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Tapani Hovi is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research profile does not currently list recent publications, specific fields of study, or detailed topics of research.

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There are no records of book publications or awards associated with this scientist at this time.

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Best Publications

  • ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Picornaviridae

    R. Zell;E. Delwart;A. E. Gorbalenya;T. Hovi

  • Nephropathia epidemica: detection of antigen in bank voles and serologic diagnosis of human infection.

    M. Brummer-Korvenkontio;A. Vaheri;T. Hovi;C.-H. von Bonsdorff

  • Infections, Inflammation, and the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease

    Merja Roivainen;Maarit Viik-Kajander;Timo Palosuo;Petri Toivanen

  • Fibronectin is produced by human macrophages.

    K Alitalo;T Hovi;A Vaheri

  • Enterovirus infection in human pancreatic islet cells, islet tropism in vivo and receptor involvement in cultured islet beta cells.

    P. Ylipaasto;K. Klingel;A. M. Lindberg;T. Otonkoski

  • Role of environmental poliovirus surveillance in global polio eradication and beyond.

    T. Hovi;L. M. Shulman;H. Van Der Avoort;J. Deshpande

  • Protective efficacy of a second pneumococcal conjugate vaccine against pneumococcal acute otitis media in infants and children: randomized, controlled trial of a 7-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide-meningococcal outer membrane protein complex conjugate vaccine in 1666 children.

    Terhi Kilpi;Heidi Åhman;Jukka Jokinen;Kari S. Lankinen

  • Classification of enteroviruses based on molecular and biological properties.

    Timo Hyypia;Tapani Hovi;Nicholas J. Knowles;Glyn Stanway

  • Genetic clustering of all 102 human rhinovirus prototype strains: serotype 87 is close to human enterovirus 70

    Carita Savolainen;Soile Blomqvist;Mick N. Mulders;Tapani Hovi

  • Entry of Coxsackievirus A9 into Host Cells: Specific Interactions with αvβ3 Integrin, the Vitronectin Receptor

    Merja Roivainen;Liisa Piirainen;Tapani Hovi;Ismo Virtanen

  • Proposals for the classification of human rhinovirus species C into genotypically assigned types.

    Peter Simmonds;Chloe McIntyre;Carita Savolainen-Kopra;Caroline Tapparel

  • OUTBREAK OF PARALYTIC POLIOMYELITIS IN FINLAND: WIDESPREAD CIRCULATION OF ANTIGENICALLY ALTERED POLIOVIRUS TYPE 3 IN A VACCINATED POPULATION

    T. Hovi;A. Huovilainen;T. Kuronen;T. Pöyry

  • Mechanisms of coxsackievirus-induced damage to human pancreatic beta-cells.

    Merja Roivainen;Suvi Rasilainen;Petri Ylipaasto;Riikka Nissinen

  • Association Between Prenatal Exposure to Poliovirus Infection and Adult Schizophrenia

    Jaana Suvisaari;Jari Haukka;Antti Tanskanen;Tapani Hovi

  • Islet Cell Antibody Seroconversion in Children Is Temporally Associated with Enterovirus Infections

    Merja Hiltunen;Heikki Hyöty;Mikael Knip;Jorma Ilonen

  • Randomised trial of the effect of co-administration with acellular pertussis DTP vaccine on immunogenicity of Haemophilus influenzae type b conjugate vaccine

    Juhani Eskola;Rose-Marie Ölander;Tapani Hovi;Leila Litmanen

  • Epidemiology of documented viral respiratory infections and acute otitis media in a cohort of children followed from two to twenty-four months of age.

    Sirpa Vesa;Marjaana Kleemola;Soile Blomqvist;Aino Takala

  • Human Rhinovirus 87 and Enterovirus 68 Represent a Unique Serotype with Rhinovirus and Enterovirus Features

    Soile Blomqvist;Carita Savolainen;Laura Råman;Merja Roivainen

  • Genetic and phylogenetic clustering of enteroviruses

    Tuija Pöyry;Leena Kinnunen;Timo Hyypiä;Betty Brown

  • Evolution of the genome of Human enterovirus B: incongruence between phylogenies of the VP1 and 3CD regions indicates frequent recombination within the species.

    A. Michael Lindberg;Per Andersson;Carita Savolainen;Mick N. Mulders

Frequent Co-Authors

Merja Roivainen
Merja Roivainen Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)
Antti Vaheri
Antti Vaheri University of Helsinki
Mick N. Mulders
Mick N. Mulders World Health Organization
Timo Hyypiä
Timo Hyypiä University of Turku
Glyn Stanway
Glyn Stanway University of Essex
Peter Simmonds
Peter Simmonds University of Oxford
Thedi Ziegler
Thedi Ziegler University of Turku
Mark A. Pallansch
Mark A. Pallansch National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
Nick J. Knowles
Nick J. Knowles The Pirbright Institute
Juhani Eskola
Juhani Eskola Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)

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