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  1. Article ; Online: High-throughput DNA extraction strategy for fecal microbiome studies.

    Isokääntä, Heidi / Tomnikov, Natalie / Vanhatalo, Sanja / Munukka, Eveliina / Huovinen, Pentti / Hakanen, Antti J / Kallonen, Teemu

    Microbiology spectrum

    2024  , Page(s) e0293223

    Abstract: Microbiome studies are becoming larger in size to detect the potentially small effect that environmental factors have on our gut microbiomes, or that the microbiome has on our health. Therefore, fast and reproducible DNA isolation methods are needed to ... ...

    Abstract Microbiome studies are becoming larger in size to detect the potentially small effect that environmental factors have on our gut microbiomes, or that the microbiome has on our health. Therefore, fast and reproducible DNA isolation methods are needed to handle thousands of fecal samples. We used the Chemagic 360 chemistry and Magnetic Separation Module I (MSMI) instrument to compare two sample preservatives and four different pre-treatment protocols to find an optimal method for DNA isolation from thousands of fecal samples. The pre-treatments included bead beating, sample handling in tube and plate format, and proteinase K incubation. The optimal method offers a sufficient yield of high-quality DNA without contamination. Three human fecal samples (adult, senior, and infant) with technical replicates were extracted. The extraction included negative controls (OMNIgeneGUT, DNA/RNA shield fluid, and Chemagic Lysis Buffer 1) to detect cross-contamination and ZymoBIOMICS Gut Microbiome Standard as a positive control to mimic the human gut microbiome and assess sensitivity of the extraction method. All samples were extracted using Chemagic DNA Stool 200 H96 kit (PerkinElmer, Finland). The samples were collected in two preservatives, OMNIgeneGUT and DNA/RNA shield fluid. DNA quantity was measured using Qubit-fluorometer, DNA purity and quality using gel electrophoresis, and taxonomic signatures with 16S rRNA gene-based sequencing with V3V4 and V4 regions. Bead beating increased bacterial diversity. The largest increase was detected in gram-positive genera
    Importance: Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is a widely used method for determining the composition of the gut microbiota. Due to the differences in the gut microbiota composition between individuals, microbiome studies have expanded into large population studies to maximize detection of small effects on microbe-host interactions. Thus, the demand for a rapid and reliable microbial profiling is continuously increasing, making the optimization of high-throughput 96-format DNA extraction integral for NGS-based downstream applications. However, experimental protocols are prone to bias and errors from sample collection and storage, to DNA extraction, primer selection and sequencing, and bioinformatics analyses. Methodological bias can contribute to differences in microbiome profiles, causing variability across studies and laboratories using different protocols. To improve consistency and confidence of the measurements, the standardization of microbiome analysis methods has been recognized in many fields.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-05-15
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2807133-5
    ISSN 2165-0497 ; 2165-0497
    ISSN (online) 2165-0497
    ISSN 2165-0497
    DOI 10.1128/spectrum.02932-23
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  2. Book ; Thesis: TRIMETHOPRIM RESISTANCE

    Huovinen, Pentti

    PREVALENCE OF TRIMETHOPRIM RESISTANCE AMONG BACTERIA ISOLATED FROM URINARY TRACT, INCLUDING CHARACTERIZATION OF TRANSFERABLE RESISTANCE

    1984  

    Size GETR. ZAEHLUNG
    Document type Book ; Thesis
    Thesis / German Habilitation thesis TURKU, UNIV., DISS., 1984
    HBZ-ID HT002715753
    Database Catalogue ZB MED Medicine, Health

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  3. Article ; Online: Time series analysis of the incidence of acute upper respiratory tract infections, COVID-19 and the use of antibiotics in Finland during the COVID-19 epidemic: a cohort study of 833 444 patients.

    Niemenoja, Oskar / Taalas, Ara / Taimela, Simo / Bono, Petri / Huovinen, Pentti / Riihijärvi, Sari

    BMJ open

    2022  Volume 12, Issue 1, Page(s) e046490

    Abstract: Objective: To evaluate the trajectories of acute upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs), COVID-19, and the use of antibiotics in Finland during the COVID-19 epidemic.: Design: Population-based cohort study.: Setting: Electronic medical records ...

