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      History of mastectomy 

      Malliou, S.; Ajnantis, N.; Pavlidis, Nicholas; Kappas, A. M.; Kriaras, J.; Geroulanos, S. (2006)
      Incidents of breast cancer have been documented back to the early Egyptians. Hippocrates was the first who used the term of cancer "karkinos" or "karkinoma" of the nose, the uterus, the breasts and the neck. He believed ...
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      HIV and antiretroviral drugs: Current status and new challengess 

      Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Bonovas, Stefanos (2017)
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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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      HIV epidemiology in Greece 

      Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Paraskeva, D.; Hatzakis, A. (2008)
      Greece has experienced early the effect of HIV/AIDS on morbidity and mortality. The era of highly active antiretroviral therapy has alleviated many of the consequences of the epidemic, however, HIV infection remains an ...
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      HIV incidence among men who have sex with men at a community-based facility in Greece 

      Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Chanos, Sophocles; Tsioptsias, Emmanouil; Hodges-Mameletzis, Ioannis; Paraskeva, Dimitra; Dedes, Nikos (2019)
      OBJECTIVE: Men who have sex with men (MSM) are disproportionately affected by HIV in Greece. However, research on HIV incidence in this group is lacking. This study aimed at estimating HIV incidence among MSM in Athens, ...
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      HIV surveillance and injecting drug users in Greece 

      Pharris, Anastasia; Amato, Andrew; Giesecke, Johan; Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Tsiodras, Sotirios; Botsi, Chryssoula; Malliori-Minerva, Melpomeni; Kremastinou, Jenny (2014)
      A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "HIV infections and injecting drug users in Greece," by Evangelos C. Alexopoulous in the September 25, 2013 issue.
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      HIV surveillance and injecting drug users in Greece (II) 

      Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Tsiodras, Sotirios; Botsi, Chryssoula; Malliori-Minerva, Melpomeni; Kremastinou, Jenny (2014)
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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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      HIV/AIDS: Recent advances in antiretroviral agents 

      Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Bonovas, Stefanos; Tsantes, Argirio E.; Sitaras, N. M. (2009)
      Despite the considerable progress in antiretroviral therapy, the eradication of HIV-1 remains unfeasible. Therefore, novel agents are under investigation. The aim of this review is to summarize the conventional compounds, ...
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      HIV/HBV co-infection and rate of antiretroviral treatment change after highly active antiretroviral treatment initiation in a cohort of HIV-infected patients in Greece 

      Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Paraskeva, D.; Hatzitheodorou, E.; Moschidis, Zissis; Sypsa, V.; Zavitsanos, X.; Kalapothaki, Victoria; Hatzakis, A. (2010)
      The current study investigated the impact of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/hepatitis B virus (HBV) co-infection on the rate of change of antiretroviral drugs after the initiation of highly active antiretroviral treatment ...
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      HLA class I donor-specific triplet antibodies detected after renal transplantation 

      Varnavidou-Nicolaidou, Agathi; Doxiadis, Ilias I. N.; Iniotaki-Theodoraki, Aliki; Patargias, T.; Stavropoulos-Giokas, C.; Kyriakides, George K. (2004)
      The purpose of this study was to investigate whether IgG, non-donor-specific anti-HLA class I antibodies (HLAabI) detected after renal transplantation recognize immunogenic amino acid triplets expressed on the foreign ...
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      HLA-A, -B, -DR antigens in the Greek Cypriot population 

      Varnavidou-Nicolaidou, Agathi; Karpasitis, S.; Papaleontiou, I.; Kyriakides, George K. (1997)
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      HLA-B27 in the Greek Cypriot population: Distribution of subtypes in patients with ankylosing spondylitis and other HLA-B27-related diseases. The possible protective role of B*2707 

      Varnavidou-Nicolaidou, Agathi; Karpasitou, Katerina; Georgiou, Dora; Stylianou, Galatia; Kokkofitou, Avgousta; Christodoulides, Michalis; Constantinou, Constantina; Gregoriadou, Christiana; Kyriakides, George K. (2004)
      The major purpose of the present study was to investigate the frequency of human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-B27 alleles in healthy controls and in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and other HLA-B27-related diseases ...
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      Homelessness and other risk factors for HIV infection in the current outbreak among injection drug users in Athens, Greece 

