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      Economic recession and emergence of an HIV-1 outbreak among drug injectors in Athens metropolitan area: A longitudinal study 

      Paraskeva, D.; Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Fotiou, Anastasios; Tsiara, Chrissa G.; Paraskeva, D.; Sypsa, V.; Lazanas, Marios; Gargalianos, Panagiotis; Psichogiou, M.; Skoutelis, A.; Wiessing, L.; Friedman, Samuel R.; Jarlais, Don C. Des; Terzidou, M.; Kremastinou, Jenny; Malliori-Minerva, Melpomeni; Hatzakis, A. (2013)
      Background: During 2011, a dramatic increase (1600%) of reported HIV-1 infections among injecting drug users (IDUs) was noted in Athens, Greece. We herein assess the potential causal pathways associated with this outbreak. ...
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      HIV-1 outbreak among injecting drug users in Greece, 2011: A preliminary report 

      Paraskeva, D.; Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Tsiara, Chrissa G.; Paraskeva, D.; Antoniadou, Anastasia; Lazanas, Marios; Gargalianos, Panagiotis; Psychogiou, M.; Malliori-Minerva, Melpomeni; Kremastinou, Jenny; Hatzakis, A. (2011)
      A significant increase (more than 10-fold) in the number of newly diagnosed HIV-1 infections among injecting drug users (IDUs) was observed in Greece during the first seven months of 2011. Molecular epidemiology results ...
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      Increasing prevalence of HIV-1 subtype a in Greece: Estimating epidemic history and origin 

      Paraskeva, D.; Magiorkinis, Emmanouil; Magiorkinis, Gkikas; Sypsa, V.; Paparizos, V.; Lazanas, Marios; Gargalianos, Panagiotis; Antoniadou, Anastasia; Panos, G.; Chrysos, Georgios; Sambatakou, H.; Karafoulidou, Anastasia; Skoutelis, A.; Kordossis, Theodoros; Koratzanis, Georgios; Theodoridou, M.; Daikos, Georgios L.; Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Pybus, O. G.; Hatzakis, A. (2007)
      Background. In North America and Europe, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 infection has typically been dominated by subtype B transmission. More recently, however, non-B subtypes have been increasingly reported in ...
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      Prevalence of drug resistance among HIV-1 treatment-naive patients in Greece during 2003–2015: Transmitted drug resistance is due to onward transmissions 

      Paraskeva, D.; Kostaki, Evangelia-Georgia; Magiorkinis, Gkikas; Gargalianos, Panagiotis; Xylomenos, G.; Magiorkinis, Emmanouil; Lazanas, Marios; Chini, M.; Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Skoutelis, A.; Papastamopoulos, V.; Antoniadou, Anastasia; Papadopoulos, A.; Psichogiou, M.; Daikos, Georgios L.; Oikonomopoulou, M.; Zavitsanou, A.; Chrysos, Georgios; Paparizos, V.; Kourkounti, S.; Sambatakou, H.; Sipsas, N. V.; Lada, M.; Panagopoulos, P.; Maltezos, E.; Drimis, S.; Hatzakis, A. (2017)
      Background The prevalence of HIV-1 drug resistance among treatment-naïve patients ranges between 8.3% and 15% in Europe and North America. Previous studies showed that subtypes A and B were the most prevalent in the Greek ...