    Abstract Objective: To evaluate the trajectories of acute upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs), COVID-19, and the use of antibiotics in Finland during the COVID-19 epidemic.
    Design: Population-based cohort study.
    Setting: Electronic medical records from a nationwide healthcare chain in Finland.
    Participants: 833 444 patients from a cohort of 1 970 013 Finns who had used medical services between 2017 and 2020.
    Main outcome measures: Number of weekly patients of acute URTIs, COVID-19, and the prescribed number of antibiotics in Finland between 6 January 2020 and 21 June 2020. We estimated the respective expected numbers from 1 March 2020 onward using autoregressive integrated moving average model from 1 January 2017 to 1 March 2020. We assessed the public interest in COVID-19 by collecting Google search trend frequencies.
    Results: There was a rapid increase in COVID-related internet searches between weeks 10 and 12. At the same time, there was a 106% increase in diagnoses of acute URTIs, from 410 per 100 000 inhabitants to 845 per 100 000. The first COVID-19 cases were diagnosed on week 11. Prescriptions for URTI-related antibiotics declined by 71% (403 per 100 000 to 117 per 100 000) between weeks 11 and 15 while no relevant change took place in prescriptions of antibiotics for urinary tract infections.
    Conclusions: At the beginning of the epidemic, many people contacted healthcare professionals with relatively mild symptoms, as indicated by the reduced rate of URTI-antibiotics prescriptions. Our findings indicate that health service providers should be prepared for rapid variations in service demand. Securing access of true COVID-19 patients to proper diagnostics, care and isolation measures may help in preventing the spread of the disease.
    MeSH term(s) Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use ; COVID-19 ; Cohort Studies ; Finland/epidemiology ; Humans ; Incidence ; Respiratory Tract Infections/drug therapy ; Respiratory Tract Infections/epidemiology ; SARS-CoV-2 ; Time Factors
    Chemical Substances Anti-Bacterial Agents
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-01-31
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2599832-8
    ISSN 2044-6055 ; 2044-6055
    ISSN (online) 2044-6055
    ISSN 2044-6055
    DOI 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046490
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  4. Book: Influenssa

    Huovinen, Pentti

    pandemiaviruksen päiväkirja

    2011  

    Abstract: The influenza virus can cause major pandemics that spread to all continents. This book discusses the latest threat to the pandemic, swine flu and its phases, but also describes medicines and vaccines that are designed to prevent the pandemic from ... ...

    Author's details Pentti Huovinen, Thedi Ziegler
    Abstract The influenza virus can cause major pandemics that spread to all continents. This book discusses the latest threat to the pandemic, swine flu and its phases, but also describes medicines and vaccines that are designed to prevent the pandemic from spreading.
    MeSH term(s) Influenza, Human/epidemiology ; Influenza Vaccines ; Influenza A virus
    Language Finnish
    Size 151 pages :, illustrations
    Document type Book
    ISBN 9789516564152 ; 9516564151
    Database Catalogue of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM)

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  5. Article ; Online: Association of Long-Term Habitual Dietary Fiber Intake since Infancy with Gut Microbiota Composition in Young Adulthood.

    Heiskanen, Marja A / Aatsinki, Anna / Hakonen, Petra / Kartiosuo, Noora / Munukka, Eveliina / Lahti, Leo / Keskitalo, Anniina / Huovinen, Pentti / Niinikoski, Harri / Viikari, Jorma / Rönnemaa, Tapani / Lagström, Hanna / Jula, Antti / Raitakari, Olli / Rovio, Suvi P / Pahkala, Katja

    The Journal of nutrition

    2024  Volume 154, Issue 2, Page(s) 744–754

    Abstract: Background: Dietary fiber is an important health-promoting component of the diet, which is fermented by the gut microbes that produce metabolites beneficial for the host's health.: Objectives: We studied the associations of habitual long-term fiber ... ...

