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Overview

Athanassios Tsakris is affiliated with the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece. Their research primarily focuses on infectious diseases and epidemiology, with a significant emphasis on the COVID-19 pandemic and antimicrobial resistance.

Their publication record covers various topics within medicine, particularly in the subfields of infectious diseases, epidemiology, molecular medicine, public health, environmental and occupational health, and surgery.

Among their research topics are:

  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • COVID-19 Epidemiological Studies
  • Antibiotic Use and Resistance
  • Antifungal Resistance and Susceptibility
  • Antibiotics Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Antibiotics
  • Vaccines
  • Microorganisms
  • Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Tsakris has collaborated with several researchers repeatedly. Their most frequent co-authors are:

  • Cleo Anastassopoulou
  • Georgia Vrioni
  • Helena C. Maltezou
  • Vassiliki Pitiriga
  • Μαρία Καντζάνου

Some of the recent published papers associated with their work include:

  • Data-based analysis, modelling and forecasting of the COVID-19 outbreak, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Post-COVID Syndrome: An Insight on Its Pathogenesis, 2021, Vaccines
  • Human genetic factors associated with susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 disease severity, 2020, Human Genomics
  • Data-Based Analysis, Modelling and Forecasting of the COVID-19 outbreak, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Impact of Earthquakes on Public Health: A Narrative Review of Infectious Diseases in the Post-Disaster Period Aiming to Disaster Risk Reduction, 2023, Microorganisms

Best Publications

  • Data-based analysis, modelling and forecasting of the COVID-19 outbreak.

    Cleo Anastassopoulou;Lucia Russo;Athanasios Tsakris;Constantinos Siettos

  • Global evolution of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii clonal lineages.

    Raffaele Zarrilli;Spyros Pournaras;Maria Giannouli;Athanassios Tsakris

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

    Belén Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez;Elena Salamanca;Marina de Cueto;Po-Ren Hsueh

  • Acquired carbapenemases in Gram-negative bacterial pathogens: detection and surveillance issues

    V. Miriagou;G. Cornaglia;M. Edelstein;I. Galani

  • Predictors of mortality in patients with bloodstream infections caused by KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae and impact of appropriate antimicrobial treatment.

    O. Zarkotou;S. Pournaras;P. Tselioti;V. Dragoumanos

  • Outbreak of infections caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa producing VIM-1 carbapenemase in Greece.

    Athanassios Tsakris;Spyros Pournaras;Neil Woodford;Marie-France I. Palepou

  • Carbapenem resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii: the molecular epidemic features of an emerging problem in health care facilities.

    Raffaele Zarrilli;Maria Giannouli;Federica Tomasone;Maria Triassi

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

    Athanassios Tsakris;Aggeliki Poulou;Spyros Pournaras;Evangelia Voulgari

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

    Eva Tzelepi;Panagiota Giakkoupi;Danai Sofianou;Veneta Loukova

  • Evaluation of Boronic Acid Disk Tests for Differentiating KPC-Possessing Klebsiella pneumoniae Isolates in the Clinical Laboratory

    Athanassios Tsakris;Ioulia Kristo;Aggeliki Poulou;Katerina Themeli-Digalaki

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

    S. Pournaras;A. Markogiannakis;A. Ikonomidis;L. Kondyli

  • Activity of tigecycline alone and in combination with colistin and meropenem against Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC)-producing Enterobacteriaceae strains by time–kill assay

    Spyros Pournaras;Georgia Vrioni;Evangelia Neou;John Dendrinos

  • Post-COVID Syndrome: An Insight on Its Pathogenesis

    Helena C. Maltezou;Androula Pavli;Athanasios Tsakris

  • Clonal spread of KPC-2 carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae strains in Greece

    Spyros Pournaras;Efthimia Protonotariou;Evangelia Voulgari;Ioulia Kristo

  • Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus: bad news and good news from the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network (EARS-Net, formerly EARSS), 2002 to 2009

    C. Gagliotti;A. Balode;F. Baquero;J. Degener

  • Human genetic factors associated with susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 disease severity.

    Cleo Anastassopoulou;Zoi Gkizarioti;George P. Patrinos;George P. Patrinos;Athanasios Tsakris

  • Single nucleotide polymorphisms of Toll-like receptors and susceptibility to infectious diseases.

    C Skevaki;M Pararas;K Kostelidou;A Tsakris

  • Hospital outbreak of multiple clones of Pseudomonas aeruginosa carrying the unrelated metallo-β-lactamase gene variants blaVIM-2 and blaVIM-4

    S Pournaras;M Maniati;E Petinaki;L S Tzouvelekis

  • Comparative Evaluation of Colistin Susceptibility Testing Methods among Carbapenem-Nonsusceptible Klebsiella pneumoniae and Acinetobacter baumannii Clinical Isolates

    Konstantina Dafopoulou;Konstantina Dafopoulou;Olympia Zarkotou;Evangelia Dimitroulia;Christos Hadjichristodoulou

  • Frequent detection of cytomegalovirus in the intestine of patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

    Evangelia Dimitroulia;Nicholas Spanakis;Anastasia E. Konstantinidou;Nicholas J. Legakis

Frequent Co-Authors

Spyros Pournaras
Spyros Pournaras National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Leonidas S. Tzouvelekis
Leonidas S. Tzouvelekis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Emmanuel Roilides
Emmanuel Roilides Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Yehuda Carmeli
Yehuda Carmeli Tel Aviv University
Luis Martínez-Martínez
Luis Martínez-Martínez University of Córdoba
Joseph Meletiadis
Joseph Meletiadis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Raffaele Zarrilli
Raffaele Zarrilli University of Naples Federico II
Jesús Rodríguez-Baño
Jesús Rodríguez-Baño University of Seville
Álvaro Pascual
Álvaro Pascual University of Seville
Ferran Navarro
Ferran Navarro Autonomous University of Barcelona

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