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• Eco-epidemiology of tick- and rodent-borne pathogens in boreal forests 

  Cayol, Claire (University of Jyväskylä, 2017)

  Infectious diseases are amongst the ten major causes of human mortality worldwide, 60% of them being animal-borne. Variations of abiotic and biotic conditions are likely to modify the transmission of parasites and ...

• Rodent host population dynamics drive zoonotic Lyme Borreliosis and Orthohantavirus infections in humans in Northern Europe 

  Aminikhah, Mahdi; Forsman, Jukka T.; Koskela, Esa; Mappes, Tapio; Sane, Jussi; Ollgren, Jukka; Kivelä, Sami M.; Kallio, Eva R. (Nature Publishing Group, 2021)

  Zoonotic diseases, caused by pathogens transmitted between other vertebrate animals and humans, pose a major risk to human health. Rodents are important reservoir hosts for many zoonotic pathogens, and rodent population ...

• Borrelia afzelii alters reproductive success in a rodent host 

  Cayol, Claire; Giermek, Anna; Gomez-Chamorro, Andrea; Hytönen, Jukka; Kallio, Eva; Mappes, Tapio; Salo, Jemiina; Voordouw, Maarten Jeroen; Koskela, Esa (The Royal Society Publishing, 2018)

  The impact of a pathogen on the fitness and behaviour of its natural host depends upon the host–parasite relationship in a given set of environmental conditions. Here, we experimentally investigated the effects of Borrelia ...

• Experimental ecology on the interaction between the Puumala hantavirus and its host, the bank vole 

  Kallio, Eva R. (University of Jyväskylä, 2006)

  Eva Kallio tutki väitöskirjatyössään ihmisissä myyräkuumetta aiheuttavan, Hantaviruksiin kuuluvan Puumala-viruksen ja sen isäntälajin metsämyyrän välistä vuorovaikutussuhdetta. Tutkimuksessa selvisi viruksen säilyvän ...

• Monitoring of ticks and tick-borne pathogens through a nationwide research station network in Finland 

  Sormunen, Jani J.; Andersson, Tommi; Aspi, Jouni; Bäck, Jaana; Cederberg, Tony; Haavisto, Noora; Halonen, Hanna; Hänninen, Jari; Inkinen, Jasmin; Kulha, Niko; Laaksonen, Maija; Loehr, John; Mäkelä, Satu; Mäkinen, Katja; Norkko, Joanna; Paavola, Riku; Pajala, Pauliina; Petäjä, Tuukka; Puisto, Anna; Sippola, Ella; Snickars, Martin; Sundell, Janne; Tanski, Niko; Uotila, Antti; Vesilahti, Ella-Maria; Vesterinen, Eero J.; Vuorenmaa, Silja; Ylönen, Hannu; Ylönen, Jari; Klemola, Tero (Elsevier, 2020)

  In 2015 a long-term, nationwide tick and tick-borne pathogen (TBP) monitoring project was started by the Finnish Tick Project and the Finnish Research Station network (RESTAT), with the goal of producing temporally and ...