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Autor:
Helen C. Maltezou, L. Ftika
Publikováno v:
Journal of Hospital Infection. 83:185-192
Summary Viral haemorrhagic fevers (VHFs) typically manifest as rapidly progressing acute febrile syndromes with profound haemorrhagic manifestations and very high fatality rates. VHFs that have the potential for human-to-human transmission and onset
Autor:
Sotirios Tsiodras, Vasiliki Dalla, Antonios Antoniadis, Efstratios Maltezos, Anna Papa, Helen C. Maltezou
Publikováno v:
International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 13:713-716
SummaryIn June 2008 the first non-imported fatal case of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) was recorded in northern Greece. We present herein the public health interventions and the case definitions we developed for the epidemiological investiga
Publikováno v:
Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases. :1-4
We investigated the probability of nosocomial transmission of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) virus among healthcare workers (HCWs) who cared for the first CCHF case in Greece. Specific IgM and/or IgG antibodies against CCHF virus were not de
Autor:
Labrini Galani, Andreas Fretzayas, Helen C. Maltezou, Helen Giamarellou, Panagiota Biskini, Constantinos Douros, Antonios Maragos, Anastasia Antoniadou, Polyxeni Nicolaidou, Ioannis Katsarolis, Vasilios Raftopoulos, T Papadimitriou, Vasilios Tsagris, Kyriaki Kanellakopoulou
Publikováno v:
Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 62:1407-1412
Objectives: To study the performance of the Becton-Dickinson Link 2 Strep A Rapid Test, a rapid antigen detection test (RADT) for diagnosing streptococcal pharyngitis in children presenting to private offices and to the Pediatric Outpatient Clinic o
Autor:
Helen C. Maltezou
Publikováno v:
Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases. 21:337-343
Nosocomial influenza constitutes a serious risk among patients with underlying diseases and those of extreme age, and is associated with excess health-care costs. This article will review recent literature on this area.Despite longstanding recommenda
Publikováno v:
Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases. 20:495-500
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever is a tick-borne viral zoonosis with the potential of human-to-human transmission, affecting wide areas in Asia, Southeastern Europe, and Africa. Hemorrhagic manifestations constitute a prominent symptom of late stage d
Autor:
Helen C. Maltezou, Helen Giamarellou
Publikováno v:
International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents. 27:87-96
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) should no longer be regarded as a strictly nosocomial pathogen. During the past decade, community-acquired MRSA (CA-MRSA) infections among young persons without healthcare-associated (HCA) risk facto
Autor:
Ioanna Constantopoulou, G. Liapi, Georgia Antonaki, Helen C. Maltezou, Dimitris A. Kafetzis, Ioannis Mathioudakis
Publikováno v:
The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 20:703-706
Background. The etiology of Kawasaki syndrome (KS) is unknown. Rickettsiae, intracellular microorganisms that invade the vascular endothelium, might cause KS. Objectives. To investigate whether there is an association between KS and infection with Ri
Publikováno v:
Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases. 33:362-366
The role of epidemiological and clinical features for the early differential diagnosis between Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) complex and non-tuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) cervical lymphadenitis in children was examined in this study. From 1982 t
Autor:
Dimitris A. Kafetzis, M. Mavrikou, C. Siafas, Panagiotis Spyridis, C. Stavrinadis, Th. Karpathios, Helen C. Maltezou
Publikováno v:
Clinical Infectious Diseases. 31:1139-1143
Records were reviewed of 82 immunocompetent children (median age, 2. 5 years) from southern Greece who were diagnosed with visceral leishmaniasis from 1986 through 1998. Forty-nine (58%) patients originated from the city of Athens; of them, 46 (94%)