Research activities of the groups working in the field of hospital and environmental hygiene focus on:
 

• Development and use of new typing methods for human pathogenic (nosocomial) pathogens and pathogenesis and host-pathogen interaction of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC)
  Professor Dr. med. Alexander Mellmann
• Development of new strategies to improve hospital hygiene
   
• Relevance of water and the environment for human infections
  Professor Thorsten Kuczius
• Glycobiology of host-pathogen interactions
   
• Pathogenesis and molecular epidemiology of food borne pathogens, especially enterohemorrhagic E. coli, EHEC
  Emeritus Professor Helge Karch