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2080 Implementing and evaluating an evidence-based intervention from the intensive care unit (ICU) setting into primary care using promotoras to reduce CA-MRSA recurrence and household transmission

A Bacillus subtilis morphogene cluster that includes spoVE is homologous to the mra region of Escherichia coli

scientific article

A European laboratory network for sequence-based typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) as a communication platform between human and veterinary medicine--an update on SeqNet.org

scientific article published on 8 May 2008

A five-year retrospective study shows increasing rates of antimicrobial drug resistance in Cabo Verde for both Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli

scientific article published on 26 April 2020

A genomic portrait of the emergence, evolution, and global spread of a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pandemic

scientific article

A link in transcription between the native pbpB and the acquired mecA gene in a strain of Staphylococcus aureus

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A molecular epidemiological analysis of 2 Staphylococcus aureus clonal types colonizing and infecting patients with AIDS

scientific article published on 03 March 2005

A phosphoglucomutase-like gene essential for the optimal expression of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus: molecular cloning and DNA sequencing

scientific article published on January 1996

A rapid method for constructing multiply marked strains of Bacillus subtilis

scientific article published on May 1978

Ability of Antibiotic-Resistant Nonvaccine-Type Pneumococcal Clones to Cause Otitis Media in an Infant Mouse Model of Pneumococcal-Influenza Virus Coinfection

scientific article published on 14 September 2015

Action of 6-(p-hydroxyphenylazo)-uracil on bacteriophage IG 1

scientific article published on 01 January 1990

Adapting experimental ontologies for molecular epidemiology

scientific article published on 11 October 2007

An acquired and a native penicillin-binding protein cooperate in building the cell wall of drug-resistant staphylococci

scientific article

An investigation of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium within the pediatric service of a large urban medical center.

scientific article published on March 1998

Analysis of invasiveness of pneumococcal serotypes and clones circulating in Portugal before widespread use of conjugate vaccines reveals heterogeneous behavior of clones expressing the same serotype. ⬇️

scientific article published on 26 January 2011

Analysis of the genetic variability of virulence-related loci in epidemic clones of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

scientific article

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 Resistance as a Stress Response: Recovery of High-Level Oxacillin Resistance in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus "Auxiliary" (fem) Mutants by Induction of the Stringent Stress Response

scientific article published on 19 June 2017

Antibiotic resistance as a stress response: complete sequencing of a large number of chromosomal loci in Staphylococcus aureus strain COL that impact on the expression of resistance to methicillin

scientific article

Antibiotic resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a paradigm of adaptive power

scientific article published on 24 October 2007

Application of molecular typing methods to characterize nosocomial coagulase-negative staphylococci collected in a Greek hospital during a three-year period (1998-2000).

scientific article published in January 2003

Archaic strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: molecular and microbiological properties of isolates from the 1960s in Denmark

scientific article published in January 2000

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

scientific article published on 30 May 2006

Assessment of band-based similarity coefficients for automatic type and subtype classification of microbial isolates analyzed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis

scientific article

Bacillus subtilis mutation blocking irreversible binding of bacteriophage SPP1

scientific article published on 01 November 1983

Bactericidal activity of octenidine against Staphylococcus aureus harbouring genes encoding multidrug resistance efflux pumps

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Bactericidal efficacy of molybdenum oxide nanoparticles against antimicrobial-resistant pathogens

scientific article published on 25 June 2018

Biofilm Morphotypes and Population Structure among Staphylococcus epidermidis from Commensal and Clinical Samples.

scientific article

Bridges from hospitals to the laboratory: genetic portraits of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones.

scientific article published on March 2004

Building the national health information infrastructure for personal health, health care services, public health, and research

scientific article

Carriage and antibiotic resistance of respiratory pathogens and molecular epidemiology of antibiotic-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae colonizing children in day-care centers in Lisbon: the Portuguese day-care center initiative

scientific article published in August 1999

Carriage of Staphylococcus aureus among Portuguese nursing students: A longitudinal cohort study over four years of education

scientific article published on 30 November 2017

Carriage of internationally spread clones of Streptococcus pneumoniae with unusual drug resistance patterns in children attending day care centers in Lisbon, Portugal.

scientific article

Carriage of respiratory tract pathogens and molecular epidemiology of Streptococcus pneumoniae colonization in healthy children attending day care centers in Lisbon, Portugal.

