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  1. Diversity of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli in sheep flocks of Paraná State, southern Brazil

    Article • Veterinary Microbiology, January 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Sylvia C Leao, Agostinho Ludovico

  2. Multilocus Sequence Typing Scheme versus Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis for Typing Mycobacterium abscessus Isolates

    Article • Journal of Clinical Microbiology, June 2014, ASM Journals

    Dr Sylvia C Leao

  3. Demonstration of Plasmid-Mediated Drug Resistance in Mycobacterium abscessus

    Article • Journal of Clinical Microbiology, February 2014, ASM Journals

    Dr Sylvia C Leao

  4. Multilocus sequence typing scheme for the Mycobacterium abscessus complex

    Article • Research in Microbiology, February 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Sylvain Brisse, Dr Sylvia C Leao

  5. Mycobacterium tuberculosis expressing phospholipase C subverts PGE2 synthesis and induces necrosis in alveolar macrophages

    Article • BMC Microbiology, January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sylvia C Leao

  6. The Detection and Sequencing of a Broad-Host-Range Conjugative IncP-1β Plasmid in an Epidemic Strain of Mycobacterium abscessus subsp. bolletii

    Article • PLoS ONE, April 2013, PLOS

    Dr Sylvia C Leao

  7. Rapid tests for the detection of the Mycobacterium abscessus subsp. bolletii strain responsible for an epidemic of surgical-site infections in Brazil

    Article • Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, December 2012, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr Sylvia C Leao

  8. First Description of Natural and Experimental Conjugation between Mycobacteria Mediated by a Linear Plasmid

    Article • PLoS ONE, January 2012, PLOS

    Dr Sylvia C Leao

  9. Difference in Virulence of Mycobacterium avium Isolates Sharing Indistinguishable DNA Fingerprint Determined in Murine Model of Lung Infection

    Article • PLoS ONE, June 2011, PLOS

    Dr Sylvia C Leao

  10. TGF-β-Mediated Sustained ERK1/2 Activity Promotes the Inhibition of Intracellular Growth of Mycobacterium avium in Epithelioid Cells Surrogates

    Article • PLoS ONE, June 2011, PLOS

    Dr Sylvia C Leao

  11. Seguimiento de un brote de infección en tejido blando causado por Mycobacterium abscessus posterior a la mesoterapia en Venezuela

    Article • Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica, November 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Sylvia C Leao, Jacobus de Waard

  12. Mycobacterium chelonae valve endocarditis resulting from contaminated biological prostheses

    Article • Journal of Infection, June 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Sylvia C Leao

  13. Epidemic of surgical-site infections by a single clone of rapidly growing mycobacteria in Brazil

    Article • Future Microbiology, June 2010, Future Medicine

    Dr Sylvia C Leao

  14. Molecular identification of rapidly growing mycobacteria isolates from pulmonary specimens of patients in the State of Pará, Amazon region, Brazil

    Article • Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease, December 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Sylvia C Leao

  15. Effects of tissue handling and processing steps on PCR for detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded samples

    Article • Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, December 2008, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr Sylvia C Leao

  16. Emergence of nosocomial Mycobacterium massiliense infection in Goiás, Brazil

    Article • Microbes and Infection, November 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Sylvia C Leao

  17. Identification of non-tuberculous mycobacteria from the Central Public Health Laboratory from Mato Grosso do Sul and analysis of clinical relevance

    Article • Brazilian Journal of Microbiology, June 2008, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr Sylvia C Leao

  18. Reliable identification of mycobacterial species by PCR-restriction enzyme analysis (PRA)-hsp65 in a reference laboratory and elaboration of a sequence-based extended algorithm of PRA-hsp65 patterns

    Article • BMC Microbiology, January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Sylvia C Leao

  19. Comparison of methods for mycobacteria isolation from swine feces

    Article • Brazilian Journal of Microbiology, December 2007, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr Sylvia C Leao

  20. Application of the hsp65 PRA method for the rapid identification of mycobacteria isolated from clinical samples in Belgium

    Article • Journal of Microbiological Methods, October 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Sylvia C Leao

  21. Enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus PCR is a useful tool for typing Mycobacterium chelonae and Mycobacterium abscessus isolates

    Article • Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease, June 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Sylvia C Leao

  22. Recombinant interleukin-4-treated macrophages, epithelioid cell surrogates, harbor and arrest Mycobacterium avium multiplication in vitro

    Article • Microbes and Infection, April 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Sylvia C Leao

  23. Profiling Mycobacterium ulcerans with hsp65

    Article • Emerging Infectious Diseases, November 2005, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

    Dr Sylvia C Leao

  24. Deep stromal mycobacterial keratitis: viable bacteria after six months of treatment: case report and literature review

    Article • Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologia, August 2005, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr Sylvia C Leao

  25. Pseudomonas aeruginosa clonal dissemination in Brazilian intensive care units

    Article • Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica, July 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Sylvia C Leao

  26. Multicenter evaluation of mycobacteria identification by PCR restriction enzyme analysis in laboratories from Latin America and the Caribbean

    Article • Journal of Microbiological Methods, May 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Sylvia C Leao

  27. Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex differentiation using gyrB-restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis

    Article • Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, November 2004, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr Sylvia C Leao

  28. Limitações do uso do fragmento mtp40 como marcador de diferenciação entre Mycobacterium tuberculosis e M. bovis

    Article • Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia, August 2004, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr Sylvia C Leao

  29. Distribución de patrones PRA en aislamientos clínicos del complejo Mycobacterium avium procedentes de España y Suramérica.

    Article • Biomédica, June 2004, Instituto Nacional de Salud

    Dr Sylvia C Leao

  30. Mycobacterium haemophilum : Emerging or Underdiagnosed in Brazil?

    Article • Emerging Infectious Diseases, November 2002, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

    Dr Sylvia C Leao

  31. Avaliação da virulência em hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus) de estirpes de Mycobacterium avium presentes na população de suínos do sul do Brasil

    Article • Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Research and Animal Science, January 2002, Universidade de Sao Paulo Sistema Integrado de Bibliotecas - SIBiUSP

    Dr Sylvia C Leao

  32. Comparison of different delivery systems of vaccination for the induction of protection against tuberculosis in mice

    Article • Vaccine, May 2001, Elsevier

    Dr Sylvia C Leao

  33. hsp65 PCR-restriction enzyme analysis (PRA) for identification of mycobacteria in the clinical laboratory

    Article • Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, February 2001, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr Sylvia C Leao

  34. Discrimination of members of the Mycobacterium avium complex by polymerase chain reaction

    Article • Revista de Microbiologia, April 1999, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr Sylvia C Leao