• Adherence to Recommendations for Βacillus Calmette-Guérin Vaccination of High-risk Neonates in Greece 

      Maltezou H.C., Magaziotou I., Tseroni M., Syrigonaki K., Syrogiannopoulos G.A., Tsolia M., Roilides E., Theodoridou M., Georgakopoulou T. (2022)
      In 2016 a Βacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccination policy targeting high-risk neonates for tuberculosis before discharge from maternity hospital was adopted in Greece. Vaccination rates were 38.2% in 2019 and 24.7% in 2020. ...
    • Annual risk of tuberculosis infection in hellenic air force recruits 

      Vlachou, G.; Gerogianni, I.; Skoufaras, V.; Gourgoulianis, K. (2013)
      Background: The annual risk of Tuberculosis infection (ARTI) is a key indicator in epidemiology, of the extent of transmission in a community. There have been several suggested methods in order to evaluate the prevalence ...
    • Epigenetic regulation of apoptosis via the PARK7 interactome in peripheral blood mononuclear cells donated by tuberculosis patients vs. healthy controls and the response to treatment: A systems biology approach 

      Vavougios G.D., Zarogiannis S.G., Krogfelt K.A., Stamoulis G., Gourgoulianis K.I. (2020)
      Aims: The aims of our study were to determine for the first time differentially expressed genes (DEGs) and enriched molecular pathways involving the PARK7 interactome in PBMCs donated from tuberculosis patients. Methods: ...
    • Global, regional, and national sex differences in the global burden of tuberculosis by HIV status, 1990–2019: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 

