Jaana Vuopio
Special Advisor, M.D. , Ph.D., Specialist in Clinical Microbiology
jaana.vuopio@utu.fi Kiinamyllynkatu 10 Turku : 7th floor, room 7024 |
• 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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- Bacterial adherence to self-reinforced polyglycolic acid and self-reinforced polylactic acid 96 urological spiral stents in vitro (1998)
- Biomaterials
- Clonal spread of group A streptococcus with the new type of erythromycin resistance Finnish Study Group for Antimicrobial Resistance (1998)
- Journal of Infectious Diseases
- Lactobacilli and streptococci induce interleukin-12 (IL-12), IL-18, and gamma interferon production in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (1998)
- Infection and Immunity
- Resurgent diphtheria--are we safe? (1998)
- British Medical Bulletin
- A clinical study of beta-haemolytic groups A, B, C and G streptococcal bacteremia in adults over an 8-year period (1997)
- Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
- Group A streptococcal outbreak of perianal infection in a day-care centre (1997)
- Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
- Increase of the number of vancomycin resistant enterococci (VRE) isolated in Helsinki, Finland (1997)
- Eurosurveillance
- Molecular comparison of group A streptococci of T1M1 serotype from invasive and noninvasive infections in Finland (1997)
- Journal of Infectious Diseases
- Outbreak of perianal Streptococcus pyogenes infection in a day-care center (1997)
- Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
- The effect of changes in the consumption of macrolide antibiotics on erythromycin resistance in group A streptococci in Finland Finnish Study Group for Antimicrobial Resistance (1997)
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Bacterial adherence and biofilm formation on latex and silicone T-tubes in relation to bacterial contamination of bile (1996)
- Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology
- Bacterial adhesion and biofilm formation on various double-J stents in vivo and in vitro (1996)
- Scandinavian Journal of Urology and Nephrology
- Biological characterization of Campylobacter fetus lipopolysaccharides (1996)
- FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology
- Cell surface properties of Acinetobacter baumannii (1996)
- APMIS
- [Does MRSA invade hospitals in Finland?]. (1996) Vuopio-Varkila J, Kotilainen P
- Eradication of the long-term carriage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in patients wearing dentures: a follow-up of 10 patients (1996)
- Journal of Hospital Infection
- Production of human tumor necrosis factor alpha, interleukin-6, and interleukin-10 is induced by lactic acid bacteria (1996)
- Infection and Immunity
- Subtyping of common pediatric pneumococcal serotypes from invasive disease and pharyngeal carriage in Finland (1996)
- Journal of Infectious Diseases
- [The role of microbiological laboratory in detection and control of nosocomial infections]. (1996)
- Duodecim
- Molecular epidemiology of Corynebacterium diphtheriae from northwestern Russia and surrounding countries studied by using ribotyping and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (1995)
- Journal of Clinical Microbiology
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