José Melo-Cristino

TL;DR: Standard population genetic analysis and multilocus infinite allele model simulations support the hypothesis that two genetically differentiated populations are defined by the major pherotypes, and it is shown that pherotype is a clonal property of pneumococci.

TL;DR: This survey showed that resistance profiles of staphylococci and enterococci hospital isolates have not changed in the last 5 years in Portugal, with the exception of the rise in vancomycin resistance in E. faecium.

TL;DR: An ongoing genomic diversification of GAS invasive isolates in Portugal may contribute to the persistence of clones with improved fitness or virulence, as indicated by both PFGE profiling and emm typing.

TL;DR: In this article, a strict association between scarlet fever and these exotoxins is found, but no evidence of a link between the exotoxin and the scarlet virus was established.

TL;DR: The serotype and antimicrobial susceptibility of 1100 isolates responsible for adult invasive pneumococcal infections (IPD) in Portugal between 2006 and 2008 were determined and showed a continued decline of the serotypes included in the 7-valent conjugate vaccine (PCV7) in adult IPD and a rise of serotypes including in the 13-valents conjugated vaccine, increasing its potential coverage of adult I PD to 70% in 2008.