• Acinetobacter baumannii antibiotic resistance mechanisms 

      Kyriakidis I., Vasileiou E., Pana Z.D., Tragiannidis A. (2021)
      Acinetobacter baumannii is a Gram-negative ESKAPE microorganism that poses a threat to public health by causing severe and invasive (mostly nosocomial) infections linked with high mortality rates. During the last years, ...
    • Daptomycin Use in Children: Experience with Various Types of Infection and Age Groups 

      Syrogiannopoulos G.A., Michoula A.N., Petinaki E., Grivea I.N. (2017)
      Background: In Greece, there are high rates of methicillin (40%-60%) and clindamycin (15%-25%) resistance among community-acquired Staphylococcus aureus isolates. Therefore, we sought to identify other antimicrobial treatment ...
    • Geographical variation in therapy for bloodstream infections due to multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae: a post-hoc analysis of the INCREMENT study 

      Harris P.N.A., Pezzani M.D., Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez B., Viale P., Hsueh P.-R., Ruiz-Garbajosa P., Venditti M., Tumbarello M., Navarro-Francisco C., Calbo E., Akova M., Giamarellou H., Oliver A., Almirante B., Gasch O., Martínez-Martínez L., Schwaber M.J., Daikos G., Pitout J., Peña C., Hernández-Torres A., Doi Y., Pérez F., Tuon F.F., Tacconelli E., Carmeli Y., Bonomo R.A., Pascual Á., Paterson D.L., Rodríguez-Baño J., del Toro M.D., Gálvez J., Falcone M., Russo A., Karaiskos I., Trecarichi E.M., Losito A.R., García-Vázquez E., Gómez J., Roilides E., Iosifidis E., Pournaras S., Prim N., Navarro F., Mirelis B., Origüen J., Juan R.S., Fernández-Ruiz M., Almela M., de la Calle C., Martínez J.A., Morata L., Larrosa N., Puig-Asensio M., Bou G., Molina J., González V., Bermejo J., Rucci V., de Gopegui E.R., Marinescu C.I., Fariñas M.C., Cano M.E., Gozalo M., Paño-Pardo J.R., Mora-Rillo M., Gómez-Zorrilla S., Tubau F., Tsakris A., Zarkotou O., Antoniadou A., Poulakou G., Souli M., Lowman W., Virmani D., Torre-Cisneros J., Machuca I., Gracia-Ahufinger I., Azap Ö.K., Helvaci Ö., Sahin A.O., Cantón R., Pintado V., Bartoletti M., Giannella M., Peter S., Hamprecht A., Badia C., Xercavins M., Fontanals D., Jové E., ESGBIS/REIPI/INCREMENT Group (2017)
      We describe regional differences in therapy for bloodstream infection (BSI) caused by extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (ESBL-E) or carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE). Patients (n = ...
    • Microorganisms involved in deep neck infection (DNIs) in Greece: Detection, identification and susceptibility to antimicrobials 

      Beka D., Lachanas V.A., Doumas S., Xytsas S., Kanatas A., Petinaki E., Skoulakis C. (2019)
      Background: To determine, from October 2010 to October 2018, the epidemiology of Deep Neck Infections (DNIs), regarding the detection, the identification and the susceptibility to antimicrobials of causative microorganisms, ...
    • Novel molecular techniques for the identification of the members of Brucellaceae family 

      Papaventsis, D.; Siafakas, N.; Markoulatos, P.; Sopidou, V.; Economou, C.; Levidiotou-Stefanou, S. (2006)
      An account is presented of an attempt to identify a multiresistant, gram-negative bacterium that was isolated from raw sewage in Cyprus. The API 2ONE system was initially used to identify the strain on the basis of its ...
    • 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. ...
    • Shotgun metagenomics assessment of the resistome, mobilome, pathogen dynamics and their ecological control modes in full-scale urban wastewater treatment plants 

      Karaolia P., Vasileiadis S., G. Michael S., G. Karpouzas D., Fatta-Kassinos D. (2021)
      The conventional activated sludge (CAS) process has limited capacity to remove pathogenic microorganisms and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), compared to membrane bioreactors (MBRs). However, the full extent of pathogenic ...
    • Survival benefit associated with clarithromycin in severe community-acquired pneumonia: A matched comparator study 

      Kyriazopoulou E., Sinapidis D., Halvatzis S., Velissaris D., Alexiou N., Kosmas V., Adami M.-E., Kyprianou M., Kyprianou A., Stefos A., Lada M., Koutoukas P., Pavlaki M., Kyriakoudi A., Makina A., Gogos C., Niederman M.S., Giamarellos-Bourboulis E.J. (2020)
      Although analysis of retrospective studies has documented survival benefit from the addition of a macrolide to the treatment regimen for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), no data are available to determine if there is ...