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Diana Espadinha; Nuno Faria; Luís Marques Lito; José Melo-Cristino; Maria Miragaia; Hermínia de Lencastre
Extensive Dissemination of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) between the Hospital and the Community in a Country with a High Prevalence of Nosocomial MRSA.
Dora Luísa Bispo Rolo; Alexandra S Simões; Carmen Ardanuy; Hermínia de Lencastre; Alejandro Domenech; Asunción Fenoll; Josefina Liñares; Raquel Sá-Leão
Disease isolates of Streptococcus pseudopneumoniae and non-typeable S. pneumoniae presumptively identified as atypical S. pneumoniae in Spain.
Carina Valente; Hermínia de Lencastre; Raquel Sá-Leão
Pherotypes of co-colonizing pneumococci among Portuguese children.

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2013: Diana Espadinha; Nuno Faria; Luís Marques Lito; José Melo-Cristino; Maria Miragaia; Hermínia de Lencastre
Extensive Dissemination of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) between the Hospital and the Community in a Country with a High Prevalence of Nosocomial MRSA.
PloS one 2013;8(4):e59960.
2013: Dora Luísa Bispo Rolo; Alexandra S Simões; Carmen Ardanuy; Hermínia de Lencastre; Alejandro Domenech; Asunción Fenoll; Josefina Liñares; Raquel Sá-Leão
Disease isolates of Streptococcus pseudopneumoniae and non-typeable S. pneumoniae presumptively identified as atypical S. pneumoniae in Spain.
PloS one 2013;8(2):e57047.
2012: Carina Valente; Hermínia de Lencastre; Raquel Sá-Leão
Pherotypes of co-colonizing pneumococci among Portuguese children.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) 2012;18(6):550-4.
2012: Choonkeun Kim; Catarina Milheiriço; Hermínia de Lencastre; Susana Gardete; Matt T G Holden; Mark A Holmes; Alexander Tomasz
Properties of a novel PBP2A protein homolog from Staphylococcus aureus strain LGA251 and its contribution to the β-lactam-resistant phenotype.
The Journal of biological chemistry 2012;287(44):36854-63.
2012: Teruyo Ito; Joseph F John; Angela M Kearns; Kwan Soo Ko; Barry Kreiswirth; Frederic Laurent; Frances O'Brien; Duarte C Oliveira; Vincent Perreten; Robert L Skov; Bo Soderquist; Johanna E Sollid; Fred C Tenover; Alexander Tomasz; Henrik Westh; Kunyan Zhang; Susan Boyle-Vavra; Girbe Buist; David C Coleman; Robert Daum; Hermínia de Lencastre; Philip M Giffard; Richard Goering; Hajo Grundmann; Keiichi Hiramatsu; Matthew T G Holden
Guidelines for reporting novel mecA gene homologues.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 2012;56(10):4997-9.
2012: Sofia Fernandes; Clara Leandro; Sara Lourenço; Catarina Milheiriço; Madalena Pimentel; Daniela Proença; Cátia Cantante; Patrícia Cavaco-Silva; Hermínia de Lencastre; Filipa Antunes Silva; Carlos São-José
Novel chimerical endolysins with broad antimicrobial activity against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) 2012;18(3):333-43.
2012: Joana Rolo; Hermínia de Lencastre; Maria Miragaia
Strategies of adaptation of Staphylococcus epidermidis to hospital and community: amplification and diversification of SCCmec.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy 2012;67(6):1333-41.
2012: T Conceição; Marta Aires de Sousa; Rosalina Barroso; Maria João Brito; Helena Carreiro; Germano de Sousa; Maria do Céu Machado; Maria Miragaia; Elsa Paulino; Luísa Sancho; Teresa Sardinha; Hermínia de Lencastre
Staphylococcus aureus reservoirs and transmission routes in a Portuguese Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: a 30-month surveillance study.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) 2012;18(2):116-24.
2012: O Bouchami; Hermínia de Lencastre; A Ben Hassen; Maria Miragaia
High prevalence of mec complex C and ccrC is independent of SCCmec type V in Staphylococcus haemolyticus.
European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology 2012;31(4):605-14.
2012: Pedro Arêde; Hermínia de Lencastre; Catarina Milheiriço; Duarte C Oliveira
The anti-repressor MecR2 promotes the proteolysis of the mecA repressor and enables optimal expression of β-lactam resistance in MRSA.
PLoS pathogens 2012;8(7):e1002816.
2012: Joana Rolo; Ana Tavares; Agata Turlej-Rogacka; Ons Bouchami; Hermínia de Lencastre; Joanna Empel; Nuno Faria; Ad C Fluit; Waleria Hryniewicz; Maria Miragaia
High genetic diversity among community-associated Staphylococcus aureus in Europe: results from a multicenter study.
PloS one 2012;7(4):e34768.
2012: Teresa A Figueiredo; Ana Madalena Ludovice; Rita G Sobral; Waldemar Vollmer; João Manuel Feio de Almeida; Hermínia de Lencastre; Nhat K Bui; Alexander Tomasz
Identification of genetic determinants and enzymes involved with the amidation of glutamic acid residues in the peptidoglycan of Staphylococcus aureus.
PLoS pathogens 2012;8(1):e1002508.
2012: Carina Valente; Silvio D Brugger; Hermínia de Lencastre; Katherine Gould; Jason Hinds; Kathrin Mühlemann; Francisco Pinto; Raquel Sá-Leão
Decrease in pneumococcal co-colonization following vaccination with the seven-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.
PloS one 2012;7(1):e30235.
2011: Alexandra S Simões; Carina Valente; Hermínia de Lencastre; Raquel Sá-Leão
Rapid identification of noncapsulated Streptococcus pneumoniae in nasopharyngeal samples allowing detection of co-colonization and reevaluation of prevalence.
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease 2011;71(3):208-16.
2011: Alexandra S Simões; António Brito-Avô; Hermínia de Lencastre; Sónia Nunes; Liliana Pereira; Raquel Sá-Leão
Clonal evolution leading to maintenance of antibiotic resistance rates among colonizing Pneumococci in the PCV7 era in Portugal.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2011;49(8):2810-7.
2011: Raquel Sá-Leão; Francisco R Pinto; Sandra Aguiar; Sónia Nunes; Joao Carrico; Nelson Frazão; Natacha Gonçalves-Sousa; José Melo-Cristino; Hermínia de Lencastre; Mario ramirez
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.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2011;49(4):1369-75.
2011: T Conceição; Marta Aires de Sousa; N Pona; M J Brito; C Barradas; R Coelho; T Sardinha; L Sancho; G de Sousa; M do Céu Machado; Hermínia de Lencastre
High prevalence of ST121 in community-associated methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus lineages responsible for skin and soft tissue infections in Portuguese children.
European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology 2011;30(2):293-7.
2011: Duarte C Oliveira; Hermínia de Lencastre
Methicillin-resistance in Staphylococcus aureus is not affected by the overexpression in trans of the mecA gene repressor: a surprising observation.
PloS one 2011;6(8):e23287.
2011: Helena Deus; Ronan Fox; Wolfgang Maass; Maria Miragaia; Romesh Stanislaus; Miriã C Correa; Hermínia de Lencastre; Jonas Almeida
S3QL: a distributed domain specific language for controlled semantic integration of life sciences data.
