• Retrospective molecular and phenotypic analysis of poliovirus vaccine strains isolated in Greece 

      Pliaka, V.; Filliponi, M. E.; Kyriakopoulou, Z.; Ruether, I. G. A.; Tsakogiannis, D.; Gartzonika, C.; Levidiotou-Stefanou, S.; Markoulatos, P. (2011)
      The live oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) strains are genetically unstable, causing, in rare cases, vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis. Reversions of the known attenuating mutations in OPV strains and intertypic ...
    • Vibrio parahaemolyticus in seafood - associated outbreaks 

      Solomakos, N.; Pexara, A.; Govaris, A. (2012)
      Among the 30 species of the genus Vibrio, only 13 of them are pathogenic to humans. All pathogenic vibrios have been reported to cause foodborne diseases, although V. parahaemolyticus is considered the most important ...