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Abundance and population characteristics of the invasive sea urchin Diadema setosum (Leske, 1778) in the south Aegean Sea (eastern Mediterranean)
(2021)Background: The Indo-Pacific sea urchin Diadema setosum has invaded the Mediterranean Sea and has spread along many locations in the southeastern part of the basin, where established populations exist on the shallow subtidal ... -
AGAMEMNON: an Accurate metaGenomics And MEtatranscriptoMics quaNtificatiON analysis suite
(2022)We introduce AGAMEMNON (https://github.com/ivlachos/agamemnon) for the acquisition of microbial abundances from shotgun metagenomics and metatranscriptomic samples, single-microbe sequencing experiments, or sequenced host ... -
Anosmic flies: what Orco silencing does to olive fruit flies
(2020)Background: The olive fruit fly (Bactrocera oleae) is the most destructive pest of the olive cultivation worldwide causing significant production losses and olive fruit impoverishment, as its larvae feed exclusively on the ... -
Application of Bayesian modeling for diagnostic assays of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in sheep and goats flocks
(2022)Background: This study aimed to screen the sera of goats and sheep from flocks suspected of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) infection by a newly standardized Mce-truncated ELISA (Mt-ELISA) kit for the ... -
Assessing training needs in infectious disease management at major ports, airports and ground-crossings in Europe
(2021)Background: The implementation of core capacities as stated in the International Health Regulations (IHR) is far from complete, and, as the COVID-19 pandemic shows, the spreading of infectious diseases through points of ... -
Associations between cardiorespiratory fitness, fatness, hemodynamic characteristics, and sedentary behaviour in primary school-aged children
(2022)Background: Low cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) is associated with the development of cardiovascular diseases during childhood, adolescence and older ages. The purpose of the study was to investigate associations between ... -
Autonomous motivation to reduce sedentary behaviour is associated with less sedentary time and improved health outcomes in rheumatoid arthritis: a longitudinal study
(2022)Background: This longitudinal study investigated whether changes in autonomous and controlled motivation to reduce sedentary behaviour were associated with variability in sedentary, standing and stepping time and, in turn, ... -
The burden of injury in Central, Eastern, and Western European sub-region: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease 2019 Study
(2022)Background: Injury remains a major concern to public health in the European region. Previous iterations of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study showed wide variation in injury death and disability adjusted life year ... -
Classification of COPD patients and compliance to recommended treatment in Greece according to GOLD 2017 report: the RELICO study
(2021)Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a multifactorial clinical condition, characterized by chronic progressive (or worsening) respiratory symptoms, structural pulmonary abnormalities, and impaired ... -
Clinical practice recommendations on the management of perioperative cardiac arrest: A report from the PERIOPCA Consortium
(2021)Background: Perioperative cardiac arrest is a rare complication with an incidence of around 1 in 1400 cases, but it carries a high burden of mortality reaching up to 70% at 30 days. Despite its specificities, guidelines ... -
Computer-aided clinical image analysis for non-invasive assessment of tumor thickness in cutaneous melanoma
(2021)Objective: Computerized clinical image analysis is shown to improve diagnostic accuracy for cutaneous melanoma but its effectiveness in preoperative assessment of melanoma thickness has not been studied. The aim of this ... -
Containment and therapeutic relationships in acute psychiatric care spaces: the symbolic dimensions of doors
(2022)Background: There is an increasing trend of door locking practices in acute psychiatric care. The aim of the present study was to illuminate the symbolic dimensions of doors in Greek mental health nurses’ experiences of ... -
Core clock regulators in dexamethasone-treated HEK 293T cells at 4 h intervals
(2022)Objective: The study of the circadian clock and its mechanisms is easily facilitated through clock resetting in cell culture. Among the various established synchronizers of the circadian clock in cell culture (temperature, ... -
Correction to: Grapevine wood microbiome analysis identifies key fungal pathogens and potential interactions with the bacterial community implicated in grapevine trunk disease appearance (Environmental Microbiome, (2021), 16, 1, (23), 10.1186/s40793-021-00390-1)
(2022)Following publication of the article [1], the authors flagged that each author’s first and last names had been erroneously swapped in the author list. The author list has been corrected in the published article and the ... -
Correction to: Non-genetic risk and protective factors and biomarkers for neurological disorders: a meta-umbrella systematic review of umbrella reviews (BMC Medicine, (2021), 19, 1, (6), 10.1186/s12916-020-01873-7)
(2021)It was highlighted that the original article [1]contained an error under the section Principal findings specifically on page 12, the sentence “This systematic review of umbrella reviews revealed counterintuitively a ... -
Correction to: Relationship between ventilator-associated pneumonia and mortality in COVID-19 patients: a planned ancillary analysis of the coVAPid cohort (Critical Care, (2021), 25, 1, (177), 10.1186/s13054-021-03588-4)
(2021)Following publication of the original article [1], the authors identified an error in the Abstract and Results section. The correct numbers and text are given hereafter. Abstract VAP was associated with significantly higher ... -
Creation and implementation of a European registry for patients with McArdle disease and other muscle glycogenoses (EUROMAC registry)
(2020)Background: International patient registries are of particular importance for rare disorders, as they may contribute to overcome the lack of knowledge derived from low number of patients and limited awareness of these ... -
Current laboratory and clinical practices in reporting and interpreting anti-nuclear antibody indirect immunofluorescence (ANA IIF) patterns: results of an international survey
(2020)Background: The International Consensus on Antinuclear Antibody (ANA) Patterns (ICAP) has recently proposed nomenclature in order to harmonize ANA indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) pattern reporting. ICAP distinguishes ... -
DeepTSS: multi-branch convolutional neural network for transcription start site identification from CAGE data
(2022)Background: The widespread usage of Cap Analysis of Gene Expression (CAGE) has led to numerous breakthroughs in understanding the transcription mechanisms. Recent evidence in the literature, however, suggests that CAGE ... -
Detection of imported COVID-19 cases worldwide: Early assessment of airport entry screening, 24 January until 17 February 2020
(2020)The purpose of this study was to provide an overview of entry screening measures applied at airports in response to the COVID-19 epidemic worldwide. Between 24 January and 17 February 2020, 5.2% (95% CI 3.1-8.5) of the 271 ...