Jani Sormunen
Academy Research Fellow / Associate Professor (medical entomology)
Academy Resarch Fellow jjtsor@utu.fi ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6763-8477 |
Publications 
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- Ghosts of weather past? Impact of past and present weather-related factors on the seasonal questing activity of Ixodes ricinus nymphs in southwestern Finland (2025)
- Parasites and Vectors
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Living with ticks: Results of an online survey of the knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) regarding ticks and tick-borne pathogens in academic environments across Europe (2025)
- Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - There Goes the Neighbourhood—A Multi-City Study Reveals Ticks and Tick-Borne Pathogens Commonly Occupy Urban Green Spaces (2025)
- Zoonoses and Public Health
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Tick‐Borne Viruses in Finland: Public Health Risks, Interventions and Research Insights (2025)
- Veterinary Medicine and Science
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Ticks and Tick-Borne Pathogens Encountered by Dogs and Cats: A North European Perspective (2025)
- Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Blood meal analysis reveals sources of tick-borne pathogens and differences in host utilization of juvenile Ixodes ricinus across urban and sylvatic habitats (2024)
- Zoonoses and Public Health
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Genomic signatures of hybridization between Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes persulcatus in natural populations (2024)
- Ecology and Evolution
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Public knowledge and awareness of tick-borne pathogens and diseases: A cross-sectional study in Ghana (2024)
- Current research in parasitology and vector-borne diseases
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Crowdsourced tick observation data from across 60 years reveals major increases and northwards shifts in tick contact areas in Finland (2023)
- Scientific Reports
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - For the people by the people: Citizen science web interface for real-time monitoring of tick risk areas in Finland (2023)
- Ecological Solutions and Evidence
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Voles, shrews and red squirrels as sources of tick blood meals and tick-borne pathogens on an island in southwestern Finland (2023)
- Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Does environmental adaptation or dispersal history explain the geographical distribution of Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes persulcatus ticks in Finland? (2022)
- Ecology and Evolution
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Predicting habitat suitability for Ixodesricinus and Ixodespersulcatus ticks in Finland (2022)
- Parasites and Vectors
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) parasitizing migrating and local breeding birds in Finland (2022)
- Experimental and Applied Acarology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Absence of Francisella tularensis in Finnish Ixodes ricinus and Ixodes persulcatus ticks (2021)
- Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Molecular detection and phylogenetic analysis of Borrelia miyamotoi strains from ticks collected in the capital region of Finland (2021)
- Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Enhanced threat of tick-borne infections within cities? Assessing public health risks due to ticks in urban green spaces in Helsinki, Finland (2020)
- Zoonoses and Public Health
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Modelling habitat suitability for occurrence of human tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) cases in Finland (2020)
- Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Monitoring of ticks and tick-borne pathogens through a nationwide research station network in Finland (2020)
- Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - One out of ten: low sampling efficiency of cloth dragging challenges abundance estimates of questing ticks (2020)
- Experimental and Applied Acarology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
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