BMC bioinformatics 2011;12():285.
2011: Catarina Milheiriço; Ana Portelinha; Ludwig Krippahl; Hermínia de Lencastre; Duarte C Oliveira
Evidence for a purifying selection acting on the β-lactamase locus in epidemic clones of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
BMC microbiology 2011;11():76.
2011: Roméo Rocha Simões; Marta Aires de Sousa; Teresa Conceição; Filipa Antunes; Paulo Martins da Costa; Hermínia de Lencastre
High prevalence of EMRSA-15 in Portuguese public buses: a worrisome finding.
PloS one 2011;6(3):e17630.
2010: T Conceição; A Tavares; Maria Miragaia; K Hyde; Marta Aires de Sousa; Hermínia de Lencastre
Prevalence and clonality of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in the Atlantic Azores islands: predominance of SCCmec types IV, V and VI.
European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology 2010;29(5):543-50.
2010: Nelson Frazão; Raquel Sá-Leão; Hermínia de Lencastre
Impact of a single dose of the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine on colonization.
Vaccine 2010;28(19):3445-52.
2010: Simon R Harris; Edward J Feil; Matthew T G Holden; Michael A Quail; Emma K Nickerson; Narisara Chantratita; Susana Gardete; Ana Tavares; Nick Day; Jodi Lindsay; Jonathan D Edgeworth; Hermínia de Lencastre; Julian Parkhill; Sharon J Peacock; Stephen D Bentley
Evolution of MRSA during hospital transmission and intercontinental spread.
Science (New York, N.Y.) 2010;327(5964):469-74.
2010: Débora A Tavares; Raquel Sá-Leão; Maria Miragaia; Hermínia de Lencastre
Large screening of CA-MRSA among Staphylococcus aureus colonizing healthy young children living in two areas (urban and rural) of Portugal.
BMC infectious diseases 2010;10():110.
2010: Davida S Smyth; Linda K McDougal; Frode W Gran; Anand Manoharan; Mark Enright; Jae-Hoon Song; Hermínia de Lencastre; D Ashley Robinson
Population structure of a hybrid clonal group of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, ST239-MRSA-III.
PloS one 2010;5(1):e8582.
2010: Sandra Aguiar; Francisco R Pinto; Sónia Nunes; I Serrano; José Melo-Cristino; Raquel Sá-Leão; Mario ramirez; Hermínia de Lencastre
Denmark14-230 clone as an increasing cause of pneumococcal infection in Portugal within a background of diverse serotype 19A lineages.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2010;48(1):101-8.
2009: Juliana Lamaro-Cardoso; Hermínia de Lencastre; Andre Kipnis; Fabiana Cristina Pimenta; Luciana S C Oliveira; Renato M Oliveira; Simonne S Nouer; Marta Aires de Sousa; Catarina Milheiriço; Ana Lucia S S Andrade
Molecular epidemiology and risk factors for nasal carriage of staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant S. aureus in infants attending day care centers in Brazil.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2009;47(12):3991-7.
2009: Raquel Sá-Leão; Sónia Nunes; António Brito-Avô; Nelson Frazão; A S Simões; M Inês Crisóstomo; A C S Paulo; Joana Saldanha; Ilda Santos-Sanches; Hermínia de Lencastre
Changes in pneumococcal serotypes and antibiotypes carried by vaccinated and unvaccinated day-care centre attendees in Portugal, a country with widespread use of the seven-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 2009;15(11):1002-7.
2009: Xiao Han; Teruyo Ito; Fumihiko Takeuchi; Xiao Xue Ma; Michihiko Takasu; Yoshio Uehara; Duarte C Oliveira; Hermínia de Lencastre; Keiichi Hiramatsu
Identification of a novel variant of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec, type II.5, and Its truncated form by insertion of putative conjugative transposon Tn6012.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 2009;53(6):2616-9.
2009: Teresa Conceição; Marta Aires de Sousa; Hermínia de Lencastre
Staphylococcal interspersed repeat unit typing of Staphylococcus aureus: evaluation of a new multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis typing method.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2009;47(5):1300-8.
2009: Maria Luís Amorim; carlos vasconcelos; Duarte C Oliveira; Ana Azevedo; Elsa Calado; Nuno Faria; Marta Pereira; Ana Paula Castro; Alice Moreira; Ernestina Aires; José Manuel Cabeda; Maria H Ramos; José Manuel Amorim; Hermínia de Lencastre
Epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) nasal colonization among patients and healthcare workers in a Portuguese hospital: a pre-intervention study toward the control of MRSA.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) 2009;15(1):19-26.
2009: Sónia Nunes; Carina Valente; Raquel Sá-Leão; Hermínia de Lencastre
Temporal trends and molecular epidemiology of recently described serotype 6C of Streptococcus pneumoniae.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2009;47(2):472-4.
2009: Maria Miragaia; Hermínia 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
Genetic diversity of arginine catabolic mobile element in Staphylococcus epidermidis.
PloS one 2009;4(11):e7722.
2008: Marta Aires de Sousa; Bruno Correia; Hermínia de Lencastre
Changing patterns in frequency of recovery of five methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones in Portuguese hospitals: surveillance over a 16-year period.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2008;46(9):2912-7.
2008: A W Friedrich; Wolfgang Witte; Hermínia de Lencastre; W Hryniewicz; J Scheres; Henrik Westh
A European laboratory network for sequence-based typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) as a communication platform between human and veterinary medicine--an update on SeqNet.org.
Euro surveillance : bulletin Européen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin 2008;13(19):.
2008: Joao Carrico; Mauro Santos; Catarina Milheiriço; João A Carriço; Susana Vinga; Arlindo Oliveira; Hermínia de Lencastre
CcrB typing tool: an online resource for staphylococci ccrB sequence typing.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy 2008;61(4):959-60.
2008: Susana Gardete; Marta Aires de Sousa; A Faustino; Ana Madalena Ludovice; Hermínia de Lencastre
Identification of the first vancomycin intermediate-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VISA) isolate from a hospital in Portugal.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) 2008;14(1):1-6.
2008: Sónia Nunes; Raquel Sá-Leão; Hermínia de Lencastre
Optochin resistance among Streptococcus pneumoniae strains colonizing healthy children in Portugal.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2008;46(1):321-4.
2008: Raquel Sá-Leão; Sónia Nunes; António Brito-Avô; CR Alves; Joao Carrico; Joana Saldanha; Jonas Almeida; Ilda Santos-Sanches; Hermínia de Lencastre
High rates of transmission of and colonization by Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae within a day care center revealed in a longitudinal study.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2008;46(1):225-34.
2008: Maria Miragaia; Joao Carrico; Jonathan C Thomas; Isabel Couto; Mark Enright; Hermínia de Lencastre
Comparison of molecular typing methods for characterization of Staphylococcus epidermidis: proposal for clone definition.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2008;46(1):118-29.
2008: Nuno Faria; Joao Carrico; Duarte C Oliveira; Mario ramirez; Hermínia de Lencastre
Analysis of typing methods for epidemiological surveillance of both methicillin-resistant and methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus strains.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2008;46(1):136-44.
