Anna Carratalà, Marta Rusiñol, Ayalkibet Hundesa, Mar Biarnés, Jesus Rodriguez-Manzano, Apostolos Vantarakis, Anita Kern, Ester Suñen, R. Girones, and Sílvia Bofill-Mas. “A novel tool to trace poultry fecal contamination in the environment: specific detection and quantification of chicken/turkey parvoviruses”, Applied and Environmental Microbiology 78 (20), pp. 7496 (pdf)
Marta Diez-Valcarce, Petros Kokkinos, Kirsi Söderberg, Kris Willems, Ana Maria de Roda-Husman, Carl-Henrik von Bonsdorff, Marta Hernández, Maria Mpellou, Leena Maunula, Apostolos Vantarakis and David Rodríguez-Lázaro. “Occurence of human enteric viruses in commercial mussels at retail level in three European countries”, Food Environmental Virology 4 (2), pp. 73-80 (pdf)
K.Fragou, P.Kokkinos, C.Gogos, Y.Alamanos, and A.Vantarakis. “Prevalence of Legionella spp. in water systems of hospitals and hotels in South Western Greece”, 2011, International Journal of Environmental Health Research 2012 Aug;22(4):340-54. Epub 2011 Dec 12. (pdf)
Martin D’Agostino, Nigel Cook, Ilaria Di Bartolo,Franco M. Ruggeri,Alessandra Berto, Francesca Martelli,Malcolm Banks,Petra Vasickova,Petr Kralik,Ivo Pavlik,Petros Kokkinos, Apostolos Vantarakis,Kirsi Söderberg, Leena Maunula, Katharina Verhaelen, Saskia Rutjes,Ana Maria de Roda Husman, Renate Hakze, Wim Van der Poel,Agnieszka Kaupke,Iwona Kozyra,Artur Rzeżutka,Jasna Prodanov, Sava Lazic,Tamas Petrovic,Anna Carratala, Rosina Gironés,Marta Diez-Valcarce,Marta Hernandez,David Rodriguez-Lazaro, “Multicenter Collaborative Trial Evaluation of a […]
David Rodríguez-Lázaro*, Nigel Cook, Franco M. Ruggeri, Jane Sellwood, Abid Nasser,Maria Sao Jose Nascimento, Martin D’Agostino, Ricardo Santos, Juan Carlos Saiz, Artur RzeŜutka, Albert Bosch, Rosina Gironés, Annalaura Carducci, Michelle Muscillo,Katarina Kovač, Marta Diez-Valcarce, Apostolos Vantarakis, Carl-Henrik von Bonsdorff, Ana Maria de Roda Husman, Marta Hernández, Wim H. M. van der Poel. “Virus hazards from […]
A.Vantarakis, K.Mellou, G.Spala, P.Kokkinos and Y.Alamanos. “A Gastroenteritis Outbreak Caused by Noroviruses in Greece” Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2011, 8, 3468-3478 (pdf)
Kokkinos PA, Ziros PG, Mpalasopoulou A, Galanis A, Vantarakis A. Environmental Microbiology Unit, Department of Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Patras, Rion, GR 26504, Greece. avantar@med.upatras.gr. (pdf) BACKGROUND: Urban sewage virological analysis may produce important information about the strains that cause clinical and subclinical infections in the population, thus supporting epidemiological studies. METHODS: […]
Petros Kokkinos 1, Panos Ziros 1, Danai Meri 1, Sevasti Filippidou 1, Stella Kolla 2, Alexis Galanis 2 and Apostolos Vantarakis 1,* 1 Environmental Microbiology Unit, Department of Public Health, Medical School, University of Patras, Patras, GR 26504, Greece; E-Mails: pkokkin@med.upatras.gr (P.K.); zirster@gmail.com (P.Z.); danaimeri@yahoo.gr (D.M.); sphilippidou@upatras.gr (S.F.) 2 Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, […]
A. Vantarakis*, M. Affifi, P. Kokkinos, M. Tsibouxi, M. Papapetropoulou Environmental Microbiology Unit, Department of Public Health, Medical School, University of Patras, Greece (pdf) Fruit juices are an important part of the modern diet in many countries. However, few data are available concerning the microbiological quality of the fruit juices sold in Greece. Using standard […]
P.Kokkinos, P.Ziros, S.Filippidou, I.Mpampounakis and A.Vantarakis, «Molecular characterization of hepatitis A virus isolates from environmental and clinical samples in Greece» Virology Journal