Tobias Allander

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Clinical Virology and Virus Discovery

Virus infections impose a huge disease burden on humanity, from common colds to pandemic outbreaks, chronic virus infections, and cancer. Diagnosing viral agents and searching for the cause for diseases with unknown aetiology is therefore fundamental to many aspects of clinical medicine. The group is based at the Department of Clinical Microbiology at Karolinska University Hospital, and the research is focused on discovery of viruses and diagnostic studies on clinical samples.

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Article: ACTA PAEDIATRICA, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PAEDIATRICS. 2024;113(7):1679-1684
Pre-admission virus detection during the COVID-19 pandemic in children with and without symptoms of infection
Bennet R; Rinder MR; George E; Hertting O; Luthander J; Akefeldt SO; Hammas B; Allander T; Eriksson M
Article: ACTA PAEDIATRICA, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PAEDIATRICS. 2023;112(5):1049-1055
Human bocavirus 1 epidemiology in children in relation to virus load and codetection
Oldhoff E; Bennet R; Eriksson M; Allander T
Article: JOURNAL OF MEDICAL VIROLOGY. 2022;94(2):634-641
Better detection of Torque teno virus in children with leukemia by metagenomic sequencing than by quantitative PCR
Leijonhufvud G; Bajalan A; Teixeira Soratto TA; Gustafsson B; Bogdanovic G; Bjerkner A; Allander T; Ljungman G; Andersson B
Article: LAKARTIDNINGEN. 2021;118:21113
[Precision diagnostics in clinical microbiology].
G Giske C; Allander T; Fröding I; Ininbergs K; Mölling P; Engstrand L; Albert J
Article: JOURNAL OF INTERNAL MEDICINE. 2021;290(3):666-676
Seropositivity in blood donors and pregnant women during the first year of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in Stockholm, Sweden
Castro Dopico X; Muschiol S; Christian M; Hanke L; Sheward DJ; Grinberg NF; Rorbach J; Bogdanovic G; Mcinerney GM; Allander T; Wallace C; Murrell B; Albert J; Karlsson Hedestam GB
Article: CELL. 2020;183(1):158-168.e14
Robust T Cell Immunity in Convalescent Individuals with Asymptomatic or Mild COVID-19
Sekine T; Perez-Potti A; Rivera-Ballesteros O; Stralin K; Gorin J-B; Olsson A; Llewellyn-Lacey S; Kamal H; Bogdanovic G; Muschiol S; Wullimann DJ; Kammann T; Emgard J; Parrot T; Folkesson E; Rooyackers O; Eriksson LI; Henter J-I; Sonnerborg A; Allander T; Albert J; Nielsen M; Klingstrom J; Gredmark-Russ S; Bjorkstrom NK; Sandberg JK; Price DA; Ljunggren H-G; Aleman S; Buggert M
Article: MICROBIOLOGY RESOURCE ANNOUNCEMENTS. 2020;9(35):e00934-e00920
Four SARS-CoV-2 Genome Sequences from Late April in Stockholm, Sweden, Reveal a Rare Mutation in the Spike Protein
Soratto TAT; Darban H; Bjerkner A; Coorens M; Albert J; Allander T; Andersson B
Article: JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 2019;220(4):589-593
No Correlation Between Nasopharyngeal Human Bocavirus 1 Genome Load and mRNA Detection or Serology in Adeno-/Tonsillectomy Patients
Ivaska LE; Christensen A; Waris M; Puhakka T; Vuorinen T; Allander T; Soderlund-Venermo M; Jartti T
Article: NPJ BIOFILMS AND MICROBIOMES. 2019;5(1):5
The ketogenic diet influences taxonomic and functional composition of the gut microbiota in children with severe epilepsy
Lindefeldt M; Eng A; Darban H; Bjerkner A; Zetterstrom CK; Allander T; Andersson B; Borenstein E; Dahlin M; Prast-Nielsen S
Article: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL VIROLOGY. 2018;108:112-120
