| Multiplex PCR Strategy for Rapid Identification of Structural Types and Variants of the mec Element in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus DC Oliveira, H Lencastre Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 46 (7), 2155-2161, 2002 | 1919 | 2002 |
| Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus AS Lee, H De Lencastre, J Garau, J Kluytmans, S Malhotra-Kumar, ... Nature reviews Disease primers 4 (1), 1-23, 2018 | 1567 | 2018 |
| Evolution of MRSA during hospital transmission and intercontinental spread SR Harris, EJ Feil, MTG Holden, MA Quail, EK Nickerson, N Chantratita, ... Science 327 (5964), 469-474, 2010 | 1291 | 2010 |
| Secrets of success of a human pathogen: molecular evolution of pandemic clones of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus DC Oliveira, A Tomasz, H de Lencastre The Lancet infectious diseases 2 (3), 180-189, 2002 | 709 | 2002 |
| Tracking the in vivo evolution of multidrug resistance in Staphylococcus aureus by whole-genome sequencing MM Mwangi, SW Wu, Y Zhou, K Sieradzki, H de Lencastre, P Richardson, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104 (22), 9451-9456, 2007 | 686 | 2007 |
| Update to the Multiplex PCR Strategy for Assignment of mec Element Types in Staphylococcus aureus C Milheiriço, DC Oliveira, H de Lencastre Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 51 (9), 3374-3377, 2007 | 678 | 2007 |
| An acquired and a native penicillin-binding protein cooperate in building the cell wall of drug-resistant staphylococci MG Pinho, H de Lencastre, A Tomasz Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98 (19), 10886-10891, 2001 | 554 | 2001 |
| A genomic portrait of the emergence, evolution, and global spread of a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pandemic MTG Holden, LY Hsu, K Kurt, LA Weinert, AE Mather, SR Harris, ... Genome research 23 (4), 653-664, 2013 | 530 | 2013 |
| Multiplex PCR strategy for subtyping the staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec type IV in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: ‘SCCmec IV multiplex’ C Milheiriço, DC Oliveira, H de Lencastre Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy 60 (1), 42-48, 2007 | 452 | 2007 |
| The evolution of pandemic clones of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: identification of two ancestral genetic backgrounds and the associated mec elements DC Oliveira, A Tomasz, H de Lencastre Microbial Drug Resistance 7 (4), 349-361, 2001 | 425 | 2001 |
| The evolution of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus: similarity of genetic backgrounds in historically early methicillin-susceptible and-resistant isolates and … MI Crisóstomo, H Westh, A Tomasz, M Chung, DC Oliveira, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98 (17), 9865-9870, 2001 | 424 | 2001 |
| Antibiotic resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a paradigm of adaptive power H De Lencastre, D Oliveira, A Tomasz Current opinion in microbiology 10 (5), 428-435, 2007 | 419 | 2007 |
| Illustration of a Common Framework for Relating Multiple Typing Methods by Application to Macrolide-Resistant Streptococcus pyogenes JA Carriço, C Silva-Costa, J Melo-Cristino, FR Pinto, H De Lencastre, ... Journal of clinical microbiology 44 (7), 2524-2532, 2006 | 384 | 2006 |
| Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus emerged long before the introduction of methicillin into clinical practice CP Harkins, B Pichon, M Doumith, J Parkhill, H Westh, A Tomasz, ... Genome biology 18, 1-11, 2017 | 375 | 2017 |
| Bridges from hospitals to the laboratory: genetic portraits of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones M Aires de Sousa, H Lencastre de FEMS Immunology & Medical Microbiology 40 (2), 101-111, 2004 | 370 | 2004 |
| Molecular Typing of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus by Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis: Comparison of Results Obtained in a Multilaboratory Effort … M Chung, H De Lencastre, P Matthews, A Tomasz, ... Microbial Drug Resistance 6 (3), 189-198, 2000 | 350 | 2000 |
| Redefining a Structural Variant of Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome mec, SCCmec Type VI DC Oliveira, C Milheiriço, H de Lencastre Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 50 (10), 3457-3459, 2006 | 321 | 2006 |
| Sigma-B, a putative operon encoding alternate sigma factor of Staphylococcus aureus RNA polymerase: molecular cloning and DNA sequencing S Wu, H de Lencastre, A Tomasz Journal of bacteriology 178 (20), 6036-6042, 1996 | 313 | 1996 |
| Complementation of the essential peptidoglycan transpeptidase function of penicillin-binding protein 2 (PBP2) by the drug resistance protein PBP2A in Staphylococcus aureus MG Pinho, SR Filipe, H de Lencastre, A Tomasz Journal of bacteriology 183 (22), 6525-6531, 2001 | 311 | 2001 |
| Inferring a Population Structure for Staphylococcus epidermidis from Multilocus Sequence Typing Data M Miragaia, JC Thomas, I Couto, MC Enright, H De Lencastre Journal of bacteriology 189 (6), 2540-2552, 2007 | 304 | 2007 |
Isabel CoutoAssistant Professor of Medical Microbiology, IHMT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, PortugalVerified email at ihmt.unl.pt
