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George Petrikkos
Researcher at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Publications - 98
Citations - 8736
George Petrikkos is an academic researcher from National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mucormycosis & Bacteriuria. The author has an hindex of 36, co-authored 96 publications receiving 7380 citations. Previous affiliations of George Petrikkos include European University Cyprus & Athens State University.
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Epidemiology and Clinical Manifestations of Mucormycosis
George Petrikkos,Anna Skiada,Olivier Lortholary,Emmanuel Roilides,Thomas J. Walsh,Dimitrios P. Kontoyiannis +5 more
TL;DR: The emerging epidemiology and the clinical manifestations of mucormycosis are described and this disease is increasingly recognized in recently developed countries, such as India, mainly in patients with uncontrolled diabetes or trauma.
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ESCMID guideline for the diagnosis and management of Candida diseases 2012: non-neutropenic adult patients.
Oliver A. Cornely,Matteo Bassetti,Thierry Calandra,Jorge Garbino,Bart Jan Kullberg,O. Lortholary,O. Lortholary,Wouter Meersseman,Murat Akova,Maiken Cavling Arendrup,S. Arikan-Akdagli,Jacques Bille,Elio Castagnola,Manuel Cuenca-Estrella,J.P. Donnelly,Andreas H. Groll,Raoul Herbrecht,William W. Hope,Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen,Cornelia Lass-Flörl,George Petrikkos,Malcolm Richardson,Emmanuel Roilides,Paul E. Verweij,Claudio Viscoli,Andrew J. Ullmann +25 more
TL;DR: This part of the EFISG guidelines focuses on non-neutropenic adult patients, and liposomal amphotericin B and voriconazole are supported with moderate, and fluconazole with marginal strength for the targeted initial treatment of candidaemia.
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ESCMID† and ECMM‡ joint clinical guidelines for the diagnosis and management of mucormycosis 2013
Oliver A. Cornely,S. Arikan-Akdagli,Eric Dannaoui,Andreas H. Groll,Katrien Lagrou,Arunaloke Chakrabarti,Fanny Lanternier,Fanny Lanternier,Livio Pagano,Anna Skiada,Murat Akova,Maiken Cavling Arendrup,Teun Boekhout,Teun Boekhout,Anuradha Chowdhary,Manuel Cuenca-Estrella,Tomáš Freiberger,Jesús Guinea,Josep Guarro,S. de Hoog,William W. Hope,Elizabeth M. Johnson,Shallu Kathuria,Michaela Lackner,Cornelia Lass-Flörl,O. Lortholary,Jacques F. Meis,Joseph Meletiadis,Patricia Muñoz,Malcolm Richardson,Emmanuel Roilides,Anna Maria Tortorano,Andrew J. Ullmann,A.D. van Diepeningen,Paul E. Verweij,George Petrikkos +35 more
TL;DR: These European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases and European Confederation of Medical Mycology Joint Clinical Guidelines focus on the diagnosis and management of mucormycosis and strongly recommend continuing treatment until complete response demonstrated on imaging and permanent reversal of predisposing factors.
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Efficacy and Safety of Caspofungin for Treatment of Invasive Aspergillosis in Patients Refractory to or Intolerant of Conventional Antifungal Therapy
Johan Maertens,Issam I Raad,George Petrikkos,Marc Boogaerts,Dominik Selleslag,Finn Bo Petersen,Carole A. Sable,Nicholas A. Kartsonis,Angela Ngai,Arlene Taylor,Thomas F. Patterson,David W. Denning,Thomas J. Walsh +12 more
TL;DR: Caspofungin demonstrated usefulness in the salvage treatment of IA and was observed in 37 (45%) of 83 patients, including 32 (50%) of 64 with pulmonary aspergillosis and 3 (23%) of 13 with disseminated asperGillosis.
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Zygomycosis in Europe: analysis of 230 cases accrued by the registry of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology (ECMM) Working Group on Zygomycosis between 2005 and 2007
Anna Skiada,Livio Pagano,Andreas H. Groll,Stephan Zimmerli,Bertrand Dupont,Katrien Lagrou,Cornelia Lass-Flörl,Emilio Bouza,Nikolay Klimko,Peter Gaustad,Malcolm Richardson,Petr Hamal,Murat Akova,Jacques F. Meis,J. L. Rodriguez-Tudela,Emmanuel Roilides,A. Mitrousia-Ziouva,George Petrikkos +17 more
TL;DR: Administration of amphotericin B and surgery, where feasible, significantly improve survival and the most common manifestations of zygomycosis were pulmonary, rhinocerebral and soft tissue.