Cell Tumors

    Article • Veterinary Sciences, December 2023, MDPI AG

    Alexander Bartel

  17. Clicker Training as an Applied Refinement Measure in Chickens

    Article • Animals, December 2023, MDPI AG

    Alexander Bartel

  18. Overview of the Veterinary Cancer Guidelines and Protocols group’s “Developing, reporting and validating histologic tumor grading systems”

    Article • Veterinary Pathology, November 2023, SAGE Publications

    Alexander Bartel

  19. Blood-Based Markers for Skeletal and Cardiac Muscle Function in Eventing Horses before and after Cross-Country Rides and How They Are Influenced by Plasma Volume Shift

    Article • Animals, October 2023, MDPI AG

    Alexander Bartel

  20. Listening, reading, writing – which method leads to the best learning outcome?

    Article • Tierärztliche Praxis Ausgabe K Kleintiere / Heimtiere, August 2023, Thieme Publishing Group

    Alexander Bartel

  21. Automated diagnosis of 7 canine skin tumors using machine learning on H&E-stained whole slide images

    Article • Veterinary Pathology, July 2023, SAGE Publications

    Alexander Bartel

  22. Estimated incubation period distributions of mpox using cases from two international European festivals and outbreaks in a club in Berlin, May to June 2022

    Article • Eurosurveillance, July 2023, European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC)

    Alexander Bartel

  23. Seroprevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato and Anaplasma phagocytophilum Infections in German Horses

    Article • Animals, June 2023, MDPI AG

    Alexander Bartel

  24. Thyroid hormones in canine pregnancy and lactation

    Article • Theriogenology, June 2023, Elsevier

    Alexander Bartel

  25. Pre-Ride Biomarkers and Endurance Horse Welfare: Analyzing the Impact of the Elimination of Superoxide Dismutase, δ-Aminolevulinic-Dehydratase, Thiobarbituric Acid Reactive Substances, Iron, and Serum Amyloid A Levels in Elite 160 km Endurance Rides

    Article • Animals, May 2023, MDPI AG

    Alexander Bartel

  26. Status of udder health performance indicators and implementation of on farm monitoring on German dairy cow farms: results from a large scale cross-sectional study

    Article • Frontiers in Veterinary Science, May 2023, Frontiers

    Alexander Bartel

  27. Metabolomics during canine pregnancy and lactation

    Article • PLOS One, May 2023, PLOS

    Alexander Bartel

  28. Patterns of Lymphocytic Infiltrates Can Differentiate Feline Hepatic Lymphoma from Lymphocytic Portal Hepatitis

    Article • Veterinary Sciences, February 2023, MDPI AG

    Alexander Bartel

  29. The metabolic differences of anestrus, heat, pregnancy, pseudopregnancy, and lactation in 800 female dogs

    Article • Frontiers in Veterinary Science, February 2023, Frontiers

    Alexander Bartel

  30. Cytologic scoring of equine exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage: Performance of human experts and a deep learning-based algorithm

    Article • Veterinary Pathology, November 2022, SAGE Publications

    Alexander Bartel

  31. Metabolic Characteristics of Porcine LA-MRSA CC398 and CC9 Isolates from Germany and China via Biolog Phenotype MicroArrayTM

    Article • Microorganisms, October 2022, MDPI AG

    Alexander Bartel

  32. Benchmarking calf health: Assessment tools for dairy herd health consultancy based on reference values from 730 German dairies with respect to seasonal, farm type, and herd size effects

    Article • Frontiers in Veterinary Science, September 2022, Frontiers

    Alexander Bartel

  33. A shift from travel-associated cases to autochthonous transmission with Berlin as epicentre of the monkeypox outbreak in Germany, May to June 2022

    Article • Eurosurveillance, July 2022, European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC)

    Alexander Bartel

  34. Teaching Outbreak Investigations with an Interactive Blended Learning Approach

    Article • Journal of Veterinary Medical Education, June 2022, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Alexander Bartel

  35. Dependence of the Ki67 Labelling Index of Selected Canine Tumours on Patient Age, Sex and Tumour Size

    Article • Journal of Comparative Pathology, May 2022, Elsevier

    Alexander Bartel

  36. Timely Monitoring COVID-19 Vaccine Protection, Berlin, Germany, April 15th to December 15th, 2021

    Article • International Journal of Public Health, March 2022, Frontiers

    Alexander Bartel

  37. Cytologic Scoring of Equine Exercise-Induced Pulmonary Hemorrhage (EIPH): Performance of Human Experts and a Deep Learning-Based Algorithm