    Abstract Background: Dietary fiber is an important health-promoting component of the diet, which is fermented by the gut microbes that produce metabolites beneficial for the host's health.
    Objectives: We studied the associations of habitual long-term fiber intake from infancy with gut microbiota composition in young adulthood by leveraging data from the Special Turku Coronary Risk Factor Intervention Project, an infancy-onset 20-y dietary counseling study.
    Methods: Fiber intake was assessed annually using food diaries from infancy ≤ age 20 y. At age 26 y, the first postintervention follow-up study was conducted including food diaries and fecal sample collection (N = 357). Cumulative dietary fiber intake was assessed as the area under the curve for energy-adjusted fiber intake throughout the study (age 0-26 y). Gut microbiota was profiled using 16S ribosomal ribonucleic acid amplicon sequencing. The primary outcomes were 1) α diversity expressed as the observed richness and Shannon index, 2) β diversity using Bray-Curtis dissimilarity scores, and 3) differential abundance of each microbial taxa with respect to the cumulative energy-adjusted dietary fiber intake.
    Results: Higher cumulative dietary fiber intake was associated with decreased Shannon index (β = -0.019 per unit change in cumulative fiber intake, P = 0.008). Overall microbial community composition was related to the amount of fiber consumed (permutational analysis of variation R
    Conclusions: As early-life nutritional exposures may affect the lifetime microbiota composition and disease risk, this study adds novel information on the associations of long-term dietary fiber intake with the gut microbiota. This trial was registered at clinicaltrials.gov as NCT00223600.
    MeSH term(s) Bacteria ; Butyrates ; Diet ; Dietary Fiber/analysis ; Feces/microbiology ; Follow-Up Studies ; Gastrointestinal Microbiome ; RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
    Chemical Substances Butyrates ; Dietary Fiber ; RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-01-12
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Clinical Trial ; Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 218373-0
    ISSN 1541-6100 ; 0022-3166
    ISSN (online) 1541-6100
    ISSN 0022-3166
    DOI 10.1016/j.tjnut.2024.01.008
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  6. Article: Mathematical model--tell us the future!

    Huovinen, Pentti

    The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy

    2005  Volume 56, Issue 2, Page(s) 257–8; discussion 431

    Abstract: Studying bacterial resistance has direct importance for the antimicrobial treatment of individual patients. In addition, surveillance data pooled from individual diagnostic reports help physicians to choose the most effective drug for empirical therapy. ... ...

    Abstract Studying bacterial resistance has direct importance for the antimicrobial treatment of individual patients. In addition, surveillance data pooled from individual diagnostic reports help physicians to choose the most effective drug for empirical therapy. However, this is not the limit of what can be done with the resistance data. There is an increasing need to synthesize the available strands of data in order to construct mathematical models that can be used as tools to predict the likely outcomes of various antibiotic policy options.
    MeSH term(s) Anti-Bacterial Agents/pharmacology ; Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use ; Bacterial Infections/drug therapy ; Bacterial Infections/microbiology ; Drug Resistance, Bacterial ; Humans ; Mathematical Computing ; Models, Theoretical
    Chemical Substances Anti-Bacterial Agents
    Language English
    Publishing date 2005-08
    Publishing country England
    Document type Comment ; Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 191709-2
    ISSN 1460-2091 ; 0305-7453
    ISSN (online) 1460-2091
    ISSN 0305-7453
    DOI 10.1093/jac/dki230
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  7. Book: Mikrobiologia ja infektiosairaudet

    Huovinen, Pentti

    2003  

    Author's details toimittajat, Pentti Huovinen ... [et al.]
    MeSH term(s) Communicable Diseases ; Microbiology
    Language Finnish
    Dates of publication 2003-9999
    Size v. :, ill., ports.
    Edition 1. painos.
    Publisher Duodecim
    Publishing place Helsinki
    Document type Book
    ISBN 9789516560598 ; 9516560598 ; 9789516561502 ; 9516561500
    Database Catalogue of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM)

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  8. Article: Bakteriofagihoito.