scientific article published on January 1999

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

scientific article published on 27 January 2008

Changes in pneumococcal serotypes and antibiotypes carried by vaccinated and unvaccinated day-care centre attendees in Portugal, a country with widespread use of the seven-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.

scientific article published on 23 April 2009

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

scientific article

Changing patterns in frequency of recovery of five methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones in Portuguese hospitals: surveillance over a 16-year period.

scientific article

Characterization of Staphylococcus aureus isolates from buffalo, bovine, ovine, and caprine milk samples collected in Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil

scientific article published on 20 April 2007

Characterization of bacteriophage SPP1 transducing particles

scientific article published in April 1980

Clonal and antibiotic resistance profiles of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) from a Portuguese hospital over time

scientific article published in January 2002

Clonal distribution of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Poland

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Clonal evolution leading to maintenance of antibiotic resistance rates among colonizing Pneumococci in the PCV7 era in Portugal

scientific article

Clonal types and multidrug resistance patterns of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) recovered in Italy during the 1990s.

scientific article

Cloning and characterization of araA, araB, and araD, the structural genes for L-arabinose utilization in Bacillus subtilis

scientific article

Cloning of the thymidylate synthetase gene (thyPIG 3) from the Bacillus subtilis temperate phage IG 3.

scientific article published in January 1992

Cloning, characterization, and inactivation of the gene pbpC, encoding penicillin-binding protein 3 of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article

Cocrystal Structures of Diaminopimelate Decarboxylase

Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Lacking PVL, as a Cause of Severe Invasive Infection Treated with Linezolid

scientific article published on 20 February 2013

Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in Portugal

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Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in Portugal.

scientific article published on 29 July 2011

Comparison of DNA Sequencing of the Protein A Gene Polymorphic Region with Other Molecular Typing Techniques for Typing Two Epidemiologically Diverse Collections of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

scientific article published in June 2001

Comparison of DNA sequencing of the protein A gene polymorphic region with other molecular typing techniques for typing two epidemiologically diverse collections of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article

Comparison of genetic backgrounds of methicillin-resistant and -susceptible Staphylococcus aureus isolates from Portuguese hospitals and the community.

scientific article

Comparison of molecular typing methods for characterization of Staphylococcus epidermidis: proposal for clone definition.

scientific article published on 7 November 2007

Complementation of the essential peptidoglycan transpeptidase function of penicillin-binding protein 2 (PBP2) by the drug resistance protein PBP2A in Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article

Contamination of public buses with MRSA in Lisbon, Portugal: a possible transmission route of major MRSA clones within the community.

scientific article

Correction for Pardos de la Gandara et al., "Genetic Determinants of High-Level Oxacillin Resistance in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus".

scientific article

Correction: Biofilm Morphotypes and Population Structure among Staphylococcus epidermidis from Commensal and Clinical Samples

scientific article

Correction: The Mechanism of Heterogeneous Beta-Lactam Resistance in MRSA: Key Role of the Stringent Stress Response.

scientific article published on 2 January 2014

Decrease in pneumococcal co-colonization following vaccination with the seven-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Delineation of the endemic and sporadic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones in a Czech hospital.

scientific article published in January 2004

Denmark14-230 clone as an increasing cause of pneumococcal infection in Portugal within a background of diverse serotype 19A lineages.

scientific article

Detection of an archaic clone of Staphylococcus aureus with low-level resistance to methicillin in a pediatric hospital in Portugal and in international samples: relics of a formerly widely disseminated strain?

scientific article

Development of methicillin resistance in clinical isolates of Staphylococcus sciuri by transcriptional activation of the mecA homologue native to s.

scientific article published on January 2003

Differences in genotype and virulence among four multidrug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates belonging to the PMEN1 clone.

scientific article

Disease isolates of Streptococcus pseudopneumoniae and non-typeable S. pneumoniae presumptively identified as atypical S. pneumoniae in Spain

scientific article

Disease-associated genotypes of the commensal skin bacterium Staphylococcus epidermidis

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Dissemination of a chloramphenicol- and tetracycline-resistant but penicillin-susceptible invasive clone of serotype 5 Streptococcus pneumoniae in Colombia. ⬇️

scientific article

Distinct Phenotypic and Genomic Signatures Underlie Contrasting Pathogenic Potential of Staphylococcus epidermidis Clonal Lineages

scientific article published on 27 August 2019

Distribution of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones among health care facilities in Connecticut, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. .