Virome definition in cerebrospinal fluid of patients with neurological complications after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Pau C; Barrientos-Somarribas M; Marin-Juan S; Bogdanovic G; Bjerkner A; Allander T; Gustafsson B; Andersson B
Article: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. 2018;8(1):28
Discovering viral genomes in human metagenomic data by predicting unknown protein families
Barrientos-Somarribas M; Messina DN; Pou C; Lysholm F; Bjerkner A; Allander T; Andersson B; Sonnhammer ELL
Article: CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL ALLERGY. 2018;8:22
Tonsillar cytokine expression between patients with tonsillar hypertrophy and recurrent tonsillitis
Mikola E; Elenius V; Saarinen M; Palomares O; Waris M; Turunen R; Puhakka T; Ivaska L; Rueckert B; Aab A; Vahlberg T; Vuorinen T; Allander T; Camargo CAJ; Akdis M; Akdis CA; Jartti T
Article: INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 2017;49(1):35-41
Viremic co-infections in children with allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation are predominated by human polyomaviruses
Koskenvuo M; Rahiala J; Sadeghi M; Waris M; Vuorinen T; Lappalainen M; Norjad P; Toppinen M; Saarinen-Pihkala U; Allander T; Soderlund-Venermo M; Hedman K; Ruuskanen O; Vettenranta K
Article: PLOS ONE. 2017;12(2):e0172350
The relationship of serum vitamins A, D, E and LL-37 levels with allergic status, tonsillar virus detection and immune response
Elenius V; Palomares O; Waris M; Turunen R; Puhakka T; Rueckert B; Vuorinen T; Allander T; Vahlberg T; Akdis M; Camargo CAJ; Akdis CA; Jartti T
Article: BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANCER. 2016;115(8):1008-1014
Virome characterisation from Guthrie cards in children who later developed acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
Bogdanovic G; Pou C; Barrientos-Somarribas M; Bjerkner A; Honkaniemi E; Allander T; Andersson B; Gustafsson B
Article: PEDIATRIC TRANSPLANTATION. 2016;20(3):424-431
Polyomaviruses BK, JC, KI, WU, MC, and TS in children with allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Rahiala J; Koskenvuo M; Sadeghi M; Waris M; Vuorinen T; Lappalainen M; Saarinen-Pihkala U; Allander T; Soderlund-Venermo M; Hedman K; Ruuskanen O; Vettenranta K
Article: ALLERGY. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY. 2014;69(5):658-667
Distinct regulation of tonsillar immune response in virus infection
Jartti T; Palomares O; Waris M; Tastan O; Nieminen R; Puhakka T; Rueckert B; Aab A; Vuorinen T; Allander T; Vahlberg T; Ruuskanen O; Akdis M; Akdis CA
Article: ACTA PAEDIATRICA, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PAEDIATRICS. 2014;103(1):100-104
Children with multiple viral respiratory infections are older than those with single viruses
Rotzen-Ostlund M; Eriksson M; Lindell AT; Allander T; Wirgart BZ; Grillner L
Article: BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION. 2013;48(10):1308-1312
Human parvoviruses B19, PARV4 and bocavirus in pediatric patients with allogeneic hematopoietic SCT
Rahiala J; Koskenvuo M; Norja P; Meriluoto M; Toppinen M; Lahtinen A; Vaisanen E; Waris M; Vuorinen T; Saarinen-Pihkala U; Lappalainen M; Allander T; Ruuskanen O; Hedman K; Soderlund-Venermo M; Vettenranta K
Article: JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC HEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY. 2012;34(5):364-367
KI, WU, and Merkel Cell Polyomavirus DNA was not Detected in Guthrie Cards of Children who Later Developed Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Gustafsson B; Honkaniemi E; Goh S; Giraud G; Forestier E; von Dobeln U; Allander T; Dalianis T; Bogdanovic G
Article: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY. 2012;50(2):531-532
