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George Dimopoulos is affiliated with the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with a particular emphasis on infectious diseases, epidemiology, pharmacology, applied microbiology and biotechnology, and critical care and intensive care medicine. The body of work includes 163 publications in medicine, with subfields such as infectious diseases accounting for 36 publications and epidemiology 33 publications.

The scientist's main research topics cover antifungal resistance and susceptibility, antibiotics pharmacokinetics and efficacy, sepsis diagnosis and treatment, antibiotic use and resistance, antibiotic resistance in bacteria, COVID-19 clinical research studies, and nosocomial infections in intensive care units.

George Dimopoulos has published multiple papers, including collaborations. Notable recent papers include:

  • Complex Immune Dysregulation in COVID-19 Patients with Severe Respiratory Failure, 2020, Cell Host & Microbe
  • Antimicrobial therapeutic drug monitoring in critically ill adult patients: a Position Paper, 2020, Intensive Care Medicine
  • Global guideline for the diagnosis and management of rare mould infections: an initiative of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology in cooperation with the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology and the American Society for Microbiology, 2021, The Lancet Infectious Diseases
  • Favorable Anakinra Responses in Severe Covid-19 Patients with Secondary Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis, 2020, Cell Host & Microbe
  • Invasive Fungal Diseases in Adult Patients in Intensive Care Unit (FUNDICU): 2024 consensus definitions from ESGCIP, EFISG, ESICM, ECMM, MSGERC, ISAC, and ISHAM, 2024, Intensive Care Medicine

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Karolina Akinosoglou
  • Jordi Rello
  • Evangelos J. Giamarellos-Bourboulis
  • Jan J. De Waele
  • Stijn Blot

Their work is commonly published in venues such as Intensive Care Medicine, Journal of Fungi, Journal of Intensive Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Therapy, and Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. Intensive Care Medicine accounts for the highest number of publications, with eight contributions.

In addition to journal articles, George Dimopoulos has contributed to book publications, including the 2023 volume titled Infections in the Intensive Care Unit, published by Frontiers Media.

Best Publications

  • COMPLEX IMMUNE DYSREGULATION IN COVID-19 PATIENTS WITH SEVERE RESPIRATORY FAILURE

    Evangelos J. Giamarellos-Bourboulis;Mihai G. Netea;Mihai G. Netea;Nikoletta Rovina;Karolina Akinosoglou

  • Diagnosis and management of Aspergillus diseases: executive summary of the 2017 ESCMID-ECMM-ERS guideline

    A. J. Ullmann;J. M. Aguado;S. Arikan-Akdagli;D. W. Denning

  • Genome sequence of Aedes aegypti, a major arbovirus vector

    Vishvanath Nene;Jennifer R. Wortman;Daniel Lawson;Brian Haas

  • Immunity-Related Genes and Gene Families in Anopheles gambiae

    George K. Christophides;Evgeny Zdobnov;Carolina Barillas-Mury;Ewan Birney

  • DALI: Defining Antibiotic Levels in Intensive Care Unit Patients: Are Current β-Lactam Antibiotic Doses Sufficient for Critically Ill Patients?

    Jason A. Roberts;Sanjoy K. Paul;Murat Akova;Matteo Bassetti

  • Chronic pulmonary aspergillosis: rationale and clinical guidelines for diagnosis and management

    David W. Denning;Jacques Cadranel;Catherine Beigelman-Aubry;Florence Ader

  • The Aedes aegypti Toll Pathway Controls Dengue Virus Infection

    Zhiyong Xi;Jose L. Ramirez;George Dimopoulos

  • Antimicrobial therapeutic drug monitoring in critically ill adult patients: a Position Paper .

    Mohd H. Abdul-Aziz;Jan Willem C. Alffenaar;Jan Willem C. Alffenaar;Matteo Bassetti;Hendrik Bracht

  • Implication of the mosquito midgut microbiota in the defense against malaria parasites.

    Yuemei Dong;Fabio Manfredini;George Dimopoulos

  • Evolutionary Dynamics of Immune-Related Genes and Pathways in Disease-Vector Mosquitoes

    Robert M. Waterhouse;Evgenia V. Kriventseva;Stephan Meister;Zhiyong Xi

  • Comparative genome and proteome analysis of Anopheles gambiae and Drosophila melanogaster.

    Evgeny M. Zdobnov;Christian Von Mering;Ivica Letunic;David Torrents

  • A Clinical Algorithm to Diagnose Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis in Critically Ill Patients

    Stijn I Blot;Fabio Silvio Taccone;Anne-Marie Van den Abeele;Pierre Bulpa

  • Natural Microbe-Mediated Refractoriness to Plasmodium Infection in Anopheles gambiae

    Chris M. Cirimotich;Yuemei Dong;April M. Clayton;Simone L. Sandiford

  • Sequencing of Culex quinquefasciatus Establishes a Platform for Mosquito Comparative Genomics

    Peter Arensburger;Karine Megy;Robert M Waterhouse;Robert M Waterhouse;Jenica Abrudan

  • An evolutionary conserved function of the JAK-STAT pathway in anti-dengue defense

    Jayme A. Souza-Neto;Shuzhen Sim;George Dimopoulos

  • Regulation of sexual development of Plasmodium by translational repression.

    Gunnar R. Mair;Joanna A. M. Braks;Lindsey S. Garver;Joop C. A. G. Wiegant

  • Wolbachia Invades Anopheles stephensi Populations and Induces Refractoriness to Plasmodium Infection

    Guowu Bian;Deepak Joshi;Yuemei Dong;Peng Lu

  • AgDscam, a hypervariable immunoglobulin domain-containing receptor of the Anopheles gambiae innate immune system.

    Yuemei Dong;Harry E Taylor;George Dimopoulos

  • Anopheles gambiae immune responses to human and rodent Plasmodium parasite species.

    Yuemei Dong;Ruth Aguilar;Zhiyong Xi;Emma Warr

  • Genome expression analysis of Anopheles gambiae: Responses to injury, bacterial challenge, and malaria infection

    George Dimopoulos;George K. Christophides;Stephan Meister;Jörg Schultz

Frequent Co-Authors

Jordi Rello
Jordi Rello Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Stijn Blot
Stijn Blot Ghent University
Matthew E. Falagas
Matthew E. Falagas Alfa Institute of Biomedical Sciences
Matteo Bassetti
Matteo Bassetti University of Genoa
Jeffrey Lipman
Jeffrey Lipman University of Queensland
Jason A. Roberts
Jason A. Roberts University of Queensland
Evangelos J. Giamarellos-Bourboulis
Evangelos J. Giamarellos-Bourboulis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Jean-François Timsit
Jean-François Timsit Université Paris Cité
Fabio Silvio Taccone
Fabio Silvio Taccone Université Libre de Bruxelles
Fotis C. Kafatos
Fotis C. Kafatos Harvard University

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