2007: Hermínia de Lencastre; Duarte Oliveira; Alexander Tomasz
Antibiotic resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a paradigm of adaptive power.
Current opinion in microbiology 2007;10(5):428-35.
2007: T Conceição; Marta Aires de Sousa; Miklós Füzi; A Tóth; Judit Pászti; E Ungvári; W B van Leeuwen; Alex Van Belkum; Hajo Grundmann; Hermínia de Lencastre
Replacement of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones in Hungary over time: a 10-year surveillance study.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 2007;13(10):971-9.
2007: Maria Luís Amorim; Nuno Faria; Duarte C Oliveira; carlos vasconcelos; J C Cabeda; Ana Constança Mendes; E Calado; Ana Paula Castro; M H Ramos; José Manuel Amorim; Hermínia de Lencastre
Changes in the clonal nature and antibiotic resistance profiles of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates associated with spread of the EMRSA-15 clone in a tertiary care Portuguese hospital.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2007;45(9):2881-8.
2007: Catarina Milheiriço; Duarte C Oliveira; Hermínia de Lencastre
Update to the multiplex PCR strategy for assignment of mec element types in Staphylococcus aureus.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 2007;51(9):3374-7.
2007: Catarina Milheiriço; Duarte C Oliveira; Hermínia de Lencastre
Multiplex PCR strategy for subtyping the staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec type IV in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: 'SCCmec IV multiplex'.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy 2007;60(1):42-8.
2007: Marta Aires de Sousa; Carlos E S R Parente; Olney Vieira-da-Motta; Isabel C F Bonna; Denise A Silva; Hermínia de Lencastre
Characterization of Staphylococcus aureus isolates from buffalo, bovine, ovine, and caprine milk samples collected in Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil.
Applied and environmental microbiology 2007;73(12):3845-9.
2007: Michael M Mwangi; Shang Wei Wu; Yanjiao Zhou; Krzysztof Sieradzki; Hermínia de Lencastre; Paul Richardson; David Bruce; Edward Rubin; Eugene Myers; Eric D Siggia; Alexander Tomasz
Tracking the in vivo evolution of multidrug resistance in Staphylococcus aureus by whole-genome sequencing.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2007;104(22):9451-6.
2007: S F F Pereira; Adriano O Henriques; Mariana G Pinho; Hermínia de Lencastre; Alexander Tomasz
Role of PBP1 in cell division of Staphylococcus aureus.
Journal of bacteriology 2007;189(9):3525-31.
2007: Maria Miragaia; Jonathan C Thomas; Isabel Couto; Mark Enright; Hermínia de Lencastre
Inferring a population structure for Staphylococcus epidermidis from multilocus sequence typing data.
Journal of bacteriology 2007;189(6):2540-52.
2007: Rita G Sobral; Alison E Jones; Shelley G Des Etages; Thomas J Dougherty; Robert Peitzsch; Terry Gaasterland; Ana Madalena Ludovice; Hermínia de Lencastre; Alexander Tomasz
Extensive and genome-wide changes in the transcription profile of Staphylococcus aureus induced by modulating the transcription of the cell wall synthesis gene murF.
Journal of bacteriology 2007;189(6):2376-91.
2006: Marta Aires de Sousa; T Conceição; Hermínia de Lencastre
Unusually high prevalence of nosocomial Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive Staphylococcus aureus isolates in Cape Verde Islands.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2006;44(10):3790-3.
2006: Duarte C Oliveira; Catarina Milheiriço; Hermínia de Lencastre
Redefining a structural variant of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec, SCCmec type VI.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 2006;50(10):3457-9.
2006: AR Gomes; Henrik Westh; Hermínia de Lencastre
Origins and evolution of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clonal lineages.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 2006;50(10):3237-44.
2006: Susana Gardete; Hermínia de Lencastre; Alexander Tomasz
A link in transcription between the native pbpB and the acquired mecA gene in a strain of Staphylococcus aureus.
Microbiology (Reading, England) 2006;152(Pt 9):2549-58.
2006: Joao Carrico; Catarina Silva-Costa; José Melo-Cristino; Francisco R Pinto; Hermínia de Lencastre; Jonas Almeida; Mario ramirez
Illustration of a common framework for relating multiple typing methods by application to macrolide-resistant Streptococcus pyogenes.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2006;44(7):2524-32.
2006: Duarte C Oliveira; Catarina Milheiriço; Susana Vinga; Hermínia de Lencastre
Assessment of allelic variation in the ccrAB locus in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy 2006;58(1):23-30.
2006: Rita G Sobral; Ana Madalena Ludovice; Hermínia de Lencastre; Alexander Tomasz
Role of murF in cell wall biosynthesis: isolation and characterization of a murF conditional mutant of Staphylococcus aureus.
Journal of bacteriology 2006;188(7):2543-53.
2006: M Aires-de-Sousa; Kit Boye; Hermínia de Lencastre; Ariane Deplano; Mark Enright; Jerome Etienne; A Friedrich; Dag Harmsen; A Holmes; Xander W Huijsdens; A M Kearns; Alexander Mellmann; Hélène Meugnier; J K Rasheed; Emile Spalburg; Birgit Strommenger; Marc Struelens; Fred C Tenover; J Thomas; U Vogel; Henrik Westh; J Xu; Wolfgang Witte
High interlaboratory reproducibility of DNA sequence-based typing of bacteria in a multicenter study.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2006;44(2):619-21.
2006: Raquel Sá-Leão; Alexandra S Simões; Sónia Nunes; Natacha G Sousa; Nelson Frazão; Hermínia de Lencastre
Identification, prevalence and population structure of non-typable Streptococcus pneumoniae in carriage samples isolated from preschoolers attending day-care centres.
Microbiology (Reading, England) 2006;152(Pt 2):367-76.
2006: Alexander W Friedrich; Wolfgang Witte; Dag Harmsen; Hermínia de Lencastre; W Hryniewicz; J Scheres; Henrik Westh
SeqNet.org: a European laboratory network for sequence-based typing of microbial pathogens.
Euro surveillance : bulletin Européen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin 2006;11(1):E060112.4.
2006: Gabriela Echániz-Aviles; ME Velázquez-Meza; M Aires-de-Sousa; R Morfín-Otero; E Rodríguez-Noriega; N Carnalla-Barajas; S Esparza-Ahumada; Hermínia de Lencastre
Molecular characterisation of a dominant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) clone in a Mexican hospital (1999-2003).
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 2006;12(1):22-8.
2005: Joao Carrico; Francisco R Pinto; Carla Simas; Sónia Nunes; Natacha G Sousa; Nelson Frazão; Hermínia de Lencastre; Jonas Almeida
Assessment of band-based similarity coefficients for automatic type and subtype classification of microbial isolates analyzed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2005;43(11):5483-90.
2005: Marta Aires de Sousa; T Conceição; Carla Simas; Hermínia de Lencastre
Comparison of genetic backgrounds of methicillin-resistant and -susceptible Staphylococcus aureus isolates from Portuguese hospitals and the community.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2005;43(10):5150-7.