Life-Threatening Respiratory Tract Disease with Human Bocavirus-1 Infection in a 4-Year-Old Child
Edner N; Castillo-Rodas P; Falk L; Hedman K; Soderlund-Venermo M; Allander T
Article: PLOS ONE. 2012;7(2):e30875
Characterization of the Viral Microbiome in Patients with Severe Lower Respiratory Tract Infections, Using Metagenomic Sequencing
Lysholm F; Wetterbom A; Lindau C; Darban H; Bjerkner A; Fahlander K; Lindberg AM; Persson B; Allander T; Andersson B
Article: ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY. 2011;156(9):1627-1634
Taxonomical developments in the family Polyomaviridae
Johne R; Buck CB; Allander T; Atwood WJ; Garcea RL; Imperiale MJ; Major EO; Ramqvist T; Norkin LC
Article: PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASE JOURNAL. 2011;30(6):521-523
NO EFFICACY OF PREDNISOLONE IN ACUTE WHEEZING ASSOCIATED WITH HUMAN BOCAVIRUS INFECTION
Jartti T; Soderlund-Venermo M; Allander T; Vuorinen T; Hedman K; Ruuskanen O
Article: BMC MICROBIOLOGY. 2011;11:2
An unbiased metagenomic search for infectious agents using monozygotic twins discordant for chronic fatigue
Sullivan PF; Allander T; Lysholm F; Goh S; Persson B; Jacks A; Evengard B; Pedersen NL; Andersson B
Article: PEDIATRIC ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY. 2010;21(7):1008-1014
Allergic sensitization is associated with rhinovirus-, but not other virus-, induced wheezing in children
Jartti T; Kuusipalo H; Vuorinen T; Soderlund-Venermo M; Allander T; Waris M; Hartiala J; Ruuskanen O
Article: VIRAL IMMUNOLOGY. 2010;23(4):385-393
Expression and Serological Characterization of Polyomavirus WUPyV and KIPyV Structural Proteins
Kantola K; Sadeghi M; Ewald MJ; Weissbrich B; Allander T; Lindau C; Andreasson K; Lahtinen A; Kumar A; Norja P; Jartti T; Lehtinen P; Auvinen E; Ruuskanen O; Soderlund-Venermo M; Hedman K
Article: BIOINFORMATICS. 2010;26(13):1595-1600
Classification of DNA sequences using Bloom filters
Stranneheim H; Kaller M; Allander T; Andersson B; Arvestad L; Lundeberg J
Article: JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY. 2010;84(12):6229-6234
Whole-Genome Characterization and Genotyping of Global WU Polyomavirus Strains
Bialasiewicz S; Rockett R; Whiley DW; Abed Y; Allander T; Binks M; Boivin G; Cheng AC; Chung J-Y; Ferguson PE; Gilroy NM; Leach AJ; Lindau C; Rossen JW; Sorrell TC; Nissen MD; Sloots TP
Article: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL VIROLOGY. 2010;47(3):234-237
Respiratory viruses, a common microbiological finding in neutropenic children with fever
Lindblom A; Bhadri V; Soederhall S; Ohrmalm L; Wong M; Norbeck O; Lindau C; Rotzen-Ostlund M; Allander T; Catchpoole D; Dalla-Pozza L; Broliden K; Tolfvenstam T
Article: PLOS ONE. 2009;4(12):e8239
DNA from KI, WU and Merkel Cell Polyomaviruses Is Not Detected in Childhood Central Nervous System Tumours or Neuroblastomas
Giraud G; Ramqvist T; Pastrana DV; Pavot V; Lindau C; Kogner P; Orrego A; Buck CB; Allander T; Holm S; Gustavsson B; Dalianis T
Article: EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 2009;15(9):1423-1430
Clinical Assessment and Improved Diagnosis of Bocavirus-induced Wheezing in Children, Finland
Soderlund-Venermo M; Lahtinen A; Jartti T; Hedman L; Kemppainen K; Lehtinen P; Allander T; Ruuskanen O; Hedman K
Article: EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 2009;15(3):489-491
Merkel Cell Polyomavirus in Respiratory Tract Secretions
Goh S; Lindau C; Tiveljung-Lindell A; Allander T
Article: JOURNAL OF MEDICAL VIROLOGY. 2009;81(1):167-175
Development and Implementation of a Molecular Diagnostic Platform for Daily Rapid Detection of 15 Respiratory Viruses
