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   Citation: Pneumonia 2016 7(Suppl 1):BF03371468

   Content type: Abstract Published on: 2 July 2016

   This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 7 Supplement 1

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2. Large screening of CA-MRSA among Staphylococcus aureus colonizing healthy young children living in two areas (urban and rural) of Portugal

   The incidence of pediatric infections due to community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA), including children with no identifiable risk factors, has increased worldwide in the last d...

   Authors: Débora A Tavares, Raquel Sá-Leão, Maria Miragaia and Hermínia de Lencastre

   Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2010 10:110

   Content type: Research article Published on: 3 May 2010

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3. Variable recombination dynamics during the emergence, transmission and ‘disarming’ of a multidrug-resistant pneumococcal clone

   Pneumococcal β-lactam resistance was first detected in Iceland in the late 1980s, and subsequently peaked at almost 25% of clinical isolates in the mid-1990s largely due to the spread of the internationally-di...

   Authors: Nicholas J Croucher, William P Hanage, Simon R Harris, Lesley McGee, Mark van der Linden, Herminia de Lencastre, Raquel Sá-Leão, Jae-Hoon Song, Kwan Soo Ko, Bernard Beall, Keith P Klugman, Julian Parkhill, Alexander Tomasz, Karl G Kristinsson and Stephen D Bentley

   Citation: BMC Biology 2014 12:49

   Content type: Research article Published on: 23 June 2014

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4. Non-typeable pneumococci circulating in Portugal are of cps type NCC2 and have genomic features typical of encapsulated isolates

   Pneumococcus is a major human pathogen and the polysaccharide capsule is considered its main virulence factor. Nevertheless, strains lacking a capsule, named non-typeable pneumococcus (NT), are maintained in n...

   Authors: Débora A Tavares, Alexandra S Simões, Hester J Bootsma, Peter WM Hermans, Hermínia de Lencastre and Raquel Sá-Leão

   Citation: BMC Genomics 2014 15:863

   Content type: Research article Published on: 6 October 2014

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5. Comparative analysis of Streptococcus pneumoniaetransmission in Portuguese and Finnish day-care centres

   Day-care centre (DCC) attendees play a central role in maintaining the circulation of Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) in the population. The prevalence of pneumococcal carriage is highest in DCC attendees...

   Authors: Delphine Pessoa, Fabian Hoti, Ritva Syrjänen, Raquel Sá-Leão, Tarja Kaijalainen, M Gabriela M Gomes and Kari Auranen

   Citation: BMC Infectious Diseases 2013 13:180

   Content type: Research article Published on: 18 April 2013

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6. State-of-the-art in the pneumococcal field: Proceedings of the 11^th International Symposium on Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Diseases (ISPPD-11)

   The International Symposium on Pneumococci and Pneumococcal Diseases (ISPPD) is the premier global scientific symposium dedicated to the exchange, advancement and dissemination of the latest research on the pn...

   Authors: Brenda Anna Kwambana-Adams, E. Kim Mulholland and Catherine Satzke

   Citation: Pneumonia 2020 12:2

   Content type: Review Published on: 5 February 2020

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