Jaana Vuopio
Special Advisor, M.D. , Ph.D., Specialist in Clinical Microbiology
jaana.vuopio@utu.fi Kiinamyllynkatu 10 Turku : 7th floor, room 7024 : https://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0795-4822(external) |
• Bacterial infections and asymptomatic carriage caused by beta-hemolytic streptococci, genomic evolution of the bacterium, host susceptibility and risk factors to these infections.
• Molecular epidemiology, surveillance and prevention of spread of antimicrobial resistant bacteria in humans
• Diagnostics and genomic characterization of bacterial pathogens
Bacterial infections cause a significant disease burden in humans. We know that the disease spectrum can vary from asymptomatic carriage to life threatening infections.
Our aim is to gain understanding on reasons why certain individuals develop a disease and the others do not, why pathogens spread and cause epidemics and what could be the means to prevent this from happening. My long standing research interest has also resided in antimicrobial resistance, especially in molecular epidemiology and spread of MRSA, VRE and ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae both in health care setting and community.
Our current research areas cover:
- Invasive Group A streptococcal disease
- Molecular epidemiology and disease burden of Group A streptococcal infections
- Molecular epidemiology and spread of MRSA
- Surveillance of AMR
Research group members:
- Kirsi Gröndahl-Yli-Hannuksela, Ph.D., Adjunct professor, University teacher
- Johanna Vilhonen, M.D., Ph.D., specialist in IDs
- Tiina Hirvioja, M.D., Ph.D. fellow, specialist in IDs
- Jaakko Silvola, M.D., Ph.D. fellow
- Ville Kaila, M.D., Ph.D. fellow, specialist in IDs (based at Tampere University Hospital, Tampere)
- Erastus Haindongo, M.Sc., Ph.D. fellow (based at University of Namibia, Windhoek)
- Laura Lindholm, M.Sc., Ph.D. fellow (based at Finnish Institute of Health and Welfare)
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- Lasten vaikeat A-streptokokki-infektiot (2020)
- Lääkärilehti
- Mikrobiologia - Mikrobiologia, immunologia ja infektiosairaudet, kirja 1 (2020) Terho Heikkinen, Asko Järvinen, Seppo Meri, Olli Vapalahti, Jaana Vuopio
- Performance of the Check-Direct ESBL Screen for BD MAXTM for detection of asymptomatic faecal carriage of extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae (2020)
- Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance
- Prevalence of pneumococcal nasopharyngeal colonization and serotypes circulating in Cameroonian children after the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine introduction (2020)
- International Journal of Infectious Diseases
- Reduced In Vitro Susceptibility of Streptococcus pyogenes to β-Lactam Antibiotics Associated with Mutations in the pbp2x Gene Is Geographically Widespread (2020)
- Journal of Clinical Microbiology
- Staphylococcus aureus (2020) Mikrobiologia - Mikrobiologia, immunologia ja infektiosairaudet, kirja 1 Jaana Vuopio, Pentti Kuusela, Asko Järvinen
- Staphylococcus epidermidis ja muut koagulaasinegatiiviset stafylokokit (2020) Mikrobiologia - Mikrobiologia, immunologia ja infektiosairaudet, kirja 1 Outi Lyytikäinen, Jaana Vuopio, Asko Järvinen
- Antibiotic resistance of Escherichia coli from outpatient urinary tract infection in women in six European countries including Russia (2019)
- Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance
- Integrated analysis of population genomics, transcriptomics and virulence provides novel insights into Streptococcus pyogenes pathogenesis (2019)
- Nature Genetics
- Pool-seq driven proteogenomic database for Group G Streptococcus (2019)
- Journal of Proteomics
- Changing molecular epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Southwest Finland, 2007 - 2016 (2018) Jenna Junnila, Tiina Hirvioja, Kaisu Rantakokko-Jalava, Kari Auranen, Esa Rintala, Laura Lindholm, Jaakko Silvola, Harri Marttila, Anu Harttio-Nohteri, Kirsi Gröndahl-Yli-Hannuksela, Jaana Vuopio
- ESBL:ää tuottavien suolistobakteerien oireeton kantajuus Etelä-Suomessa (2018)
- Lääkärilehti
- Large variation in ESBL-producing Escherichia coli carriers in six European countries including Russia (2018)
- European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
- Performance of the Check-Direct ESBL Screen for BD MAX for detection of asymptomatic fecal carriage of ESBL producing E. coli and K. pneumonia (2018) Gröndahl-Yli-Hannuksela K, Lönnqvist E, Marttila H, Rintala E, Rantakokko-Jalava K, Vuopio J
- Spa type distribution in MRSA and MSSA bacteremias and association of spa clonal complexes with the clinical characteristics of bacteremia (2018)
- European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
- The first human report of mobile colistin resistance gene, mcr-1, in Finland (2018)
- APMIS
- The Psoriasis Risk Allele HLA-C*06:02 Shows Evidence of Association with Chronic or Recurrent Streptococcal Tonsillitis (2018)
- Infection and Immunity
- Trends in incidence and resistance patterns of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (2018)
- Infectious Diseases
- A-ryhmän streptokokki voi aiheuttaa epidemian (2017)
- Lääkärilehti
- Comparison of outcome and clinical characteristics of bacteremia caused by methicillin-resistant, penicillin-resistant and penicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus strains (2017)
- Infectious Diseases
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