• 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, ...
    • Antimicrobial Agent Susceptibility and Typing of Staphylococcal Isolates from Subclinical Mastitis in Ewes 

      Vasileiou N.G.C., Sarrou S., Papagiannitsis C., Chatzopoulos D.C., Malli E., Mavrogianni V.S., Petinaki E., Fthenakis G.C. (2019)
      Objective was to study susceptibility to antimicrobial agents of 142 staphylococcal isolates from subclinical mastitis in ewes. In total, 41.5% of these were resistant and 5.6% multidrug resistant. More coagulase-negative ...
    • First description in Greece of mphC-positive staphylococci causing subclinical mastitis in Ewes 

      Papagiannitsis C.C., Malli E., Tsilipounidaki K., Sarrou S., Medvecky M., Hrabak J., Fthenakis G.C., Petinaki E. (2018)
      The aim of the present study was to describe the first mphC-positive staphylococci, including two Staphylococcus lentus (Sle-087lar and Sle-091lar) and one Staphylococcus xylosus (Sxy-228lar), isolated from samples of ...
    • Genome sequencing analysis identifies new loci associated with Lewy body dementia and provides insights into its genetic architecture 

      Chia R., Sabir M.S., Bandres-Ciga S., Saez-Atienzar S., Reynolds R.H., Gustavsson E., Walton R.L., Ahmed S., Viollet C., Ding J., Makarious M.B., Diez-Fairen M., Portley M.K., Shah Z., Abramzon Y., Hernandez D.G., Blauwendraat C., Stone D.J., Eicher J., Parkkinen L., Ansorge O., Clark L., Honig L.S., Marder K., Lemstra A., St George-Hyslop P., Londos E., Morgan K., Lashley T., Warner T.T., Jaunmuktane Z., Galasko D., Santana I., Tienari P.J., Myllykangas L., Oinas M., Cairns N.J., Morris J.C., Halliday G.M., Van Deerlin V.M., Trojanowski J.Q., Grassano M., Calvo A., Mora G., Canosa A., Floris G., Bohannan R.C., Brett F., Gan-Or Z., Geiger J.T., Moore A., May P., Krüger R., Goldstein D.S., Lopez G., Tayebi N., Sidransky E., Sotis A.R., Sukumar G., Alba C., Lott N., Martinez E.M.G., Tuck M., Singh J., Bacikova D., Zhang X., Hupalo D.N., Adeleye A., Wilkerson M.D., Pollard H.B., Norcliffe-Kaufmann L., Palma J.-A., Kaufmann H., Shakkottai V.G., Perkins M., Newell K.L., Gasser T., Schulte C., Landi F., Salvi E., Cusi D., Masliah E., Kim R.C., Caraway C.A., Monuki E.S., Brunetti M., Dawson T.M., Rosenthal L.S., Albert M.S., Pletnikova O., Troncoso J.C., Flanagan M.E., Mao Q., Bigio E.H., Rodríguez-Rodríguez E., Infante J., Lage C., González-Aramburu I., Sanchez-Juan P., Ghetti B., Keith J., Black S.E., Masellis M., Rogaeva E., Duyckaerts C., Brice A., Lesage S., Xiromerisiou G., Barrett M.J., Tilley B.S., Gentleman S., Logroscino G., Serrano G.E., Beach T.G., McKeith I.G., Thomas A.J., Attems J., Morris C.M., Palmer L., Love S., Troakes C., Al-Sarraj S., Hodges A.K., Aarsland D., Klein G., Kaiser S.M., Woltjer R., Pastor P., Bekris L.M., Leverenz J.B., Besser L.M., Kuzma A., Renton A.E., Goate A., Bennett D.A., Scherzer C.R., Morris H.R., Ferrari R., Albani D., Pickering-Brown S., Faber K., Kukull W.A., Morenas-Rodriguez E., Lleó A., Fortea J., Alcolea D., Clarimon J., Nalls M.A., Ferrucci L., Resnick S.M., Tanaka T., Foroud T.M., Graff-Radford N.R., Wszolek Z.K., Ferman T., Boeve B.F., Hardy J.A., Topol E.J., Torkamani A., Singleton A.B., Ryten M., Dickson D.W., Chiò A., Ross O.A., Gibbs J.R., Dalgard C.L., Traynor B.J., Scholz S.W., The American Genome Center (2021)
      The genetic basis of Lewy body dementia (LBD) is not well understood. Here, we performed whole-genome sequencing in large cohorts of LBD cases and neurologically healthy controls to study the genetic architecture of this ...
    • Large-scale genomic analysis reveals recurrent patterns of intertypic recombination in human enteroviruses 

      Nikolaidis M., Mimouli K., Kyriakopoulou Z., Tsimpidis M., Tsakogiannis D., Markoulatos P., Amoutzias G.D. (2019)
      Recombination is a driving force for the emergence, evolution and virulence/epidemics of viruses, comprising the Enterovirus genus of the Picornaviridae family, important for human and animal health. By analyzing 2949 ...
    • Letter to the Editor: Importation of the First Bovine ST361 New Delhi Metallo-5 Positive Escherichia coli in Greece 

      Tsilipounidaki K., Athanasakopoulou Z., Billinis C., Miriagou V., Petinaki E. (2022)
      [No abstract available]
    • A novel homozygous SACS mutation identified by whole exome sequencing-genotype phenotype correlations of all published cases 

      Xiromerisiou G., Dadouli K., Marogianni C., Provatas A., Ntellas P., Rikos D., Stathis P., Georgouli D., Loules G., Zamanakou M., Hadjigeorgiou G.M. (2020)
      ARSACS is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by ataxia, spasticity, and polyneuropathy. A plethora of worldwide distributed mutations have been described so far. Here, we report two brothers, born to non-consanguineous ...
    • The Remarkable Evolutionary Plasticity of Coronaviruses by Mutation and Recombination: Insights for the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Future Evolutionary Paths of SARS-CoV-2 

      Amoutzias G.D., Nikolaidis M., Tryfonopoulou E., Chlichlia K., Markoulatos P., Oliver S.G. (2022)
      Coronaviruses (CoVs) constitute a large and diverse subfamily of positive-sense sin-gle-stranded RNA viruses. They are found in many mammals and birds and have great importance for the health of humans and farm animals. ...
    • Whole Genome Sequencing and Root Colonization Studies Reveal Novel Insights in the Biocontrol Potential and Growth Promotion by Bacillus subtilis MBI 600 on Cucumber 

      Samaras A., Nikolaidis M., Antequera-Gómez M.L., Cámara-Almirón J., Romero D., Moschakis T., Amoutzias G.D., Karaoglanidis G.S. (2021)
      Bacillus spp. MBI 600 is a gram-positive bacterium and is characterized as a PGPR strain involved in plant growth promotion and control of various plant pathogens which has recently been introduced into the agricultural ...
    • Whole-Genome Profile of Greek Patients with Teratozοοspermia: Identification of Candidate Variants and Genes 

      Kyrgiafini M.-A., Giannoulis T., Chatziparasidou A., Christoforidis N., Mamuris Z. (2022)
      Male infertility is a global health problem that affects a large number of couples worldwide. It can be categorized into specific subtypes, including teratozoospermia. The present study aimed to identify new variants ...