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Hermínia de Lencastre

Hermínia de Lencastre

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Microbiology

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Overview

Hermínia de Lencastre is affiliated with Rockefeller University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on infectious diseases, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant emphasis on antimicrobial resistance and bacterial infections.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Medicine
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Key subfields of research cover:

  • Infectious Diseases
  • Epidemiology
  • Clinical Biochemistry
  • Molecular Biology
  • Molecular Medicine

Research topics prominently addressed by de Lencastre include:

  • Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
  • Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
  • Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing
  • Respiratory viral infections research
  • Bacterial Infections and Vaccines

The scientist has contributed to a range of publication venues, frequently publishing in:

  • Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance
  • Microbiology Spectrum
  • Antibiotics
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Microbiology

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Raquel Sá-Leão
  • Maria Miragaia
  • Antonio Almeida Silva
  • Ana Cristina Paulo
  • Ons Bouchami

Notable recent publications by Hermínia de Lencastre are:

  • Emergence of methicillin resistance predates the clinical use of antibiotics, 2022, Nature
  • Niche specialization and spread of Staphylococcus capitis involved in neonatal sepsis, 2020, Nature Microbiology
  • Dynamics of Pneumococcal Carriage in Adults: A New Look at an Old Paradigm, 2020, The Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • Foodborne Origin and Local and Global Spread of Staphylococcus saprophyticus Causing Human Urinary Tract Infections, 2021, Emerging infectious diseases
  • The role of interspecies recombination in the evolution of antibiotic-resistant pneumococci, 2021, eLife

Best Publications

  • Multiplex PCR Strategy for Rapid Identification of Structural Types and Variants of the mec Element in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

    Duarte C. Oliveira;Hermínia de Lencastre

  • Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

    Andie S Lee;Andie S Lee;Hermínia de Lencastre;Hermínia de Lencastre;Javier Garau;Jan Kluytmans

  • Evolution of MRSA During Hospital Transmission and Intercontinental Spread

    Simon R. Harris;Edward J. Feil;Matthew T. G. Holden;Michael A. Quail

  • SECRETS OF SUCCESS OF A HUMAN PATHOGEN: MOLECULAR EVOLUTION OF PANDEMIC CLONES OF METICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS

    Duarte Emanuel Soeiro de Carvalho Oliveira;Alexander Tomasz;Hermínia de Lencastre

  • Tracking the in vivo evolution of multidrug resistance in Staphylococcus aureus by whole-genome sequencing

    Michael M. Mwangi;Shang Wei Wu;Yanjiao Zhou;Krzysztof Sieradzki

  • Update to the Multiplex PCR Strategy for Assignment of mec Element Types in Staphylococcus aureus

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  • An acquired and a native penicillin-binding protein cooperate in building the cell wall of drug-resistant staphylococci

    Mariana G. Pinho;Hermínia de Lencastre;Alexander Tomasz

  • A genomic portrait of the emergence, evolution, and global spread of a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pandemic

    Matthew T.G. Holden;Li Yang Hsu;Li Yang Hsu;Kevin Kurt;Lucy A. Weinert;Lucy A. Weinert

  • The evolution of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus: Similarity of genetic backgrounds in historically early methicillin-susceptible and -resistant isolates and contemporary epidemic clones

    M. Inês Crisóstomo;Henrik Westh;Alexander Tomasz;Marilyn Chung

  • 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.

    Marilyn Chung;Hermínia De Lencastre;Peter Matthews;Peter Matthews;Alexander Tomasz

  • The evolution of pandemic clones of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: identification of two ancestral genetic backgrounds and the associated mec elements.

    Duarte C. Oliveira;Alexander Tomasz;Hermínia de Lencastre

  • Antibiotic resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a paradigm of adaptive power

    Herminia de Lencastre;Duarte Oliveira;Alexander Tomasz

  • Multiplex PCR strategy for subtyping the staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec type IV in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: 'SCCmec IV multiplex'.

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  • Illustration of a common framework for relating multiple typing methods by application to macrolide-resistant Streptococcus pyogenes

    J. A. Carriço;C. Silva-Costa;J. Melo-Cristino;F. R. Pinto;F. R. Pinto

  • Emergence of methicillin resistance predates the clinical use of antibiotics

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  • Bridges from hospitals to the laboratory: genetic portraits of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones.

    Marta Aires de Sousa;Hermínia de Lencastre;Hermínia de Lencastre

  • Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus emerged long before the introduction of methicillin into clinical practice.

    Catriona P. Harkins;Catriona P. Harkins;Bruno Pichon;Michel Doumith;Julian Parkhill

  • Complementation of the Essential Peptidoglycan Transpeptidase Function of Penicillin-Binding Protein 2 (PBP2) by the Drug Resistance Protein PBP2A in Staphylococcus aureus

    Mariana G. Pinho;Mariana G. Pinho;Sérgio R. Filipe;Sérgio R. Filipe;Hermı́nia de Lencastre;Hermı́nia 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.

    Shangwei Wu;Claudia Piscitelli;Herminia de Lencastre;Alexander Tomasz

  • Epidemiology of Emerging Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in Denmark: a Nationwide Study in a Country with Low Prevalence of MRSA Infection

    Nuno A. Faria;Duarte C. Oliveira;Henrik Westh;Henrik Westh;Dominique L. Monnet

  • Ubiquitous Presence of a mecA Homologue in Natural Isolates of Staphylococcus sciuri

    Isabel Couto;Herminia de Lencastre;Elena Severina;Elena Severina;Wesley Kloos

  • Natural history of colonization with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium.

    Marisa A. Montecalvo;Herminia de Lencastre;Margaret Carraher;Cheryl Gedris

  • Recruitment of the mecA gene homologue of Staphylococcus sciuri into a resistance determinant and expression of the resistant phenotype in Staphylococcus aureus

    Shang Wei Wu;Herminia de Lencastre;Herminia de Lencastre;Alexander Tomasz

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander Tomasz
Alexander Tomasz Rockefeller University
Henrik Westh
Henrik Westh University of Copenhagen
Stephen D. Bentley
Stephen D. Bentley Wellcome Sanger Institute
Isabel Couto
Isabel Couto Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Mariana G. Pinho
Mariana G. Pinho Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Matthew T. G. Holden
Matthew T. G. Holden University of St Andrews
Julian Parkhill
Julian Parkhill University of Cambridge
Angela Kearns
Angela Kearns Public Health England
Sharon J. Peacock
Sharon J. Peacock University of Cambridge
Simon R. Harris
Simon R. Harris Wellcome Sanger Institute

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