scientific article published in January 2000

Diversity of penicillin-nonsusceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae circulating in Iceland after the introduction of penicillin-resistant clone Spain(6B)-2.

scientific article published on 9 September 2002

Dynamics of pneumococcal carriage in adults: a new look at an old paradigm

scientific article published on 02 September 2020

EURISWEB--Web-based epidemiological surveillance of antibiotic-resistant pneumococci in day care centers

scientific article

Ecological Overlap and Horizontal Gene Transfer in Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis.

scientific article published on 16 April 2015

Effect of the seven-valent conjugate pneumococcal vaccine on carriage and drug resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae in healthy children attending day-care centers in Lisbon

scientific article

Efficacy of octenidine against antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus epidemic clones

scientific article published on 21 June 2016

Emergence of a serotype 1 Streptococcus pneumoniae lineage colonising healthy children in Portugal in the seven-valent conjugate vaccination era.

scientific article published on 6 November 2007

Emergence of methicillin resistance predates the clinical use of antibiotics

scientific article published on 05 January 2022

Epidemiological study of staphylococcal colonization and cross-infection in two West African Hospitals

scientific article published in January 2000

Epidemiology and antimicrobial resistance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates colonizing pigs with different exposure to antibiotics

scientific article published on 20 November 2019

Epidemiology and population structure of serotypes 1, 5 and 7f carried by children in Portugal from 1996-2010 before introduction of the 10-valent and 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccines

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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 carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in Northern Portugal: Predominance of KPC-2 and OXA-48

scientific article published on 26 April 2020

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

scientific article

Epidemiology of methicillin-resistant and -susceptible Staphylococcus aureus in Luanda, Angola: first description of the spread of the MRSA ST5-IVa clone in the African continent

scientific article published on 2 April 2014

Erratum to: Abstracts from the 8th International Congress of the Asia Pacific Society of Infection Control (APSIC).

scientific article published on 23 May 2017

European external quality assessments for identification, molecular typing and characterization of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Evaluation of Different Screening Methodologies for the Detection of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus from Environmental Surfaces: Swabs, Gauzes, and Polywipes

scientific article published on 13 March 2018

Evidence for a dual role of PBP1 in the cell division and cell separation of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 27 April 2009

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

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Evidence for soft selective sweeps in the evolution of pneumococcal multidrug resistance and vaccine escape

scientific article

Evidence for the Dissemination to Humans of Methicillin-Resistant <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> ST398 through the Pork Production Chain: A Study in a Portuguese Slaughterhouse

scientific article published on 29 November 2020

Evidence for the evolutionary steps leading to mecA-mediated β-lactam resistance in staphylococci

scientific article

Evidence for the geographic spread of a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clone between Portugal and Spain

scientific article published on May 1995

Evolution and Global Transmission of a Multidrug-Resistant, Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Lineage from the Indian Subcontinent

scientific article published on 26 November 2019

Evolution of Molecular Techniques for the Characterization of MRSA Clones

Evolution of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus towards increasing resistance

scientific article published on 22 October 2013

Evolution of sporadic isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in hospitals and their similarities to isolates of community-acquired MRSA.

scientific article

Evolutionary Origin of the Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome mec (SCCmec).

scientific article published on 3 April 2017

Expression of high-level methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus from the Staphylococcus sciuri mec A homologue: role of mutation(s) in the genetic background and in the coding region of mec A.

scientific article

Extensive and genome-wide changes in the transcription profile of Staphylococcus aureus induced by modulating the transcription of the cell wall synthesis gene murF.

scientific article published on 28 December 2006

Extensive dissemination of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) between the hospital and the community in a country with a high prevalence of nosocomial MRSA.

scientific article

Extensive intra-hospital spread of a methicillin-resistant staphylococcal clone

scientific article

Facile in vivo transfer of mutations between the Bacillus subtilis chromosome and a plasmid harbouring homologous DNA

scientific article published on 01 November 1982

First insights of peptidoglycan amidation in Gram-positive bacteria - the high-resolution crystal structure of Staphylococcus aureus glutamine amidotransferase GatD.

scientific article published on 28 March 2018

Frequent MRSA nasal colonization among hospitalized children and their parents in Angola and São Tomé and Príncipe

