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Pentti
Huovinen
Docent, Faculty of Medicine
Institute of Biomedicine
Professor

Contact

+358 40 505 2284
Kiinamyllynkatu 10
20520
Turku

Links

20 most important publications 260418.pdf
ORCID

Areas of expertise

Bacteria
bacterial disease
antimicrobial agent
antibiotic
infectious disease diagnostic

Biography

Pentti Huovinen, MD, PhD, Professor of Bacteriology, University of Turku, Finland. I spent my postdoctoral years (1986-87) at Harvard Medical School, Boston, and did the Executive Development Program at Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (2003). I have published more than 400 scientific articles and several books.
In 2008 I received Award of Excellence , the greatest scientific honour of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, "for overall achievements in the fields of clinical microbiology and infectious diseases". In addition to the scientific work, I have served as a science journalist and an awarded science writer in Finland.

Research



Publications

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Comprehensive real-time epidemiological data from respiratory infections in Finland between 2010 and 2014 obtained from an automated and multianalyte mariPOC (R) respiratory pathogen test (2016)

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Gunell M, Antikainen P, Porjo N, Irjala K, Vakkila J, Hotakainen K, Kaukoranta SS, Hirvonen JJ, Saha K, Manninen R, Forsblom B, Rantakokko-Jalava K, Peltola V, Koskinen JO, Huovinen P
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))

Tackling antibiotic resistance: the environmental framework (2015)

Nature Reviews Microbiology
Berendonk TU, Manaia CM, Merlin C, Fatta-Kassinos D, Cytryn E, Walsh F, Burgmann H, Sorum H, Norstrom M, Pons MN, Kreuzinger N, Huovinen P, Stefani S, Schwartz T, Kisand V, Baquero F, Martinez JL
(Vertaisarvioitu katsausartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A2))
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