• 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 ...
    • Haemonchosis: A challenging parasitic infection of sheep and goats 

      Arsenopoulos K.V., Fthenakis G.C., Katsarou E.I., Papadopoulos E. (2021)
      The paper reviews the challenges about haemonchosis—a significant and common parasitic infection of small ruminants. Haemonchus contortus is a highly pathogenic parasite that localises in the abomasum of affected animals ...
    • Hazardous toxic metal(loid)s in top- and deep-soils during the transformation of aquaculture ponds restored to farmland 

      Ma J., Li S.-L., Chen Y., Yue F.-J., Shaheen S.M., Majrashi A., Ali E.F., Antoniadis V., Rinklebe J., Luo H., Zheng Q. (2022)
      The pollution risks due to the soil migration of toxic metal(loid)s (TMs) are a greatly hazard to ecological environment as well as animal and human health. Previous studies have primarily focused on surface contamination ...
    • Identification of climatic factors affecting the epidemiology of humanwest nile virus infections in northern Greece 

      Stilianakis N.I., Syrris V., Petroliagkis T., Pärt P., Gewehr S., Kalaitzopoulou S., Mourelatos S., Baka A., Pervanidou D., Vontas J., Hadjichristodoulou C. (2016)
      Climate can affect the geographic and seasonal patterns of vector-borne disease incidence such asWest Nile Virus (WNV) infections. We explore the association between climatic factors and the occurrence of West Nile fever ...
    • The Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic on European Neurosurgery Trainees 

      Tzerefos C., Meling T.R., Lafuente J., Fountas K.N., Brotis A.G., Demetriades A.K. (2021)
      Background: The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has placed tremendous strain on the national health care systems throughout Europe. As a result, there has been a significant influence ...
    • Impact of the financial crisis on COPD burden: Greece as a case study 

      Kotsiou O.S., Zouridis S., Kosmopoulos M., Gourgoulianis K.I. (2018)
      Poverty and low socioeconomic status have been associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The current financial crisis has forced millions back into poverty. Greece is one of the countries hit the hardest, ...
    • Mapping farm animal welfare education at university level in Europe 

      Illmann, G.; Keeling, L.; Melišova, M.; Šimečková, M.; Ilieski, V.; Winckler, C.; Košt'ál, L.; Meunier-Salaün, M. C.; Mihina, Š; Spoolder, H.; Fthenakis, G.; Šárová, R.; Špinka, M. (2014)
      The aim of this study was to map farm animal welfare university education in an enlarged Europe with emphasis on identifying existing differences and gaps. Information on 210 courses dealing with farm animal welfare from ...
    • Mapping the optimal forest road network based on the multicriteria evaluation technique: the case study of Mediterranean Island of Thassos in Greece 

      Tampekis S., Sakellariou S., Samara F., Sfougaris A., Jaeger D., Christopoulou O. (2015)
      The sustainable management of forest resources can only be achieved through a well-organized road network designed with the optimal spatial planning and the minimum environmental impacts. This paper describes the spatial ...
    • Mitogenomic analysis in European brown hare (Lepus europaeus) proposes genetic and functional differentiation between the distinct lineages 

      Giannoulis T., Stamatis C., Tsipourlianos A., Mamuris Z. (2018)
      European brown hare is a small game species spreading across Europe to Asia Minor, with important economic traits. Population genetics studies using mitochondrial DNA markers have revealed the existence of two major ...
    • Molecular investigation and geographical distribution of Leishmania spp infection in stray and owned cats (Felis catus) in Thessaly, central Greece 

      Giannakopoulos A., Tsokana C.N., Papadopoulos E., Spyrou V., Chatzopoulos D.C., Valiakos G., Touloudi A., Athanasiou L.V., Billinis C. (2017)
      In this study we aimed to determine the prevalence of Leishmania spp infection and to report the geographical distribution of Leishmania spp infected cats from Thessaly, central Greece, an endemic region for canine and ...
    • Non-tuberculous mycobacteria as environmental risk factors for human infectious diseases – isolation of non-tuberculous mycobacteria from patients in the thessaly region (Central greece) and their correlation with sarcoidosis disease 

      Dovriki E., Bardaka F., Gerogianni I., Petinaki E., Gourgoulianis K.I., Papaioannou A. (2017)
      Mycobacteria are organisms that are of great interest in the field of medicine, particularly those causing tuberculosis and leprosy (e.g., mycobacterium tuberculosis). Conversely, the nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) that ...
    • Nutritional habits and free grazing regimen of productive animals along with specific ingredients are influential factors for the antioxidant properties of milk: From farm to market 