Tivejung-Lindell A; Rotzen-Ostlund M; Gupta S; Ullstrand R; Grillner L; Zweygberg-Wirgart B; Allander T
Article: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL VIROLOGY. 2009;44(1):24-26
A single-tube, real-time PCR assay for detection of the two newly characterized human KI and WU polyomaviruses
Lindau C; Tiveljung-Lindell A; Goha S; Ramqvist T; Allander T
Article: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY. 2008;46(12):4104-4105
Hepatitis and Human Bocavirus Primary Infection in a Child with T-Cell Deficiency
Kainulainen L; Waris M; Soderlund-Venermo M; Allander T; Hedman K; Ruuskanen O
Article: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS. 2008;167(9):1011-1015
Human bocavirus in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Koskenvuo M; Mottonen M; Waris M; Allander T; Salmi TT; Ruuskanen O
Article: CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 2008;46(4):540-546
Serodiagnosis of human bocavirus infection
Kantola K; Hedman L; Allander T; Jartti T; Lehtinen P; Ruuskanen O; Hedman K; Soderlund-Venermo M
Article: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL VIROLOGY. 2008;41(1):29-33
Human bocavirus
Allander T
Article: JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY. 2007;81(8):4130-4136
Identification of a third human polyomavirus
Allander T; Andreasson K; Gupta S; Bjerkner A; Bogdanovic G; Persson MAA; Dalianis T; Ramqvist T; Andersson B
Article: CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 2007;44(7):904-910
Human bocavirus and acute wheezing in children
Allander T; Jartti T; Gupta S; Niesters HGM; Lehtinen P; Osterback R; Vuorinen T; Waris M; Bjerkner A; Tiveljung-Lindell A; van den Hoogen BG; Hyypia T; Ruuskanen O
Article: CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 2006;43(11):1417-1422
Microbiology of acute otitis media in children with tympanostomy tubes:: Prevalences of bacteria and viruses
Ruohola A; Meurman O; Nikkari S; Skottman T; Salmi A; Waris M; Osterback R; Eerola E; Allander T; Niesters H; Heikkinen T; Ruuskanen O
Article: HEPATOLOGY. 2005;42(5):1055-1062
Human monoclonal antibodies that react with the E2 glycoprotein of hepatitis C virus and possess neutralizing activity.
Schofield DJ; Bartosch B; Shimizu YK; Allander T; Alter HJ; Emerson SU; Cosset F-L; Purcell RH
Article: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 2005;102(36):12891-12896
Cloning of a human parvovirus by molecular screening of respiratory tract samples
Allander T; Tammi MT; Eriksson M; Bjerkner A; Tiveljung-Lindell A; Andersson B
Article: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 2001;98(20):11609-11614
A virus discovery method incorporating DNase treatment and its application to the identification of two bovine parvovirus species.
Allander T; Emerson SU; Engle RE; Purcell RH; Bukh J
Article: JOURNAL OF MEDICAL VIROLOGY. 2001;64(2):117-124
Sequence evolution and cross-reactive antibody responses to hypervariable region 1 in acute hepatitis C virus infection
Hjalmarsson S; Blomberg J; Grillner L; Pipkorn R; Allander T
Article: VIROLOGY. 2000;277(2):358-367
Hepatitis C virus envelope protein E2 binds to CD81 of tamarins.
Allander T; Forns X; Emerson SU; Purcell RH; Bukh J
Article: JOURNAL OF GENERAL VIROLOGY. 2000;81(Pt 10):2451-2459
Recombinant human monoclonal antibodies against different conformational epitopes of the E2 envelope glycoprotein of hepatitis C virus that inhibit its interaction with CD81
Allander T; Drakenberg K; Beyene A; Rosa D; Abrignani S; Houghton M; Widell A; Grillner L; Persson MAA
Article: VIROLOGY. 2000;274(1):75-85
Characterization of modified hepatitis C virus E2 proteins expressed on the cell surface.
