New paper out! 🧬 11 years of VREfm surveillance at a Porto hospital revealed: 📌 ST18 replaced by ST80 & ST117 📌 Rising prevalence of bacteriocin bac43/T8 📌 Linear plasmids in the most recent isolates An exhaustive look at the contemporary VREfm plasmidome 👇 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🎉 New paper out! Taking a closer look at Enterococcus thailandicus, a species long considered of low clinical relevance. doi.org/10.1016/j.nm...

Proud to share my new paper, published just in time for #WAAW2025! 🦠 We highlight how some E. faecium (VVE) strains can slip under the radar, posing a quiet but serious AMR challenge. 👉 Feel free to check it out: doi.org/10.1093/jac/...

Yesterday I defended my PhD—4 intense, transformative years. I'm deeply grateful to my supervisors for their guidance, and to my family and friends for their unwavering support.

🚨 Heading to ESCMID 2025? Come see our top-rated @BacTdrugs_lab poster on vancomycin-variable enterococci (VVE)! 🔹 VVE outside hospitals 🔹 Unique vanA transposon 🔹 Linear plasmids with global replicase Let’s connect & collaborate! #ESCMID2025

👏 Kicking off the week with our latest publication by #AnaPereira et al.: "Insights towards the impact of subinhibitory chlorhexidine on antimicrobial susceptibility and horizontal gene transfer in Enterococcus faecium" published in the Science of The Total Environment. @ucibio.bsky.social