Athanasia Xirogianni studied Biochemistry and Biotechnology at University of Thessaly, Larisa, Greece. She was awarded a PhD degree in the field of Molecular Microbiology by the same department, in 2010. Her collaboration with the Hellenic National Meningitis Reference Laboratory, Dpt of Public Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of West Attica (former National School of Public Health), started in 2005, as a PhD student, to continue in 2009, as laboratory scientist at disposal of the Hellenic Center of Disease Control and Prevention and since 2020, as Laboratory Teaching Staff of the Dpt of Public Health Policy, University of West Attica. Since 2011, she has been participating in teaching of MSc in Public Health program modules of the Dpt of Public Health Policy. Her field of expertise is on the molecular diagnosis of meningitis and other bacterial infections, as well as the further research in this field (bacteria molecular identification and typing -especially N.meningitidis, H.influenzae, S.pneumoniae and other Streptococcus spp., surveillance of meningococcal disease through molecular typing of meningococcal strains, study of vaccine antigens of N.meningitidis, study of S.pneumoniae serotypes.
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