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Research Interests
- Molecular epidemiology
and laboratory diagnosis of syphilis
- Development of molecular biology techniques for STI diagnosis
- Control and prevention of STIs
- Antibiotic susceptibility and resistance mechanisms in N. gonorrhoeae
and genital mycoplasmas
- Development of molecular biology techniques for Chlamydia trachomatis identification,
namely Real-Time PCR and
genotyping.
Current Projects
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“Epidemiological
surveillance of Group B streptococcal infections: serotypes, antimicrobial
resistance and clonality”. Project
Ref. PROC 60839 (2004-2006). Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal.
Coordinator: Filomena Martins Pereira (IHMT/UNL).
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“Assessment of the
syndromic management protocols used in Luanda, Angola” Project Ref
PIC/IC/83085/2007 Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal
Coordinator: Filomena Martins Pereira (IHMT/UNL).
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“Development of a real-time PCR technique for Ureaplasma spp serotyping in
clinical samples.” Project Ref
POCI/SAU-IMI/57295/2004 Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal
Coordinator: Filomena Martins Pereira (IHMT/UNL).
Recent publications
CASTRO R, PEREIRA FL. Treponemas. Chapter 98, pp 1189-1200. In: Molecular Detection of Human Bacterial Pathogens, 2011, L. Dongyou Liu.
CASTRO R (2010). Diagnóstico laboratorial em microbiologia clínica, pp. 411-30. In “Microbiologia”. Canas-Ferreira WF,
Sousa JCF, Lima N (Eds.), Edições Lidel, Lisboa.
CASTRO R, BAPTISTA T, VALE A, NUNES H, PRIETO E, CARLOS ARAÚJO, MANSINHO K, PEREIRA F (2010) Lymphogranuloma venereum
serovar L2b in Portugal" Int J STD AIDS. 21(4):265-266.
CASTRO R, PRIETO E, ÁGUAS MJ, MANATA MJ, BOTAS J, PEREIRA F. (2009). Molecular subtyping of Treponema pallidum
sub sp pallidum in Lisbon. J Clin Microbiol.47(8):2510-2.
CASTRO R, PRIETO E, PEREIRA F (2008). Non-treponemal tests in the diagnosis of neurosyphilis: an evaluation of the Venereal
Disease Research Laboratory (VDRL) and the Rapid Plasma Reagin (RPR) tests. J Clin Lab Analysis 22:257-61.
CASTRO R, BAPTISTA T, VALE A, NUNES H, PRIETO E, MANSINHO K, PEREIRA F. (2008). Anorectal lymphogranuloma venereum: The first
two confirmed cases in Portugal. Eurosurveillance, 13:19060.
http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19060 Euro Surveill. 2008 Dec 11;13(50).
MARTINHO F, PRIETO E, DOMINGUES D, CASTRO R, MORAIS A, SANCHO L, EXPOSTO F. (2008) Evaluation of Liquid Biphasic Granada
media (LB) and Instant Granada Liquid Biphasic media (IGLB) for group B streptococcus detection. Enfermedades Infecciosas y
Microbiologia Clinica 26:69-71.
CASTRO R, PRIETO E, ÁGUAS MJ, MANATA MJ, BOTAS J, SANTO I, AZEVEDO J, PEREIRA F (2007). Detection of Treponema pallidum
subsp pallidum DNA in latent syphilis. Int J STD AIDS 18:842-45.
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