List of works by Duarte C Oliveira

Analysis of typing methods for epidemiological surveillance of both methicillin-resistant and methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus strains.

scientific article published on 7 November 2007

Antibiotic resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a paradigm of adaptive power

scientific article published on 24 October 2007

Assessment of allelic variation in the ccrAB locus in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones

scientific article published on 30 May 2006

Associations between dru Types and SCCmec cassettes

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CcrB typing tool: an online resource for staphylococci ccrB sequence typing

scientific article published on 27 January 2008

Changes in the clonal nature and antibiotic resistance profiles of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates associated with spread of the EMRSA-15 clone in a tertiary care Portuguese hospital

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Epidemiology of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Nasal Colonization Among Patients and Healthcare Workers in a Portuguese Hospital: A Pre-intervention Study Toward the Control of MRSA

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Epidemiology of emerging methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Denmark: a nationwide study in a country with low prevalence of MRSA infection.

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Evidence for a purifying selection acting on the β-lactamase locus in epidemic clones of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ⬇️

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Evolution of Molecular Techniques for the Characterization of MRSA Clones

Genetic organization of the downstream region of the mecA element in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates carrying different polymorphisms of this region.

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Guidelines for reporting novel mecA gene homologues

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Identification of a novel variant of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec, type II.5, and Its truncated form by insertion of putative conjugative transposon Tn6012.

scientific article published on 13 April 2009

Methicillin-resistance in Staphylococcus aureus is not affected by the overexpression in trans of the mecA gene repressor: a surprising observation

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Multiplex PCR strategy for rapid identification of structural types and variants of the mec element in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

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Multiplex PCR strategy for subtyping the staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec type IV in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: ‘SCCmec IV multiplex’

scientific article published on 28 April 2007

Multiplex real-time PCR for rapid Staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec typing.

scientific article published on 2 September 2009

Partial excision of the chromosomal cassette containing the methicillin resistance determinant results in methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus.

scientific article published on August 2005

Proteolysis of mecA repressor is essential for expression of methicillin resistance by Staphylococcus aureus.

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Redefining a structural variant of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec, SCCmec type VI.

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Redefining the role of the β-lactamase locus in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: β-lactamase regulators disrupt the MecI-mediated strong repression on mecA and optimize the phenotypic expression of resistance in strains with constitutive

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Secrets of success of a human pathogen: molecular evolution of pandemic clones of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

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Structural and Functional Analyses Reveal That Staphylococcus aureus Antibiotic Resistance Factor HmrA Is a Zinc-dependent Endopeptidase

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Structure-Function Studies of the Staphylococcal Methicillin Resistance Antirepressor MecR2

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The anti-repressor MecR2 promotes the proteolysis of the mecA repressor and enables optimal expression of β-lactam resistance in MRSA.

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The evolution of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus: similarity of genetic backgrounds in historically early methicillin-susceptible and -resistant isolates and contemporary epidemic clones.

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Update to the multiplex PCR strategy for assignment of mec element types in Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 18 June 2007

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