• Control of paratuberculosis: Who, why and how. A review of 48 countries 

      Whittington R., Donat K., Weber M.F., Kelton D., Nielsen Sø.S., Eisenberg S., Arrigoni N., Juste R., Sáez J.L., Dhand N., Santi A., Michel A., Barkema H., Kralik P., Kostoulas P., Citer L., Griffin F., Barwell R., Moreira M.A.S., Slana I., Koehler H., Singh S.V., Yoo H.S., Chávez-Gris G., Goodridge A., Ocepek M., Garrido J., Stevenson K., Collins M., Alonso B., Cirone K., Paolicchi F., Gavey L., Rahman M.T., De Marchin E., Van Praet W., Bauman C., Fecteau G., McKenna S., Salgado M., Fernández-Silva J., Dziedzinska R., Echeverría G., Seppänen J., Thibault V., Fridriksdottir V., Derakhshandeh A., Haghkhah M., Ruocco L., Kawaji S., Momotani E., Heuer C., Norton S., Cadmus S., Agdestein A., Kampen A., Szteyn J., Frössling J., Schwan E., Caldow G., Strain S., Carter M., Wells S., Munyeme M., Wolf R., Gurung R., Verdugo C., Fourichon C., Yamamoto T., Thapaliya S., Di Labio E., Ekgatat M., Gil A., Alesandre A.N., Piaggio J., Suanes A., De Waard J.H. (2019)
      Paratuberculosis, a chronic disease affecting ruminant livestock, is caused by Mycobacterium avium subsp paratuberculosis (MAP). It has direct and indirect economic costs, impacts animal welfare and arouses public health ...
    • Gastroenteritis outbreaks on cruise ships: Contributing factors and thresholds for early outbreak detection 

      Mouchtouri V.A., Verykouki E., Zamfir D., Hadjipetris C., Lewis H.C., Hadjichristodoulou C., Andrioti D., Barbouni A., Bitsolas N., Broekhuijsen J., Davila-Cornejo M., Dirksen-Fischer M., Ferrelli R.M., Gilsdorf A., Goverse I., Kairiene B., Kantonis A., Kokosharova G., Kostara E., Kourea-Kremastinou J., Kourentis L., Kunchev A., Lavruvianec A., Otorepec P., Pilipavicius R.J., Pilkova M., Rachiotis G., Tserkezou P., Martinez C.V., Võzelevskaja N., EU SHIPSAN ACT partnership (2017)
      When an increased number of acute gastroenteritis (AG) cases is detected among tourists staying at the same accommodation, outbreak management plans must be activated in a timely manner to prevent large outbreaks. Syndromic ...
    • Hepatitis a among refugees, asylum seekers and migrants living in hosting facilities, Greece, April to December 2016 

      Mellou K., Chrisostomou A., Sideroglou T., Georgakopoulou T., Kyritsi M., Hadjichristodoulou C., Tsiodras S. (2017)
      An increased number of hepatitis A cases among refugees, asylum seekers and migrants residing in hosting facilities in Greece were recorded between April and December 2016. In total, 177 laboratory-confirmed symptomatic ...
    • Resistant Shigella strains in refugees, August-October 2015, Greece 

      Georgakopoulou T., Mandilara G., Mellou K., Tryfinopoulou K., Chrisostomou A., Lillakou H., Hadjichristodoulou C., Vatopoulos A. (2016)
      Shigellosis is endemic in most developing countries and thus a known risk in refugees and internally displaced persons. In 2015, a massive influx of refugees into Greece, due to the political crisis in the Middle East, led ...