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The Population Structure of Borrelia lusitaniae Is Reflected by a Population Division of Its Ixodes Vector by Norte, Ana Cláudia, Boyer, Pierre H, Castillo-Ramirez, Santiago, Chvostáč, Michal, Brahami, Mohand O, Rollins, Robert E, Woudenberg, Tom, Didyk, Yuliya M, Derdakova, Marketa, Núncio, Maria Sofia, Carvalho, Isabel Lopes de, Margos, Gabriele, Fingerle, Volker

“…Populations of vector-borne pathogens are shaped by the distribution and movement of vector and reservoir hosts. To study what impact host and vector…”
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Getting under the birds’ skin: tissue tropism of Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. in naturally and experimentally infected avian hosts by Norte, Ana Cláudia, de Carvalho, Isabel Lopes, Núncio, Maria Sofia, Araújo, Pedro Miguel, Matthysen, Erik, Ramos, Jaime Albino, Sprong, Hein, Heylen, Dieter

“…Wild birds are frequently exposed to the zoonotic tick-borne bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (s.l.), and some bird species act as reservoirs for some…”
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Core genome phylogenetic analysis of the avian associated Borrelia turdi indicates a close relationship to Borrelia garinii by Margos, Gabriele, Becker, Noémie S., Fingerle, Volker, Sing, Andreas, Ramos, Jaime Albino, Carvalho, Isabel Lopes de, Norte, Ana Claudia

“…[Display omitted] •First description of a Borrelia turdi genomes, an avian associated spirochete.•Phylogenetic analysis indicates a common ancestor with the…”
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Ticks and tick-borne pathogens in wild birds in Greece by Diakou, Anastasia, Norte, Ana Cláudia, Lopes de Carvalho, Isabel, Núncio, Sofia, Nováková, Markéta, Kautman, Matej, Alivizatos, Haralambos, Kazantzidis, Savas, Sychra, Oldřich, Literák, Ivan

“…Wild birds are common hosts of ticks and can transport them for long distances, contributing to the spreading of tick-borne pathogens. The information about…”
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Paralytic shellfish poisoning due to ingestion of contaminated mussels: A 2018 case report in Caparica (Portugal) by Carvalho, Isabel Lopes de, Pelerito, Ana, Ribeiro, Inês, Cordeiro, Rita, Núncio, Maria Sofia, Vale, Paulo

“…In Portugal, the potent paralytic shellfish toxins (PSTs) have appeared irregularly since the onset of a national monitoring program for marine biotoxins in…”
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Rickettsia lusitaniae sp. nov. isolated from the soft tick Ornithodoros erraticus (Acarina: Argasidae) by Milhano, Natacha, Palma, Mariana, Marcili, Arlei, Núncio, Maria Sofia, de Carvalho, Isabel Lopes, de Sousa, Rita

“…Abstract In this study a novel Rickettsia from the spotted fever group, isolated from Ornithodoros erraticus soft ticks collected from pigpens in the south of…”
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Phylogenomic characterization and signs of microevolution in the 2022 multi-country outbreak of monkeypox virus by Isidro, Joana, Borges, Vítor, Pinto, Miguel, Sobral, Daniel, Santos, João Dourado, Nunes, Alexandra, Mixão, Verónica, Ferreira, Rita, Santos, Daniela, Duarte, Silvia, Vieira, Luís, Borrego, Maria José, Núncio, Sofia, de Carvalho, Isabel Lopes, Pelerito, Ana, Cordeiro, Rita, Gomes, João Paulo

“…The largest monkeypox virus (MPXV) outbreak described so far in non-endemic countries was identified in May 2022 (refs. 1 – 6 ). In this study, shotgun…”
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Ongoing monkeypox virus outbreak, Portugal, 29 April to 23 May 2022 by Perez Duque, Mariana, Ribeiro, Sofia, Martins, João Vieira, Casaca, Pedro, Leite, Pedro Pinto, Tavares, Margarida, Mansinho, Kamal, Duque, Luís Miguel, Fernandes, Cândida, Cordeiro, Rita, Borrego, Maria José, Pelerito, Ana, de Carvalho, Isabel Lopes, Núncio, Sofia, Manageiro, Vera, Minetti, Corrado, Machado, Jorge, Haussig, Joana M, Croci, Roberto, Spiteri, Gianfranco, Casal, Ana Sofia, Mendes, Diana, Souto, Tiago, Pocinho, Sara, Fernandes, Teresa, Firme, Ana, Vasconcelos, Paula, Freitas, Graça

“…Up to 27 May 2022, Portugal has detected 96 confirmed cases of monkeypox. We describe 27 confirmed cases (median age: 33 years (range: 22-51); all males), with…”
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First Case of Tularemia Reported in Portugal: Probably of Imported Origin by Lopes de Carvalho, Isabel, Nascimento, Paula, Núncio, Maria Sofia, Toscano Rico, Miguel

