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Maria Jose Borrego

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Jacobsson S, Golparian D, Cole M, Spiteri G, Martin I, Bergheim T, et al.
J Antimicrob Chemother . 2016 Jul; 71(11):3109-3116. PMID: 27432597
Objectives: To elucidate the genome-based epidemiology and phylogenomics of azithromycin-resistant (MIC >2 mg/L) Neisseria gonorrhoeae strains collected in 2009-14 in Europe and clarify the azithromycin resistance mechanisms. Methods: Seventy-five azithromycin-resistant...
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Ferreira R, Antelo M, Nunes A, Borges V, Damiao V, Borrego M, et al.
G3 (Bethesda) . 2014 Nov; 5(1):9-19. PMID: 25378473
Microbes possess a multiplicity of virulence factors that confer them the ability to specifically infect distinct biological niches. Contrary to what is known for other bacteria, for the obligate intracellular...
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da Cunha M, Milho C, Almeida F, Pais S, Borges V, Mauricio R, et al.
BMC Microbiol . 2014 Feb; 14:40. PMID: 24533538
Background: Chlamydia trachomatis is an obligate intracellular human pathogen causing ocular and urogenital infections that are a significant clinical and public health concern. This bacterium uses a type III secretion...
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Silva S, Henriques R, Borrego M, Gomes J, Afonso E
Lancet Infect Dis . 2013 May; 13(6):475-6. PMID: 23718919
No abstract available.
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Ferreira R, Borges V, Nunes A, Borrego M, Gomes J
Microbiol Res . 2013 Apr; 168(6):333-339. PMID: 23590987
Chlamydia trachomatis maintain a conserved plasmid, which is a primary regulator of chromosomal genes, but there is no experimental evidences associating it with the strains' differential tissue tropism (ocular and...
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Almeida F, Borges V, Ferreira R, Borrego M, Gomes J, Mota L
J Bacteriol . 2012 Oct; 194(23):6574-85. PMID: 23042990
Chlamydia trachomatis is a human bacterial pathogen that multiplies only within an intracellular membrane-bound vacuole, the inclusion. C. trachomatis includes ocular and urogenital strains, usually causing infections restricted to epithelial...
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Silva S, Henriques R, Gomes J, Borrego M, Afonso E
Lancet Infect Dis . 2012 Sep; 12(10):816. PMID: 23017366
No abstract available.
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Ferreira R, Borges V, Nunes A, Nogueira P, Borrego M, Gomes J
G3 (Bethesda) . 2012 Aug; 2(7):761-8. PMID: 22870399
The knowledge of the frequency and relative weight of mutation and recombination events in evolution is essential for understanding how microorganisms reach fitted phenotypes. Traditionally, these evolutionary parameters have been...
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Gomes J, Nunes A, Florindo C, Ferreira M, Santo I, Azevedo J, et al.
Sex Transm Dis . 2009 Jan; 36(2):88-91. PMID: 19125144
Background: Several European countries identified an ongoing LGV outbreak, particularly among men who have sex with men (MSM). In Portugal, no particular surveillance measures were launched. Nonetheless, circulating LGV strains...
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Betsou F, Borrego M, Guillaume N, Catry M, Romao S, Machado-Caetano J, et al.
Clin Diagn Lab Immunol . 2003 May; 10(3):446-50. PMID: 12738647
Chlamydia trachomatis heat shock protein 10 (Chsp10) is associated with chronic genital tract infection with C. trachomatis. Chsp10 is homologous to human chaperonin 10 (Cpn10) and early pregnancy factor (EPF),...