Background:
1988
BSc in Biology, Faculdade
de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa
1989 -1995
Technician of Pathological, Cytological and Thanatological Anatomy -
Responsible for
Section of Ultrastrutural studies (Transmission Electronic
Microscopy) - Serviço de Anatomia
Patológica
- Hospitais da Universidade de Coimbra
1996 -1998 Research-in-training
in Leptospirosis and Lyme Borreliosis Unit (ULBL)
Instituto
de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (IHMT), Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL)
1997
MSc in Medical Parasitology, IHMT/ UNL
1998 -2006 Research
Assistant in ULBL/ IHMT/ UNL
2000-present Responsible
for human Leptospirosis laboratorial diagnosis
2006
PhD in Biomedical Sciences (Microbiology), IHMT/ UNL
2006-present: Assistant
Researcher - ULBL/ IHMT/ UNL |
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Research Interests
- Analysis of human humoral immune response to Leptospira
and Borrelia
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Epidemiology of Leptospirosis and Lyme Borreliosis
in Portugal
- Surveillance and control (Public Health)
- Phenotypic and molecular characterization and identification of new isolates
- Development of new molecular Leptospirosis diagnostic approaches, particularly
in early phase of disease
Current Projects
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(2006-2008) - Ensaio
laboratorial de um teste rápido de rastreio para a Leptospirose (Funding:
Agência de Inovação, SA, - Programa IDEIA - Apoio à Investigação e
Desenvolvimento Empresarial Aplicado). Coordinator: Margarida Collares
Pereira (IHMT/UNL).
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(2004-2008) - Epidemiology and Control of
Leptospirosis in Azores Islands, São Miguel and Terceira
(Funding: USA Cooperative Agreement No. 58-4001-3-F185 and Azores
Regional Government).
Coordinator: Margarida Collares Pereira (IHMT/UNL).
Recent publications
Vieira
ML, Gama-Simões MJ, Collares-Pereira M. 2006. Human leptospirosis in Portugal: a retrospective
study of eighteen years. Int J Infect Dis, 10:
378-386.
Franca I, Santos L, Mesquita T, Collares-Pereira M, Baptista S, Vieira
ML, Viana I, Vale E, Prates C. 2005. Lyme borreliosis in Portugal caused by
Borrelia lusitaniae: clinical report on the first patient with a positive skin
isolate. Wien Klin
Woschenschr,
117: 429-432.
Collares-Pereira M, Couceiro S, Franca I, Kurtenbach K, Schafer SM,
Vitorino L, Gonçalves L, Baptista S, Vieira
ML, Cunha C. 2004. First isolation of Borrelia lusitaniae from a human patient. J Clin Microbiol, 42:
1316-1318.
Couceiro S, Baptista S, Franca I, Gonçalves L, Vieira
ML, Collares-Pereira M. 2003. Cultura vs
PCR: que apoio ao diagnóstico de Borreliose de Lyme? Acta
Reumatol Port, 28 (2): 77-82.
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