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E. Diza is an academic researcher from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Natural killer T cell. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 10 publications.
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Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii in northern Greece during the last 20 years
TL;DR: The high (80%) proportion of women of reproductive age susceptible to Toxoplasma infection, with an estimated 90-200 neonates infected in utero annually, seems to present a potential risk to public health.
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Serological survey on the immunity to diphtheria of the northern Greek population
TL;DR: The children up to their twenties seem to be immune to diphtheria in a high proportion and the adults are not properly protected, so booster doses of vaccine are recommended to improve the resistance of the northern Greek population from possible infection by toxigenic stains of Corynebacterium diphTheriae, imported or endogenous.
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Human parvovirus B19: Immunity of Greek females and prenatal investigation of hydrops fetalis
Vassiliki Kyriazopoulou,Maria Simitsopoulou,John Bondis,E. Diza,Athanasios Athanasiadis,F. Frantzidou,Efimia Souliou +6 more
TL;DR: Sera from 308 healthy Greek females of reproductive age were examined for specific IgG antibodies to human parvovirus B19 by recombinant-Elisa to determine the immunity rates of this part of population toParvov virus B19 and paired maternal sera and amniotic fluids from nine pregnancies with hydrops fetalis were investigated forspecific IgG and IgM antibodies and parVovirus DNA by polymerase chain reaction and southern hybridization analysis.
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Prenatal diagnosis of fetal cytomegalovirus infection in seropositive pregnant women.
Vassiliki Kyriazopoulou,John Bondis,F. Frantzidou,Apostolos Athanasiadis,E. Diza,Maria Simitsopoulou,Efimia Souliou +6 more
TL;DR: The results show that HCMV recurrent maternal infection is silent and difficult to be suspected and diagnosed, and they show that fetal H CMV infection is not rare among pre-immune pregnant women.
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Influenza surveillance in N. Greece during 1983–1993
TL;DR: Following the WHO programme to monitor influenza, the National Influenza Centre for N. Greece presents the results of a laboratory surveillance during 1983-93, finding differences in the virulence of the viruses and the duration of influenza seasons in this part of the world during1983-93.
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