Kaisa Pietikäinen

- Senior Researcher,
- University Teacher
- Doctoral Researcher
Institute of Biomedicine (Faculty of Medicine)

kaisa.pietikainen@utu.fi

UHPLC-MS/MS-based untargeted metabolite profiling of Lyme neuroborreliosis (2025)
- Scientific Reports
Kuukkanen, Ilari; Pietikäinen, Annukka; Rissanen, Tiia; Hurme, Saija; Kortela, Elisa; Kanerva, Mari J.; Oksi, Jarmo; Hytönen, Jukka; Karonen, Maarit
Borrelia burgdorferi specific serum and cerebrospinal fluid antibodies in Lyme neuroborreliosis (2022)
- Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Pietikäinen Annukka, Glader Otto, Kortela Elisa, Kanerva Mari, Oksi Jarmo, Hytönen Jukka
Clinical performance and analytical accuracy of a C6 peptide-based point-of-care lateral flow immunoassay in Lyme borreliosis serology (2022)
- Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Pietikäinen Annukka, Backman Ida, Henningsson Anna J, Hytönen Jukka
The effects of Borrelia infection on its wintering rodent host (2022)
- Oecologia
Sipari Saana, Hytönen Jukka, Pietikäinen Annukka, Mappes Tapio, Kallio Eva R
C6 peptide enzyme immunoassay in Lyme borreliosis serology (2021)
- Journal of Microbiological Methods
Rouhiainen Meri, Pietikäinen Annukka, Kortela Elisa, Kanerva Mari J, Oksi Jarmo, Hytönen Jukka
Conserved lysine residues in decorin binding proteins of Borrelia garinii are critical in adhesion to human brain microvascular endothelial cells (2021)
- Molecular Microbiology
Pietikäinen Annukka, Åstrand Mia, Cuellar Julia, Glader Otto, Elovaara Heli, Rouhiainen Meri, Salo Jemiina, Furihata Tomomi, Salminen Tiina A, Hytönen Jukka
Oral Doxycycline Compared to Intravenous Ceftriaxone in the Treatment of Lyme Neuroborreliosis: A Multicenter, Equivalence, Randomized, Open-label Trial (2021)
- Clinical Infectious Diseases
Elisa Kortela, Mari J Kanerva, Juha Puustinen, Saija Hurme, Laura Airas, Anneli Lauhio, Ulla Hohenthal, Päivi Jalava-Karvinen, Tuomas Nieminen, Taru Finnilä, Tony Häggblom, Annukka Pietikäinen, Mari Koivisto, Johanna Vilhonen, Minna Marttila-Vaara, Jukka Hytönen, Jarmo Oksi
Structural and Biomolecular Analyses of Borrelia burgdorferi BmpD Reveal a Substrate-Binding Protein of an ABC-Type Nucleoside Transporter Family (2020)
- Infection and Immunity
Cuellar J, Åstrand M, Elovaara H, Pietikäinen A, Sirén S, Liljeblad A, Guédez G, Salminen TA, Hytönen J
Borrelia burgdorferi Infection in Biglycan Knockout Mice (2019)
- Journal of Infectious Diseases
Cuellar J., Pietikäinen A., Glader O., Liljenbäck H., Söderström M., Hurme S., Salo J., Hytönen J.
In vivo imaging of Lyme arthritis in mice by [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (2018)
- Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology
A. Pietikäinen, R. Siitonen, H. Liljenbäck, O. Eskola, M. Söderström, A. Roivainen, J. Hytönen
Point-of-care testing for CXCL13 in Lyme neuroborreliosis (2018)
- Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Annukka Pietikäinen, Jarmo Oksi, Jukka Hytönen
Studies on the pathogenesis and laboratory diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis (2018) Pietikäinen Annukka
Targeting of vascular adhesion protein-1 by positron emission tomography visualizes sites of inflammation in Borrelia burgdorferi-infected mice (2017)
- Arthritis Research and Therapy
Riikka Siitonen, Annukka Pietikäinen, Heidi Liljenbäck, Meeri Käkelä, Mirva Söderström, Sirpa Jalkanen, Jukka Hytönen, Anne Roivainen
Cerebrospinal fluid cytokines in Lyme neuroborreliosis (2016)
- Journal of Neuroinflammation
Pietikainen A, Maksimow M, Kauko T, Hurme S, Salmi M, Hytonen J
Flow-Tolerant Adhesion of a Bacterial Pathogen to Human Endothelial Cells Through Interaction With Biglycan (2016)
- Journal of Infectious Diseases
Salo Jemiina, Pietikäinen Annukka, Söderström Mirva, Auvinen Kaisa, Salmi Marko, Ebady Rhodaba, Moriarty Tara J, Viljanen Matti K, Hytönen Jukka
Puutiaisten borreliakantajuuden kotitestaus on tarpeetonta (2016)
- Moodi
Hytönen J, Pietikäinen A