Silke Kirchen

Detection of clinically relevant antibiotic-resistance genes in municipal wastewater using real-time PCR (TaqMan)

Holger Volkmann, Thomas Schwartz, Petra Bischoff et al. · Journal of Microbiological Methods · 2003 · 258 citations

Life Sciences, Microbiology, Molecular Biology +16

Ice nucleation activity of agricultural soil dust aerosols from Mongolia, Argentina, and Germany

Isabelle Steinke, Roger Funk, Jacqueline Busse et al. · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2016 · 110 citations · Full text

Natural Sciences, Earth Sciences, Soil Sciences +16

Real-time PCR detection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in clinical and municipal wastewater and genotyping of the ciprofloxacin-resistant isolates

Thomas Schwartz, Holger Volkmann, Silke Kirchen et al. · FEMS Microbiology Ecology · 2006 · 92 citations

Life Sciences, Microbiology, Antimicrobial Resistance +15

Intracellular localization of membrane‐bound ATPases in the compartmentalized anammox bacterium ‘<i>Candidatus</i> Kuenenia stuttgartiensis’

Laura van Niftrik, Mary Van Helden, Silke Kirchen et al. · Molecular Microbiology · 2010 · 91 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biology, Microbiology +17

Evaluation of inhibition and cross-reaction effects on real-time PCR applied to the total DNA of wastewater samples for the quantification of bacterial antibiotic resistance genes and taxon-specific targets

Holger Volkmann, Thomas Schwartz, Silke Kirchen et al. · Molecular and Cellular Probes · 2006 · 77 citations

Life Sciences, Microbiology, Molecular Biology +17