      Ledesma J.R., Ma J., Vongpradith A., Maddison E.R., Novotney A., Biehl M.H., Legrand K.E., Ross J.M., Jahagirdar D., Bryazka D., Feldman R., Abolhassani H., Abosetugn A.E., Abu-Gharbieh E., Adebayo O.M., Adnani Q.E.S., Afzal S., Ahinkorah B.O., Ahmad S.A., Ahmadi S., Rashid T.A., Salih Y.A., Aklilu A., Akunna C.J., Al Hamad H., Alahdab F., Alemayehu Y., Alene K.A., Ali B.A., Ali L., Alipour V., Alizade H., Al-Raddadi R.M., Alvis-Guzman N., Amini S., Amit A.M.L., Anderson J.A., Androudi S., Antonio C.A.T., Antony C.M., Anwer R., Arabloo J., Arja A., Asemahagn M.A., Atre S.R., Azhar G.S., Darshan B.B., Babar Z.-U.-D., Baig A.A., Banach M., Barqawi H.J., Barra F., Barrow A., Basu S., Belgaumi U.I., Bhagavathula A.S., Bhardwaj N., Bhardwaj P., Bhattacharjee N.V., Bhattacharyya K., Bijani A., Bikbov B., Boloor A., Briko N.I., Buonsenso D., Nagaraja S.B., Butt Z.A., Carter A., Carvalho F., Charan J., Chatterjee S., Chattu S.K., Chattu V.K., Christopher D.J., Chu D.-T., Claassens M.M., Dadras O., Dagnew A.B., Dai X., Dandona L., Dandona R., Daneshpajouhnejad P., Darwesh A.M., Dhamnetiya D., Dianatinasab M., Diaz D., Doan L.P., Eftekharzadeh S., Elhadi M., Emami A., Enany S., Faraon E.J.A., Farzadfar F., Fernandes E., Desideri L.F., Filip I., Fischer F., Foroutan M., Frank T.D., Garcia-Basteiro A.L., Garcia-Calavaro C., Garg T., Geberemariyam B.S., Ghadiri K., Ghashghaee A., Golechha M., Goodridge A., Gupta B., Gupta S., Gupta V.B., Gupta V.K., Haider M.R., Hamidi S., Hanif A., Haque S., Harapan H., Hargono A., Hasaballah A.I., Hashi A., Hassan S., Hassankhani H., Hayat K., Hezam K., Holla R., Hosseinzadeh M., Hostiuc M., Househ M., Hussain R., Ibitoye S.E., Ilic I.M., Ilic M.D., Irvani S.S.N., Ismail N.E., Itumalla R., Jaafari J., Jacobsen K.H., Jain V., Javanmardi F., Jayapal S.K., Jayaram S., Jha R.P., Jonas J.B., Joseph N., Joukar F., Kabir Z., Kamath A., Kanchan T., Kandel H., Katoto P.D.M.C., Kayode G.A., Kendrick P.J., Kerbo A.A., Khajuria H., Khalilov R., Khatab K., Khoja A.T., Khubchandani J., Kim M.S., Kim Y.J., Kisa A., Kisa S., Kosen S., Koul P.A., Laxminarayana S.L.K., Koyanagi A., Krishan K., Bicer B.K., Kumar A., Kumar G.A., Kumar N., Kumar N., Kwarteng A., Lak H.M., Lal D.K., Landires I., Lasrado S., Lee S.W.H., Lee W.-C., Lin C., Liu X., Lopukhov P.D., Lozano R., Machado D.B., Kunjathur S.M., Madi D., Mahajan P.B., Majeed A., Malik A.A., Martins-Melo F.R., Mehta S., Memish Z.A., Mendoza W., Menezes R.G., Merie H.E., Mersha A.G., Mesregah M.K., Mestrovic T., Mheidly N.M., Misra S., Mithra P., Moghadaszadeh M., Mohammadi M., Mohammadian-Hafshejani A., Mohammed S., Molokhia M., Moni M.A., Al Montasir A., Moore C.E., Nagarajan A.J., Nair S., Nair S., Naqvi A.A., Swamy S.N., Nayak B.P., Nazari J., Kandel S.N., Nguyen T.H., Nixon M.R., Nnaji C.A., Ntsekhe M., Nuñez-Samudio V., Oancea B., Odukoya O.O., Olagunju A.T., Oren E., Mahesh P.A., Parthasarathi R., Kan F.P., Pattanshetty S.M., Paudel R., Paul P., Pawar S., Pepito V.C.F., Perico N., Pirestani M., Polibin R.V., Postma M.J., Pourshams A., Prashant A., Pribadi D.R.A., Radfar A., Rafei A., Rahim F., Rahimi-Movaghar V., Rahman M., Rahman M., Rahmani A.M., Ranasinghe P., Rao C.R., Rawaf D.L., Rawaf S., Reitsma M.B., Remuzzi G., Renzaho A.M.N., Reta M.A., Rezaei N., Rezahosseini O., Rezai M.S., Rezapour A., Roshandel G., Roshchin D.O., Sabour S., Saif-Ur-rahman K.M., Salam N., Kafl H.S., Samaei M., Samy A.M., Saroshe S., Sartorius B., Sathian B., Sawyer S.M., Senthilkumaran S., Seylani A., Shafaat O., Shaikh M.A., Sharaf K., Shetty R.S., Shigematsu M., Shin J.I., Silva J.P., Singh J.K., Sinha S., Skryabin V.Y., Skryabina A.A., Spurlock E.E., Sreeramareddy C.T., Steiropoulos P., Sufyan M.B., Tabuchi T., Tadesse E.G., Tamir Z., Tarkang E.E., Tekalegn Y., Tesfay F.H., Tessema B., Thapar R., Tleyjeh I.I., Tobe-Gai R., Tran B.X., Tsegaye B., Tsegaye G.W., Ullah A., Umeokonkwo C.D., Tahbaz S.V., Vo B., Vu G.T., Waheed Y., Walters M.K., Whisnant J.L., Woldekidan M.A., Wubishet B.L., Jabbari S.H.Y., Yazie T.S.Y., Yeshaw Y., Yi S., Yigit V., Yonemoto N., Yu C., Yunusa I., Zastrozhin M.S., Zastrozhina A., Zhang Z.-J., Zumla A., Mokdad A.H., Salomon J.A., Reiner R.C., Jr., Lim S.S., Naghavi M., Vos T., Hay S.I., Murray C.J.L., Kyu H.H., GBD 2019 Tuberculosis Collaborators (2022)
      Background: Tuberculosis is a major contributor to the global burden of disease, causing more than a million deaths annually. Given an emphasis on equity in access to diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis in global health ...
    • Hierarchical true prevalence, risk factors and clinical symptoms of tuberculosis among suspects in Bangladesh 

      Khan M.K., Islam MdN., Hassan J., Paul S.K., Islam M.A., Pateras K., Kostoulas P., Ward M.P., Rahman A.K.M.A., Alam MdM. (2022)
      Background The study was aimed to estimate the true prevalence of human tuberculosis (TB); identify risk factors and clinical symptoms of TB; and detect rifampicin (RIF) sensitivity in three study areas of Bangladesh. ...
    • Miliary tuberculosis in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis following treatment with anti-TNF-α 

