1. Mavrommati L, Tzelepi E, Sima A, Tzanakaki G, Kokla A, Flemetakis A. Antibiotic resistance, plasmid content, and auxotypes of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Greece. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 1988, 21, 571-9.
   
   
2. Tzanakaki G, Kolyva S, Tzelepi E, Gerontidou A, Flemetakis A, Fragouli E, Mavrommati L. Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Epidemiological data 1986-87. Δελτίο Ελληνικής Μικροβιολογικής Εταιρείας 1988, 33, 292-306. [in Greek]
   
   
3. Mavrommati L, Tzelepi E. Conjugal transfer of penicillin resistance plasmids to proline-citrulline-uracil (PCU) dependent strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 1989, 3, 335-9.
   
   
4. Tzanakaki G, Mavrommati L, Tzelepi E, Kolyva S, Frangouli E. Serological classification in relation to auxotypes, plasmid contents and susceptibilities to antimicrobials of penicillinase producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae (PPNG) and non-PPNG strains isolated in Greece. Genitourinary Medicine 1989, 65, 171-6.
   
   
5. Tzelepi E, Frangouli E, Athanassopoulou V, Tzanakaki G, Tseliou P. Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Athens, Greece. Epidemiologic classification and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of strains isolated between 1988 and 1989. Sexually Transmitted Diseases 1991, 18, 238-44.
   
   
6. Tirodimos I, Tzelepi E, Katsougiannopoulos VC. Penicillin-binding protein 2 genes of chromosomally resistant to penicillin Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolated in Greece. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 1993, 32, 677-84.
   
   
7. Tzelepi E, Avgerinou H, Kyriakis KP, Tzouvelekis LS, Flemetakis A, Kalogeropoulou A, Frangouli E. Antimicrobial susceptibility and types of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Greece. Data for the 4-year period 1990-1993. Sexually Transmitted Diseases 1997, 24, 378-85.
   
   
8. Kyriakis K, Tzelepi E, Flemetakis A, Avgerinou H, Tzouvelekis LS, Frangouli E. Epidemiology of male gonococcal infection in Greece. Sexually Transmitted Diseases 1999, 26, 43-8.
   
   
9. Mavroidi A, Tzouvelekis LS, Tassios PT, Flemetakis A, Daniilidou M, Tzelepi E. Characterization of Neisseria gonorrhoeae strains with decreased susceptibility to fluoroquinolones isolated in Greece during 1996-1999. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 2000, 38, 3489-91.
   
   
10. Mavroidi A, Tzouvelekis LS, Kyriakis KP, Avgerinou H, Daniilidou M, Tzelepi E. Multidrug-resistant strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Greece. Antimicrobial Agents & Chemotherapy 2001, 45, 2651-4.
    
    
11. Kyriakis KP, Tzelepi E, Avgerinou H, Mavroidi A, Daniilidou M, Frangouli E. Current characteristics of gonorrhea outpatients in Athens, Greece. Sexually Transmitted Infections 2002, 78, e5 [www.sextransinf.com/cgi/content/full/78/4/e5].
    
    
12. Lowndes CM & Kevin Fenton A, and the European Surveillance of Sexually Transmitted Infections (ESSTI) Network. Surveillance Systems for STIs in the European Union: Facing a changing epidemiology. Sexually Transmitted Infections 2004, 80, 264-271.
    
    
13. Fenton KA & Lowndes CM, and the European Surveillance of Sexually Transmitted Infections (ESSTI) Network. Recent trends in the epidemiology of sexually transmitted infections in the European Union. Sexually Transmitted Infections 2004, 80, 255-263.
    
    
14. Arthur G, Lowndes CM, Blackham J, Fenton KA, and the European Surveillance of Sexually Transmitted Infections (ESSTI) Network. Divergent approaches to partner notification for sexually transmitted infections across the European Union. Sexually Transmitted Diseases 2005, 32, 734-41.
    
    
15. Tzelepi E. Antibiotic Resisatance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae. In: Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Clinical Prep School Series, vol. 17 (issue 3), pp 91–115. Medical Society of Athens, Athens 2005. [in Greek]
    
    
16. Stathi M, Flemetakis A, Miriagou V, Kyriakis KP, Maniatis A, Tzelepi E. Antimicrobial susceptibility of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Greece. Data for the years 1994 – 2004. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 2006, 57, 775-779.
    