“…The authors report the case of a 47-year-old man who walked in the countryside on the island of Bornholm, during the summer period. Three days later, fever,…”
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Addendum: Phylogenomic characterization and signs of microevolution in the 2022 multi-country outbreak of monkeypox virus by Isidro, Joana, Borges, Vítor, Pinto, Miguel, Sobral, Daniel, Santos, João Dourado, Nunes, Alexandra, Mixão, Verónica, Ferreira, Rita, Santos, Daniela, Duarte, Silvia, Vieira, Luís, Borrego, Maria José, Núncio, Sofia, de Carvalho, Isabel Lopes, Pelerito, Ana, Cordeiro, Rita, Gomes, João Paulo

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Detection of mpox using polymerase chain reaction from the skin and oropharynx over the course of infection: A prospective study by Correia, Catarina, Alpalhão, Miguel, de Sousa, Diogo, Vieitez-Frade, Joana, Pelerito, Ana, Cordeiro, Rita, Lopes de Carvalho, Isabel, Núncio, Maria Sofia, Ferreira, João, Filipe, Paulo

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Francisella tularensis, Portugal by de Carvalho, Isabel Lopes, Escudero, Raquel, Garcia-Amil, Cristina, Falcão, Helena, Anda, Pedro, Núncio, Maria Sofia

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Bridging of cryptic Borrelia cycles in European songbirds by Heylen, Dieter, Krawczyk, Aleksandra, Lopes de Carvalho, Isabel, Núncio, Maria Sofia, Sprong, Hein, Norte, Ana Cláudia

“…Summary The principal European vector for Borrelia burgdorferi s.l., the causative agents of Lyme disease, is the host‐generalist tick Ixodes ricinus. Almost…”
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Demographic and Clinical Characteristics of Mpox Patients Attending an STD Clinic in Lisbon by Caldeira, Margarida Brito, Neves, José Miguel, Pestana, Mafalda, Corte-Real, Rita, Borrego, Maria José, Cordeiro, Rita, Machado, Jorge, Pelerito, Ana, Carvalho, Isabel Lopes De, Núncio, Maria Sofia, Fernandes, Cândida

“…Mpox is a viral disease caused by the monkeypox virus, which marked the year of 2022 with a global outbreak. While previously considered to be a zoonosis of…”
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Natural selection and recombination at host-interacting lipoprotein loci drive genome diversification of Lyme disease and related bacteria by Akther, Saymon, Mongodin, Emmanuel F, Morgan, Richard D, Di, Lia, Yang, Xiaohua, Golovchenko, Maryna, Rudenko, Natalie, Margos, Gabriele, Hepner, Sabrina, Fingerle, Volker, Kawabata, Hiroki, Norte, Ana Cláudia, de Carvalho, Isabel Lopes, Núncio, Maria Sofia, Marques, Adriana, Schutzer, Steven E, Fraser, Claire M, Luft, Benjamin J, Casjens, Sherwood R, Qiu, Weigang

“…Lyme disease, caused by spirochetes in the clade within the genus, is transmitted by ticks and is currently the most prevalent and rapidly expanding tick-borne…”
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Bactericidal activity of avian complement: a contribution to understand avian-host tropism of Lyme borreliae by Sürth, Valerie, Lopes de Carvalho, Isabel, Cobra Lince Núncio Soares, Maria Sofia, Norte, Ana Cláudia, Kraiczy, Peter

“…© The Author(s) 2021. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing,…”
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Strengthening the genomic surveillance of Francisella tularensis by using culture-free whole-genome sequencing from biological samples by Isidro, Joana, Escudero, Raquel, Luque-Larena, Juan José, Pinto, Miguel, Borges, Vítor, González-Martín-Niño, Rosa, Duarte, Sílvia, Vieira, Luís, Mougeot, François, Vidal, Dolors, Herrera-Rodríguez, Daniel, Rodríguez-Pastor, Ruth, Herrero-Cófreces, Silvia, Jubete-Tazo, Fernando, Gomes, João Paulo, Lopes de Carvalho, Isabel

“…is a highly infectious bacterium that causes the zoonotic disease tularemia. The development of genotyping methods, especially those based on whole-genome…”
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A Multidisciplinary Approach to the First Autochthonous Case of Tularemia Reported in Portugal by Cunha, Flávia, Lopes de Carvalho, Isabel, Torres, Carolina, Gonçalves, Raquel

“…Francisella tularensis, a Gram-negative coccobacillus, is a highly virulent pathogen responsible for several zoonotic outbreaks in Europe in the last few…”
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Characterization Through Multilocus Sequence Analysis of Borrelia turdi Isolates from Portugal by Norte, Ana Cláudia, Araújo, Pedro Miguel, da Silva, Luís Pascoal, Tenreiro, Paulo Quadros, Ramos, Jaime A., Núncio, Maria Sofia, Zé-Zé, Líbia, de Carvalho, Isabel Lopes

“…Borrelia turdi is a spirochete from the Borrelia burgdorferi complex, first reported in Japan, that has been increasingly detected in Europe. This genospecies…”
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Meningomyeloradiculitis as an Unusual Presentation of Neuroborreliosis in Childhood by Vânia Sousa, Maria, Lopes de Carvalho, Isabel, Sofia Núncio, Maria, Conceição, Carla, Silva, Rita, Gouveia, Catarina

“…We report a pediatric case of Lyme neuroborreliosis–associated meningomyeloradiculitis with atypical manifestations and negative initial cerebrospinal fluid…”
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