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Fabiana Cristina Pimenta
Researcher at National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
Publications - 152
Citations - 3519
Fabiana Cristina Pimenta is an academic researcher from National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. The author has contributed to research in topics: Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine & Serotype. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 151 publications receiving 3234 citations. Previous affiliations of Fabiana Cristina Pimenta include Centers for Disease Control and Prevention & Francisco Gavidia University.
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Revisiting Pneumococcal Carriage by Use of Broth Enrichment and PCR Techniques for Enhanced Detection of Carriage and Serotypes
Maria da Gloria Carvalho,Fabiana Cristina Pimenta,Delois Jackson,Alexis Roundtree,Yusra Ahmad,Eugene V. Millar,Katherine L. O'Brien,Cynthia G. Whitney,Adam L. Cohen,Bernard Beall +9 more
TL;DR: B broth enrichment for both the culture-based and the PCR-based methods enhanced the isolation of pneumococci and detection of serotype diversity, with the most effective serotype deduction method being one that used broth enrichment prior to sequential multiplex PCR.
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Non-pneumococcal mitis-group streptococci confound detection of pneumococcal capsular serotype-specific loci in upper respiratory tract.
Maria da Gloria Carvalho,Fabiana Cristina Pimenta,Iaci Moura,Alexis Roundtree,Robert E. Gertz,Zhongya Li,Geofrey Jagero,Geofrey Jagero,Godfrey Bigogo,Godfrey Bigogo,Muthoni Junghae,Muthoni Junghae,Laura Conklin,Daniel R. Feikin,Daniel R. Feikin,Robert F. Breiman,Robert F. Breiman,Cynthia G. Whitney,Bernard Beall +18 more
TL;DR: It is indicated that non-pneumococcal species can confound serotype-specific PCR and other sequence-based assays due to evolutionarily conserved genes most likely involved in biosynthesis of surface polysaccharide structures.
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Sequential Triplex Real-Time PCR Assay for Detecting 21 Pneumococcal Capsular Serotypes That Account for a High Global Disease Burden
Fabiana Cristina Pimenta,Alexis Roundtree,Ahmet Soysal,Mustafa Bakir,Mignon du Plessis,Nicole Wolter,Anne von Gottberg,Lesley McGee,Maria da Gloria Carvalho,Bernard Beall +9 more
TL;DR: A real-time PCR assay consisting of 7 triplexed reactions to identify 11 individual serotypes plus 10 small serogroups representing the majority of disease-causing isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae is developed and validated.
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Control of microorganisms in vitro by calcium hydroxide pastes
TL;DR: Under the conditions of this study, the various vehicles associated with calcium hydroxide pastes did not influence the time required for microbial inactivation.
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PCR-based quantitation and clonal diversity of the current prevalent invasive serogroup 6 pneumococcal serotype, 6C, in the United States in 1999 and 2006 to 2007.
Maria da Gloria Carvalho,Fabiana Cristina Pimenta,Robert E. Gertz,Hari Har Joshi,Alma A. Trujillo,Logan E. Keys,Joy Findley,Iaci Moura,In Ho Park,Susan K. Hollingshead,Tamara Pilishvili,Cynthia G. Whitney,Moon H. Nahm,Bernard Beall +13 more
TL;DR: Serotype 6C is now the predominant serotype associated with serogroup 6 IPD in the United States and is often penicillin nonsusceptible, while rates of IPD due to types 6A and 6B markedly decreased.