Maria Miragaia
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Lawal O, Barata M, Fraqueza M, Worning P, Bartels M, Goncalves L, et al.
Front Microbiol
. 2021 Jun;
12:663768.
PMID: 34163443
Biofilm formation has been shown to be critical to the success of uropathogens. Although is a common cause of urinary tract infections, its biofilm production capacity, composition, genetic basis, and...
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Lawal O, Fraqueza M, Worning P, Bouchami O, Bartels M, Goncalves L, et al.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother
. 2021 May;
65(7):e0268520.
PMID: 33941519
Staphylococcus saprophyticus is a common pathogen of the urinary tract, a heavy metal-rich environment, but information regarding its heavy metal resistance is unknown. We investigated 422 S. saprophyticus isolates from...
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Lawal O, Fraqueza M, Bouchami O, Worning P, Bartels M, Goncalves M, et al.
Emerg Infect Dis
. 2021 Feb;
27(3):880-893.
PMID: 33622483
Staphylococcus saprophyticus is a primary cause of community-acquired urinary tract infections (UTIs) in young women. S. saprophyticus colonizes humans and animals but basic features of its molecular epidemiology are undetermined....
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Bouchami O, Fraqueza M, Faria N, Alves V, Lawal O, de Lencastre H, et al.
Microorganisms
. 2020 Dec;
8(12).
PMID: 33260448
Livestock-associated methicillin-resistant (LA-MRSA) ST398 was recovered from infections in humans exposed to animals, raising public health concerns. However, contact with food producing chain as a means of transmission of LA-MRSA...
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Espadinha D, Sobral R, Mendes C, Meric G, Sheppard S, Carrico J, et al.
Front Microbiol
. 2019 Sep;
10:1971.
PMID: 31507574
is a common skin commensal that has emerged as a pathogen in hospitals, mainly related to medical devices-associated infections. Noteworthy, infection rates by have the tendency to rise steeply in...
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Meric G, Mageiros L, Pensar J, Laabei M, Yahara K, Pascoe B, et al.
Nat Commun
. 2018 Nov;
9(1):5034.
PMID: 30487573
Some of the most common infectious diseases are caused by bacteria that naturally colonise humans asymptomatically. Combating these opportunistic pathogens requires an understanding of the traits that differentiate infecting strains...
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Miragaia M
Front Microbiol
. 2018 Nov;
9:2723.
PMID: 30483235
The understanding of the mechanisms of antibiotic resistance development are fundamental to alert and preview beforehand, the large scale dissemination of resistance to antibiotics, enabling the design of strategies to...
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Alves M, Bouchami O, Tavares A, Cordoba L, Santos C, Miragaia M, et al.
ACS Appl Mater Interfaces
. 2017 Aug;
9(34):28157-28167.
PMID: 28782933
ZnO nanoparticles (NPs) are arising as promising novel antibiotics toward device-related infections. The surface functionalization of Zn, a novel resorbable biomaterial, with ZnO NPs could present an effective solution to...
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Rolo J, Worning P, Nielsen J, Sobral R, Bowden R, Bouchami O, et al.
PLoS Genet
. 2017 Apr;
13(4):e1006674.
PMID: 28394942
The epidemiologically most important mechanism of antibiotic resistance in Staphylococcus aureus is associated with mecA-an acquired gene encoding an extra penicillin-binding protein (PBP2a) with low affinity to virtually all β-lactams....
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Rolo J, Worning P, Nielsen J, Bowden R, Bouchami O, Damborg P, et al.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother
. 2017 Apr;
61(6).
PMID: 28373201
Several lines of evidence indicate that the most primitive staphylococcal species, those of the group, were involved in the first stages of evolution of the staphylococcal cassette chromosome (SCC), the...