December 2024 - 10 articles
Viruses transmitted by arthropods (arboviruses) pose a global public health threat. Sporadic cases or outbreaks caused by West Nile virus, Crimean–Congo haemorrhagic fever virus, tick-borne encephalitis virus, and phleboviruses are often report...
Community-acquired urinary tract infections (UTIs) represent a significant public health issue, primarily due to the increasing antibiotic resistance among uropathogens. This study assesses the resistance status of uropathogenic community Enterobacte...
Ebola virus (EBOV) causes Ebola virus disease (EVD), a severe and often fatal hemorrhagic fever. Although much research has focused on host miRNA expression during EBOV infection, it has been discovered that EBOV itself also produces miRNAs. However,...
In early 2020, Greece was affected by the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic, and since then, the continuous emergence of fast-spreading variants has caused surges of new SARS-CoV-2 infections. In this study, we performed genomic, phylogenetic, and epidemiological...
The cycle threshold (Ct) value of PCR, used to detect SARS-CoV-2 viral load, has been associated with disease severity in adults, but few studies have examined these relationships in pediatric patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relat...
Biofilms are bacterial communities on surfaces within an extracellular matrix. Targeting biofilm-specific bacteria is crucial, and natural compounds with reported antibiofilm activity have garnered significant interest. The study evaluated the antiba...
Tuberculosis has had a long-standing prevalence in Greece over the last century, going hand in hand with the country’s overall socioeconomic situation. The current study explores aspects of tuberculosis in Greece since the interwar period and u...
The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has categorized Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) as a significant concern in extended-care facilities, hospitals, and outpatient clinics. However, little is known about CDI in...
Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) is a protein secreted by activated neutrophils and certain tissues. The aim of this study was to investigate the prognostic role of urinary neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (uNGAL) in hospit...
Newcastle disease, which affects poultry and is endemic in many nations across the world, is caused by Avian Paramyxovirus-1 (APMV-1). This experimental study was conducted from January to June 2021 at the National Veterinary Institute (NVI) to evalu...
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