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      HIV cascade of care in Greece: Useful insights from additional stages 

      Nikolopoulos, Georgios; Vourli, Georgia; Paparizos, Vasilios; Skoutelis, Athanasios; Metallidis, Symeon; Gargalianos, Panagiotis; Papadopoulos, Antonios; Chini, Maria; Sipsas, Nikolaos V.; Psychogiou, Mina; Chrysos, Georgios; Sambatakou, Helen; Gogos, Charalambos; Katsarou, Olga; Paraskeva, Dimitra; Dedes, Nikos; Touloumi, Giota; Group, on behalf of the Greek HIV Prevention (2018)
      Background Aiming to eliminate HIV infection, UNAIDS has set a global “90-90-90” target by 2020. We sought to construct a 6-stages HIV Cascade of Care (CoC) in Greece, overall and by risk group, to assess risk-group and ...
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      Predictors of humoral response to recommended vaccines in HIV-infected adults 

      Tsachouridou, Olga; Christaki, Eirini; Skoura, Lemonia; Georgiou, Adamantini; Nanoudis, Sideris; Vasdeki, Dimitra; Ntziovara, Maria-Anna; Kotoreni, Georgia; Forozidou, Evropi; Tsoukra, Paraskevi; Germanidis, Georgios S.; Metallidis, Symeon (2017)
      Humoral response to vaccination has been found to be inadequate in individuals infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). We retrospectively assessed antibody responses to three routinely recommended vaccines, ...
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      Syphilis on the rise: A prolonged syphilis outbreak among HIV-infected patients in northern Greece 

      Tsachouridou, Olga; Skoura, Lemonia; Christaki, Eirini; Kollaras, Panagiotis; Sidiropoulou, E.; Zebekakis, P.; Vakirlis, E.; Margariti, Apostolia; Metallidis, Symeon (2016)
      Introduction Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are a major public health issue in Europe. Numerous outbreaks of syphilis have been described recently and an increased prevalence of high-risk sexual practices has raised ...