List of works by José Melo Cristino

A confidence interval for the wallace coefficient of concordance and its application to microbial typing methods

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A multicenter study of the antimicrobial susceptibility of Haemophilus influenzae, Streptococcus pneumoniae, and Moraxella catarrhalis isolated from patients with community-acquired lower respiratory tract infections in 1999 in Portugal

scientific article published in January 2001

A systematic and functional classification of Streptococcus pyogenes that serves as a new tool for molecular typing and vaccine development

scientific article published on 5 May 2014

An Ontology and a REST API for Sequence Based Microbial Typing Data

An outbreak of cryptosporidiosis in a hospital day-care centre

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Analysis of group B streptococcal isolates from infants and pregnant women in Portugal revealing two lineages with enhanced invasiveness. ⬇️

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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

Antimicrobial resistance in staphylococci and enterococci in 10 Portuguese hospitals in 1996 and 1997. POSGAR. Portuguese Study Group of Antimicrobial Resistance.

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Antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of enterococci causing infections in Europe. The European VRE Study Group.

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Are a Single Population Infecting Multiple Animal Hosts Despite the Diversity of the Universally Present M-Like Protein SCM

scientific article published on 29 March 2019

Avoiding misdiagnosis of malaria: a novel automated method allows specific diagnosis, even in the absence of clinical suspicion

scientific article published in November 1999

Beta-hemolytic Streptococcus dysgalactiae strains isolated from horses are a genetically distinct population within the Streptococcus dysgalactiae taxon

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Burkholderia dolosa phenotypic variation during the decline in lung function of a cystic fibrosis patient during 5.5 years of chronic colonization

scientific article published on 27 January 2014

Capsule impairs efficient adherence of Streptococcus agalactiae to intestinal epithelium in tilapias Oreochromis sp.

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Case of aortic endocarditis caused by Lactobacillus casei.

scientific article published on May 2004

Causing Skin and Soft Tissue Infections Are Enriched in the Recently Emerged 89 Clade 3 and Are Not Associated With Abrogation of CovRS

scientific article published on 09 October 2018

Changes in Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes causing invasive disease with non-universal vaccination coverage of the seven-valent conjugate vaccine

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Changes in Streptococcus pyogenes causing invasive disease in Portugal: evidence for superantigen gene loss and acquisition

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Changes in emm types and superantigen gene content of Streptococcus pyogenes causing invasive infections in Portugal

scientific article published on 02 December 2019

Changing epidemiology of group B streptococcal infections among adults in Iceland: 1975-2014.

scientific article published on 12 December 2015

Characteristics of Haemophilus influenzae invasive isolates from Portugal following routine childhood vaccination against H. influenzae serotype b (2002-2010).

scientific article published on 24 October 2013

Characterization of a large cluster of HIV-1 A1 infections detected in Portugal and connected to several Western European countries

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Characterization of the genetic lineages responsible for pneumococcal invasive disease in Portugal

scientific article published on April 2005

Clinical and bacteriological survey of diabetic foot infections in Lisbon.

scientific article published on 21 October 2011

Clonal and serotype dynamics of serogroup 6 isolates causing invasive pneumococcal disease in Portugal: 1999-2012.

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Clonal relationships between invasive and noninvasive Lancefield group C and G streptococci and emm-specific differences in invasiveness ⬇️

scientific article published on March 2006

Community- and Hospital-Acquired Klebsiella pneumoniae Urinary Tract Infections in Portugal: Virulence and Antibiotic Resistance.

scientific article published on 16 May 2019

Comparative activity of carbapenem testing: the COMPACT study

scientific article published in 2011

Comparing Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry and Phenotypic and Molecular Methods for Identification of Species within the Streptococcus anginosus Group.

scientific article published on 9 September 2015

Conjugate vaccine serotypes persist as major causes of non-invasive pneumococcal pneumonia in Portugal despite declines in serotypes 3 and 19A (2012-2015)

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Consequences of the variability of the CovRS and RopB regulators among Streptococcus pyogenes causing human infections.

scientific article published on 15 July 2015

Contribution of the Portuguese Laboratory Network for the Diagnosis of Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 infection during the 2009/10 and 2010/11 influenza seasons.

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Correction: Exploring the contribution of efflux on the resistance to fluoroquinolones in clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus.

scientific article published on 6 June 2013

Correlation between consumption of antimicrobials in humans and development of resistance in bacteria

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DNA methylase activity as a marker for the presence of a family of phage-like elements conferring efflux-mediated macrolide resistance in streptococci.

scientific article published on 5 September 2006

Declining macrolide resistance in Streptococcus pyogenes in Portugal (2007-13) was accompanied by continuous clonal changes.

scientific article published on 3 July 2015

Decrease in macrolide resistance and clonal instability among Streptococcus pyogenes in Portugal.

scientific article published on 21 November 2008

Decreasing incidence and changes in serotype distribution of invasive pneumococcal disease in persons aged under 18 years since introduction of 10-valent and 13-valent conjugate vaccines in Portugal, July 2008 to June 2012.

