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Prof. Volkhard Kempf serves as Professor of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control at Goethe University Frankfurt's Faculty of Medicine. He directs the institution's large-scale infectious disease laboratory, which holds designation as Germany's national conciliary laboratory for Bartonella infections by the Robert Koch-Institute in Berlin.
His research centers on bacterial adhesion mechanisms with specialized focus on Bartonella species, and bacterial pathogenicity involving oxygen-dependent host-cell modulation. Key contributions include identifying BadA as a trimeric autotransporter adhesin and establishing HIF-1's fundamental role in human infection processes.
The diagnostic facility under his leadership routinely performs comprehensive analyses including:
- Cultivation of pathogens
- Pathogen identification systems
- Mass spectrometry applications
- Antibiotic susceptibility testing
- Light and electron microscopy
- Serological diagnostics
- Molecular pathogen detection (bacteria/viruses)
- Microbiome composition analysis
