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Human immunodeficiency virus in injecting drug users in Europe following a reported increase of cases in Greece and Romania, 2011
(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; ...
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
(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 ...
Network characteristics of people who inject drugs within a new HIV epidemic following austerity in Athens, Greece
(2015)
Background: Greece experienced an unprecedented increase in HIV cases among drug injectors in 2011 after economic crisis. Network-level factors are increasingly understood to drive HIV transmission in emerging epidemics. ...
Risk factors affecting the incidence of infection after orthopaedic surgery: The role of chemoprophylaxis
(2012)
The incidence of surgical site infection and urinary tract infection following orthopaedic procedures has diminished in recent years due to modern antimicrobial prophylaxis. We conducted a case-control study (100 cases, ...
Motor vehicle collision fatalities involving alcohol and illicit drugs in Greece: The need for management protocols and a reassessment of surveillance
(2010)
Aims: The frequency and the effect of alcohol and illicit drugs on injury type, severity and location of death in motor vehicle collision (MVC) fatalities were investigated. Design: Retrospective case-control study based ...
High-burden epidemics in Greece in the era of economic crisis. Early signs of a public health tragedy
(2012)
Background. Economic hardships have unleashed epidemics of infectious diseases in many countries in the past. In the era of the current financial crisis in Greece, it is interesting to assess the preliminary evidence ...
Cefditoren: Comparative efficacy with other antimicrobials and risk factors for resistance in clinical isolates causing UTIs in outpatients
(2012)
Background: To investigate a possible role of Cefditoren, a recently marketed in Greece third-generation oral cephalosporin in urinary infections of outpatients.Methods: During a multicenter survey of Enterobacteriaceae ...
Economic recession and emergence of an HIV-1 outbreak among drug injectors in Athens metropolitan area: A longitudinal study
(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. ...
Big events in Greece and HIV infection among people who inject drugs
(2015)
Big Events are processes like macroeconomic transitions that have lowered social well-being in various settings in the past. Greece has been hit by the global crisis and experienced an HIV outbreak among people who inject ...
Evaluation of the limiting antigen avidity EIA (LAg) in people who inject drugs in Greece
(2017)
This analysis assessed the utility of the limiting antigen avidity assay (LAg). Samples of people who inject drugs (PWID) in Greece with documented duration of HIV-1 infection were tested by LAg. A LAg-normalized optical ...