    Huovinen, Pentti

    Duodecim; laaketieteellinen aikakauskirja

    2003  Volume 119, Issue 7, Page(s) 581–583

    Title translation Bacteriophage therapy.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use ; Bacterial Infections/drug therapy ; Bacterial Infections/therapy ; Bacteriophages/physiology ; Biological Therapy/methods ; Disease Models, Animal ; Drug Resistance, Microbial ; Humans ; Treatment Outcome
    Chemical Substances Anti-Bacterial Agents
    Language Finnish
    Publishing date 2003
    Publishing country Finland
    Document type Editorial
    ZDB-ID 127604-9
    ISSN 0012-7183
    ISSN 0012-7183
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  9. Article ; Online: Macrolide-resistant group a streptococcus--now in the United States.

    Huovinen, Pentti

    The New England journal of medicine

    2002  Volume 346, Issue 16, Page(s) 1243–1245

    MeSH term(s) Anti-Bacterial Agents/pharmacology ; Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use ; Drug Resistance, Bacterial/genetics ; Erythromycin/pharmacology ; Erythromycin/therapeutic use ; Humans ; Pennsylvania ; Streptococcal Infections/drug therapy ; Streptococcal Infections/microbiology ; Streptococcus pyogenes/drug effects ; Streptococcus pyogenes/genetics
    Chemical Substances Anti-Bacterial Agents ; Erythromycin (63937KV33D)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2002-04-18
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Comment ; Editorial
    ZDB-ID 207154-x
    ISSN 1533-4406 ; 0028-4793
    ISSN (online) 1533-4406
    ISSN 0028-4793
    DOI 10.1056/NEJM200204183461613
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  10. Article: An Infancy-Onset 20-Year Dietary Counselling Intervention and Gut Microbiota Composition in Adulthood

    Keskitalo, Anniina / Munukka, Eveliina / Aatsinki, Anna / Saleem, Wisam / Kartiosuo, Noora / Lahti, Leo / Huovinen, Pentti / Elo, Laura L. / Pietilä, Sami / Rovio, Suvi P. / Niinikoski, Harri / Viikari, Jorma / Rönnemaa, Tapani / Lagström, Hanna / Jula, Antti / Raitakari, Olli / Pahkala, Katja

    Nutrients. 2022 June 27, v. 14, no. 13

    2022  

    Abstract: The randomized controlled Special Turku Coronary Risk Factor Intervention Project (STRIP) has completed a 20-year infancy-onset dietary counselling intervention to reduce exposure to atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk factors via promotion of a ... ...

    Abstract The randomized controlled Special Turku Coronary Risk Factor Intervention Project (STRIP) has completed a 20-year infancy-onset dietary counselling intervention to reduce exposure to atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk factors via promotion of a heart-healthy diet. The counselling on, e.g., low intake of saturated fat and cholesterol and promotion of fruit, vegetable, and whole-grain consumption has affected the dietary characteristics of the intervention participants. By leveraging this unique cohort, we further investigated whether this long-term dietary intervention affected the gut microbiota bacterial profile six years after the intervention ceased. Our sub-study comprised 357 individuals aged 26 years (intervention n = 174, control n = 183), whose gut microbiota were profiled using 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing. We observed no differences in microbiota profiles between the intervention and control groups. However, out of the 77 detected microbial genera, the Veillonella genus was more abundant in the intervention group compared to the controls (log₂ fold-change 1.58, p < 0.001) after adjusting for multiple comparison. In addition, an association between the study group and overall gut microbiota profile was found only in males. The subtle differences in gut microbiota abundances observed in this unique intervention setting suggest that long-term dietary counselling reflecting dietary guidelines may be associated with alterations in gut microbiota.
    Keywords Veillonella ; adulthood ; cardiovascular diseases ; cholesterol ; fruits ; intestinal microorganisms ; nutritional intervention ; risk factors ; saturated fats ; vegetables ; whole grain foods
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2022-0627
    Publishing place Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Document type Article
    ZDB-ID 2518386-2
    ISSN 2072-6643
    ISSN 2072-6643
    DOI 10.3390/nu14132667
    Database NAL-Catalogue (AGRICOLA)

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