2005: Natacha G Sousa; Raquel Sá-Leão; M Inês Crisóstomo; Carla Simas; Sónia Nunes; Nelson Frazão; Joao Carrico; Rosario Mato; Ilda Santos-Sanches; Hermínia de Lencastre
Properties of novel international drug-resistant pneumococcal clones identified in day-care centers of Lisbon, Portugal.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2005;43(9):4696-703.
2005: Pierre-Yves DONNIO; Duarte C Oliveira; Nuno Faria; Nathalie Wilhelm; Alain Le Coustumier; Hermínia de Lencastre
Partial excision of the chromosomal cassette containing the methicillin resistance determinant results in methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2005;43(8):4191-3.
2005: Rachel J Gordon; Bianca Quagliarello; Christian Cespedes; Marilyn Chung; Hermínia de Lencastre; Peter Vavagiakis; Maureen Miller; Barbara Zeller; Franklin D Lowy
A molecular epidemiological analysis of 2 Staphylococcus aureus clonal types colonizing and infecting patients with AIDS.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2005;40(7):1028-36.
2005: Nuno Faria; Duarte C Oliveira; Henrik Westh; Dominique L Monnet; Anders Rhod Larsen; Robert Skov; Hermínia de Lencastre
Epidemiology of emerging methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Denmark: a nationwide study in a country with low prevalence of MRSA infection.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2005;43(4):1836-42.
2005: Nelson Frazão; António Brito-Avô; Carla Simas; Joana Saldanha; Rosario Mato; Sónia Nunes; Natacha G Sousa; Joao Carrico; Jonas Almeida; Ilda Santos-Sanches; Hermínia de Lencastre
Effect of the seven-valent conjugate pneumococcal vaccine on carriage and drug resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae in healthy children attending day-care centers in Lisbon.
The Pediatric infectious disease journal 2005;24(3):243-52.
2005: Sónia Nunes; Raquel Sá-Leão; Joao Carrico; CR Alves; Rosario Mato; A Brito Avô; Joana Saldanha; Jonas Almeida; I Santos Sanches; Hermínia de Lencastre
Trends in drug resistance, serotypes, and molecular types of Streptococcus pneumoniae colonizing preschool-age children attending day care centers in Lisbon, Portugal: a summary of 4 years of annual surveillance.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2005;43(3):1285-93.
2005: Edoardo Carretto; Daniela Barbarini; Isabel Couto; D De Vitis; Piero Marone; Jan Verhoef; Hermínia de Lencastre; Sylvain Brisse
Identification of coagulase-negative staphylococci other than Staphylococcus epidermidis by automated ribotyping.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 2005;11(3):177-84.
2005: Maria Miragaia; Isabel Couto; Hermínia de Lencastre
Genetic diversity among methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis (MRSE).
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) 2005;11(2):83-93.
2005: AR Gomes; Susana Vinga; M Zavolan; Hermínia de Lencastre
Analysis of the genetic variability of virulence-related loci in epidemic clones of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 2005;49(1):366-79.
2004: M E Velazquez-Meza; Marta Aires de Sousa; Gabriela Echaniz-Aviles; Fortino Solórzano-Santos; Guadalupe Miranda-Novales; J Silva-Sanchez; Hermínia de Lencastre
Surveillance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a pediatric hospital in Mexico City during a 7-year period (1997 to 2003): clonal evolution and impact of infection control.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2004;42(8):3877-80.
2004: Marta Aires de Sousa; Hermínia de Lencastre
Bridges from hospitals to the laboratory: genetic portraits of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones.
FEMS immunology and medical microbiology 2004;40(2):101-11.
2004: Susana Gardete; Ana Madalena Ludovice; Rita G Sobral; Sergio Filipe; Hermínia de Lencastre; Alexander Tomasz
Role of murE in the Expression of beta-lactam antibiotic resistance in Staphylococcus aureus.
Journal of bacteriology 2004;186(6):1705-13.
2004: Marilyn Chung; Gordon M Dickinson; Hermínia de Lencastre; Alexander Tomasz
International clones of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in two hospitals in Miami, Florida.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2004;42(2):542-7.
2004: Oto Melter; Marta Aires de Sousa; K Laskafeldová; Pavla Urbásková; M Wünschová; Hermínia de Lencastre
Delineation of the endemic and sporadic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones in a Czech hospital.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) 2004;10(3):218-23.
2004: Rosario Mato; Floriana Campanile; Stefania Stefani; M Inês Crisóstomo; Maria Santagati; Santos I Sanches; Hermínia de Lencastre
Clonal types and multidrug resistance patterns of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) recovered in Italy during the 1990s.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) 2004;10(2):106-13.
2003: Oto Melter; Marta Aires de Sousa; Pavla Urbásková; V Jakubů; Helena Zemlicková; Hermínia de Lencastre
Update on the major clonal types of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the Czech Republic.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2003;41(11):4998-5005.
2003: Marta Aires de Sousa; Hermínia de Lencastre
Evolution of sporadic isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in hospitals and their similarities to isolates of community-acquired MRSA.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2003;41(8):3806-15.
2003: Sara Silva; Rodrigo Gouveia-Oliveira; António Maretzek; Joao Carrico; Thorolfur Gudnason; Karl G Kristinsson; Karl Ekdahl; António Brito-Avô; Alexander Tomasz; I Santos Sanches; Hermínia de Lencastre; Jonas Almeida
EURISWEB--Web-based epidemiological surveillance of antibiotic-resistant pneumococci in day care centers.
BMC medical informatics and decision making 2003;3():9.
2003: D A Brito; Mario ramirez; Hermínia de Lencastre
Serotyping Streptococcus pneumoniae by multiplex PCR.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2003;41(6):2378-84.
2003: Marta Aires de Sousa; C Bartzavali; Iris Spiliopoulou; I Santos Sanches; M Inês Crisóstomo; Hermínia de Lencastre
Two international methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones endemic in a university hospital in Patras, Greece.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2003;41(5):2027-32.
2003: Iris Spiliopoulou; Ilda Santos-Sanches; C Bartzavali; Ana Madalena Ludovice; Marta Aires de Sousa; George Dimitracopoulos; Hermínia de Lencastre
Application of molecular typing methods to characterize nosocomial coagulase-negative staphylococci collected in a Greek hospital during a three-year period (1998-2000).
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) 2003;9(3):273-82.
2003: Rita G Sobral; Ana Madalena Ludovice; Susana Gardete; K Tabei; Hermínia de Lencastre; Alexander Tomasz
Normally functioning murF is essential for the optimal expression of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) 2003;9(3):231-41.
2003: Marta Aires de Sousa; M Inês Crisóstomo; I Santos Sanches; J S Wu; J Fuzhong; Alexander Tomasz; Hermínia de Lencastre
Frequent recovery of a single clonal type of multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from patients in two hospitals in Taiwan and China.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2003;41(1):159-63.
2003: Isabel Couto; Shang Wei Wu; Alexander Tomasz; Hermínia de Lencastre
Development of methicillin resistance in clinical isolates of Staphylococcus sciuri by transcriptional activation of the mecA homologue native to s.
Journal of bacteriology 2003;185(2):645-53.
