Sari H Pakkanen

Biographic Data

ID9798221
NAMESari H Pakkanen
GIVEN NAMESSari H
FAMILY NAMEPakkanen
SIGNATUREPAKKANEN S H
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Helsinki
ORCID0000-0003-4522-5337
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR2
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX0

  • Scent dogs in detection of Covid-19

    Open AccessAnu Kantele, Juuso Paajanen et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2022

    OBJECTIVE: To estimate scent dogs' diagnostic accuracy in identification of people infected with SARS-CoV-2 in comparison with reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). We conducted a randomised triple-blinded validation trial, and a real-life study at the Helsinki-Vantaa International Airport, Finland. METHODS: Four dogs were trained to detect COVID-19 using skin swabs from individuals tested for SARS-CoV-2 by RT-PCR. Our control…

  • Circulating pathogen-specific plasmablasts in female patients with upper genital tract infection

    Open AccessJohn K Wong, Nina V Palkola et al.ARTICLEJournal of Reproductive Immunology2018

    Mucosal antibodies constitute the first line of adaptive immune defence against invaders in the female genital tract (FGT), yet the sequence of events leading to their production is surprisingly poorly characterized. We explored the induction of pathogen-specific antibody-secreting cells (ASC) as a response to an acute infection in the upper FGT. We recruited 12 patients undergoing surgery due to an upper FGT infection (7/12 blood culture positiv…