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

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Description of plasmid pSM52, harbouring the gene for the Smr efflux pump, and its involvement in resistance to biocides in a meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain.

scientific article published on 21 February 2013

Differences between macrolide-resistant and -susceptible Streptococcus pyogenes: importance of clonal properties in addition to antibiotic consumption

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Distinct epidemiology and resistance mechanisms affecting ceftolozane/tazobactam in Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates recovered from ICU patients in Spain and Portugal depicted by WGS

scientific article published on 25 October 2020

Distribution and characterization of Listeria monocytogenes clinical isolates in Portugal, 1994-2007.

scientific article published on 20 June 2010

Distribution of pilus islands in Streptococcus agalactiae that cause human infections: insights into evolution and implication for vaccine development

scientific article published on 26 December 2012

Diversity of chromosomal AmpC beta-lactamases from Enterobacter cloacae isolates in a Portuguese hospital

scientific article published on January 2004

Diversity of plasmids in Staphylococcus saprophyticus isolated from urinary tract infections in women

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Dominance of serotype Ia among group B Streptococci causing invasive infections in nonpregnant adults in Portugal

scientific article published on 4 January 2012

Dominance of vaccine serotypes in pediatric invasive pneumococcal infections in Portugal (2012-2015)

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Emergence of optochin resistance among Streptococcus pneumoniae in Portugal.

scientific article published in January 2006

Emergence of the Same Successful Clade among Distinct Populations of emm89 Streptococcus pyogenes in Multiple Geographic Regions.

scientific article published in December 2015

Epidemiological survey of the first case of vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in Europe

scientific article published on 5 June 2014

Esporogonic Cycle of Plasmodium Falciparum in A Human Blood Sample

scientific article published on 28 August 2020

Evidence for rare capsular switching in Streptococcus agalactiae

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Evolving epidemiology of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in Portugal: 2012 retrospective cohort at a tertiary hospital in Lisbon

scientific article published on 19 November 2015

Exceptionally high representation of Burkholderia cepacia among B. cepacia complex isolates recovered from the major Portuguese cystic fibrosis center

scientific article published on 14 March 2007

Expanding the diagnosis of pediatric bacteremic pneumococcal pneumonia from blood cultures to molecular methods: advantages and caveats.

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Exploring the contribution of efflux on the resistance to fluoroquinolones in clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus

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Export of the pneumococcal phage SV1 lysin requires choline-containing teichoic acids and is holin-independent.

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

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Extreme parasitemia in malaria

scholarly article by Ana Branco & José Melo-Cristino published 23 August 2018 in Blood

Feasibility of introducing rejection criteria for stool cultures in a teaching hospital in Portugal

scientific article published in February 2002

Fifteen years of a nationwide culture collection of Neisseria gonorrhoeae antimicrobial resistance in Portugal

scientific article published on 03 June 2020

First Description of Colistin and Tigecycline-Resistant Producing KPC-3 Carbapenemase in Portugal

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First case of infection with vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Europe

scientific article published on 21 June 2013

First description of CTX-M-15-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in Portugal

scientific article published on January 2005

First report of Morganella morganii producing CTX-M-15 beta-lactamase.

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Fluoroquinolone resistance in Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis and evidence for a shared global gene pool with Streptococcus pyogenes.

scientific article published on 9 February 2010

Gonorrhea in a Tertiary Care Portuguese Hospital: a 10-year Retrospective Study of the Evolution of Cases and Drug Resistance of the Isolates

scientific article published on 27 September 2020

Group A streptococci clones associated with invasive infections and pharyngitis in Portugal present differences in emm types, superantigen gene content and antimicrobial resistance

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Group B Streptococcal Neonatal and Early Infancy Infections in Iceland 1976 - 2015

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Group B streptococci causing neonatal infections in barcelona are a stable clonal population: 18-year surveillance.

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Growth of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in conventional BacT/ALERT FA blood culture bottles allows reliable diagnosis of Mycobacteremia.

scientific article published on February 2005

Haemozoin detection in infected erythrocytes for Plasmodium falciparum malaria diagnosis-prospects and limitations.

scientific article published on 22 March 2012

Heterogeneity of penicillin-non-susceptible group B streptococci isolated from a single patient in Germany

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Heterogeneity of pneumococcal phase variants in invasive human infections.

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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.