    Article • March 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Alexander Bartel, Christiane Weissenbacher-Lang

  38. Computer-assisted mitotic count using a deep learning–based algorithm improves interobserver reproducibility and accuracy

    Article • Veterinary Pathology, December 2021, SAGE Publications

    Alexander Bartel

  39. Progesterone Concentrations during Canine Pregnancy

    Article • Animals, November 2021, MDPI AG

    Alexander Bartel

  40. Correlation of Histopathological Changes in the Left Atrium and Left Atrial Appendage with the Degree of Dilation in Cats

    Article • Journal of Comparative Pathology, November 2021, Elsevier

    Alexander Bartel

  41. Application note: Validation of BovHEAT — An open-source analysis tool to process data from automated activity monitoring systems in dairy cattle for estrus detection

    Article • Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, September 2021, Elsevier

    Alexander Bartel

  42. Validation of digital microscopy: Review of validation methods and sources of bias

    Article • Veterinary Pathology, August 2021, SAGE Publications

    Alexander Bartel

  43. Innovative Textiles Used in Face Masks: Filtration Efficiency and Self-Disinfecting Properties against Coronaviruses

    Article • Nanomaterials, August 2021, MDPI AG

    Alexander Bartel

  44. Association of estrous expression detected by an automated activity monitoring system within 40 days in milk and reproductive performance of lactating Holstein cows

    Article • Journal of Dairy Science, August 2021, American Dairy Science Association

    Alexander Bartel

  45. Prevalence of disorders in preweaned dairy calves from 731 dairies in Germany: A cross-sectional study

    Article • Journal of Dairy Science, August 2021, American Dairy Science Association

    Alexander Bartel

  46. Students' acceptance of case‐based blended learning in mandatory interdisciplinary lectures for clinical medicine and veterinary public health

    Article • Veterinary Record Open, July 2021, Wiley

    Alexander Bartel

  47. Computer-Assisted Mitotic Count Using a Deep Learning-based Algorithm Improves Inter-Observer Reproducibility and Accuracy in canine cutaneous mast cell tumors

    Article • June 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Alexander Bartel

  48. Age and Hydration of Competing Horses Influence the Outcome of Elite 160 km Endurance Rides

    Article • Frontiers in Veterinary Science, May 2021, Frontiers

    Alexander Bartel

  49. Artificial Feeding of All Consecutive Life Stages of Ixodes ricinus

    Article • Vaccines, April 2021, MDPI AG

    Alexander Bartel

  50. Low airborne tenacity and spread of ESBL‐/AmpC‐producing Escherichia coli from fertilized soil by wind erosion

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, March 2021, Wiley

    Alexander Bartel

  51. Sensitivity and specificity of a tail-activity measuring device for calving prediction in dairy cattle

    Article • Journal of Dairy Science, March 2021, American Dairy Science Association

    Alexander Bartel

  52. Influence of Inter-Annotator Variability on Automatic Mitotic Figure Assessment

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alexander Bartel

  53. Comparison of two methods for cell count determination in the course of biocide susceptibility testing

    Article • Veterinary Microbiology, December 2020, Elsevier

    Alexander Bartel

  54. Internal Tandem Duplication of Exon 8 of c-kit Is Associated With Longer Total Survival in Canine Cutaneous Mast Cell Tumors

    Article • Veterinary Pathology, November 2020, SAGE Publications

    Alexander Bartel

  55. Neoplasia and Tumor-Like Lesions in Pet Rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus): A Retrospective Analysis of Cases Between 1995 and 2019

    Article • Veterinary Pathology, November 2020, SAGE Publications

    Alexander Bartel

  56. Biocide susceptibility testing of bacteria: Development of a broth microdilution method

    Article • Veterinary Microbiology, September 2020, Elsevier

    Alexander Bartel

  57. Teaching small animal reproduction via virtual patients

    Article • Reproduction in Domestic Animals, December 2019, Wiley

    Alexander Bartel

  58. Evaluating Pathologists' performance in counting mitoses from suspected cancerous tissue samples.

    Article • Veterinary Pathology, December 2019, SAGE Publications

    Alexander Bartel

  59. Improved DNA extraction and purification with magnetic nanoparticles for the detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

    Article • Veterinary Microbiology, March 2019, Elsevier

    Alexander Bartel

  60. Caspase-6 mediates resistance against Burkholderia pseudomallei infection and influences the expression of detrimental cytokines

    Article • PLOS One, July 2017, PLOS

    Alexander Bartel