• Recombinant Sabin environmental isolates in Greece and Cyprus 

      Paximadi, E.; Karakasiliotis, I.; Papaventsis, D.; Papageorgiou, G.; Markoulatos, P. (2008)
      Aims: Twenty-one polioviruses (PVs) Sabin strains were isolated from sewage treatment plants from Metamorphosis, Athens, Greece during the time period from May to October 1996, and from two other sites located at Nicosia ...
    • Retrospective molecular and phenotypic analysis of poliovirus vaccine strains isolated in Greece 

      Pliaka, V.; Filliponi, M. E.; Kyriakopoulou, Z.; Ruether, I. G. A.; Tsakogiannis, D.; Gartzonika, C.; Levidiotou-Stefanou, S.; Markoulatos, P. (2011)
      The live oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) strains are genetically unstable, causing, in rare cases, vaccine-associated paralytic poliomyelitis. Reversions of the known attenuating mutations in OPV strains and intertypic ...
    • Use of mutational pattern in 5 '-NCR and VP1 regions of polioviruses for molecular diagnosis 

      Pliaka, V.; Dedepsidis, E.; Kyriakopoulou, Z.; Papadopoulou, I.; Levidiotou, S.; Markoulatos, P. (2007)
      Polioviruses are members of the enterovirus genus, belonging to the Picornaviridae family. They are the causative agents of poliomyelitis, a paralytic and sometimes fatal disease in humans. The number of poliomyelitis cases ...