TY - JOUR
T1 - Paediatric virology
T2 - A rapidly increasing educational challenge (Review)
AU - Mammas, Ioannis N.
AU - Theodoridou, Maria
AU - Kramvis, Anna
AU - Thiagarajan, Prakash
AU - Gardner, Sharryn
AU - Papaioannou, Georgia
AU - Melidou, Angeliki
AU - Koutsaki, Maria
AU - Kostagianni, Georgia
AU - Achtsidis, Vassilis
AU - Koutsaftiki, Chryssie
AU - Calachanis, Marcos
AU - Zaravinos, Apostolos
AU - Greenough, Anne
AU - Spandidos, Demetrios A.
PY - 2017/2/1
Y1 - 2017/2/1
N2 - The ‘2nd Workshop on Paediatric Virology’, which took place on Saturday the 8th of October 2016 in Athens, Greece, provided an overview on recent views and advances on Paediatric Virology. Emphasis was given to HIV-1 management in Greece, a country under continuous financial crisis, hepatitis B vaccination in Africa, treatment options for hepatitis C virus in childhood, Zika virus in pregnancy and infancy, the burden of influenza on childhood, hand-foot-mouth disease and myocarditis associated with Coxsackie viruses. Other general topics covered included a critical evaluation of Paediatric Accident and Emergency viral infections, multimodality imaging of viral infections in children, surgical approaches of otolaryngologists to complex viral infections, new advances in the diagnosis and treatment of viral conjunctivitis and novel molecular diagnostic methods for HPV in childhood. A brief historical overview of the anti-vaccination movement was also provided, as well as presentations on the educational challenge of Paediatric Virology as a new subspecialty of Paediatrics. This review highlights selected lectures and discussions of the workshop.
AB - The ‘2nd Workshop on Paediatric Virology’, which took place on Saturday the 8th of October 2016 in Athens, Greece, provided an overview on recent views and advances on Paediatric Virology. Emphasis was given to HIV-1 management in Greece, a country under continuous financial crisis, hepatitis B vaccination in Africa, treatment options for hepatitis C virus in childhood, Zika virus in pregnancy and infancy, the burden of influenza on childhood, hand-foot-mouth disease and myocarditis associated with Coxsackie viruses. Other general topics covered included a critical evaluation of Paediatric Accident and Emergency viral infections, multimodality imaging of viral infections in children, surgical approaches of otolaryngologists to complex viral infections, new advances in the diagnosis and treatment of viral conjunctivitis and novel molecular diagnostic methods for HPV in childhood. A brief historical overview of the anti-vaccination movement was also provided, as well as presentations on the educational challenge of Paediatric Virology as a new subspecialty of Paediatrics. This review highlights selected lectures and discussions of the workshop.
KW - AIDS
KW - Conjunctivitis
KW - Coxsackie viruses
KW - ENT
KW - Hepatitis B
KW - Hepatitis C
KW - HIV-1
KW - HPV
KW - Influenza
KW - MRI
KW - Paediatric virology
KW - Viral infections
KW - Zika virus
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85009348347&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3892/etm.2016.3997
DO - 10.3892/etm.2016.3997
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85009348347
SN - 1792-0981
VL - 13
SP - 364
EP - 377
JO - Experimental And Therapeutic Medicine
JF - Experimental And Therapeutic Medicine
IS - 2
ER -