Teresa Conceição

TL;DR: The findings suggest the three major MRSA clones identified in Portuguese hospitals have not originated from the introduction of SCCmec into dominant MSSA backgrounds present in the Portuguese nosocomial or community environment but were probably imported from abroad.

TL;DR: This study describes, for the first time, the co-dominance and extensive spread of the New York/Japan clone in a European country.

TL;DR: Public buses in Oporto seem to be an important reservoir of MRSA of nosocomial origin, providing evidence that the major hospital-associated MRSA clone in Portugal is escaping from the primary ecological niche of hospitals to the community environment.

TL;DR: Public buses in two major cities in Portugal are often contaminated with MRSA representing clones dominant in hospitals in the particular geographic area, representing a route through which hospital-acquired MRSA clones may spread to the community.

TL;DR: Characterization of nosocomial methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus isolates from Cape Verde showed that Panton-Valentine leukocidin genes were present in 35% of the isolates and half of the collection had the same genetic background as methiillin-resistant pandemic clones.