2003: Soumya S Ray; Jeffrey B Bonanno; Hua Chen; Hermínia de Lencastre; Shangwei Wu; Alexander Tomasz; Stephen K Burley
X-ray structure of an M. jannaschii DNA-binding protein: implications for antibiotic resistance in S. aureus.
Proteins 2003;50(1):170-3.
2002: Hermínia de Lencastre; Alexander Tomasz
From ecological reservoir to disease: the nasopharynx, day-care centres and drug-resistant clones of Streptococcus pneumoniae.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy 2002;50 Suppl S2():75-81.
2002: Soumya S Ray; Jeffrey B Bonanno; Kanagalaghatta R Rajashankar; Mariana G Pinho; Guoshun He; Hermínia de Lencastre; Alexander Tomasz; Stephen K Burley
Cocrystal structures of diaminopimelate decarboxylase: mechanism, evolution, and inhibition of an antibiotic resistance accessory factor.
Structure (London, England : 1993) 2002;10(11):1499-508.
2002: Raquel Sá-Leão; Alexander Tomasz; Ilda Santos-Sanches; Hermínia de Lencastre
Pilot study of the genetic diversity of the pneumococcal nasopharyngeal flora among children attending day care centers.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2002;40(10):3577-85.
2002: Raquel Sá-Leão; Sigurdur E Vilhelmsson; Hermínia de Lencastre; Karl G Kristinsson; Alexander Tomasz
Diversity of penicillin-nonsusceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae circulating in Iceland after the introduction of penicillin-resistant clone Spain(6B)-2.
The Journal of infectious diseases 2002;186(7):966-75.
2002: Duarte C Oliveira; Hermínia de Lencastre
Multiplex PCR strategy for rapid identification of structural types and variants of the mec element in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 2002;46(7):2155-61.
2002: Duarte C Oliveira; Alexander Tomasz; Hermínia de Lencastre
Secrets of success of a human pathogen: molecular evolution of pandemic clones of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
The Lancet infectious diseases 2002;2(3):180-9.
2002: Maria Miragaia; Isabel Couto; Sandro F F Pereira; Karl G Kristinsson; Henrik Westh; Jens O Jarløv; Joao Carrico; Jonas Almeida; Ilda Santos-Sanches; Hermínia de Lencastre
Molecular characterization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis clones: evidence of geographic dissemination.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2002;40(2):430-8.
2002: Maria Luís Amorim; Marta Aires de Sousa; I Santos Sanches; Raquel Sá-Leão; José Manuel Cabeda; José Manuel Amorim; Hermínia de Lencastre
Clonal and antibiotic resistance profiles of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) from a Portuguese hospital over time.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) 2002;8(4):301-9.
2001: Mariana G Pinho; Sergio Filipe; Hermínia de Lencastre; Alexander Tomasz
Complementation of the essential peptidoglycan transpeptidase function of penicillin-binding protein 2 (PBP2) by the drug resistance protein PBP2A in Staphylococcus aureus.
Journal of bacteriology 2001;183(22):6525-31.
2001: Raquel Sá-Leão; Alexander Tomasz; Hermínia de Lencastre
Multilocus sequence typing of Streptococcus pneumoniae clones with unusual drug resistance patterns: genetic backgrounds and relatedness to other epidemic clones.
The Journal of infectious diseases 2001;184(9):1206-10.
2001: L Alou; Mario ramirez; C García-Rey; J Prieto; Hermínia de Lencastre
Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates with reduced susceptibility to ciprofloxacin in Spain: clonal diversity and appearance of ciprofloxacin-resistant epidemic clones.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 2001;45(10):2955-7.
2001: Mariana G Pinho; Hermínia de Lencastre; Alexander Tomasz
An acquired and a native penicillin-binding protein cooperate in building the cell wall of drug-resistant staphylococci.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2001;98(19):10886-91.
2001: Isabel Couto; S Pereira; Maria Miragaia; I Santos Sanches; Hermínia de Lencastre
Identification of clinical staphylococcal isolates from humans by internal transcribed spacer PCR.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2001;39(9):3099-103.
2001: M Inês Crisóstomo; Henrik Westh; Alexander Tomasz; M Chung; Duarte C Oliveira; Hermínia de Lencastre
The evolution of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus: similarity of genetic backgrounds in historically early methicillin-susceptible and -resistant isolates and contemporary epidemic clones.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2001;98(17):9865-70.
2001: Marta Aires de Sousa; Maria Miragaia; I Santos Sanches; S Avila; I Adamson; Silvana Tadeu Casagrande; Maria Cristina C Brandileone; R Palacio; L Dell'Acqua; María Hortal; Teresa Camou; A Rossi; M E Velazquez-Meza; Gabriela Echaniz-Aviles; F Solorzano Santos; Ingrid Heitmann; Hermínia de Lencastre
Three-year assessment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones in Latin America from 1996 to 1998.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2001;39(6):2197-205.
2001: Shang Wei Wu; Hermínia de Lencastre; Alexander Tomasz
Recruitment of the mecA gene homologue of Staphylococcus sciuri into a resistance determinant and expression of the resistant phenotype in Staphylococcus aureus.
Journal of bacteriology 2001;183(8):2417-24.
2001: Duarte C Oliveira; I Crisóstomo; Ilda Santos-Sanches; P Major; CR Alves; Marta Aires de Sousa; M K Thege; Hermínia de Lencastre
Comparison of DNA sequencing of the protein A gene polymorphic region with other molecular typing techniques for typing two epidemiologically diverse collections of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2001;39(2):574-80.
2001: Duarte C Oliveira; Alexander Tomasz; Hermínia de Lencastre
The evolution of pandemic clones of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: identification of two ancestral genetic backgrounds and the associated mec elements.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) 2001;7(4):349-61.
2001: Raquel Sá-Leão; I Santos Sanches; Isabel Couto; CR Alves; Hermínia de Lencastre
Low prevalence of methicillin-resistant strains among Staphylococcus aureus colonizing young and healthy members of the community in Portugal.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) 2001;7(3):237-45.
2001: AR Gomes; I Santos Sanches; Marta Aires de Sousa; E Castañeda; Hermínia de Lencastre
Molecular epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Colombian hospitals: dominance of a single unique multidrug-resistant clone.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) 2001;7(1):23-32.
2000: Raquel Sá-Leão; Alexander Tomasz; I Santos Sanches; Sónia Nunes; CR Alves; A B Avô; Joana Saldanha; Karl G Kristinsson; Hermínia de Lencastre
Genetic diversity and clonal patterns among antibiotic-susceptible and -resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae colonizing children: day care centers as autonomous epidemiological units.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2000;38(11):4137-44.
2000: Raquel Sá-Leão; Alexander Tomasz; I Santos Sanches; António Brito-Avô; Sigurdur E Vilhelmsson; Karl G Kristinsson; Hermínia de Lencastre
Carriage of internationally spread clones of Streptococcus pneumoniae with unusual drug resistance patterns in children attending day care centers in Lisbon, Portugal.
The Journal of infectious diseases 2000;182(4):1153-60.
2000: Duarte C Oliveira; Shang Wei Wu; Hermínia de Lencastre
Genetic organization of the downstream region of the mecA element in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates carrying different polymorphisms of this region.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 2000;44(7):1906-10.
