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2026

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Microbiology

D-Index
72
Citations
14729
World Ranking
1789
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Microbiology in Portugal Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Microbiology in Portugal Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Microbiology in Portugal Leader Award

Overview

Miguel Viveiros is affiliated with Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal. Their research primarily focuses on medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Within these broader fields, their work emphasizes infectious diseases, epidemiology, molecular biology, molecular medicine, and surgery.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as tuberculosis research and epidemiology, Mycobacterium research and diagnosis, antibiotic resistance in bacteria, cancer therapeutics and mechanisms, Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia detection and treatment, phenothiazines and benzothiazines synthesis and activities, and antibiotics pharmacokinetics and efficacy.

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Diana Machado
  • Isabel Portugal
  • Afrânio Lineu Kritski
  • João Perdigão
  • Isabel Couto

Miguel Viveiros's recent publications demonstrate an ongoing engagement with infectious disease and antimicrobial resistance themes:

  • "Epidemic and pandemic viral infections: impact on tuberculosis and the lung," 2020, European Respiratory Journal
  • "Antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates - the EUCAST broth microdilution reference method for MIC determination," 2020, Clinical Microbiology and Infection
  • "Drug Repurposing for COVID-19: A Review and a Novel Strategy to Identify New Targets and Potential Drug Candidates," 2022, Molecules
  • "Ancient and recent differences in the intrinsic susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex to pretomanid," 2022, Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
  • "Genetic diversity of candidate loci linked to Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistance to bedaquiline, delamanid and pretomanid," 2021, Scientific Reports

Their publications appear frequently in several scientific venues, including:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Clinical Microbiology and Infection
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Frontiers in Public Health
  • Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Best Publications

  • A robust SNP barcode for typing Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains.

    Francesc Coll;Ruth McNerney;José Afonso Guerra-Assunção;Judith R. Glynn

  • Integrating informatics tools and portable sequencing technology for rapid detection of resistance to anti-tuberculous drugs.

    Jody E. Phelan;Denise M. O’Sullivan;Diana Machado;Jorge Ramos

  • Multidrug Efflux Pumps in Staphylococcus aureus: an Update

    Sofia Santos Costa;Miguel Viveiros;Leonard Amaral;Isabel Couto

  • Rapid determination of anti-tuberculosis drug resistance from whole-genome sequences

    Francesc Coll;Ruth McNerney;Mark D Preston;José Afonso Guerra-Assunção

  • Genome-wide analysis of multi- and extensively drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Francesc Coll;Jody Phelan;Grant A Hill-Cawthorne;Grant A Hill-Cawthorne;Mridul B Nair

  • Antibiotic stress, genetic response and altered permeability of E. coli.

    Miguel Viveiros;Myrielle Dupont;Liliana Rodrigues;Isabel Couto

  • Contribution of Efflux to the Emergence of Isoniazid and Multidrug Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Diana Machado;Isabel Couto;João Perdigão;Liliana Rodrigues

  • Clinical Concentrations of Thioridazine Kill Intracellular Multidrug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Diane Ordway;Miguel Viveiros;Clara Leandro;Rosário Bettencourt

  • Fluorometric determination of ethidium bromide efflux kinetics in Escherichia coli

    Laura Paixão;Liliana Rodrigues;Isabel Couto;Marta Martins

  • Potential role of non-antibiotics (helper compounds) in the treatment of multidrug-resistant Gram-negative infections: mechanisms for their direct and indirect activities.

    Marta Martins;Sujata G. Dastidar;Seamus Fanning;Jette E. Kristiansen

  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug-resistance testing: challenges, recent developments and perspectives

    T. Schön;P. Miotto;C. U. Köser;M. Viveiros

  • Activity of phenothiazines against antibiotic-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis: a review supporting further studies that may elucidate the potential use of thioridazine as anti-tuberculosis therapy

    Leonard Amaral;Jette E. Kristiansen;Miguel Viveiros;Jorge Atouguia

  • Demonstration of intrinsic efflux activity of Escherichia coli K-12 AG100 by an automated ethidium bromide method

    Miguel Viveiros;Ana Martins;Laura Paixão;Liliana Rodrigues

  • Efflux-mediated response of Staphylococcus aureus exposed to ethidium bromide

    Isabel Couto;Sofia Santos Costa;Miguel Viveiros;Marta Martins

  • Global expansion of Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineage 4 shaped by colonial migration and local adaptation

    Ola B. Brynildsrud;Caitlin S. Pepperell;Philip Suffys;Louis Grandjean

  • Enhancement of antibiotic activity against poly-drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis by phenothiazines.

    Miguel Viveiros;Leonard Amaral

  • Antimicrobial Activity of Phenothiazines

    Leonard Amaral;Miguel Viveiros;Joseph Molnar

  • Contribution of efflux activity to isoniazid resistance in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex.

    Liliana Rodrigues;Diana Machado;Isabel Couto;Leonard Amaral

  • Inducement and Reversal of Tetracycline Resistance in Escherichia coli K-12 and Expression of Proton Gradient-Dependent Multidrug Efflux Pump Genes

    Miguel Viveiros;Ana R. Jesus;Mafalda Brito;Clara Leandro

  • Enhanced killing of intracellular multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis by compounds that affect the activity of efflux pumps

    Leonard Amaral;Marta Martins;Miguel Viveiros

  • Gold on paper-paper platform for Au-nanoprobe TB detection

    Bruno Veigas;Jorge M. Jacob;Mafalda N. Costa;David S. Santos

Frequent Co-Authors

Isabel Couto
Isabel Couto Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Leonard Amaral
Leonard Amaral Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Marta Martins
Marta Martins Trinity College Dublin
Joseph Molnár
Joseph Molnár University of Szeged
Taane G. Clark
Taane G. Clark London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Ruth McNerney
Ruth McNerney University of Cape Town
Arnab Pain
Arnab Pain King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
José Melo-Cristino
José Melo-Cristino University of Lisbon
Séamus Fanning
Séamus Fanning University College Dublin
Diane J. Ordway
Diane J. Ordway Colorado State University

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