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Matthew Falagas

Alfa Institute of Biomedical Sciences & Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece
Verified email at aibs.gr
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Comparison of PubMed, Scopus, web of science, and Google scholar: strengths and weaknesses

ME Falagas, EI Pitsouni, GA Malietzis… - The FASEB …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The evolution of the electronic age has led to the development of numerous medical databases
on the World Wide Web, offering search facilities on a particular subject and the ability to …

Colistin: the revival of polymyxins for the management of multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacterial infections

ME Falagas, SK Kasiakou… - Clinical infectious …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
The emergence of multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria and the lack of new antibiotics
to combat them have led to the revival of polymyxins, an old class of cationic, cyclic …

Toxoplasmosis snapshots: global status of Toxoplasma gondii seroprevalence and implications for pregnancy and congenital toxoplasmosis

G Pappas, N Roussos, ME Falagas - International journal for parasitology, 2009 - Elsevier
Toxoplasma gondii’s importance for humans refers mainly to primary infection during
pregnancy, resulting in abortion/stillbirth or congenital toxoplasmosis. The authors sought to …

Obesity and infection

ME Falagas, M Kompoti - The Lancet infectious diseases, 2006 - thelancet.com
Obesity increases morbidity and mortality through its multiple effects on nearly every human
system. However, the various aspects of the association between obesity and infection have …

[HTML][HTML] Toxicity of polymyxins: a systematic review of the evidence from old and recent studies

ME Falagas, SK Kasiakou - Critical care, 2006 - Springer
Background The increasing problem of multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria causing
severe infections and the shortage of new antibiotics to combat them has led to the re-…

Comparison of SCImago journal rank indicator with journal impact factor

ME Falagas, VD Kouranos… - The FASEB …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The application of currently available sophisticated algorithms of citation analysis allows for
the incorporation of the “quality” of citations in the evaluation of scientific journals. We sought …

[HTML][HTML] Severe cytomegalovirus infection in apparently immunocompetent patients: a systematic review

…, EG Mourtzoukou, IC Varbobitis, ME Falagas - Virology journal, 2008 - Springer
Background The morbidity and mortality associated with cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in
immunocompromised patients (especially in HIV-infected patients and transplant recipients), …

Current control and treatment of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infections

DE Karageorgopoulos, ME Falagas - The Lancet infectious diseases, 2008 - thelancet.com
Institutional outbreaks caused by Acinetobacter baumannii strains that have acquired multiple
mechanisms of antimicrobial drug resistance constitute a growing public-health problem. …

Fosfomycin for the treatment of multidrug-resistant, including extended-spectrum β-lactamase producing, Enterobacteriaceae infections: a systematic review

ME Falagas, AC Kastoris, AM Kapaskelis… - The Lancet infectious …, 2010 - thelancet.com
Rising rates of resistance to antimicrobial drugs among Enterobacteriaceae limit the choice
of reliably active forms of these drugs. We evaluated the evidence on fosfomycin as a …

β-D-Glucan Assay for the Diagnosis of Invasive Fungal Infections: A Meta-analysis

…, PI Rafailidis, ME Falagas - Clinical Infectious …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
We aimed to assess the accuracy of measuring serum or plasma (1→3)-β-D-glucan (BDG)
for the diagnosis of invasive fungal infections (IFIs) by means of a meta-analysis of relevant …