2000: Isabel Couto; I Santos Sanches; Raquel Sá-Leão; Hermínia de Lencastre
Molecular characterization of Staphylococcus sciuri strains isolated from humans.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2000;38(3):1136-43.
2000: Mariana G Pinho; Hermínia de Lencastre; Alexander Tomasz
Cloning, characterization, and inactivation of the gene pbpC, encoding penicillin-binding protein 3 of Staphylococcus aureus.
Journal of bacteriology 2000;182(4):1074-9.
2000: Marta Aires de Sousa; Hermínia de Lencastre; Ilda Santos-Sanches; K Kikuchi; K Totsuka; Alexander Tomasz
Similarity of antibiotic resistance patterns and molecular typing properties of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates widely spread in hospitals in New York City and in a hospital in Tokyo, Japan.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) 2000;6(3):253-8.
2000: RB Roberts; Marilyn Chung; Hermínia de Lencastre; J Hargrave; Alexander Tomasz; D P Nicolau; J F John; O Korzeniowski
Distribution of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones among health care facilities in Connecticut, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. .
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) 2000;6(3):245-51.
2000: Ilda Santos-Sanches; Rosario Mato; Hermínia de Lencastre; Alexander Tomasz
Patterns of multidrug resistance among methicillin-resistant hospital isolates of coagulase-positive and coagulase-negative staphylococci collected in the international multicenter study RESIST in 1997 and 1998.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) 2000;6(3):199-211.
2000: Marilyn Chung; Hermínia de Lencastre; P Matthews; Alexander Tomasz; I Adamsson; Marta Aires de Sousa; Teresa Camou; C Cocuzza; Alejandra Corso; Isabel Couto; A Dominguez; M Gniadkowski; Richard Goering; A Gomes; K Kikuchi; A Marchese; Rosario Mato; Oto Melter; Duarte Oliveira; R Palacio; Raquel Sá-Leão; Ilda Santos-Sanches; J H Song; Panayotis Tassios; P Villari
Molecular typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis: comparison of results obtained in a multilaboratory effort using identical protocols and MRSA strains.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) 2000;6(3):189-98.
2000: Marta Aires de Sousa; Ilda Santos-Sanches; M L Ferro; Hermínia de Lencastre
Epidemiological study of staphylococcal colonization and cross-infection in two West African Hospitals.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) 2000;6(2):133-41.
2000: Hermínia de Lencastre; Marilyn Chung; H Westh
Archaic strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: molecular and microbiological properties of isolates from the 1960s in Denmark.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) 2000;6(1):1-10.
1999: Oto Melter; Ilda Santos-Sanches; J Schindler; Marta Aires de Sousa; Rosario Mato; V Kovárova; Helena Zemlicková; Hermínia de Lencastre
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clonal types in the Czech Republic.
Journal of clinical microbiology 1999;37(9):2798-803.
1999: M Tamayo; Raquel Sá-Leão; Ilda Santos-Sanches; E Castañeda; Hermínia de Lencastre
Dissemination of a chloramphenicol- and tetracycline-resistant but penicillin-susceptible invasive clone of serotype 5 Streptococcus pneumoniae in Colombia.
Journal of clinical microbiology 1999;37(7):2337-42.
1999: Raquel Sá-Leão; Ilda Santos-Sanches; D Dias; I Peres; R M Barros; Hermínia de Lencastre
Detection of an archaic clone of Staphylococcus aureus with low-level resistance to methicillin in a pediatric hospital in Portugal and in international samples: relics of a formerly widely disseminated strain?
Journal of clinical microbiology 1999;37(6):1913-20.
1999: Hermínia de Lencastre; Shang Wei Wu; Mariana G Pinho; Ana Madalena Ludovice; Sergio Filipe; Susana Gardete; Rita G Sobral; S Gill; Marilyn Chung; Alexander Tomasz
Antibiotic resistance as a stress response: complete sequencing of a large number of chromosomal loci in Staphylococcus aureus strain COL that impact on the expression of resistance to methicillin.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) 1999;5(3):163-75.
1999: Hermínia de Lencastre; Arthur E Brown; Marilyn Chung; D Armstrong; Alexander Tomasz
Role of transposon Tn5482 in the epidemiology of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in the pediatric oncology unit of a New York City Hospital.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) 1999;5(2):113-29.
1999: Hermínia de Lencastre; Karl G Kristinsson; António Brito-Avô; I Santos Sanches; Raquel Sá-Leão; Joana Saldanha; E Sigvaldadottir; S Karlsson; Duarte Oliveira; Rosario Mato; Marta Aires de Sousa; Alexander Tomasz
Carriage of respiratory tract pathogens and molecular epidemiology of Streptococcus pneumoniae colonization in healthy children attending day care centers in Lisbon, Portugal.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) 1999;5(1):19-29.
1999: Shang Wei Wu; Hermínia de Lencastre
Mrp--a new auxiliary gene essential for optimal expression of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) 1999;5(1):9-18.
1999: Shang Wei Wu; Hermínia de Lencastre; Alexander Tomasz
The Staphylococcus aureus transposon Tn551: complete nucleotide sequence and transcriptional analysis of the expression of the erythromycin resistance gene.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) 1999;5(1):1-7.
1998: Mariana G Pinho; Hermínia de Lencastre; Alexander Tomasz
Transcriptional analysis of the Staphylococcus aureus penicillin binding protein 2 gene.
Journal of bacteriology 1998;180(23):6077-81.
1998: TA Leski; Duarte Oliveira; Krzysztof Trzcinski; I Santos Sanches; Marta Aires de Sousa; Waleria Hryniewicz; Hermínia de Lencastre
Clonal distribution of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Poland.
Journal of clinical microbiology 1998;36(12):3532-9.
1998: Marta Aires de Sousa; I Santos Sanches; M L Ferro; M J Vaz; Zélia Saraiva; Teresa Tendeiro; J Serra; Hermínia de Lencastre
Intercontinental spread of a multidrug-resistant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clone.
Journal of clinical microbiology 1998;36(9):2590-6.
1998: I Santos Sanches; Zélia Saraiva; Teresa Tendeiro; J M Serra; D C Dias; Hermínia de Lencastre
Extensive intra-hospital spread of a methicillin-resistant staphylococcal clone.
International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases 1998;3(1):26-31.
1998: David F McNeeley; Arthur E Brown; Gary J Noel; M Chung; Hermínia de Lencastre
An investigation of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium within the pediatric service of a large urban medical center.
The Pediatric infectious disease journal 1998;17(3):184-8.
1998: Alejandra Corso; Ilda Santos-Sanches; Marta Aires de Sousa; A Rossi; Hermínia de Lencastre
Spread of a methicillin-resistant and multiresistant epidemic clone of Staphylococcus aureus in Argentina.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) 1998;4(4):277-88.
1998: Rosario Mato; Ilda Santos-Sanches; Mario Venditti; D J Platt; A Brown; Marilyn Chung; Hermínia de Lencastre
Spread of the multiresistant Iberian clone of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) to Italy and Scotland.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) 1998;4(2):107-12.
