[HTML][HTML] Attributable deaths and disability-adjusted life-years caused by infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the EU and the European Economic Area in 2015 …

A Cassini, LD Högberg, D Plachouras… - The Lancet infectious …, 2019 - thelancet.com
Background Infections due to antibiotic-resistant bacteria are threatening modern health
care. However, estimating their incidence, complications, and attributable mortality is …

Colistin-resistant isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae emerging in intensive care unit patients: first report of a multiclonal cluster

A Antoniadou, F Kontopidou, G Poulakou… - Journal of …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Objectives Infections due to multidrug-resistant (MDR) Gram-negative pathogens in the ICU
have prompted the use of colistin, an antibiotic forgotten for decades. The aim of this …

Colistin susceptibility testing by Etest and disk diffusion methods

I Galani, F Kontopidou, M Souli, PD Rekatsina… - International journal of …, 2008 - Elsevier
The accuracy of disk susceptibility methods for colistin against 778 bacterial pathogens was
evaluated in comparison with Etest using interpretive criteria available from the Clinical and …

Health-care-associated infections in neonates, children, and adolescents: an analysis of paediatric data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control …

W Zingg, S Hopkins, A Gayet-Ageron… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2017 - thelancet.com
Summary Background In 2011–12, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
(ECDC) held the first Europe-wide point-prevalence survey of health-care-associated …

Tigecycline in the treatment of infections from multi-drug resistant gram-negative pathogens

G Poulakou, FV Kontopidou, E Paramythiotou… - Journal of Infection, 2009 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: This observational retrospective study aims to present early experience with
tigecycline (TIG) in the treatment of infections due to multi-drug resistant (MDR) …

B‐chronic lymphocytic leukemia: practical aspects

GA Pangalis, TP Vassilakopoulos… - Hematological …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
B‐CLL is the most common adult leukemia in the Western world. It is a neoplasia of mature
looking B‐monoclonal lymphocytes co‐expressing the CD5 antigen (involving the blood, the …

In vitro activity of tigecycline against multiple-drug-resistant, including pan-resistant, gram-negative and gram-positive clinical isolates from Greek hospitals

M Souli, FV Kontopidou, E Koratzanis… - Antimicrobial agents …, 2006 - Am Soc Microbiol
The in vitro activities of tigecycline and selected antimicrobials were evaluated against a
variety of multiple-drug-resistant clinical isolates, including extended-spectrum β-lactamase …

Clinical experience of serious infections caused by Enterobacteriaceae producing VIM-1 metallo-β-lactamase in a Greek university hospital

M Souli, FV Kontopidou… - Clinical infectious …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Background. The dissemination of acquired metallo-β-lactamases (MBLs) in members of the
family Enterobacteriaceae is regarded as an emerging clinical threat. The clinical …

Acute lymphoplasmacytoid dendritic cell (DC2) leukemia: results from the Hellenic Dendritic Cell Leukemia Study Group

NJ Tsagarakis, NA Kentrou, KA Papadimitriou… - Leukemia research, 2010 - Elsevier
We present a cohort of 22 patients with type 2 dendritic cell (DC2) acute leukemia (or blastic
plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm-BPDCN, as it has been recently named), diagnosed in …

Prevalence, incidence burden, and clinical impact of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial resistance: a national prevalent cohort study in acute care …

EI Kritsotakis, F Kontopidou, E Astrinaki… - Infection and drug …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Background Assessing the overall burden of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) is
challenging, but imperative in evaluating the cost-effectiveness of infection control programs …