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

by Roméo Rocha Simões, Marta Aires-de-Sousa, Teresa Conceição, Filipa Antunes, Paulo Martins da Costa, Hermínia de Lencastre
Published 2011-03-01

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

by Dora Rolo, Alexandra S Simões, Arnau Domenech, Asunción Fenoll, Josefina Liñares, Hermínia de Lencastre, Carmen Ardanuy, Raquel Sá-Leão
Published 2013-01-01

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

by Diana Espadinha, Nuno A Faria, Maria Miragaia, Luís Marques Lito, José Melo-Cristino, Hermínia de Lencastre, Médicos Sentinela Network
Published 2013-01-01

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

by Carina Valente, Jason Hinds, Francisco Pinto, Silvio D Brugger, Katherine Gould, Kathrin Mühlemann, Hermínia de Lencastre, Raquel Sá-Leão
Published 2012-01-01

Staphylococcus saprophyticus From Clinical and Environmental Origins Have Distinct Biofilm Composition

by Opeyemi U. Lawal, Opeyemi U. Lawal, Marta Barata, Maria J. Fraqueza, Peder Worning, Mette D. Bartels, Luisa Goncalves, Paulo Paixão, Elsa Goncalves, Cristina Toscano, Joanna Empel, Malgorzata Urbaś, Maria A. Domiìnguez, Henrik Westh, Henrik Westh, Hermínia de Lencastre, Hermínia de Lencastre, Maria Miragaia
Published 2021-06-01

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

by Ana Tavares, Jesper B Nielsen, Kit Boye, Susanne Rohde, Ana C Paulo, Henrik Westh, Kristian Schønning, Hermínia de Lencastre, Maria Miragaia
Published 2014-01-01

Genomic Characterization of the Emerging Pathogen Streptococcus pseudopneumoniae

by Geneviève Garriss, Priyanka Nannapaneni, Alexandra S. Simões, Sarah Browall, Karthik Subramanian, Raquel Sá-Leão, Herman Goossens, Herminia de Lencastre, Birgitta Henriques-Normark
Published 2019-06-01

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

by Nelson Frazão, N Luisa Hiller, Evan Powell, Josh Earl, Azad Ahmed, Raquel Sá-Leão, Hermínia de Lencastre, Garth D Ehrlich, Alexander Tomasz
Published 2013-01-01

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

by Davida S Smyth, Linda K McDougal, Frode W Gran, Anand Manoharan, Mark C Enright, Jae-Hoon Song, Herminia de Lencastre, D Ashley Robinson
Published 2010-01-01

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

by Teresa A Figueiredo, Rita G Sobral, Ana Madalena Ludovice, João Manuel Feio de Almeida, Nhat K Bui, Waldemar Vollmer, Hermínia de Lencastre, Alexander Tomasz
Published 2012-01-01

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

by Sónia T Almeida, Sónia Nunes, Ana Cristina Santos Paulo, Idalina Valadares, Sara Martins, Fátima Breia, António Brito-Avô, Ana Morais, Hermínia de Lencastre, Raquel Sá-Leão
Published 2014-01-01

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

by Catriona P. Harkins, Bruno Pichon, Michel Doumith, Julian Parkhill, Henrik Westh, Alexander Tomasz, Herminia de Lencastre, Stephen D. Bentley, Angela M. Kearns, Matthew T. G. Holden
Published 2017-07-01

Absence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization among immunocompetent healthy adults: Insights from a longitudinal study.

by Sónia T Almeida, A Cristina Paulo, João Babo, João Borralho, Catarina Figueiredo, Bruno Gonçalves, João Lança, Mónica Louro, Hermes Morais, Joana Queiroz, Hermínia de Lencastre, Raquel Sá-Leão
Published 2021-01-01

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

by Joana Rolo, Maria Miragaia, Agata Turlej-Rogacka, Joanna Empel, Ons Bouchami, Nuno A Faria, Ana Tavares, Waleria Hryniewicz, Ad C Fluit, Hermínia de Lencastre, CONCORD Working Group
Published 2012-01-01

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

by Liangfen Zhang, Jonathan C Thomas, Maria Miragaia, Ons Bouchami, Fernando Chaves, Pedro A d'Azevedo, David M Aanensen, Herminia de Lencastre, Barry M Gray, D Ashley Robinson
Published 2013-01-01

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

by Joana Rolo, Peder Worning, Jesper Boye Nielsen, Rita Sobral, Rory Bowden, Ons Bouchami, Peter Damborg, Luca Guardabassi, Vincent Perreten, Henrik Westh, Alexander Tomasz, Hermínia de Lencastre, Maria Miragaia
Published 2017-04-01

Genetic diversity of arginine catabolic mobile element in Staphylococcus epidermidis.

by Maria Miragaia, Herminia de Lencastre, Francoise Perdreau-Remington, Henry F Chambers, Julie Higashi, Paul M Sullam, Jessica Lin, Kester I Wong, Katherine A King, Michael Otto, George F Sensabaugh, Binh An Diep
Published 2009-11-01

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

by Sebastiaan J. van Hal, Eike J. Steinig, Eike J. Steinig, Patiyan Andersson, Matthew T. G. Holden, Matthew T. G. Holden, Simon R. Harris, Graeme R. Nimmo, Deborah A. Williamson, Helen Heffernan, S. R. Ritchie, Angela M. Kearns, Matthew J. Ellington, Elizabeth Dickson, Herminia de Lencastre, Herminia de Lencastre, Geoffrey W. Coombs, Geoffrey W. Coombs, Stephen D. Bentley, Julian Parkhill, Deborah C. Holt, Phillip M. Giffard, Steven Y. C. Tong, Steven Y. C. Tong
Published 2018-07-01

Clinical and molecular epidemiology of invasive Staphylococcus aureus infection in Utah children; continued dominance of MSSA over MRSA

by Hillary Crandall, Aurélie Kapusta, Jarrett Killpack, Carly Heyrend, Kody Nilsson, Mandy Dickey, Judy A. Daly, Krow Ampofo, Andrew T. Pavia, Matthew A. Mulvey, Mark Yandell, Kristina G. Hulten, Anne J. Blaschke, Herminia de Lencastre
Published 2020-01-01

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

by Maria Pardos de la Gandara, Marie Curry, Judith Berger, David Burstein, Phyllis Della-Latta, Virgina Kopetz, John Quale, Eric Spitzer, Rexie Tan, Carl Urban, Guiqing Wang, Susan Whittier, Herminia de Lencastre, Alexander Tomasz
Published 2016-01-01