1998: Ana Madalena Ludovice; Shang Wei Wu; Hermínia de Lencastre
Molecular cloning and DNA sequencing of the Staphylococcus aureus UDP-N-acetylmuramyl tripeptide synthetase (murE) gene, essential for the optimal expression of methicillin resistance.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) 1998;4(2):85-90.
1998: S Wu; Hermínia de Lencastre; Alexander Tomasz
Genetic organization of the mecA region in methicillin-susceptible and methicillin-resistant strains of Staphylococcus sciuri.
Journal of bacteriology 1998;180(2):236-42.
1997: L Jolly; S Wu; Jean Van Heijenoort; Hermínia de Lencastre; Dominique Mengin-Lecreulx; A Tomasz
The femR315 gene from Staphylococcus aureus, the interruption of which results in reduced methicillin resistance, encodes a phosphoglucosamine mutase.
Journal of bacteriology 1997;179(17):5321-5.
1997: Wesley E Kloos; DN Ballard; JA Webster; R J Hubner; Alexander Tomasz; Isabel Couto; Gary L Sloan; H P Dehart; F Fiedler; K Schubert; Hermínia de Lencastre; I Santos Sanches; Harry E Heath; Paul A LeBlanc; A Ljungh
Ribotype delineation and description of Staphylococcus sciuri subspecies and their potential as reservoirs of methicillin resistance and staphylolytic enzyme genes.
International journal of systematic bacteriology 1997;47(2):313-23.
1997: I Sá-Nogueira; T V Nogueira; S Soares; Hermínia de Lencastre
The Bacillus subtilis L-arabinose (ara) operon: nucleotide sequence, genetic organization and expression.
Microbiology (Reading, England) 1997;143 ( Pt 3)():957-69.
1997: Mariana G Pinho; Ana Madalena Ludovice; S Wu; Hermínia de Lencastre
Massive reduction in methicillin resistance by transposon inactivation of the normal PBP2 in a methicillin-resistant strain of Staphylococcus aureus.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) 1997;3(4):409-13.
1996: S Wu; Hermínia de Lencastre; Alexander Tomasz
Sigma-B, a putative operon encoding alternate sigma factor of Staphylococcus aureus RNA polymerase: molecular cloning and DNA sequencing.
Journal of bacteriology 1996;178(20):6036-42.
1996: Hermínia de Lencastre; A de Lencastre; Alexander Tomasz
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates recovered from a New York City hospital: analysis by molecular fingerprinting techniques.
Journal of clinical microbiology 1996;34(9):2121-4.
1996: S Wu; C Piscitelli; Hermínia de Lencastre; Alexander Tomasz
Tracking the evolutionary origin of the methicillin resistance gene: cloning and sequencing of a homologue of mecA from a methicillin susceptible strain of Staphylococcus sciuri.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) 1996;2(4):435-41.
1996: M A Dominguez; Josefina Liñares; A Pulido; J L Perez; Hermínia de Lencastre
Molecular tracking of coagulase-negative staphylococcal isolates from catheter-related infections.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) 1996;2(4):423-9.
1996: I Couto; Hermínia de Lencastre; Elena Severina; Wesley E Kloos; J A Webster; R J Hubner; I Santos Sanches; Alexander Tomasz
Ubiquitous presence of a mecA homologue in natural isolates of Staphylococcus sciuri.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) 1996;2(4):377-91.
1996: Hermínia de Lencastre; Elena Severina; RB Roberts; Barry N Kreiswirth; Alexander Tomasz
Testing the efficacy of a molecular surveillance network: methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREF) genotypes in six hospitals in the metropolitan New York City area. The BARG Initiative Pilot Study Group. Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance Group.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) 1996;2(3):343-51.
1996: Marta Aires de Sousa; I Santos Sanches; Alex Van Belkum; W van Leeuwen; Henri A Verbrugh; Hermínia de Lencastre
Characterization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates from Portuguese hospitals by multiple genotyping methods.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) 1996;2(3):331-41.
1996: I Santos Sanches; Marta Aires de Sousa; L Cleto; M B de Campos; Hermínia de Lencastre
Tracing the origin of an outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in a Portuguese hospital by molecular fingerprinting methods.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) 1996;2(3):319-29.
1996: Rosario Mato; Hermínia de Lencastre; RB Roberts; Alexander Tomasz
Multiplicity of genetic backgrounds among vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium isolates recovered from an outbreak in a New York City hospital.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) 1996;2(3):309-17.
1996: S Wu; Hermínia de Lencastre; Andrej Sali; Alexander Tomasz
A phosphoglucomutase-like gene essential for the optimal expression of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus: molecular cloning and DNA sequencing.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) 1996;2(2):277-86.
1995: Marisa A Montecalvo; Hermínia de Lencastre; M Carraher; C Gedris; M Chung; K VanHorn; Gary P Wormser
Natural history of colonization with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium.
Infection control and hospital epidemiology : the official journal of the Society of Hospital Epidemiologists of America 1995;16(12):680-5.
1995: L A Teixeira; C A Resende; L R Ormonde; R Rosenbaum; A M S Figueiredo; Hermínia de Lencastre; A Tomasz
Geographic spread of epidemic multiresistant Staphylococcus aureus clone in Brazil.
Journal of clinical microbiology 1995;33(9):2400-4.
1995: I Couto; J Melo-Cristino; ML Fernandes; T Garcia; N Serrano; M J Salgado; A Torres-Pereira; I Santos Sanches; Hermínia de Lencastre
Unusually large number of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones in a Portuguese hospital.
Journal of clinical microbiology 1995;33(8):2032-5.
1995: I Santos Sanches; Mario ramirez; H Troni; Michael M Abecassis; M Padua; Alexander Tomasz; Hermínia de Lencastre
Evidence for the geographic spread of a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clone between Portugal and Spain.
Journal of clinical microbiology 1995;33(5):1243-6.
1995: I Santos Sanches; Marta Aires de Sousa; L Sobral; I Calheiros; L Felicio; I Pedra; Hermínia de Lencastre
Multidrug-resistant Iberian epidemic clone of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus endemic in a hospital in northern Portugal.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) 1995;1(4):299-306.
1994: A Ornelas-Soares; Hermínia de Lencastre; Boudewijn L M De Jonge; Alexander Tomasz
Reduced methicillin resistance in a new Staphylococcus aureus transposon mutant that incorporates muramyl dipeptides into the cell wall peptidoglycan.
The Journal of biological chemistry 1994;269(44):27246-50.
1994: Hermínia de Lencastre; Alexander Tomasz
Reassessment of the number of auxiliary genes essential for expression of high-level methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 1994;38(11):2590-8.
1994: M A Dominguez; Hermínia de Lencastre; J Linares; Alexander Tomasz
Spread and maintenance of a dominant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) clone during an outbreak of MRSA disease in a Spanish hospital.
Journal of clinical microbiology 1994;32(9):2081-7.
1994: Hermínia de Lencastre; I Couto; I Santos; J Melo-Cristino; A Torres-Pereira; Alexander Tomasz
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus disease in a Portuguese hospital: characterization of clonal types by a combination of DNA typing methods.
European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology 1994;13(1):64-73.