      Veskoukis A.S., Kerasioti E., Sidiropoulos K., Maragou I., Skaperda Z.O.I., Kouretas D. (2020)
      Milk is a fundamental product of animal origin for human health and well-being. It possesses crucial biological properties, which depend on its composition and production methodology. To this end, one of the aims of the ...
    • Occurrence and molecular characterization of betanodaviruses in fish and invertebrates of the Greek territorial waters 

      Bitchava K., Chassalevris T., Lampou E., Athanassopoulou F., Economou V., Dovas C.I. (2019)
      Betanodaviruses are small ssRNA viruses that cause viral encephalopathy and retinopathy, a severe neuropathological infectious disease in marine fish species worldwide. In the present study, the occurrence of betanodaviruses ...
    • Prevalence of human papillomavirus and subtype distribution in male partners of women with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN): A systematic review 

      Skoulakis A., Fountas S., Mantzana-Peteinelli M., Pantelidi K., Petinaki E. (2019)
      Background: Human Papillomavirus (HPV) infection is estimated to be the most common sexually transmitted infection. The present systematic review summarizes data regarding the prevalence of HPV and the distribution of ...
    • A quantitative analysis of the spatial and temporal evolution patterns of the bluetongue virus outbreak in the island of Lesvos, Greece, in 2014 

      Malesios C., Chatzipanagiotou M., Demiris N., Kantartzis A., Chatzilazarou G., Chatzinikolaou S., Kostoulas P. (2020)
      Bluetongue virus (BTV) causes an infectious disease called bluetongue, a vector-borne viral disease of ruminants, which has major implications and causes severe economic damage due to its effect on livestock. These economic ...
    • Records of Aedes albopictus (Skuse, 1894) (Diptera; Culicidae) and Culex tritaeniorhynchus (Diptera; Culicidae) Expansion in Areas in Mainland Greece and Islands 

      Patsoula E., Beleri S., Vakali A., Pervanidou D., Tegos N., Nearchou A., Daskalakis D., Mourelatos S., Hadjichristodoulou C. (2017)
      Annual entomological surveillance programs aiming to monitor mosquito populations and record presence and absence of mosquito species have been performed in Greece. We report, in this study, new records and expansion of ...
    • Reemergence of west nile virus infections in Southern Greece, 2017 

      Mavrouli M., Vrioni G., Kapsimali V., Tsiamis C., Mavroulis S., Pervanidou D., Billinis C., Hadjichristodoulou C., Tsakris A. (2019)
      Greece experienced the largest European West Nile virus (WNV) outbreak in 2010 since the 1996 Romania epidemic. West Nile virus reemerged in southern Greece during 2017, after a 2-year hiatus of recorded human cases, and ...
    • Repeated leftover serosurvey of sars-cov-2 igg antibodies in greece, may to august 2020 

      Bogogiannidou Z., Speletas M., Vontas A., Nikoulis D.J., Dadouli K., Kyritsi M.A., Mouchtouri V.A., Mina P., Anagnostopoulos L., Koureas M., Karavasilis V., Nikou O., Pinaka O., Thomaidis P.C., Kadoglou K., Bedevis K., Spyrou N., Eleftheriou A.A., Papaevangelou V., Gikas A., Vatopoulos A., Ntzani E.E., Prezerakos P., Tsiodras S., Hadjichristodoulou C. (2021)
      A serosurvey of IgG antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 was conducted in Greece between May and August 2020. It was designed as a cross-sectional survey and was repeated at monthly intervals. The leftover sampling methodology ...
    • Reproduction is adapted to survival characteristics across geographically isolated medfly populations 

      Müller, H. G.; Wu, S.; Diamantidis, A. D.; Papadopoulos, N. T.; Carey, J. R. (2009)
      We propose the hypothesis that individual longitudinal trajectories of fertility are closely coupled to varying survival schedules across geographically isolated populations of the same species, in such a way that peak ...
    • Risk and environmental factors associated with the presence of canine parvovirus type 2 in diarrheic dogs from thessaly, central greece 

      Kantere M., Athanasiou L.V., Giannakopoulos A., Skampardonis V., Sofia M., Valiakos G., Athanasakopoulou Z., Touloudi A., Chatzopoulos D.C., Spyrou V., Billinis C. (2021)
      Canine parvovirus type 2 (CPV-2) primarily infects dogs, which are the main host reservoir, causing severe gastrointestinal disease associated with immunosuppression. The present study was conducted in Thessaly, Greece and ...