Lauri Ivaska
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Lauri Ivaska
@lauriivaska.bsky.social
Paediatrician from Turku, Finland interested in infectious diseases. And football. And Dog Man books. 2024- working in Oxford, UK as a research fellow
Last call 📣 for immunologists interested in a postdoc-project related to immunogenicity of pertussis vaccination:

Submit your application to Qiushui He or to Tapio Lönnberg by 31/10/2025 for a 3-year fellowship position supported by the prestigious MSCA COFUND programme #IMMUFELLOW #uniturku
October 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Fully funded 3-year SC immunogenomic project related to pertussis vaccine responses at #uniturku (supported by the MSCA COFUND). Apply!

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October 23, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Reposted by Lauri Ivaska
During this ongoing #pertussis outbreak in Finland, Miettinen et al. observed a considerable increase in the age groups of 10–14 & 15–19 years compared with age distributions in 2019

Macrolide resistance identified in Finland is similar to the one reported from France

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December 6, 2024 at 9:38 AM
Reposted by Lauri Ivaska
Our new issue is available with a special appearance by, again, Escherichia coli

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December 5, 2024 at 4:07 PM
Finland has experienced a major pertussis outbreak in 2024. In our report, published today @eurosurveillance.org we describe the epidemic including the first macrolide resistant Bordetella pertussis isolate in our country. Clinical significance still unclear www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2...
Macrolide-resistant Bordetella pertussis strain identified during an ongoing epidemic, Finland, January to October 2024
Since April 2024, a pertussis epidemic has been ongoing in Finland with 2,215 notified cases by end October. Of them, 30.1% (n = 667) were aged 10–14 years. Of the 462 Bordetella pertussis isolates ch...
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December 5, 2024 at 10:49 PM