    
17. Martin IMC, Hoffmann S and Ison CA on belhaf of the European Surveillance of Sexually Transmitted Infections (ESSTI) Network. European Surveillance of Sexually Transmitted Infections (ESSTI): the first combined antimicrobial susceptibility data for Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Western Europe. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 2006, 58, 587-593.
     
    
18. Ison CA, Martin IMC, Lowndes CM and Fenton KA on behalf of the European Surveillance of Sexually Transmitted Infections (ESSTI) Network. Comparability of laboratory diagnosis and antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Neisseria gonorrhoeae from reference laboratories in Western Europe. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 2006, 58, 580-586.

AWARDED PRESENTATIONS OF THE NRCNG
 

1. FIRST PRIZE FOR BASIC RESEARCH in the 14th Annual Panhellenic Medical Congress (Athens, May 1988) for the work «In vitro transfer of resistance plasmids to Proline–Citrulline–Uracil (PCU) dependent strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae», presented by L. Mavrommati, E. Tzelepi, S. Kolyva, G. Tzanakaki.
   
   
2. SECOND PRIZE FOR APPLIED RESEARCH in the 23rd Annual Panhellenic Medical Congress (Athens, May 1997), for the work “Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Serovars and antibiotic resistance patterns during the three-year period 1994-1996”, presented by H. Avgerinou, A. Flemetakis, E. Frangouli, E. Prinarakis, K. Kyriakis, and E. Tzelepi.
   
   
3. SECOND PRIZE FOR BASIC RESEARCH in the 25th Annual Panhellenic Medical Congress (Athens, May 1999) for the work «Study of the mechanism of antibiotic resistance in a multi-resistant clone Neisseria gonorrhoeae», presented by A. Mavoridi, L.S. Tzouvelekis, P. Giakkoupi, and E. Tzelepi.
   
   
4. THIRD PRIZE FOR BASIC RESEARCH in the 28th Annual Panhellenic Medical Congress (Athens, May 2002) for the work «Characterization of plasmid-mediated resistance to tetracycline in Neisseria gonorrhoeae», presented by Μ. Stathi, V. Miriagou, A. Flemetakis, H. Avgerinou, K. Kyriakis, and E. Tzelepi.
   
   
5. SECOND PRIZE FOR APPLIED RESEARCH in the 32nd Annual Panhellenic Medical Congress (Athens, May 2006) for the work «Surveillance of susceptibility to antibiotics in Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Greece during the years 1994 – 2005. Dramatic increase of resistance to the newer quinolones», presented by M. Stathi, H. Avgerinou, V. Miriagou, A. Flemetakis, M. Daniilidou, K. Papagiannitsis, A. Zioga, K.P. Kyriakis, and E. Tzelepi.
   

Presentations – Lectures of the NRCNG in Scientific Meetings (2006-2007)

1. Tzelepi E. Gonorrhea and Neisseria gonorrhoeae. The disease and the pathogen. Teaching lecture in the Greek National School of Public Health. Athens, March 2006, October 2006, December 2006, January 2007, and March 2007.
   
   
2. Stathi M, Avgerinou H, Miriagou V, Flemetakis A, Daniilidou M, Papagiannitsis K, Zioga A, Kyriakis KP, and Tzelepi E. Surveillance of gonococcal susceptibility to antibiotics in Greece between the years 1994 and 2005. Dramatic increase of resistance to the newer, fluorinated quinolones. 32nd Annual Panhellenic Medical Congress, Athens, May 2006. SECOND PRIZE FOR APPLIED RESEARCH.
   
   
3. Stathi M, Avgerinou H, Miriagou V, Flemetakis A, Daniilidou M, Kyriakis K, Tzelepi E. Antimicrobial susceptibility of gonococci isolated in Greece in 2005 – Dramatic increase in quinolone resistance rate due to a single serovar. 17th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases – 25th International Congress of Chemotherapy (17th ECCMID-25th ICC). Munich, Germany, April 2007.