List of works by Natacha Couto

A Comparison of Three Different Bioinformatics Analyses of the 16S-23S rRNA Encoding Region for Bacterial Identification

scientific article published in 2019

Acquisition of the fexA and cfr genes in Staphylococcus pseudintermedius during florfenicol treatment of canine pyoderma.

scientific article

Application of next generation sequencing in clinical microbiology and infection prevention

scientific article

Author Correction: Critical steps in clinical shotgun metagenomics for the concomitant detection and typing of microbial pathogens

scholarly article published in Scientific Reports

Biocide and antimicrobial susceptibility of methicillin-resistant staphylococcal isolates from horses

article published in 2013

Characterization of Staphylococcus pseudintermedius isolated from diseased dogs in Lithuania.

scientific article

Clonal diversity, virulence patterns and antimicrobial and biocide susceptibility among human, animal and environmental MRSA in Portugal.

scientific article published on 4 June 2015

Comparative RNA-seq-Based Transcriptome Analysis of the Virulence Characteristics of Methicillin-Resistant and -Susceptible Staphylococcus pseudintermedius Strains Isolated from Small Animals.

scientific article

Complete Coding Sequences of Five Dengue Virus Type 2 Clinical Isolates from Venezuela Obtained through Shotgun Metagenomics.

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Complete Genome Sequences of Two Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus haemolyticus Isolates of Multilocus Sequence Type 25, First Detected by Shotgun Metagenomics.

scientific article published on 5 April 2018

Critical steps in clinical shotgun metagenomics for the concomitant detection and typing of microbial pathogens

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

DEN-IM: dengue virus genotyping from amplicon and shotgun metagenomic sequencing

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

Detection of in Water from Hospital Dental Chair Units and Molecular Characterization by Whole-Genome Sequencing

scientific article published on 18 July 2018

Diagnosis of bloodstream infections from positive blood cultures and directly from blood samples: recent developments in molecular approaches.

scientific article

Elucidating vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium outbreaks: the role of clonal spread and movement of mobile genetic elements

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

Evaluation of antimicrobial resistance and virulence of enterococci from equipment surfaces, raw materials, and traditional cheeses.

scientific article published on 15 July 2016

First Report of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST5 and ST398 from Purebred Lusitano Horses

First description of fexA-positive meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST398 from calves in Portugal.

scientific article published on 15 July 2014

First report of OXA-23-mediated carbapenem resistance in sequence type 2 multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii associated with urinary tract infection in a cat.

scientific article published on 2 December 2013

First report of swine-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST398 in Lithuania

scientific article published on 01 January 2013

Genetic characterization of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from milk and nasal samples of healthy cows in Tunisia: First report of ST97-t267-agrI-SCCmecV MRSA of bovine origin in Tunisia.

scientific article published on 2 April 2018

Genetic relatedness, antimicrobial and biocide susceptibility comparative analysis of methicillin-resistant and -susceptible Staphylococcus pseudintermedius from Portugal.

scientific article published on 2 July 2013

Identification of vaccine candidate antigens of Staphylococcus pseudintermedius by whole proteome characterization and serological proteomic analyses.

scientific article

Immediate after birth transmission of epidemic Salmonella enterica Typhimurium monophasic strains in pigs is a likely event.

scientific article published on 17 August 2012

Longitudinal characterization of monophasic Salmonella Typhimurium throughout the pig's life cycle.

scientific article published on 25 July 2016

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus CC398 isolates with indistinguishable ApaI restriction patterns in colonized and infected pigs and humans

scientific article published on 08 September 2010

Prevalence of meticillin-resistant staphylococci among dogs and cats at a veterinary teaching hospital in Portugal.

scientific article published on 18 April 2011

Prevalence, species distribution and antimicrobial resistance patterns of methicillin-resistant staphylococci in Lithuanian pet animals

scientific article published on 2 June 2015

Reprint of "Application of next generation sequencing in clinical microbiology and infection prevention".

scientific article

Risk factors for faecal colonisation with Escherichia coli producing extended-spectrum and plasmid-mediated AmpC β-lactamases in dogs

scientific article published on 18 June 2014

Small plasmids carrying vga(A) or vga(C) genes mediate resistance to lincosamides, pleuromutilins and streptogramin A antibiotics in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST398 from swine.

scientific article published on 28 September 2010

Trends and molecular mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance in clinical staphylococci isolated from companion animals over a 16 year period.

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Unusual small plasmids carrying the novel resistance genes dfrK or apmA isolated from methicillin-resistant or -susceptible staphylococci.

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Within-lineage variability of ST131 Escherichia coli isolates from humans and companion animals in the south of Europe.

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