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Frequent isolation of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) ST398 among healthy pigs in Portugal

scientific article

Frequent occurrence of oxacillin-susceptible mecA-positive Staphylococcus aureus (OS-MRSA) strains in two African countries

scientific article published on 27 August 2015

Frequent occurrence of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole hetero-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates in different African countries

scientific article published on 3 February 2017

Frequent recovery of a single clonal type of multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from patients in two hospitals in Taiwan and China

scientific article

From ecological reservoir to disease: the nasopharynx, day-care centres and drug-resistant clones of Streptococcus pneumoniae

scientific article

From the Bench to the Barbershop: Community Engagement to Raise Awareness About Community-Acquired Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Hepatitis C Virus Infection.

scientific article published on January 2016

Full-Genome Sequencing Identifies in the Genetic Background Several Determinants That Modulate the Resistance Phenotype in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strains Carrying the Novel mecC Gene

scientific article published on 9 January 2017

Genetic Organization of the mecA Region in Methicillin-Susceptible and Methicillin-Resistant Strains of Staphylococcus sciuri ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 1998

Genetic control of population structure in heterogeneous strains of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

scientific article

Genetic determinants of high-level oxacillin resistance in MRSA.

scientific article published on 19 March 2018

Genetic diversity among methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis (MRSE).

scientific article published in January 2005

Genetic diversity and clonal patterns among antibiotic-susceptible and -resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae colonizing children: day care centers as autonomous epidemiological units

scientific article

Genetic diversity of arginine catabolic mobile element in Staphylococcus epidermidis

scientific article published in 2009

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

scientific article

Genomic Characterization of the Emerging Pathogen Streptococcus pseudopneumoniae

scientific article published on 25 June 2019

Genomic organization of the related Bacillus subtilis bacteriophages SPP1, 41c, rho 15, and SF6.

scientific article published on November 1986

Geographic spread of epidemic multiresistant Staphylococcus aureus clone in Brazil.

scientific article published on September 1995

Global Scale Dissemination of ST93: A Divergent Epidemic Lineage That Has Recently Emerged From Remote Northern Australia

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Global phylogenomic analysis of nonencapsulated Streptococcus pneumoniae reveals a deep-branching classic lineage that is distinct from multiple sporadic lineages

scientific article published on 04 December 2014

Guidelines for reporting novel mecA gene homologues

scientific article

Healthy Bovines as Reservoirs of Major Pathogenic Lineages of Staphylococcus aureus in Portugal

scientific article published on 26 June 2017

Heterogeneous oxacillin-resistant phenotypes and production of PBP2A by oxacillin-susceptible/mecA-positive MRSA strains from Africa.

scientific article published on 7 June 2016

High Colonization Rate and Heterogeneity of ESBL- and Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae Isolated from Gull Feces in Lisbon, Portugal

scientific article published on 28 September 2020

High Prevalence of Biocide Resistance Determinants in Staphylococcus aureus Isolates from Three African Countries

scientific article

High frequency and diversity of cassette chromosome recombinases (ccr) in methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus sciuri

scientific article published on 16 February 2014

High genetic diversity among community-associated Staphylococcus aureus in Europe: results from a multicenter study

scientific article

High interlaboratory reproducibility of DNA sequence-based typing of bacteria in a multicenter study

scientific article

High prevalence of EMRSA-15 in Portuguese public buses: a worrisome finding

scientific article

High prevalence of ST121 in community-associated methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus lineages responsible for skin and soft tissue infections in Portuguese children

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High prevalence of hospital-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the community in Portugal: evidence for the blurring of community-hospital boundaries.

scientific article

High prevalence of mec complex C and ccrC is independent of SCCmec type V in Staphylococcus haemolyticus

scientific article

High rates of transmission of and colonization by Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae within a day care center revealed in a longitudinal study

scientific article

Homology between phages SPP1, 41c, 22a, rho 15 and SF6 of Bacillus subtilis

scientific article published on 01 November 1984

Identification of LukPQ, a novel, equid-adapted leukocidin of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article

Identification of Streptococcus pneumoniae by a real-time PCR assay targeting SP2020

Identification of a gene in Bacillus subtilis bacteriophage SPP1 determining the amount of packaged DNA.

scientific article published on May 1992

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

Identification of clinical staphylococcal isolates from humans by internal transcribed spacer PCR.

