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Gianfranco Spiteri
Researcher at European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
Publications - 54
Citations - 2465
Gianfranco Spiteri is an academic researcher from European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. The author has contributed to research in topics: European union & Men who have sex with men. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 48 publications receiving 1617 citations.
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First cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the WHO European Region, 24 January to 21 February 2020
Gianfranco Spiteri,James E Fielding,Michaela Diercke,C Campese,Vincent Enouf,Alexandre Gaymard,Antonino Bella,Paola Sognamiglio,María José Sierra Moros,Antonio Nicolau Riutort,Yulia V. Demina,Romain Mahieu,Markku Broas,Malin Bengnér,Silke Buda,Julia Schilling,Laurent Filleul,Agnes Lepoutre,C. Saura,Alexandra Mailles,Daniel Lévy-Bruhl,Bruno Coignard,Sibylle Bernard-Stoecklin,Sylvie Behillil,Sylvie van der Werf,Martine Valette,Bruno Lina,Flavia Riccardo,Emanuele Nicastri,Inmaculada Casas,Amparo Larrauri,Magdalena Salom Castell,Francisco Pozo,Rinat A. Maksyutov,Charlotte Martin,Marc Van Ranst,Nathalie Bossuyt,Lotta Siira,Jussi Sane,Karin Tegmark-Wisell,Maria Palmérus,Eeva Broberg,Julien Beauté,Pernille Jorgensen,Nick Bundle,Dmitriy Pereyaslov,Cornelia Adlhoch,Jukka Pukkila,Richard Pebody,Sonja J. Olsen,Bruno Christian Ciancio +50 more
TL;DR: In the WHO European Region, COVID-19 surveillance was implemented 27 January 2020, and the first European cases are detailed, with among 38 cases studied, 21 were linked to two clusters in Germany and France, 14 were infected in China.
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Characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern B.1.1.7, B.1.351 or P.1: data from seven EU/EEA countries, weeks 38/2020 to 10/2021.
Tjede Funk,Anastasia Pharris,Gianfranco Spiteri,Nick Bundle,Angeliki Melidou,Michael J. Carr,Michael J. Carr,Gabriel Gonzalez,Gabriel Gonzalez,Alejandro Garcia-Leon,Fiona Crispie,Lois O'Connor,Niamh Murphy,Joël Mossong,Anne Vergison,Anke K. Wienecke-Baldacchino,Tamir Abdelrahman,Flavia Riccardo,Paola Stefanelli,Angela Di Martino,Antonino Bella,Alessandra Lo Presti,Pedro Casaca,Joana Moreno,Vítor Borges,Joana Isidro,Rita Ferreira,João Paulo Gomes,Liidia Dotsenko,Heleene Suija,Jevgenia Epstein,Olga Sadikova,Hanna Sepp,Niina Ikonen,Carita Savolainen-Kopra,Soile Blomqvist,Teemu Möttönen,Otto Helve,Joana Gomes-Dias,Cornelia Adlhoch +39 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared 19,207 cases of SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.7/SGTF, 436 B. 1.1/S gene target failure (SGTF), and 352 P.
Annual Epidemiological Report, 2013. Reporting on 2011 surveillance data and 2012 epidemic intelligence data.
Julien Beauté,V Hollo,Csaba Ködmön,R. Snacken,A. Nicoll,M. J. van der Werf,E. Duffel,K Haar,G Likatavicius,O Sfetcu,Gianfranco Spiteri,M J W van de Laar,N. Danielsson,B. de Jong,A. Economopoulou,M. Gunell,J. Martinez-Urtaza,T. Niskanen,D. Palm,E. Robesyn,T. van Cangh,C. V. Santos,T. Westrell,R. Whittaker,J. Takkinen,L. Marrama +25 more
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Ongoing monkeypox virus outbreak, Portugal, 29 April to 23 May 2022
Mariana Perez Duque,S. Ribeiro,João Vieira Martins,P. Casaca,Pedro Pinto Leite,Margarida Tavares,Kamal Mansinho,Luis Luque,Cândida Fernandes,Rita Cordeiro,Maria José Borrego,Ana Pelerito,I. Lopes de Carvalho,Sofia Núncio,Vera Manageiro,Corrado Minetti,Jorge Machado,Joana M Haussig,Roberto Croci,Gianfranco Spiteri,Ana Sofia Casal,Diana Mendes,T. G. Souto,Sara Pocinho,Teresa Fernandes,Ana Firme,Paula Vasconcelos,Graça Freitas +27 more
TL;DR: Most cases were neither part of identified transmission chains, nor linked to travel or had contact with symptomatic persons or with animals, suggesting the possible previously undetected spread of monkeypox.
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Public health surveillance of multidrug-resistant clones of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Europe: a genomic survey.
Simon R. Harris,Michelle J Cole,Gianfranco Spiteri,Leonor Sánchez-Busó,Daniel Golparian,Susanne Jacobsson,Richard Goater,Khalil Abudahab,Corin Yeats,Béatrice Berçot,Maria José Borrego,Brendan Crowley,Paola Stefanelli,Francesco Tripodo,Raquel Abad,David M. Aanensen,David M. Aanensen,Magnus Unemo,Jacinta Azevedo,Eszter Balla,Christopher Barbara,Thea Bergheim,Viviane Bremer,Susanne Buder,Panayiota Maikanti-Charalambous,Stephanie A. Chisholm,Susan Cowan,Tania Crucitti,Mercedes Diez,Maria Dudas,Kirstine Eastick,Agathe Goubard,Maria Haller,Guôrún Svanborg Hauksdóttir,Steen Hoffmann,Gwenda Hughes,Derval Igoe,Samo Jeverica,Irena Klavs,Hilde Kløvstad,Peter Kohl,Vasileia Konte,Ineke Linde,Violeta Mavcutko,Jackie M. Melillo,Gatis Pakarna,Peter Pavlik,Despo Pieridou,Guy La Ruche,Guôrún Sigmundsdóttir,Soteroulla Soteriou,Angelika Stary,Barbara Suligoi,Peter Truska,Eva Tzelepi,Birgit Van Benthem,Alje P. van Dam,Julio A. Vázquez,Inga Velicko,Ruth Verbrugge +59 more
TL;DR: This work provides the first use of joint analysis of WGS and epidemiological data in an international programme for regional surveillance of sexually transmitted infections and provides a framework for genomic surveillance of gonococci through standardised sampling, use of W GS, and a shared information architecture for interpretation and dissemination.