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Athanasios Tsakris, Athanassios Tsakris

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School
Verified email at med.uoa.gr
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[HTML][HTML] Acquired carbapenemases in Gram-negative bacterial pathogens: detection and surveillance issues

…, L Peixe, S Pournaras, GM Rossolini, A Tsakris… - Clinical microbiology …, 2010 - Elsevier
Acquired carbapenemases are emerging resistance determinants in Gram-negative
pathogens, including Enterobacteriaceae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other Gram …

Global evolution of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii clonal lineages

…, S Pournaras, M Giannouli, A Tsakris - International journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
The rapid expansion of Acinetobacter baumannii clinical isolates exhibiting resistance to
carbapenems and most or all available antibiotics during the last decade is a worrying …

[HTML][HTML] Post-COVID syndrome: an insight on its pathogenesis

HC Maltezou, A Pavli, A Tsakris - Vaccines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Post-COVID syndrome is increasingly recognized as a new clinical entity in the context of
SARS-CoV-2 infection. Symptoms persisting for more than three weeks after the diagnosis of …

[HTML][HTML] Data-based analysis, modelling and forecasting of the COVID-19 outbreak

C Anastassopoulou, L Russo, A Tsakris, C Siettos - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Since the first suspected case of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) on December 1st,
2019, in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, a total of 40,235 confirmed cases and 909 deaths …

Effect of appropriate combination therapy on mortality of patients with bloodstream infections due to carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (INCREMENT): a …

…, S Gómez-Zorrilla, F Tubau, A Tsakris… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2017 - thelancet.com
Background The best available treatment against carbapenemase-producing
Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) is unknown. The objective of this study was to investigate the …

[HTML][HTML] Predictors of mortality in patients with bloodstream infections caused by KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae and impact of appropriate antimicrobial …

…, A Prekates, K Themeli-Digalaki, A Tsakris - Clinical Microbiology …, 2011 - Elsevier
Bloodstream infections (BSIs) caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemases (KPC)-
producing K. pneumoniae (KPC-KP) are associated with high mortality rates. We …

Outbreak of Infections Caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa Producing VIM-1 Carbapenemase in Greece

A Tsakris, S Pournaras, N Woodford… - Journal of clinical …, 2000 - Am Soc Microbiol
Resistance to imipenem and meropenem was observed in 211 (16.5%) isolates of
Pseudomonas aeruginosa recovered in a Greek university hospital during 1996 to 1998. In …

Outbreak of multiple clones of imipenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates expressing OXA-58 carbapenemase in an intensive care unit

…, AN Maniatis, NJ Legakis, A Tsakris - Journal of …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Objectives: To investigate the resistance mechanisms and the genetic relationship of
imipenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii isolates recovered in the intensive care unit …

A simple phenotypic method for the differentiation of metallo-β-lactamases and class A KPC carbapenemases in Enterobacteriaceae clinical isolates

A Tsakris, A Poulou, S Pournaras… - Journal of …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Background The increasing frequency of class A KPC enzymes and class B metallo-β-
lactamases (MBLs) among Enterobacteriaceae as well as their possible co-production …

Detection of Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamases in Clinical Isolates of Enterobacter cloacae andEnterobacter aerogenes

…, V Loukova, A Kemeroglou, A Tsakris - Journal of clinical …, 2000 - Am Soc Microbiol
The aim of the present study was to investigate the frequency of extended-spectrum β-
lactamases (ESBLs) in a consecutive collection of clinical isolates of Enterobacter spp. The …