      Papaioannou, A. I.; Kostikas, K.; Gerogianni, E.; Ioannou, M.; Gourgouliannis, K. I. (2008)
      Anti-TNF-α agents have been used for the treatment of several autoimmune diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis. Recently observations indicate that treatment with anti-TNF-α agents is associated with increased risk of ...
    • A multicentre evaluation of the accuracy and performance of IP-10 for the diagnosis of infection with M. tuberculosis 

      Ruhwald, M.; Dominguez, J.; Latorre, I.; Losi, M.; Richeldi, L.; Pasticci, M. B.; Mazzolla, R.; Goletti, D.; Butera, O.; Bruchfeld, J.; Gaines, H.; Gerogianni, I.; Tuuminen, T.; Ferrara, G.; Eugen-Olsen, J.; Ravn, P. (2011)
      IP-10 has potential as a diagnostic marker for infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, with comparable accuracy to QuantiFERON-TB Gold In-Tube test (QFT-IT). The aims were to assess the sensitivity and specificity of ...
    • Multiplex polymerase chain reaction for the detection of mycobacterial DNA in cases of tuberculosis and sarcoidosis 

      Ikonomopoulos, J. A.; Gorgoulis, V. G.; Zacharatos, P. V.; Manolis, E. N.; Kanavaros, P.; Rassidakis, A.; Kittas, C. (1999)
      The aims of the present study were: (1) to design a sensitive and specific polymerase chain reaction-based method that would allow detection of most common human typical and atypical mycobacterial strains and (2) to apply ...
    • Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission among high school students in Greece 

      Hadjichristodoulou, C.; Vasilogiannakopoulos, A.; Spala, G.; Mavrou, I.; Kolonia, V.; Marinis, E.; Syriopoulou, V.; Theodoridou, M. (2005)
      Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the requirements and practical steps for screening of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) transmission among high school student populations in two regional high schools ...
    • Pulmonary infection by Rhodococcus equi presenting with positive Ziehl-Neelsen stain in a patient with human immunodeficiency virus: A case report 

      Spiliopoulou, A.; Assimakopoulos, S. F.; Foka, A.; Kolonitsiou, F.; Lagadinou, M.; Petinaki, E.; Anastassiou, E. D.; Spiliopoulou, I.; Marangos, M. (2014)
      Introduction: Patients with human immunodeficiency virus carry a significant risk of contracting opportunistic infections. The worldwide increased incidence of tuberculosis has instituted pulmonary tuberculosis as an ...
    • Respiratory diseases and Helicobacter pylori infection: Is there a link? 

      Roussos, A.; Philippou, N.; Mantzaris, G. J.; Gourgoulianis, K. I. (2006)
      Recent studies suggest an epidemiological association between Helicobacter pylori infection and several extragastroduodenal pathologies, including cardiovascular, rheumatic, skin and liver diseases. The observed associations ...
    • Role for mycobacterial infection in pathogenesis of primary biliary cirrhosis? 

      Smyk, D.; Rigopoulou, E. I.; Zen, Y.; Abeles, R. D.; Billinis, C.; Pares, A.; Bogdanos, D. P. (2012)
      Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is a progressive cholestatic liver disease characterized by the immune-mediated destruction of biliary epithelial cells in small intrahepatic bile ducts. The disease is characterized by ...
    • Tuberculous pyomyositis: a re-emerging entity of many faces 

      Simopoulou, T.; Varna, A.; Dailiana, Z.; Katsiari, C.; Alexiou, I.; Basdekis, G.; Malizos, K. N.; Sakkas, L. I. (2014)
      Tuberculosis (TB) has become a global concern due to its increasing incidence, particularly in immunocompromised patients, closely following the migratory patterns of populations. TB pyomyositis is a rare extrapulmonary ...
    • Tuberculous pyomyositis: A re-emerging entity of many faces 

      Simopoulou T., Varna A., Dailiana Z., Katsiari C., Alexiou I., Basdekis G., Malizos K.N., Sakkas L.I. (2016)
      Tuberculosis (TB) has become a global concern due to its increasing incidence, particularly in immunocompromised patients, closely following the migratory patterns of populations. TB pyomyositis is a rare extrapulmonary ...
    • Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in pleural effusions 

      Kiropoulos, T. S.; Daniil, Z.; Gourgoulianis, K. I.; Zakynthinos, E. (2007)
      Pleural effusion is a common clinical problem in everyday clinical practice. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a 34-45 kDa homodimeric glycoprotein, which is a potent mediator of angiogenesis and vascular ...