Jukka Hytönen | Professor, MD, PhD
I am the professor of bacteriology at University of Turku, and also the chief physician in Clinical microbiology laboratory in Turku University Hospital, where my responsibility area is tick-borne diseases diagnostics. My research has focused on various aspects of Lyme borreliosis (LB) and other TBDs since 2003. I have supervised six doctoral thesis on these topics, and four projects are ongoing.
My research interests are:
- Prevalence of ticks and TBD pathogens in Finland
- Epidemiology of TBDs in Finland
- Pathogenesis of LB using in vitro and in vivo models
- Immunology of LB in animal models and in humans
- Development novel laboratory diagnostic tools for TBDs (serology based on novel antigens; metabolomics, sc RNA seq)
- Antibiotic treatment of LB