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Identification of TEM-10 beta-lactamase in a Kluyvera sp. and other Enterobacteriaceae at a Portuguese hospital

scientific article published on December 2002

Identification of immunoreactive extracellular proteins of Streptococcus agalactiae in bovine mastitis

scientific article published on 01 November 2008

Identification of macrolide-resistant clones of Streptococcus pyogenes in Portugal.

scientific article published in June 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 efflux in the development of multidrug resistance phenotypes in Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 24 October 2015

In vitro activity of ceftolozane-tazobactam against Enterobacterales and Pseudomonas aeruginosa causing urinary, intra-abdominal and lower respiratory tract infections in intensive care units in Portugal: The STEP multicenter study

scientific article published on 08 January 2020

In vitro design of a novel lytic bacteriophage cocktail with therapeutic potential against organisms causing diabetic foot infections.

scientific article published on 28 May 2014

Incidence of Burkholderia contaminans at a cystic fibrosis centre with an unusually high representation of Burkholderia cepacia during 15 years of epidemiological surveillance.

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International quality control of phage typing of Staphylococcus aureus. International Union of Microbial Societies Subcommittee.

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Invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae from Portugal: implications for vaccination and antimicrobial therapy

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Limitation of malaria diagnosis with the Cell-Dyn® analyser: not all haemozoin-containing monocytes are detected or shown

scientific article published on 4 April 2011

Macrolide resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated from patients with community-acquired lower respiratory tract infections in Portugal: results of a 3-year (1999-2001) multicenter surveillance study

scientific article published in January 2003

Macrolide-resistant Streptococcus pyogenes: prevalence and treatment strategies.

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Malaria diagnosis with the haematology analyser Cell-Dyn 3500: What does the instrument detect?

scientific article published in October 2000

Mannose inhibition as a significant marker for differentiating among novobiocin-resistant staphylococci of relevance in clinical microbiology.

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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

Methaemoglobin and COHb in patients with malaria

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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a 6-month survey in a Lisbon paediatric hospital

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

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Molecular characterization of a new class 3 integron in Klebsiella pneumoniae

scientific article published on September 2003

Molecular typing, virulence traits and antimicrobial resistance of diabetic foot staphylococci

scientific article published on 8 March 2016

Multilocus sequence analysis of Streptococcus canis confirms the zoonotic origin of human infections and reveals genetic exchange with Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis.

scientific article published on 23 January 2013

New chromosomal AmpC beta-lactamase in Enterobacter cloacae. ⬇️

scientific article published in April 2004

Non-invasive pneumococcal pneumonia in Portugal--serotype distribution and antimicrobial resistance

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Nonoutbreak surveillance of group A streptococci causing invasive disease in Portugal identified internationally disseminated clones among members of a genetically heterogeneous population

scientific article published on 25 April 2007

Optimal control and analysis of two-color genomotyping experiments using bacterial multistrain arrays

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Outbreak of GES-1 beta-lactamase-producing multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in a university hospital in Lisbon, Portugal

scientific article published on April 2003

PCR based differentiation between Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis strains isolated from humans and horses.

scientific article published on 26 April 2014

PHYLOViZ: phylogenetic inference and data visualization for sequence based typing methods.

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Pediatric Complicated Pneumonia Caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae Serotype 3 in 13-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccinees, Portugal, 2010-2015

scientific article published in July 2018

Persistence of a single clone of Streptococcus agalactiae causing disease in tilapia (Oreochromis sp.) cultured in Colombia over 8 years.

scientific article published on 2 February 2015

Persistence of uropathogenic Escherichia coli strains in the host for long periods of time: relationship between phylogenetic groups and virulence factors

scholarly article by Ana Narciso et al published 12 October 2011 in European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

Phage typing of Staphylococcus saprophyticus

scientific article published on December 1991

Pherotype influences biofilm growth and recombination in Streptococcus pneumoniae

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Pherotypes are driving genetic differentiation within Streptococcus pneumoniae.

scientific article published on 7 September 2009

Plasmid analysis of 219 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains with uncommon profiles isolated in Lisbon

scientific article published on 01 February 1989

Plasmid-Borne Antimicrobial Resistance of Staphylococcus aureus Isolated in a Hospital in Lisbon, Portugal

scientific article published on 16 June 2016

Polymicrobial biofilms by diabetic foot clinical isolates.

scientific article published on 24 June 2015

Population Structure of Streptococcus pneumoniae Causing Invasive Disease in Adults in Portugal before PCV13 Availability for Adults: 2008-2011.

