• Molecular epidemiology of fowl adenoviruses in Greece 

      Franzo G., Prentza Z., Paparounis T., Tsiouris V., Centonze G., Legnardi M., Catelli E., Tucciarone C.M., Koutoulis K., Cecchinato M. (2020)
      Outbreaks of inclusion body hepatitis (IBH) and adenoviral gizzard erosion have been anecdotally reported in Greece since approximately 2011. However, a relevant increase in clinical outbreaks compatible with IBH has been ...
    • Molecular epidemiology of infectious bronchitis virus and avian metapneumovirus in Greece 

      Andreopoulou M., Franzo G., Tucciarone C.M., Prentza Z., Koutoulis K.C., Cecchinato M., Chaligianni I. (2019)
      Respiratory diseases like infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) and avian metapneumovirus (aMPV) have been held accountable for major losses for poultry production. Nevertheless, scarce information was present dealing with the ...
    • MRSA infections among patients in the emergency department: A European multicentre study 

      Bouchiat C., Curtis S., Spiliopoulou I., Bes M., Cocuzza C., Codita I., Dupieux C., Giormezis N., Kearns A., Laurent F., Molinos S., Musumeci R., Prat C., Saadatian-Elahi M., Tacconelli E., Tristan A., Schulte B., Vandenesch F., Monneuse O., de Francisco T., Casella P., Erbizzoni S., Melzi S., Oggioni D., Sala R., Calaresu E., Efthimia P., Markos M., Petinaki E., Schroeder W., on behalf of the ESCMID Study Group on Staphylococci and Staphylococcal Infections (ESGS) (2017)
      Background: MRSA is a therapeutic concern worldwide, and a major agent of community-acquired skin and soft tissue infections (CA-SSTIs). While the US epidemiology of MRSA in CA-SSTIs is well described and reports the high ...
    • Outbreak of bloodstream infections because of Serratia marcescens in a pediatric department 

      Iosifidis, E.; Farmaki, E.; Nedelkopoulou, N.; Tsivitanidou, M.; Kaperoni, M.; Pentsoglou, V.; Pournaras, S.; Athanasiou-Metaxa, M.; Roilides, E. (2012)
      Background: Serratia marcescens can cause health care-associated infections. We herewith report the investigation and control of an outbreak of S marcescens bloodstream infections (BSI) in a general pediatric department. ...
    • Predominance of international clone 2 OXA-23-producing-Acinetobacter baumannii clinical isolates in Greece, 2015: results of a nationwide study 

      Pournaras S., Dafopoulou K., Del Franco M., Zarkotou O., Dimitroulia E., Protonotariou E., Poulou A., Zarrilli R., Tsakris A., Skoura L., Themeli-Digalaki K., Perivolioti E., Tsiplakou S., Karavassilis V., Panopoulou M., Orfanidou M., Hadjichristodoulou C., Levidiotou S., Gikas A., Greek Study Group on Acinetobacter Antimicrobial Resistance (2017)
      In a previous nationwide study in Greece, OXA-58 was the sole carbapenemase present among carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) isolated between 2000 and 2009. In this study, the antibiotic resistances, ...
    • Vaccine or field strains: the jigsaw pattern of infectious bronchitis virus molecular epidemiology in Poland 

      Legnardi M., Franzo G., Koutoulis K.C., Wiśniewski M., Catelli E., Tucciarone C.M., Cecchinato M. (2019)
      Infectious bronchitis (IB), caused by infectious bronchitis virus (IBV), account for severe economic losses in the poultry industry. The continuous emergence of a multitude of IBV variants poses many challenges for its ...