John Pettersson
Researcher at Department of Medical Sciences; Clinical Microbiology
- Telephone:
- +46 73 261 26 11
- Mobile phone:
- +46 73 261 26 11
- E-mail:
- john.pettersson@uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Dag Hammarskjölds väg 38
- Postal address:
- Klinisk Mikrobiologi, Hub
Dag Hammarskjölds väg 38
751 85 Uppsala
Researcher at Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology; Infection and Immunity; Åke Lundkvist
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 45 30
- Mobile phone:
- +46 73 261 26 11
- E-mail:
- john.pettersson@imbim.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- BMC
Husargatan 3
752 37 UPPSALA - Postal address:
- Box 582
751 23 UPPSALA

Publications
Recent publications
Hantavirus co-circulation in common shrews (Sorex araneus) in Sweden
Part of Virus Evolution, 2025
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Novel variants of tick-borne encephalitis virus from patient and tick samples in Norway
Part of Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, 2025
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Part of Journal of Medical Microbiology, 2025
- DOI for Genomic insights into extended-spectrum β-lactamase- and plasmid-borne AmpC-producing Escherichia coli transmission between humans and livestock in rural Cambodia
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Part of Viruses, 2025
- DOI for The Genotypes/Subtypes and Antiviral Drug Resistance of the Hepatitis C Virus from Patients in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Nepal
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Study on the temporal and spatial distribution of Culex mosquitoes in Hanoi, Vietnam
Part of Scientific Reports, 2024
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All publications
Articles in journal
Hantavirus co-circulation in common shrews (Sorex araneus) in Sweden
Part of Virus Evolution, 2025
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Novel variants of tick-borne encephalitis virus from patient and tick samples in Norway
Part of Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, 2025
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Part of Journal of Medical Microbiology, 2025
- DOI for Genomic insights into extended-spectrum β-lactamase- and plasmid-borne AmpC-producing Escherichia coli transmission between humans and livestock in rural Cambodia
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Part of Viruses, 2025
- DOI for The Genotypes/Subtypes and Antiviral Drug Resistance of the Hepatitis C Virus from Patients in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Nepal
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Study on the temporal and spatial distribution of Culex mosquitoes in Hanoi, Vietnam
Part of Scientific Reports, 2024
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Farmed fur animals harbour viruses with zoonotic spillover potential
Part of Nature, p. 228-233, 2024
Tribute to Prof. Dr. Thomas Gustav Tore Jaenson, Uppsala University, Sweden
Part of Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, 2024
The evolutionary and molecular history of a chikungunya virus outbreak lineage
Part of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2024
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Substantial viral and bacterial diversity at the bat-tick interface
Part of MICROBIAL GENOMICS, 2023
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Part of BMC Genomics, 2023
- DOI for No association of a Vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGFA) gene polymorphism with pre-eclampsia among pregnant women in Uganda
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Zoonotic risk assessment among farmed mammals
Part of Cell, p. 2040-20400, 2023
Part of Journal of Infectious Diseases, p. 625-633, 2022
- DOI for Concurrent Infection With Multiple Human Papillomavirus Types Among Unvaccinated and Vaccinated 17-Year-Old Norwegian Girls
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Discovery of a Novel Coronavirus in Swedish Bank Voles (Myodes glareolus)
Part of Viruses, 2022
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Part of PLOS ONE, 2022
- DOI for Age and sex effects on DNA methylation sites linked to genes implicated in severe COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 host cell entry
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Part of Virus Evolution, 2022
- DOI for Widespread interspecific phylogenetic tree incongruence between mosquito-borne and insect-specific flaviviruses at hotspots originally identified in Zika virus
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Part of Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 2022
- DOI for Assessment of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Intervention Strategies in the Nordic Countries Using Genomic Epidemiology
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Part of Virus Evolution, 2022
- DOI for Meta-transcriptomics reveals potential virus transfer between Aedes communis mosquitoes and their parasitic water mites
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Co-occurrence of Francisella and spotted fever group Rickettsia in avian-associated Hyalomma rufipes
Part of Microorganisms, 2022
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Part of One Health, 2021
- DOI for Tracing and tracking the emergence, epidemiology and dispersal of dengue virus to Africa during the 20th century
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Part of One Health, 2021
- DOI for Retrospective meta-transcriptomic identification of severe dengue in a traveller returning from Africa to Sweden, 1990
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Part of Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, 2021
Field surveys in Croatia and North Macedonia reveal two novel phleboviruses circulating in sandflies
Part of Journal of General Virology, 2021
Part of Eurosurveillance, 2021
- DOI for The impact of public health interventions in the Nordic countries during the first year of SARS-CoV-2 transmission and evolution
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Meta-transcriptomic identification of Trypanosoma spp. in native wildlife species from Australia
Part of Parasites & Vectors, 2020
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Phylogeographic Dynamics of Influenza A(H9N2) Virus Crossing Egypt
Part of Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020
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Novel hepaci- and pegi-like viruses in native Australian wildlife and non-human primates
Part of Virus Evolution, 2020
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Part of Emerging Microbes & Infections, p. 1429-1431, 2020
- DOI for Identification of hepatitis C virus in the common bed bug - a potential, but uncommon route for HCV infection?
