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Björn Olsen is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and has a research focus spanning medicine, immunology, and microbiology. Their work includes extensive contributions in infectious diseases, parasitology, and epidemiology, with additional attention to molecular biology and ecological and evolutionary behavior studies.

The scientist's research topics primarily cover viral infections and vectors, vector-borne infectious diseases, influenza virus studies, vector-borne animal diseases, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, and animal disease management and epidemiology.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Migratory birds as disseminators of ticks and the tick-borne pathogens Borrelia bacteria and tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) virus: a seasonal study at Ottenby Bird Observatory in South-eastern Sweden, 2020, Parasites & Vectors
  • Circumpolar diversification of the Ixodes uriae tick virome, 2020, PLoS Pathogens
  • High seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in elderly care employees in Sweden, 2020, Infection Ecology & Epidemiology
  • Genomically diverse carbapenem resistant Enterobacteriaceae from wild birds provide insight into global patterns of spatiotemporal dissemination, 2022, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Vasculitis due to Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis: A Cohort Study of 40 Swedish Patients, 2020, Clinical Infectious Diseases

Björn Olsen frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Åke Lundkvist, Jonas Waldenström, Per-Eric Lindgren, Patrik Ellström, and Peter Wilhelmsson.

Their publications appear regularly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), CAGE - Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate Environment and Climate Report Series, Parasites & Vectors, Infection Ecology & Epidemiology, and Microorganisms.

Best Publications

  • Characterization of a Novel Influenza A Virus Hemagglutinin Subtype (H16) Obtained from Black-Headed Gulls

    Ron A. M. Fouchier;Vincent J. Munster;Anders Wallensten;Theo M. Bestebroer

  • Global patterns of influenza A virus in wild birds

    Björn Olsen;Vincent J. Munster;Anders Wallensten;Jonas Waldenström

  • Spatial, Temporal, and Species Variation in Prevalence of Influenza A Viruses in Wild Migratory Birds

    Vincent J Munster;Chantal Baas;Pascal Lexmond;Jonas Waldenström

  • Determination of antibiotic substances in hospital sewage water using solid phase extraction and liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry and group analogue internal standards.

    Richard Lindberg;Per-Åke Jarnheimer;Björn Olsen;Magnus Johansson

  • Spanish Aerobiology Network (REA): management and quality manual

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  • Prevalence of Campylobacter jejuni, Campylobacter lari, and Campylobacter coli in different ecological guilds and taxa of migrating birds.

    Jonas Waldenström;Tina Broman;Inger Carlsson;Dennis Hasselquist

  • Transhemispheric exchange of Lyme disease spirochetes by seabirds

    Björn Olsen;David C. Duffy;Thomas G. T. Jaenson;Åsa Gylfe

  • Mallards and highly pathogenic avian influenza ancestral viruses, northern Europe

    Vincent J. Munster;Anders Wallensten;Chantal Baas;Guus F. Rimmelzwaan

  • Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato-infected ticks on migrating birds.

    Björn Olsen;Thomas G T Jaenson;Sven Bergström

  • DISSEMINATION OF ESCHERICHIA COLI WITH CTX-M TYPE ESBL BETWEEN HUMANS AND YELLOW-LEGGED GULLS IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE

    Jonas Bonnedahl;Mirva Drobni;Michel Gauthier-Clerc;Jorge Hernandez

  • Geographical Distribution, Host Associations, and Vector Roles of Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae, Argasidae) in Sweden

    Thomas G. T. Jaenson;Lars TäLleklint;Lars Lundqvist;BjöRn Olsen

  • A Lyme borreliosis cycle in seabirds and Ixodes uriae ticks

    Björn Olsén;Thomas G. T. Jaenson;Laila Noppa;Jonas Bunikis

  • Migratory passerine birds as reservoirs of lyme borreliosis in Europe

    Pär Comstedt;Sven Bergström;Björn Olsen;Ulf Garpmo

  • Dissemination of multidrug-resistant bacteria into the Arctic.

    Maria Sjolund;Jonas Bonnedahl;Jorge Hernandez;Stina Bengtsson

  • 160 h of chemical-looping combustion in a 10 kW reactor system with a NiO-based oxygen carrier

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  • Effects of influenza A virus infection on migrating mallard ducks

    Neus Latorre-Margalef;Gunnar Gunnarsson;Vincent J. Munster;Ron A.M. Fouchier

  • Migrating birds and tickborne encephalitis virus

    Jonas Waldenström;Åke Lundkvist;Kerstin I. Falk;Ulf Garpmo

  • Reactivation of Borrelia infection in birds

    Åsa Gylfe;Sven Bergström;Jan Lundstróm;Björn Olsen

  • Influenza Virus in a Natural Host, the Mallard: Experimental Infection Data

    Elsa Jourdain;Elsa Jourdain;Gunnar Gunnarsson;Gunnar Gunnarsson;John Wahlgren;John Wahlgren;Neus Latorre-Margalef

  • Protozoan Acanthamoeba polyphaga as a Potential Reservoir for Campylobacter jejuni

    Diana Axelsson-Olsson;Jonas Waldenström;Tina Broman;Björn Olsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonas Waldenström
Jonas Waldenström Linnaeus University
Sven Bergström
Sven Bergström Umeå University
Matthew L. Warman
Matthew L. Warman Boston Children's Hospital
Ron A. M. Fouchier
Ron A. M. Fouchier Erasmus University Rotterdam
Ake Lundkvist
Ake Lundkvist Uppsala University
Suneel S. Apte
Suneel S. Apte Case Western Reserve University
Vincent J. Munster
Vincent J. Munster National Institutes of Health
Miikka Vikkula
Miikka Vikkula Université Catholique de Louvain
Thomas G. T. Jaenson
Thomas G. T. Jaenson Uppsala University
Albert D. M. E. Osterhaus
Albert D. M. E. Osterhaus University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation

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