About the Authors

Constantina A. Sarri

Affiliation Laboratory of Genetics, Comparative and Evolutionary Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

Maria Markantoni

Affiliation Laboratory of Genetics, Comparative and Evolutionary Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

Costas Stamatis

Affiliation Laboratory of Genetics, Comparative and Evolutionary Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

Anna Papa

Affiliation Arboviruses Reference Laboratory, 1st Microbiological Laboratory, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Athanasios Tsakris

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Danai Pervanidou

Affiliation Hellenic Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (HCDCP), Attika, Greece

Agoritsa Baka

Affiliation Hellenic Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (HCDCP), Attika, Greece

Constantina Politis

Affiliation Hellenic coordinating Hemovigilance Center of HCDCP, Attika, Greece

Charalambos Billinis

Affiliation Laboratory of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Thessaly, Karditsa, Greece

Christos Hadjichristodoulou

Affiliation Laboratory of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

Zissis Mamuris

zmamur@bio.uth.gr

Affiliation Laboratory of Genetics, Comparative and Evolutionary Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

MALWEST project

Membership of the MALWEST project is listed in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ZM CAS CH. Data curation: CS. Formal analysis: CAS MM. Funding acquisition: MP. Investigation: CAS MM DP AB. Methodology: ZM CAS CH. Project administration: CH. Resources: AP AT CP. Software: CAS CS MM. Supervision: ZM. Validation: AP AT CH ZM CB. Writing – original draft: CAS ZM. Writing – review & editing: ZM CH AP AT CB.