      Sypsa, V.; Paraskeva, D.; Malliori-Minerva, Melpomeni; Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Panopoulos, A.; Kantzanou, Maria; Katsoulidou, Antigoni; Psichogiou, M.; Fotiou, Anastasios; Pharris, Anastasia; Laar, M. J. van de; Wiessing, L.; Jarlais, Don C. Des; Friedman, Samuel R.; Hatzakis, A. (2015)
      Objectives: We examined HIV prevalence and risk factors among injection drug users (IDUs) in Athens, Greece, during an HIV outbreak. Methods: We used respondent-driven sampling (RDS) to recruit 1404 IDUs to the Aristotle ...
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      Host immune response in sepsis due to ventilator-associated pneumonia: How is it different? 

      Christaki, Eirini (2009)
      Current evidence regarding potentially different host response mechanisms in sepsis according to the type of initiating infection is sporadic. It is possible that alterations in cell populations, variations in effector ...
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      HSV-2 meningitis disseminated from a herpetic whitlow 

      Karpathios, Themistocles; Moustaki, Maria; Yiallouros, Panayiotis K.; Sarifi, F.; Tzanakaki, G.; Fretzayas, Andrew (2012)
      HSV-2 meningitis is uncommon in childhood and is mainly associated with genital lesions or a history of sexual abuse. A 7-year-old boy with recurrent herpetic whitlow developed HSV-2 meningitis. HSV-2 was identified in the ...
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      The human immunodeficiency virus continuum of care in European Union Countries in 2013: Data and Challenges 

      Gourlay, Annabelle; Noori, T.; Pharris, Anastasia; Avdicova, Maria; Costagliola, Dominique; Cowan, Susan; Croxford, Sara; Monforte, A. D'arminio; Amo, Julia del; Delpech, Valerie; Diaz, Alejandro; Girardi, Enrico; Gunsenheimer-Bartmeyer, Barbara; Hernando, Victoria; Jose, Sophie; Leierer, Gisela; Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Obel, N.; Coul, E. Op De; Paraskeva, D.; Reiss, P.; Sabin, C.; Sasse, A.; Schmid, D.; Sonnerborg, A.; Spina, A.; Suligoi, B.; Supervie, V.; Touloumi, G.; Beckhoven, D. Van; Sighem, A. Van; Vourli, G.; Zangerle, R.; Porter, K. (2017)
      Background. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has set a "90-90-90" target to curb the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic by 2020, but methods used to assess whether countries have reached ...
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      Human immunodeficiency virus in injecting drug users in Europe following a reported increase of cases in Greece and Romania, 2011 

      Pharris, Anastasia; Wiessing, L.; Sfetcu, O.; Hedrich, D.; Botescu, A.; Fotiou, Anastasios; Nikolopoulos, Georgios K.; Malliori-Minerva, Melpomeni; Salminen, M.; Suk, J. E.; Griffiths, P.; Laar, M. J. van de (2011)
      Greece and Romania reported an increased number of HIV cases among injecting drug users (IDUs) during 2011. Most European countries reported no changes in the rate of newly diagnosed cases of HIV or HIV prevalence in IDUs; ...
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      Human peripheral blood and splenic T lymphocyte reactions versus kidney cortical cells 

      Roth, D.; Kyriakides, George K.; Fuller, L.; Miller, Jody C. (1984)
      These data suggest that a lymphoproliferative response to kidney-specific antigens might have been unmasked or amplified by the enzymatic digestion (collagenase, neuraminidase) used in deriving the KC cell population, a ...
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      Hydroxyurea therapy in thalassemia 

      Loukopoulos, D.; Voskaridou, E.; Stamoulakatou, A.; Papassotiriou, Y.; Kalotychou, V.; Loutradi, A.; Cozma, G.; Tsiarta, H.; Pavlidis, Nicholas (1998)
      The clinical effectiveness of Hydroxyurea in thalassemia is still controversial. The present paper puts together the authors' experience in two groups of patients with thalassemia intermedia and sickle cell/beta-thalassemia ...