scientific article published on September 2001

Identification of coagulase-negative staphylococci other than Staphylococcus epidermidis by automated ribotyping.

scientific article

Identification of different sites of expression for spo loci by transformation of Bacillus subtilis

scientific article published on October 1979

Identification of genetic determinants and enzymes involved with the amidation of glutamic acid residues in the peptidoglycan of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article

Identification of the first vancomycin intermediate-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VISA) isolate from a hospital in Portugal

scientific article published in March 2008

Identification, prevalence and population structure of non-typable Streptococcus pneumoniae in carriage samples isolated from preschoolers attending day-care centres.

scientific article published in February 2006

Illustration of a common framework for relating multiple typing methods by application to macrolide-resistant Streptococcus pyogenes.

scientific article published on July 2006

Impact of Insertion Sequences and Recombination on the Population Structure of Staphylococcus haemolyticus

scientific article

Impact of a single dose of the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on colonization

scientific article published on 01 March 2010

Impact of the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on Streptococcus pneumoniae multiple serotype carriage

scientific article published on 17 June 2016

In vivo stability of heterogeneous expression classes in clinical isolates of methicillin-resistant staphylococci

scientific article published in November 1991

Inferring a population structure for Staphylococcus epidermidis from multilocus sequence typing data

scientific article

Insights into alpha-hemolysin (Hla) evolution and expression among Staphylococcus aureus clones with hospital and community origin

scientific article

Intercontinental Spread of a Multidrug-Resistant MethicillinResistantStaphylococcus aureusClone ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 1998

International clones of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in two hospitals in Miami, Florida

scientific article published on February 2004

Intestinal carriage of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae at admission in a Portuguese hospital

scientific article published on 24 December 2019

Isolation of constitutive mutants for L-arabinose utilization in Bacillus subtilis

scientific article

Large screening of CA-MRSA among Staphylococcus aureus colonizing healthy young children living in two areas (urban and rural) of Portugal

scientific article

Lignoids from the fruit of three Virola species

Low prevalence of methicillin-resistant strains among Staphylococcus aureus colonizing young and healthy members of the community in Portugal.

scientific article published in January 2001

Low prevalence of pneumococcal carriage and high serotype and genotype diversity among adults over 60 years of age living in Portugal

scientific article

MRSA Causing Infections in Hospitals in Greater Metropolitan New York: Major Shift in the Dominant Clonal Type between 1996 and 2014.

scientific article

Massive dissemination of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus in bloodstream infections in a high MRSA prevalence country: establishment and diversification of EMRSA-15.

scientific article published on 30 October 2013

Massive reduction in methicillin resistance by transposon inactivation of the normal PBP2 in a methicillin-resistant strain of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 01 January 1997

Methicillin resistantStaphylococcus aureusemerged long before the introduction of methicillin in to clinical practice

Methicillin-Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus Is Not Affected by the Overexpression in Trans of the mecA Gene Repressor: A Surprising Observation ⬇️

scientific article published on August 2, 2011

Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the Community in Luanda, Angola: Blurred Boundaries with the Hospital Setting

scientific article published on 27 October 2015

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 31 May 2018

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clonal types in the Czech Republic

scientific article

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus disease in a portuguese hospital: Characterization of clonal types by a combination of DNA typing methods

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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus emerged long before the introduction of methicillin into clinical practice

scientific article

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates recovered from a New York City hospital: analysis by molecular fingerprinting techniques

scientific article published on September 1996

Molecular Cloning and DNA Sequencing of theStaphylococcus aureusUDP-N-Acetylmuramyl Tripeptide Synthetase (murE) Gene, Essential for the Optimal Expression of Methicillin Resistance ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 1998

Molecular Types of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Methicillin-Sensitive S. aureus Strains Causing Skin and Soft Tissue Infections and Nasal Colonization, Identified in Community Health Centers in New York City.

scientific article published on 10 June 2015

Molecular Typing of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus by Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis: Comparison of Results Obtained in a Multilaboratory Effort Using Identical Protocols and MRSA Strains

scientific article published on 01 January 2000

Molecular aspects of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on January 1994

