• Covid-19 outbreak on a passenger ship and assessment of response measures, greece, 2020 

      Hatzianastasiou S., Mouchtouri V.A., Pavli A., Tseroni M., Sapounas S., Vasileiou C., Dadouli K., Kyritsi M., Koureas M., Prezerakos P., Speletas M., Panagiotakopoulos G., Tsiodras S., Hadjichristodoulou C. (2021)
      We describe response measures to an outbreak involving 128 (33.4%) coronavirus disease cases (46.1% asymptomatic) among 383 persons onboard a passenger ship. Multivariate analysis indicated that dining in certain rooms and ...
    • Genetic spatiotemporal anatomy of plasmodium vivax malaria episodes in Greece, 2009–2013 

      Spanakos G., Snounou G., Pervanidou D., Alifrangis M., Rosanas-Urgell A., Baka A., Tseroni M., Vakali A., Vassalou E., Patsoula E., Zeller H., Van Bortel W., Hadjichristodoulou C., MALWEST Project (2018)
      An influx of immigrants is contributing to the reemergence of Plasmodium vivax malaria in Greece; 1 persistent focus of transmission is in Laconia, Pelopónnese. We genotyped archived blood samples from a substantial ...
    • Phylogenetic analysis of bird-virulent West Nile virus strain, Greece 

      Valiakos G., Plavos K., Vontas A., Sofia M., Giannakopoulos A., Giannoulis T., Spyrou V., Tsokana C.N., Chatzopoulos D., Kantere M., Diamantopoulos V., Theodorou A., Mpellou S., Tsakris A., Mamuris Z., Billinis C. (2019)
      We report the full polyprotein genomic sequence of a West Nile virus strain isolated from Eurasian magpies dying with neurologic signs in Greece. Our findings demonstrate the local genetic evolution of the West Nile virus ...