Tick-borne Diseases (TBD) Turku

Welcome to TBD Turku, where cutting-edge research converges with a dedicated pursuit of unraveling the complexities surrounding tick-borne pathogens.

Our research activities focus on especially on the following topics

• tick biology and ecology, pathogen carriage in the ticks
• host animal species of ticks, and reservoir animal species of the tick-borne pathogens
• vector competence of different tick species, i.e. the capacity of the species to act as transmitters of infection
• various in vitro test setups with tick-borne pathogens
• animal experiments with tick-borne pathogens, including co-infections
• immunology of tick-borne infections in vitro and in vivo (mice, human samples)
• development of diagnostics for tick-borne infections (biomarkers, metabolomics, new antigens…)
• new antibiotics (for borreliosis)
• epidemiology and disease burden of emerging TBDs (neoehrlichiosis, anaplasmosis, babesiosis etc.) in Finland studied within the framework of Fintick consortium

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