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Overview

Marko Virta is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland and focuses on research within the fields of Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their body of work spans several subfields, notably Pollution, Molecular Medicine, Ecology, Molecular Biology, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

Virta's research extensively covers topics related to Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts, Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria, Gut Microbiota and Health, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Antibiotics Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy, Aquaculture Disease Management and Microbiota, as well as Bacteriophages and Microbial Interactions.

Frequent publication venues for Virta's research include:

  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • The Innovation
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Environment International
  • Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology

Among recent papers associated with their research are:

  • Artificial intelligence: A powerful paradigm for scientific research, 2021, The Innovation
  • Antibiotic residues in final effluents of European wastewater treatment plants and their impact on the aquatic environment, 2020, Environment International
  • Emerging contaminants: A One Health perspective, 2024, The Innovation
  • Antibiotic resistome in the livestock and aquaculture industries: Status and solutions, 2020, Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology
  • Antimicrobial Transformation Products in the Aquatic Environment: Global Occurrence, Ecotoxicological Risks, and Potential of Antibiotic Resistance, 2023, Environmental Science & Technology

Virta collaborates frequently with a group of co-authors, including:

  • James M. Tiedje
  • Fang Wang
  • Yuhao Fu
  • Zhi Mei
  • Xin Jiang

Best Publications

  • Artificial Intelligence: A Powerful Paradigm for Scientific Research

    Yongjun Xu;Xin Liu;Xin Cao;Changping Huang

  • Antibiotic-Resistance Genes in Waste Water.

    Antti Valter Karkman;Antti Valter Karkman;Thi Thuy Do;Fiona Walsh;Marko Petri Juhani Virta

  • Maternal gut and breast milk microbiota affect infant gut antibiotic resistome and mobile genetic elements

    Katariina Pärnänen;Antti Karkman;Antti Karkman;Jenni Hultman;Christina Lyra

  • Antibiotic residues in final effluents of European wastewater treatment plants and their impact on the aquatic environment

    Sara Rodriguez-Mozaz;Ivone Vaz-Moreira;Saulo Varela Della Giustina;Marta Llorca

  • Antibiotic resistance in European wastewater treatment plants mirrors the pattern of clinical antibiotic resistance prevalence

    Katariina M. M. Pärnänen;Carlos Narciso-da-Rocha;David Kneis;Thomas U. Berendonk

  • Critical knowledge gaps and research needs related to the environmental dimensions of antibiotic resistance.

    D. G.Joakim Larsson;Antoine Andremont;Johan Bengtsson-Palme;Kristian Koefoed Brandt

  • Tetracycline Resistance Genes Persist at Aquaculture Farms in the Absence of Selection Pressure

    Manu Tamminen;Antti Karkman;Andres Lõhmus;Windi Indra Muziasari

  • Luminescent bacterial sensor for cadmium and lead.

    Sisko Tauriainen;Matti Karp;Wei Chang;Marko Virta

  • Antibiotic resistome in the livestock and aquaculture industries: Status and solutions

    Yi Zhao;Qiu E. Yang;Xue Zhou;Feng-Hua Wang

  • Reporter genes lucFF, luxCDABE, gfp, and dsred have different characteristics in whole-cell bacterial sensors

    Kaisa Hakkila;Mikael Maksimow;Matti Karp;Marko Virta

  • A Luminescence-Based Mercury Biosensor

    Marko. Virta;Jorma. Lampinen;Matti. Karp

  • High-throughput quantification of antibiotic resistance genes from an urban wastewater treatment plant.

    Antti Karkman;Timothy A. Johnson;Christina Lyra;Robert D. Stedtfeld

  • Antibiotic resistance in the wild: an eco-evolutionary perspective.

    Teppo Hiltunen;Marko Virta;Anna-Liisa Laine

  • Massively parallel sequencing of single cells by epicPCR links functional genes with phylogenetic markers

    Sarah J Spencer;Manu V Tamminen;Manu V Tamminen;Sarah P Preheim;Mira T Guo

  • Abundances of tetracycline, sulphonamide and beta-lactam antibiotic resistance genes in conventional wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) with different waste load.

    Mailis Laht;Antti Karkman;Veiko Voolaid;Christian Ritz

  • Construction and use of specific luminescent recombinant bacterial sensors for the assessment of bioavailable fraction of cadmium, zinc, mercury and chromium in the soil

    Angela Ivask;Marko Virta;Anne Kahru

  • Comparison of Metals and Tetracycline as Selective Agents for Development of Tetracycline Resistant Bacterial Communities in Agricultural Soil

    Jianxiao Song;Christopher Rensing;Peter E. Holm;Marko Virta

  • Aquaculture changes the profile of antibiotic resistance and mobile genetic element associated genes in Baltic Sea sediments.

    Windi I. Muziasari;Katariina Parnanen;Timothy A. Johnson;Timothy A. Johnson;Timothy A. Johnson;Christina Lyra

  • Host range of antibiotic resistance genes in wastewater treatment plant influent and effluent

    Jenni Hultman;Manu Tamminen;Katariina Pärnänen;Johannes Cairns

  • Bioluminescent yeast assays for detecting estrogenic and androgenic activity in different matrices.

    Piia Leskinen;Elisa Michelini;Didier Picard;Matti Karp

Frequent Co-Authors

Matti Karp
Matti Karp Tampere University
Aldo Roda
Aldo Roda University of Bologna
Tero Soukka
Tero Soukka University of Turku
James M. Tiedje
James M. Tiedje Michigan State University
Annele Hatakka
Annele Hatakka University of Helsinki
Anne Kahru
Anne Kahru National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics
Célia M. Manaia
Célia M. Manaia Catholic University of Portugal
Tong Zhang
Tong Zhang University of Hong Kong
Edward Topp
Edward Topp Agriculture and Agriculture-Food Canada
Henning Sørum
Henning Sørum Norwegian University of Life Sciences

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