Forns X; Allander T; Rohwer-Nutter P; Bukh J
Article: ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE. 1999;130(2):130-134
Epidemiologic and molecular investigation of outbreaks of hepatitis C virus infection on a pediatric oncology service
Widell A; Christensson B; Wiebe T; Schalén C; Hansson HB; Allander T; Persson MAA
Article: SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY. 1995;30(11):1113-1118
CHRONIC HEPATITIS-C IN ALCOHOLIC PATIENTS - PREVALENCE, GENOTYPES, AND CORRELATION TO LIVER-DISEASE
BEFRITS R; HEDMAN M; BLOMQUIST L; ALLANDER T; GRILLNER L; KINNMAN N; RUBIO C; HULTCRANTZ R
Article: THE LANCET. 1995;345(8950):603-607
FREQUENT PATIENT-TO-PATIENT TRANSMISSION OF HEPATITIS-C VIRUS IN A HEMATOLOGY WARD
ALLANDER T; GRUBER A; NAGHAVI M; BEYENE A; SODERSTROM T; BJORKHOLM M; GRILLNER L; PERSSON MAA
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Letter: JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY. 2014;133(1):256-258
Human bocavirus 1 may suppress rhinovirus-associated immune response in wheezing children
Lukkarinen H; Soderlund-Venermo M; Vuorinen T; Allander T; Hedman K; Simell O; Ruuskanen O; Jartti T
Review: REVIEWS IN MEDICAL VIROLOGY. 2012;22(1):46-64
Human bocavirus-the first 5 years
Jartti T; Hedman K; Jartti L; Ruuskanen O; Allander T; Soderlund-Venermo M
Letter: JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 2011;203(7):1031-U1032
Don't Forget Serum in the Diagnosis of Human Bocavirus Infection
Don M; Soderlund-Venermo M; Hedman K; Ruuskanen O; Allander T; Korppi M
Letter: EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 2009;15(2):344-346
Viral Etiology of Common Cold in Children, Finland
Ruohola A; Waris M; Allander T; Ziegler T; Heikkinen T; Ruuskanen O
Letter: NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE. 2008;358(24):2638
A new arenavirus in transplantation
Allander T; de Lamballerie X; Simmonds P
Review: CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY REVIEWS. 2008;21(2):291-304
Human bocavirus:: Passenger or pathogen in acute respiratory tract infections?
Schildgen O; Mueller A; Allander T; Mackay IM; Voelz S; Kupfer B; Simon A
Letter: JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY. 2007;120(1):216
Respiratory viruses and acute asthma in children
Jartti T; Waris M; Niesters HGM; Allander T; Ruitskanen O
Meeting abstract: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL VIROLOGY. 2006;36:S9
Human bocavirus and acute wheezing in children
Allander T
Meeting abstract: JOURNAL OF CLINICAL VIROLOGY. 2006;36:S20
Human bocavirus in Swedish children 2004 to 2005
Rotzên Östlund M; Tiveljung Lindell A; Gupta S; Grillner L; Zweygberg Wirgart B; Allander T
Thesis / dissertation: 1997
Hepatitis C virus infection : molecular analysis of transmission and immunity
Allander, Tobias
Published conference paper: JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 1997;175(1):26-31
Patients infected with the same hepatitis C virus strain display different kinetics of the isolate-specific antibody response
Allander T; Beyene A; Jacobson SH; Grillner L; Persson MAA
Editorial comment: JOURNAL OF INTERNAL MEDICINE. 1996;240(1):1-3
Hepatitis C virus transmission in hospitals
Persson MAA; Allander T
Letter: NEPHRON. 1996;73(1):110
Transmission of hepatitis C virus by transfer of an infected individual to a new dialysis unit
Allander T; Medin C; Jacobson SH; Grillner L; Persson MAA
Letter: THE LANCET. 1995;345(8962):1443
PATIENT-TO-PATIENT TRANSMISSION OF HEPATITIS-C VIRUS - REPLY
ALLANDER T; GRUBER A; PERSSON MAA

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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, 2022-2026

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Docent, Karolinska Institutet, 2007
University Medical Degree, Karolinska Institutet, 1991

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