Molecular characterization of Staphylococcus sciuri strains isolated from humans

scientific article

Molecular characterization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis clones: evidence of geographic dissemination

scientific article

Molecular epidemiology and risk factors for nasal carriage of staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant S. aureus in infants attending day care centers in Brazil

scientific article published on 14 October 2009

Molecular epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Colombian hospitals: dominance of a single unique multidrug-resistant clone

scientific article published in January 2001

Molecular epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus hominis (MRSHo): low clonality and reservoirs of SCCmec structural elements

scientific article

Molecular origin of transducing DNA in bacteriophage SPP1

scientific article published on 01 February 1981

Molecular tracking of coagulase-negative staphylococcal isolates from catheter-related infections.

scientific article published in January 1996

Mrp--a new auxiliary gene essential for optimal expression of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article

Multilocus Sequence Typing of Streptococcus pneumoniae Clones with Unusual Drug Resistance Patterns: Genetic Backgrounds and Relatedness to Other Epidemic Clones

scientific article published on 19 September 2001

Multilocus sequence typing and further genetic characterization of the enigmatic pathogen, Staphylococcus hominis.

scientific article

Multiple mechanisms of methicillin resistance and improved methods for detection in clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus.

scientific article published on April 1991

Multiple methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains as a cause for a single outbreak of severe disease in hospitalized neonates

scientific article published on March 1, 1992

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

scientific article

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

Multiplicity of genetic backgrounds among vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium isolates recovered from an outbreak in a New York City hospital

scientific article published on 01 January 1996

Nasal carriage of methicillin resistant staphylococci

scientific article published on 24 February 2014

Natural history of colonization with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium

scientific article published in December 1995

Natural history of drug-resistant clones of Streptococcus pneumoniae colonizing healthy children in Portugal.

scientific article published in January 2005

Non-typeable pneumococci circulating in Portugal are of cps type NCC2 and have genomic features typical of encapsulated isolates

scientific article

Normally functioning murF is essential for the optimal expression of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published in January 2003

Novel Chimerical Endolysins with Broad Antimicrobial Activity Against Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scholarly article by Sofia Fernandes et al published June 2012 in Microbial Drug Resistance

Novel coating containing molybdenum oxide nanoparticles to reduce Staphylococcus aureus contamination on inanimate surfaces

scientific article published on 18 March 2019

Novel determinants of antibiotic resistance: identification of mutated loci in highly methicillin-resistant subpopulations of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 08 April 2014

Optochin resistance among Streptococcus pneumoniae strains colonizing healthy children in Portugal

scientific article published on 21 November 2007

Origins and evolution of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clonal lineages.

scientific article

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

scientific article published on August 2005

Patterns of multidrug resistance among methicillin-resistant hospital isolates of coagulase-positive and coagulase-negative staphylococci collected in the international multicenter study RESIST in 1997 and 1998.

scientific article published in January 2000

Phenotypic signatures and genetic determinants of oxacillin tolerance in a laboratory mutant of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Pherotypes of Co-Colonizing Pneumococci Among Portuguese Children

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Pilot study of the genetic diversity of the pneumococcal nasopharyngeal flora among children attending day care centers

scientific article

Population structure of a hybrid clonal group of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, ST239-MRSA-III.

scientific article

Population structure of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) in Portugal over a 19-year period (1992-2011).

scientific article published on 21 September 2013

Prevalence and clonality of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in the Atlantic Azores islands: predominance of SCCmec types IV, V and VI.

scientific article

Prevalence of biocide resistance genes, chlorhexidine and mupirocin non-susceptibility in Portuguese hospitals during a 31-years period (1985-2016)

scientific article published on 26 December 2020

Prevalence, risk factors, and epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carried by adults over 60 years of age.

scientific article published on 31 October 2014

Properties of a novel PBP2A protein homolog from Staphylococcus aureus strain LGA251 and its contribution to the β-lactam-resistant phenotype.

scientific article published on 12 September 2012

Properties of novel international drug-resistant pneumococcal clones identified in day-care centers of Lisbon, Portugal.

scientific article

Purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction analysis of GatD, a glutamine amidotransferase-like protein from Staphylococcus aureus peptidoglycan

scientific article

Rapid identification of noncapsulated Streptococcus pneumoniae in nasopharyngeal samples allowing detection of co-colonization and reevaluation of prevalence ⬇️

scientific article published on September 9, 2011

Re-evaluation of Streptococcus pneumoniae carriage in Portuguese elderly by qPCR increases carriage estimates and unveils an expanded pool of serotypes

scientific article published on 20 May 2020

Reassessment of the number of auxiliary genes essential for expression of high-level methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on November 1994

