• Imported Chikungunya fever case in Greece in June 2014 and public health response 

      Tsiodras S., Pervanidou D., Papadopoulou E., Kavatha D., Baka A., Koliopoulos G., Badieritakis E., Michaelakis A., Gavana E., Patsoula E., Tsimpos I., Gioksari T., Kyriazopoulou E., Vakali A., Pavli A., Maltezou H.C., Georgakopoulou T., Hadjichristodoulou C., Kremastinou J., Papa A. (2016)
      We report about the first imported case of Chikungunya fever in Greece in a Greek traveler returning from the Dominican Republic and the associated public health response. We investigated the case and performed focused ...
    • Molecular detection of Rickettsia felis in common fleas in Greece and comparative evaluation of genotypic methods 

      Dougas G., Tsakris A., Billinis C., Beleri S., Patsoula E., Papaparaskevas J. (2021)
      Introduction: Rickettsia felis is the causative agent of flea-borne spotted fever (FBSF), an emerging zoonosis. Although there is evidence of FBSF in Greece, fleas, the classic vectors of R. felis, have not been adequately ...
    • Phlebotomine sandflies and factors associated with their abundance in the leishmaniasis endemic area of Attiki, Greece 

      Boutsini S., Athanasiou L.V., Spanakos G., Ntousi D., Dotsika E., Bisia M., Papadopoulos E. (2018)
      Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease of animals and humans caused by several Leishmania species and transmitted by phlebotomine sandflies. The aim of the present study was to identify the species of field collected ...
    • 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 ...