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Population genetics of Streptococcus dysgalactiae subspecies equisimilis reveals widely dispersed clones and extensive recombination

scientific article (publication date: 23 July 2010)

Promastigotes of Leishmania spp. developing in human bone marrow in vitro

scientific article published on 18 September 2020

Prophage spontaneous activation promotes DNA release enhancing biofilm formation in Streptococcus pneumoniae

scientific article (publication date: 20 December 2010)

Quality assessment of glycopeptide susceptibility tests: a European collaborative study. European Glycopeptide Resistance Group

scientific article published on 01 January 1997

Rapid inversion of the prevalences of macrolide resistance phenotypes paralleled by a diversification of T and emm types among Streptococcus pyogenes in Portugal

scientific article published on May 2005

Reevaluating the serotype II capsular locus of Streptococcus agalactiae

scientific article published on 22 August 2007

Resistance to Antimicrobials Mediated by Efflux Pumps in Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 13 March 2013

Scarlet fever is caused by a limited number of Streptococcus pyogenes lineages and is associated with the exotoxin genes ssa, speA and speC.

scientific article published on March 2014

Screening of auramine-stained smears of all fecal samples is a rapid and inexpensive way to increase the detection of coccidial infections

scientific article published on 27 June 2007

Seroprevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in COVID-19 patients and healthy volunteers up to six months post disease onset

scientific article published on 21 October 2020

Serotype 3 Remains the Leading Cause of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in Adults in Portugal (2012-2014) Despite Continued Reductions in Other 13-Valent Conjugate Vaccine Serotypes

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Serotype changes in adult invasive pneumococcal infections in Portugal did not reduce the high fraction of potentially vaccine preventable infections

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Serotype discrimination of encapsulated Streptococcus pneumoniae strains by Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy and chemometrics.

scientific article published on 13 March 2013

Serotypes 1, 7F and 19A became the leading causes of pediatric invasive pneumococcal infections in Portugal after 7 years of heptavalent conjugate vaccine use.

scientific article published on 15 June 2010

Streptococcus agalactiae Causing Neonatal Infections in Portugal (2005-2015): Diversification and Emergence of a CC17/PI-2b Multidrug Resistant Sublineage

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Streptococcus agalactiae in a large Portuguese teaching hospital: antimicrobial susceptibility, serotype distribution, and clonal analysis of macrolide-resistant isolates

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Streptococcus agalactiae serotype Ib as an agent of meningitis in two adult nonpregnant women

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Streptococcus pyogenes isolated in Portugal: macrolide resistance phenotypes and correlation with T types. Portuguese Surveillance Group for the Study of Respiratory Pathogens.

scientific article published in January 1999

Superantigen gene complement of Streptococcus pyogenes--relationship with other typing methods and short-term stability

scientific article published on 31 August 2012

Survey of Klebsiella pneumoniae producing extended-spectrum beta-lactamases at a Portuguese hospital: TEM-10 as the endemic enzyme

scientific article published on 01 May 2000

Survey of extended-spectrum beta-lactamases in Escherichia coli isolates from a Portuguese hospital and characterisation of a novel class 1 integron (In60A) carrying the blaCTX-M-9 gene.

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Susceptibility patterns of Staphylococcus aureus biofilms in diabetic foot infections.

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The Viriato study: update on antimicrobial resistance of microbial pathogens responsible for community-acquired respiratory tract infections in Portugal.

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The autolysin LytA contributes to efficient bacteriophage progeny release in Streptococcus pneumoniae

scientific article published on 6 July 2009

The case of the disappearing mycobacteria in Ziehl–Neelsen-stained smears

scientific article published on 12 February 2011

The control of hospital infection in Portugal.

scientific article published in June 2002

The majority of adult pneumococcal invasive infections in Portugal are still potentially vaccine preventable in spite of significant declines of serotypes 1 and 5.

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The presence of the pilus locus is a clonal property among pneumococcal invasive isolates. ⬇️

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Updated model of group A Streptococcus M proteins based on a comprehensive worldwide study

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Use of flow cytometry (Sysmex) UF-100) to screen for positive urine cultures: in search for the ideal cut-off

scientific article published on 01 February 2010

Use of fluorescence in situ hybridization for rapid identification of staphylococci in blood culture samples collected in a Portuguese hospital

scientific article published on 18 June 2008

Use of the 13-valent conjugate vaccine has the potential to eliminate pilus carrying isolates as causes of invasive pneumococcal disease

scientific article published on 29 June 2012

Usefulness of Myco/F Lytic blood cultures (Bactec 9050) in the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteraemia in HIV-infected patients in Portugal.

scientific article published in July 2004

Variation of the antimicrobial susceptibility profiles of Burkholderia cepacia complex clonal isolates obtained from chronically infected cystic fibrosis patients: a five-year survey in the major Portuguese treatment center.

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Virulence and resistance determinants of Klebsiella pneumoniae isolated from a Portuguese tertiary university hospital centre over a 31-year period

scientific article published on 12 December 2018

Wound healing potential of topical bacteriophage therapy on diabetic cutaneous wounds

scientific article published on 11 June 2013

[Short-term relevance of lower respiratory viral coinfection in inpatients under 2 years of age].

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serotype 3 in Mexico (1994-2017): decrease of the unusual CC4909 lineage post-PCV13 introduction

scientific article published on 02 January 2019

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