Publications by authors named "Birgit Hahn"

Objective: The purpose of this article is to discuss various aspects of the concepts of luck and happiness within the field of psychiatric nursing.

Methods: Personal factors, work characteristics and work environment were included and combined with case studies from a local hospital.

Results: Fortune and happiness of psychiatric and mental health nurses are influenced by contextual factors and individual experiences with patients.

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Background: Childhood cancer survivors are at risk for therapy-related sequelae and, therefore, require long-term follow-up. At 2 university hospitals in Germany collaborative multidisciplinary late effects clinics were installed to provide specialized care and to evaluate the current health status of these patients in a clinical setting. Patients andMethods: Every patient who visited the late effects clinics at the university hospital in Lübeck and Erlangen over a period of 3 years and met the inclusion criteria was included in the study.

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Listeria monocytogenes is a firmicute bacterium causing serious infections in humans upon consumption of contaminated food. Most of its virulence factors are secretory proteins either released to the medium or attached to the bacterial surface. L.

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DivIVA is a well-conserved coiled-coil protein present in most Gram-positive bacteria and has been implicated in division site selection, peptidoglycan biosynthesis and sporulation. DivIVA proteins bind lipid membranes and characteristically accumulate at curved membrane areas, i.e.

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