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Vivi Miriagou

Vivi Miriagou

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Overview

Vivi Miriagou is affiliated with the Institut Pasteur in France and has contributed extensively to research in biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, immunology, microbiology, and medicine. Their work spans several subfields, including microbiology, molecular medicine, molecular biology, physiology, and pharmacology.

Their research focuses particularly on antibiotic resistance in bacteria, reproductive tract infections, bacterial infections and vaccines, syphilis diagnosis and treatment, antibiotics pharmacokinetics and efficacy, bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing, and the pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts. These topics illustrate the broad spectrum of infectious disease and antimicrobial resistance research that they engage with.

Vivi Miriagou has published multiple papers in various scientific journals. Some notable recent publications include:

  • Europe-wide expansion and eradication of multidrug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae lineages: a genomic surveillance study, 2022, The Lancet Microbe
  • High susceptibility to zoliflodacin and conserved target (GyrB) for zoliflodacin among 1209 consecutive clinical Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates from 25 European countries, 2018, 2021, Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
  • Significant increase in azithromycin "resistance" and susceptibility to ceftriaxone and cefixime in Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates in 26 European countries, 2019, 2022, BMC Infectious Diseases
  • Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae: the role of plasmids in emergence, dissemination, and evolution of a major clinical challenge, 2024, Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy
  • An original infection model identifies host lipoprotein import as a route for blood-brain barrier crossing, 2020, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Vivi Miriagou include:

  • Magnus Unemo
  • Michelle Cole
  • Michaela Day
  • Susanne Jacobsson
  • Béatrice Berçot

The scientist often publishes in venues such as:

  • Microorganisms
  • The Lancet Microbe
  • Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy

Best Publications

  • Rapid evolution and spread of carbapenemases among Enterobacteriaceae in Europe

    R. Cantón;M. Akóva;Y. Carmeli;C.G. Giske

  • Carbapenemase-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae Bloodstream Infections: Lowering Mortality by Antibiotic Combination Schemes and the Role of Carbapenems

    George L. Daikos;Sophia Tsaousi;Leonidas S. Tzouvelekis;Ioannis Anyfantis

  • Identification and screening of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae

    P. Nordmann;M. Gniadkowski;C.G. Giske;L. Poirel

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

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

  • Imipenem Resistance in a Salmonella Clinical Strain Due to Plasmid-Mediated Class A Carbapenemase KPC-2

    Vivi Miriagou;Leonidas S. Tzouvelekis;Shannon Rossiter;Eva Tzelepi

  • VIM-1 Metallo-β-Lactamase-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae Strains in Greek Hospitals

    P. Giakkoupi;A. Xanthaki;M. Kanelopoulou;A. Vlahaki

  • An update of the evolving epidemic of blaKPC-2-carrying Klebsiella pneumoniae in Greece (2009–10)

    Panagiota Giakkoupi;Costas C Papagiannitsis;Vivi Miriagou;Olga Pappa

  • Metallo-β-lactamases as emerging resistance determinants in Gram-negative pathogens: open issues

    Giuseppe Cornaglia;Murat Akova;Gianfranco Amicosante;Rafael Cantón

  • Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii: in pursuit of an effective treatment.

    E.-T. Piperaki;L.S. Tzouvelekis;V. Miriagou;G.L. Daikos

  • Replicon Typing of Plasmids Encoding Resistance to Newer β-Lactams

    Alessandra Carattoli;Vivi Miriagou;Alessia Bertini;Alexandra Loli

  • Escherichia coli with a Self-Transferable, Multiresistant Plasmid Coding for Metallo-β-Lactamase VIM-1

    Vivi Miriagou;Eva Tzelepi;Dimitra Gianneli;Leonidas S. Tzouvelekis

  • 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

  • Emergence of an inhibitor-resistant beta-lactamase (SHV-10) derived from an SHV-5 variant.

    E E Prinarakis;V Miriagou;E Tzelepi;M Gazouli

  • Expanded-spectrum cephalosporin resistance in non-typhoid Salmonella

    V Miriagou;P.T Tassios;N.J Legakis;L.S Tzouvelekis

  • An Ertapenem-Resistant Extended-Spectrum-β-Lactamase-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae Clone Carries a Novel OmpK36 Porin Variant

    Aurora García-Fernández;Vivi Miriagou;Costas C. Papagiannitsis;Alessandra Giordano

  • Novel GES/IBC extended‐spectrum β‐lactamase variants with carbapenemase activity in clinical enterobacteria

    Sofia Vourli;Panagiota Giakkoupi;Vivi Miriagou;Eva Tzelepi

  • Emerging Klebsiella pneumoniae Isolates Coproducing KPC-2 and VIM-1 Carbapenemases

    Panagiota Giakkoupi;Olga Pappa;Michalis Polemis;Alkiviadis C. Vatopoulos

  • Multilocus sequence typing of IncN plasmids

    Aurora García-Fernández;Laura Villa;Arshnee Moodley;Henrik Hasman

  • Europe-wide expansion and eradication of multidrug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae lineages: a genomic surveillance study.

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  • IS26-Associated In4-Type Integrons Forming Multiresistance Loci in Enterobacterial Plasmids

    Vivi Miriagou;Alessandra Carattoli;Eva Tzelepi;Laura Villa

  • Antimicrobial resistance islands: resistance gene clusters in Salmonella chromosome and plasmids.

    Vivi Miriagou;Alessandra Carattoli;Séamus Fanning

  • Sources of diversity of carbapenem resistance levels in Klebsiella pneumoniae carrying blaVIM-1

    A. Loli;L. S. Tzouvelekis;E. Tzelepi;A. Carattoli

Frequent Co-Authors

Leonidas S. Tzouvelekis
Leonidas S. Tzouvelekis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Gian Maria Rossolini
Gian Maria Rossolini University of Florence
Alessandra Carattoli
Alessandra Carattoli Sapienza University of Rome
Marek Gniadkowski
Marek Gniadkowski Medical University of Warsaw
Laura Villa
Laura Villa Istituto Superiore di Sanità
George L. Daikos
George L. Daikos National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Angelos Hatzakis
Angelos Hatzakis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Maria Gazouli
Maria Gazouli National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Patrice Nordmann
Patrice Nordmann University of Fribourg
Joseph Meletiadis
Joseph Meletiadis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

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