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Review
. 2020 Dec;20(6):302.
doi: 10.3892/etm.2020.9432. Epub 2020 Oct 30.

The foundation of the Institute of Paediatric Virology on the island of Euboea, Greece (Review)

Ioannis N Mammas  1   2   3   4 , Anne Greenough  5   6 , Maria Theodoridou  1   4 , Demetrios A Spandidos  1   3
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Review

The foundation of the Institute of Paediatric Virology on the island of Euboea, Greece (Review)

Ioannis N Mammas et al. Exp Ther Med. 2020 Dec.

Abstract

The Institute of Paediatric Virology, founded on October 2019 on the island of Euboea in Greece, introduces medical students, paediatric and neonatal trainees, postgraduate students, virologists, paediatric and allied health professionals to the bold, new, scientific field of paediatric virology. The institute is committed to medical education and is the sequel of the Paediatric Virology Study Group (PVSG), which was formed in 2007 in the United Kingdom by a group of young paediatric trainees and junior researchers. The main mission of the institute is to provide an educational e-platform on neonatal and paediatric viral infections, to facilitate scientific discussion between virologists and paediatric health professionals and to develop an international network aiming to the promotion of children's health by the prevention and treatment of viral infectious diseases. The foundation of the institute is dedicated to three children from a small fishing village at the south of the island of Euboea in Greece, who survived the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.

Keywords: Institute of Paediatric Virology; medical education; paediatric virology; subspecialty.

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Figure 1
A historical overview: From the creation of the Paediatric Virology Study Group (PVSG) to the official opening of the Institute of Paediatric Virology (IPV) based on the island of Euboea.
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Figure 2
Message by Nobel Laureate Professor of Virology Harald zur Hausen on the official opening of the newly founded Institute of Paediatric Virology based on the island of Euboea (Greece).
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Figure 3
The logo of the Institute of Paediatric Virology (IPV).
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Figure 4
Karavos at Aliveri’ seaside on the island of Euboea in Greece. Aliveri is the second biggest city on the island of Euboea and is situated between Chalkida, the island’s capital, and Cyme, birth place of Dr George N. Papanicolaou. In 1953, in Aliveri, the first electricity board of Greece was constructed, which, in 2007, was replaced with the Fifth natural gas unit. Recently, archaeological excavations in Karavos revealed one the oldest pre-historic villages in Greece of the early Helladic era, demonstrating that the coastal settlement of Karavos has been inhabited continuously for more than 5,000 years and its habitants had developed significant trading and cultural relations with Attica, the Hellenic mainland and the islands of the Aegean Sea and the Mediterranean Sea reaching as far as Asia Minor, Crete, Cyprus and South Italy (photo by Mr. Christos Stamatas).
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Figure 5
Message by Professor George P. Chrousos (First Department of Paediatrics, University of Athens) on the official opening of the newly founded Institute of Paediatric Virology based on the island of Euboea (Greece).
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