Jessica Tikkala | Doctoral Researcher, MD
At present, I am a specializing physician at the department of Clinical microbiology at Turku University Hospital. I have received my basic medical training at the School of Medical Sciences, Örebro University, Sweden. Since my graduation, 2016, I have worked in clinical medicine in the Åland islands, southwest Finland, a highly endemic area for tick-borne diseases.
I am a PhD student at Turku University, with a thesis on TBE epidemiology, immunology and diagnostics.
My research interests are:
- Epidemiology, disease course and outcome of TBE and emerging tick-borne diseases (eTBD)
- Diagnostic methods for TBE, Lyme borreliosis and eTBD
- TBE immunology
- Vaccine immunology, efficacy