1994: Hermínia de Lencastre; Boudewijn L M De Jonge; P R Matthews; Alexander Tomasz
Molecular aspects of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy 1994;33(1):7-24.
1993: A Ornelas-Soares; Hermínia de Lencastre; Boudewijn L M De Jonge; D Gage; Y S Chang; Alexander Tomasz
The peptidoglycan composition of a Staphylococcus aureus mutant selected for reduced methicillin resistance.
The Journal of biological chemistry 1993;268(35):26268-72.
1993: Hermínia de Lencastre; A M Figueiredo; Alexander Tomasz
Genetic control of population structure in heterogeneous strains of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology 1993;12 Suppl 1():S13-8.
1992: Adriano O Henriques; Hermínia de Lencastre; Patrick J Piggot
A Bacillus subtilis morphogene cluster that includes spoVE is homologous to the mra region of Escherichia coli.
Biochimie 1992;74(7-8):735-48.
1992: Paulo Tavares; M A Santos; Rudi Lurz; G Morelli; Hermínia de Lencastre; TA Trautner
Identification of a gene in Bacillus subtilis bacteriophage SPP1 determining the amount of packaged DNA.
Journal of molecular biology 1992;225(1):81-92.
1992: Gary J Noel; Barry N Kreiswirth; P J Edelson; M Nesin; Steven Projan; William Eisner; D J Bauer; Hermínia de Lencastre; A M sa Figueiredo; Alexander Tomasz
Multiple methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains as a cause for a single outbreak of severe disease in hospitalized neonates.
The Pediatric infectious disease journal 1992;11(3):184-8.
1992: I Santos; Hermínia de Lencastre
Cloning of the thymidylate synthetase gene (thyPIG 3) from the Bacillus subtilis temperate phage IG 3.
Archives of virology 1992;127(1-4):65-74.
1991: A M Figueiredo; E Ha; Barry N Kreiswirth; Hermínia de Lencastre; G J Noel; L Senterfit; Alexander Tomasz
In vivo stability of heterogeneous expression classes in clinical isolates of methicillin-resistant staphylococci.
The Journal of infectious diseases 1991;164(5):883-7.
1991: Hermínia de Lencastre; A M Sá Figueiredo; C Urban; J Rahal; Alexander Tomasz
Multiple mechanisms of methicillin resistance and improved methods for detection in clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 1991;35(4):632-9.
1991: A I Estrela; H M Pooley; Hermínia de Lencastre; Dimitri Karamata
Genetic and biochemical characterization of Bacillus subtilis 168 mutants specifically blocked in the synthesis of the teichoic acid poly(3-O-beta-D-glucopyranosyl-N-acetylgalactosamine 1-phosphate): gneA, a new locus, is associated with UDP-N-acetylglucosamine 4-epimerase activity.
Journal of general microbiology 1991;137(4):943-50.
1991: Boudewijn L M De Jonge; Hermínia de Lencastre; Alexander Tomasz
Suppression of autolysis and cell wall turnover in heterogeneous Tn551 mutants of a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain.
Journal of bacteriology 1991;173(3):1105-10.
1990: R M Fernandes; Hermínia de Lencastre; L J Archer
Action of 6-(p-hydroxyphenylazo)-uracil on bacteriophage IG 1.
Archives of virology 1990;113(3-4):177-81.
1989: Alexander Tomasz; H B Drugeon; Hermínia de Lencastre; D Jabes; L McDougall; J Bille
New mechanism for methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus: clinical isolates that lack the PBP 2a gene and contain normal penicillin-binding proteins with modified penicillin-binding capacity.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 1989;33(11):1869-74.
1989: I Sá-Nogueira; Hermínia de Lencastre
Cloning and characterization of araA, araB, and araD, the structural genes for L-arabinose utilization in Bacillus subtilis.
Journal of bacteriology 1989;171(7):4088-91.
1989: G Vieira; Hermínia de Lencastre; L Archer
Restriction analysis of PBS 1-related phages.
Archives of virology 1989;106(1-2):121-6.
1989: R M Fernandes; Hermínia de Lencastre; L J Archer
Specialized transduction in Bacillus subtilis by the phages IG1, IG3, and IG4.
Archives of virology 1989;105(1-2):137-40.
1988: I Sá-Nogueira; H Paveia; Hermínia de Lencastre
Isolation of constitutive mutants for L-arabinose utilization in Bacillus subtilis.
Journal of bacteriology 1988;170(6):2855-7.
1986: M A Santos; J Almeida; Hermínia de Lencastre; G Morelli; M Kamke; T A Trautner
Genomic organization of the related Bacillus subtilis bacteriophages SPP1, 41c, rho 15, and SF6.
Journal of virology 1986;60(2):702-7.
1986: R M Fernandes; Hermínia de Lencastre; L J Archer
Three new temperate phages of Bacillus subtilis.
Journal of general microbiology 1986;132(3):661-8.
1986: A I Estrela; Hermínia de Lencastre; L J Archer
Resistance of a Bacillus subtilis mutant to a group of temperate bacteriophages.
Journal of general microbiology 1986;132(2):411-5.
1984: M A Santos; Hermínia de Lencastre; L J Archer
Homology between phages SPP1, 41c, 22a, rho 15 and SF6 of Bacillus subtilis.
The Journal of general virology 1984;65 ( Pt 11)():2067-72.
1984: Patrick J Piggot; C A Curtis; Hermínia de Lencastre
Use of integrational plasmid vectors to demonstrate the polycistronic nature of a transcriptional unit (spoIIA) required for sporulation of Bacillus subtilis.
Journal of general microbiology 1984;130(8):2123-36.
1983: M A Santos; Hermínia de Lencastre; L J Archer
Bacillus subtilis mutation blocking irreversible binding of bacteriophage SPP1.
Journal of general microbiology 1983;129(11):3499-504.
1983: Hermínia de Lencastre; K F Chak; Patrick J Piggot
Use of the Escherichia coli transposon Tn1000 (gamma delta) to generate mutations in Bacillus subtilis DNA.
Journal of general microbiology 1983;129(10):3203-10.
1982: K F Chak; Hermínia de Lencastre; H M Liu; Patrick J Piggot
Facile in vivo transfer of mutations between the Bacillus subtilis chromosome and a plasmid harbouring homologous DNA.
Journal of general microbiology 1982;128(11):2813-6.
1981: Hermínia de Lencastre; L J Archer
Molecular origin of transducing DNA in bacteriophage SPP1.
Journal of general microbiology 1981;122(2):345-9.
1980: Hermínia de Lencastre; L J Archer
Characterization of bacteriophage SPP1 transducing particles.
Journal of general microbiology 1980;117(2):347-55.
1979: Hermínia de Lencastre; P J Piggot
Identification of different sites of expression for spo loci by transformation of Bacillus subtilis.
Journal of general microbiology 1979;114(2):377-89.
1979: Hermínia de Lencastre; L J Archer
Transducing activity of bacteriophage SPP1.
Biochemical and biophysical research communications 1979;86(3):915-9.
1978: P J Piggot; Hermínia de Lencastre
A rapid method for constructing multiply marked strains of Bacillus subtilis.
Journal of general microbiology 1978;106(1):191-4.