Puzzling Over the Pneumococcal Pangenome

by N. Luisa Hiller, N. Luisa Hiller, Raquel Sá-Leão, Raquel Sá-Leão
Published 2018-10-01

Periodic cycles of pneumococcal serotypes carried by children before and after 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.

by Ana Cristina Paulo, Raquel Sá-Leão
Published 2017-01-01

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 conjug...

by Sónia T Almeida, Hermínia de Lencastre, Raquel Sá-Leão
Published 2013-01-01

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

Multiple-locus variable number tandem repeat analysis for Streptococcus pneumoniae: comparison with PFGE and MLST.

by Karin E M Elberse, Sónia Nunes, Raquel Sá-Leão, Han G J van der Heide, Leo M Schouls
Published 2011-01-01

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

Serotype Distribution, Antibiotic Resistance and Clonality of Streptococcus pneumoniae Isolated from Immunocompromised Patients in Tunisia.

by Anis Raddaoui, Alexandra S Simões, Rekaya Baaboura, Sofia Félix, Wafa Achour, Tarek Ben Othman, Mohamed Béjaoui, Raquel Sá-Leão, Assia Ben Hassen
Published 2015-01-01

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

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

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

Serotypes and Clonal Diversity of Streptococcus pneumoniae Causing Invasive Disease in the Era of PCV13 in Catalonia, Spain.

by Eva Del Amo, Cristina Esteva, Susanna Hernandez-Bou, Carmen Galles, Marian Navarro, Goretti Sauca, Alvaro Diaz, Paula Gassiot, Carmina Marti, Nieves Larrosa, Pilar Ciruela, Mireia Jane, Raquel Sá-Leão, Carmen Muñoz-Almagro, Catalan Study Group of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease
Published 2016-01-01

The role of interspecies recombination in the evolution of antibiotic-resistant pneumococci

by Joshua C D'Aeth, Mark PG van der Linden, Lesley McGee, Herminia de Lencastre, Paul Turner, Jae-Hoon Song, Stephanie W Lo, Rebecca A Gladstone, Raquel Sá-Leão, Kwan Soo Ko, William P Hanage, Robert F Breiman, Bernard Beall, Stephen D Bentley, Nicholas J Croucher, The GPS Consortium
Published 2021-07-01

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

by N Luisa Hiller, Rory A Eutsey, Evan Powell, Joshua P Earl, Benjamin Janto, Darren P Martin, Suzanne Dawid, Azad Ahmed, Mark J Longwell, Margaret E Dahlgren, Suzanne Ezzo, Herve Tettelin, Sean C Daugherty, Timothy J Mitchell, Todd A Hillman, Farrel J Buchinsky, Alexander Tomasz, Herminia de Lencastre, Raquel Sá-Leão, J Christopher Post, Fen Z Hu, Garth D Ehrlich
Published 2011-01-01