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Part of Zoonoses and Public Health, p. 370-381, 2020
Circumpolar diversification of the Ixodes uriae tick virome
Part of PLoS Pathogens, 2020
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Part of Antiviral Research, 2020
Part of Big Data Analytics, 2019
- DOI for Estimation of AT and GC content distributions of nucleotide substitution rates in bacterial core genomes
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Part of Viruses, 2019
- DOI for Meta-Transcriptomic Comparison of the RNA Viromes of the Mosquito Vectors Culex pipiens and Culex torrentium in Northern Europe
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Molecular epidemiology of hepatitis B virus infection in Norway
Part of BMC Infectious Diseases, 2019
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Novel hepatitis D-like agents in vertebrates and invertebrates
Part of Virus Evolution, 2019
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Part of Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease, 2019
- DOI for Meta-transcriptomic identification of hepatitis B virus in cerebrospinal fluid in patients with central nervous system disease
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Introduction and Dispersal of Sindbis Virus from Central Africa to Europe
Part of Journal of Virology, 2019
Modeling of the GC content of the substituted bases in bacterial core genomes
Part of BMC Genomics, 2018
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Modeling of the GC content of the substituted bases in bacterial core genomes
Part of BMC Genomics, 2018
Part of Parasites & Vectors, 2018
- DOI for The importance of wildlife in the ecology and epidemiology of the TBE virus in Sweden: incidence of human TBE correlates with abundance of deer and hares
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Re-visiting the evolution, dispersal and epidemiology of Zika virus in Asia
Part of Emerging Microbes & Infections, 2018
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Part of Science Advances, 2018
Part of BMC Genomics, 2017
Characterizing the virome of Ixodes ricinus ticks from northern Europe
Part of Scientific Reports, 2017
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Part of Journal of General Virology, p. 413-421, 2017
- DOI for Deep sequencing analysis of tick-borne encephalitis virus from questing ticks at natural foci reveals similarities between quasispecies pools of the virus
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Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, p. 13881-13886, 2016
Hepatitis C reinfection after sustained virological response
Part of Journal of Hepatology, p. 1020-1026, 2016
Hepatitis C reinfection after sustained virological response
Part of Journal of Hepatology, p. 1020-1026, 2016
How Did Zika Virus Emerge in the Pacific Islands and Latin America?
Part of mBio, 2016
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Part of Acta Pathologica, Microbiologica et Immunologica Scandinavica (APMIS), p. 759-764, 2015
Part of Parasites & Vectors, p. 102, 2014
- DOI for Prevalence of tick-borne encephalitis virus in Ixodes ricinus ticks in northern Europe with particular reference to southern Sweden
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Dating the origin of the genus Flavivirus in the light of Beringian biogeography
Part of Journal of General Virology, p. 1969-1982, 2014
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Part of Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, p. 100-106, 2012
Part of Parasites & Vectors, p. 66, 2010
- DOI for Detection and prevalence of Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Rickettsia helvetica in Ixodes ricinus ticks in seven study areas in Sweden
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Articles, review/survey
Evolution of Genomic Base Composition: From Single Cell Microbes to Multicellular Animals
Part of Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, p. 362-370, 2019
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Emerging arboviruses: Why today?
Part of ONE HEALTH, p. 1-13, 2017
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Chapters in book
Climate change, ticks and tick-borne pathogens in Northern Europe
Part of Climate, ticks and disease, p. 528-531, CABI Publishing, 2022