Publications by authors named "Pedro Manuel Leal Germano"
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- - Staphylococcus aureus is a harmful bacteria that causes various diseases and is increasingly resistant to antibiotics, particularly methicillin, making it hard to treat.
- - A study screened 57 S. aureus isolates from different foods for the mecA gene, which is responsible for methicillin resistance, and found that 9% of the isolates carried this gene.
- - This research highlights the importance of monitoring food for drug-resistant S. aureus, marking the first report of mecA genes in S. aureus from ready-to-eat foods in Brazil and Latin America.
Laboratory diagnosis is essential to confirm suspected cases of equine rabies and to determine the medical care needed for human postexposure antirabies prophylaxis. Equine rabies transmitted by the vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus, has increased gradually in the State of São Paulo. The present study has several objectives, the most important being the evaluation of fluorescent antibody test (FAT) and virus-isolation laboratory tests performed with different equine nervous system tissues (cortical, hippocampus, cerebellar, brainstem and cervical medullar) to determine the tissue for which the two techniques have the highest sensitivity.
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