Recruitment of the mecA gene homologue of Staphylococcus sciuri into a resistance determinant and expression of the resistant phenotype in Staphylococcus aureus.

scientific article published in April 2001

Recurrent furunculosis caused by a community-acquired Staphylococcus aureus strain belonging to the USA300 clone.

scientific article published on 10 February 2015

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

scientific article

Reduced methicillin resistance in a new Staphylococcus aureus transposon mutant that incorporates muramyl dipeptides into the cell wall peptidoglycan.

scientific article published on November 1994

Replacement of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones in Hungary over time: a 10-year surveillance study

scientific article published on 13 August 2007

Resistance of a Bacillus subtilis mutant to a group of temperate bacteriophages.

scientific article published in February 1986

Restriction analysis of PBS 1-related phages

scientific article published on 01 January 1989

Ribotype delineation and description of Staphylococcus sciuri subspecies and their potential as reservoirs of methicillin resistance and staphylolytic enzyme genes.

scientific article

Role of MurT C-Terminal Domain in the Amidation of Staphylococcus aureus Peptidoglycan

scientific article published on 23 September 2019

Role of PBP1 in cell division of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 16 February 2007

Role of murE in the Expression of beta-lactam antibiotic resistance in Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on March 2004

Role of murF in cell wall biosynthesis: isolation and characterization of a murF conditional mutant of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article

Role of transposon Tn5482 in the epidemiology of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in the pediatric oncology unit of a New York City Hospital

scientific article published on January 1999

S3QL: a distributed domain specific language for controlled semantic integration of life sciences data

scientific article

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

scientific article

Selection of distinctive colony morphologies for detection of multiple carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae

scientific article published in June 2013

SeqNet.org: a European laboratory network for sequence-based typing of microbial pathogens

scientific article published on 12 January 2006

Serotyping Streptococcus pneumoniae by multiplex PCR.

scientific article

Sigma-B, a putative operon encoding alternate sigma factor of Staphylococcus aureus RNA polymerase: molecular cloning and DNA sequencing

scientific article

Similarity of antibiotic resistance patterns and molecular typing properties of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates widely spread in hospitals in New York City and in a hospital in Tokyo, Japan.

scientific article published on January 2000

Specialized transduction in Bacillus subtilis by the phages IG1, IG3, and IG4.

scientific article published in January 1989

Spread and maintenance of a dominant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) clone during an outbreak of MRSA disease in a Spanish hospital

scientific article published on September 1994

Spread of the Multiresistant Iberian Clone of Methicillin-ResistantStaphylococcus aureus(MRSA) to Italy and Scotland ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 1998

Staphylococcal interspersed repeat unit typing of Staphylococcus aureus: evaluation of a new multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis typing method.

scientific article published on 4 March 2009

Staphylococcus aureus Infecting and Colonizing Experimental Animals, Macaques, in a Research Animal Facility

scientific article published on 27 November 2018

Staphylococcus aureus in former Portuguese colonies from Africa and the Far East: missing data to help fill the world map.

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Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage among homeless population in Lisbon, Portugal

scientific article published on 22 July 2019

Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage among patients and health care workers in São Tomé and Príncipe

scientific article published on 11 September 2013

Staphylococcus aureus reservoirs and transmission routes in a Portuguese Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: a 30-month surveillance study.

scientific article published on 22 December 2011

Staphylococcus epidermidis colonization is highly clonal across US cardiac centers

scientific article published on 29 March 2012

Strategies of adaptation of Staphylococcus epidermidis to hospital and community: amplification and diversification of SCCmec ⬇️

scientific article published on March 15, 2012

Streptococcus pneumoniae Isolates with Reduced Susceptibility to Ciprofloxacin in Spain: Clonal Diversity and Appearance of Ciprofloxacin-Resistant Epidemic Clones.

