Luise Müller

Responsibilities

Head of outbreak unit in the Section of Food- and Waterborne and Zoonotic Infections at the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Prevention.

Responsibilities include:

• To detect and investigate disease outbreaks
• Coordinate the national response for investigation of food- and waterborne outbreaks in Denmark in the Central Outbreak Management Group (Collaboration between Statens Serum Institut, The Danish Veterinary and Food Administration and the Food Institute at DTU)
• Surveillance of foodborne infections such as salmonella, hepatitis A and botulism
• Responsible for SSI’s interview center

PubMed link

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=(Muller%20L%5BAuthor%5D)%20AND%20Statens%20Serum%20Institut%5BAffiliation%5D

Selected publications

Moore HL, Aabye M, Hoban A, Rosner B, Lefevre SK, Litrup E, Müller L, Ethelberg S, Simon S, Balasegaram S, Larkin L, Jernberg C, Takkinen J, EU/EEA/UK S. Braenderup Outbreak Investigation Group. Multinational collaboration in solving a European Salmonella Braenderup outbreak linked to imported melons, 2021. Euro Surveill. 2024;29(1):pii=2300273.

Torpdahl M, White ED, Schjørring S, Søby M, Engberg J, Engsbro AL, Holt HM, Lemming L, Lützen L, Olesen B, Coia JE, Kjelsø C, Müller L. Imported spring onions related to the first recorded outbreak of enteroinvasive Escherichia coli in Denmark, November to December 2021.

Ndumbi P, Freidl GS, Williams CJ, Mårdh O, Varela C, Avellón A, Friesema I, Vennema H, Beebeejaun K, Ngui SL, Edelstein M, Smith-Palmer A, Murphy N, Dean J, Faber M, Wenzel J, Kontio M, Müller L, et al. et al. Hepatitis A outbreak disproportionately affecting men who have sex with men (MSM) in the European Union and European Economic Area, June 2016 to May 2017. Euro Surveill. 2018 Aug;23(33).

Müller L, Rasmussen LD, Jensen T, Schultz AC, Kjelsø C, Barnadas C, Sigsgaard K, Larsen AR, Jensen CW, Jeppesen S, Uhrbrand K, Hove N, Mølbak K, Ethelberg S. Series of Norovirus Outbreaks Caused by Consumption of Green Coral Lettuce, Denmark, April 2016. PLoS Curr. 2016 October 4; 8.

Müller L, Kjelsø C, Frank C, Jensen T, Torpdahl M, Søborg B, Dorleans F, Rabsch W, Prager R, Gossner RM, Ethelberg S. Outbreak of Salmonella Strathcona caused by datterino tomatoes, Denmark, 2011. Epidemiol Infect. 2016: 1-10 (doi:10.1017/S0950268816000121)

Frank C, Werber D, Cramer JP, Askar M, Faber M, an der Heiden M, Bernard H, Fruth A, Prager R, Spode A, Wadl M, Zoufaly A, Jordan S, Kemper MJ, Follin P, Müller L, et al. HUS Investigation team Epidemic profile of Shiga-toxin-producing Escherichia coli O104:H4 outbreak in Germany. N Engl J Med.2011; 365(19), 1771-1780

Müller L, Korsgaard, H, Ethelberg S. Burden of acute gastrointestinal illness in Denmark 2009 – a population-based telephone survey. Epidemiol Infect.2012; 140(2), 290-298 PubMed