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Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates with reduced susceptibility to ciprofloxacin in Spain: clonal diversity and appearance of ciprofloxacin-resistant epidemic clones

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Streptococcus pneumoniae nasopharyngeal carriage in children attending day-care centers in the central region of Portugal, in the era of 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine

scientific article published on December 2009

Suppression of autolysis and cell wall turnover in heterogeneous Tn551 mutants of a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain ⬇️

scientific article published on February 1, 1991

Surveillance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a pediatric hospital in Mexico City during a 7-year period (1997 to 2003): clonal evolution and impact of infection control

scientific article published on August 2004

Temporal trends and molecular epidemiology of recently described serotype 6C of Streptococcus pneumoniae

scientific article published on 10 December 2008

Testing the efficacy of a molecular surveillance network: methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREF) genotypes in six hospitals in the metropolitan New York City area. The BARG Initiative

scientific article published on 01 January 1996

The CEM-NET initiative: molecular biology and epidemiology in alliance--tracking antibiotic-resistant staphylococci and pneumococci in hospitals and in the community

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The Staphylococcus aureus transposon Tn551: complete nucleotide sequence and transcriptional analysis of the expression of the erythromycin resistance gene

scientific article published in January 1999

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 blp Locus of Streptococcus pneumoniae Plays a Limited Role in the Selection of Strains That Can Cocolonize the Human Nasopharynx

scientific article published on 17 June 2016

The chemistry of Brazilian Lauraceae. LXV. 5, 7, 8, 3', 4', 5' - Hexamethoxyflavone from an Aniba species ⬇️

article published in 2016

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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The evolution of pandemic clones of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: identification of two ancestral genetic backgrounds and the associated mec elements.

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The femR315 gene from Staphylococcus aureus, the interruption of which results in reduced methicillin resistance, encodes a phosphoglucosamine mutase

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The glucosaminidase domain of Atl - the major Staphylococcus aureus autolysin - has DNA-binding activity

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The impact of private use of PCV7 in 2009 and 2010 on serotypes and antimicrobial resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae carried by young children in Portugal: Comparison with data obtained since 1996 generating a 15-year study prior to PCV13 introd

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The mechanism of heterogeneous beta-lactam resistance in MRSA: key role of the stringent stress response ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

The peptidoglycan composition of a Staphylococcus aureus mutant selected for reduced methicillin resistance.

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Three new temperate phages of Bacillus subtilis

scientific article published on 01 March 1986

Three-year assessment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones in Latin America from 1996 to 1998.

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Tracking the evolutionary origin of the methicillin resistance gene: cloning and sequencing of a homologue of mecA from a methicillin susceptible strain of Staphylococcus sciuri

scientific article published in January 1996

Tracking the in vivo evolution of multidrug resistance in Staphylococcus aureus by whole-genome sequencing

scholarly article

Transcriptional analysis of the Staphylococcus aureus penicillin binding protein 2 gene

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Transducing activity of bacteriophage SPP1.

scientific article published on February 1979

Trends in drug resistance, serotypes, and molecular types of Streptococcus pneumoniae colonizing preschool-age children attending day care centers in Lisbon, Portugal: a summary of 4 years of annual surveillance

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Two international methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones endemic in a university hospital in Patras, Greece

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Unusually high prevalence of nosocomial Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive Staphylococcus aureus isolates in Cape Verde Islands.

scientific article published on October 2006

Unusually large number of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones in a Portuguese hospital.

scientific article published on August 1995

Update on the major clonal types of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the Czech Republic

scientific article

Update to the Multiplex PCR Strategy for Assignment of mec Element Types in Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published in December 2007

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

scientific article published on 18 June 2007

Use of Integrational Plasmid Vectors to Demonstrate the Polycistronic Nature of a Transcriptional Unit (spoIIA) Required for Sporulation of Bacillus subtilis

scientific article published on 01 August 1984

Use of the Escherichia coli Transposon Tn1000 ( ) to Generate Mutations in Bacillus subtilis DNA ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 October 1983

Variable recombination dynamics during the emergence, transmission and 'disarming' of a multidrug-resistant pneumococcal clone

scientific article published on 23 June 2014

Virtually all methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections in the largest Portuguese teaching hospital are caused by two internationally spread multiresistant strains: the 'Iberian' and the 'Brazilian' clones of MRSA.

scientific article published in July 1998

Virulence potential and genome-wide characterization of drug resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae clones selected in vivo by the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine

scientific article

Wide geographic distribution of a unique methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clone in Hungarian hospitals

scientific article published on 01 June 1997

X-ray structure of an M. jannaschii DNA-binding protein: implications for antibiotic resistance in S. aureus

scientific article

lytA-based identification methods can misidentify Streptococcus pneumoniae

scientific article published on 29 March 2016

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