Lina Maria Cavaco

Research area

• Antimicrobial resistance research and monitoring
• Veterinary Microbiology and Diagnostic of bacterial diseases
• Molecular epidemiology

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Cavaco LM 

Responsibilities

• Veterinary bacteriology 

Publications

• EFSA Panel on Biological Hazards (BIOHAZ), Koutsoumanis K, Allende A, Álvarez-Ordóñez A, Bolton D, Bover-Cid S, Chemaly M, Davies R, De Cesare A, Herman L, Hilbert F, Lindqvist R, Nauta M, Ru G, Simmons M, Skandamis P, Suffredini E, Argüello H, Berendonk T, Cavaco LM, Gaze W, Schmitt H, Topp E, Guerra B, Liébana E, Stella P, Peixe L. Role played by the environment in the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) through the food chain. EFSA J. 2021 Jun 17;19(6):e06651. doi: 10.2903/j.efsa.2021.6651

• Cavaco LM, Bernal JF, Zankari E, et al. Detection of linezolid resistance due to the optrA gene in Enterococcus faecalis from poultry meat from the American continent (Colombia). J Antimicrob Chemother. 2017;72(3):678-683. doi:10.1093/jac/dkw490

• Hasman H, Hammerum AM, Hansen F, et al. Detection of mcr-1 encoding plasmid-mediated colistin-resistant Escherichia coli isolates from human bloodstream infection and imported chicken meat, Denmark 2015 [published correction appears in Euro Surveill. 2015;20(50). doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2015.20.50.30091]. Euro Surveill. 2015;20(49):10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2015.20.49.30085. doi:10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2015.20.49.30085

• Cavaco LM, Hasman H, Stegger M, et al. Cloning and occurrence of czrC, a gene conferring cadmium and zinc resistance in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus CC398 isolates. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2010;54(9):3605-3608. doi:10.1128/AAC.00058-10

• Cavaco LM, Hasman H, Xia S, Aarestrup FM. qnrD, a novel gene conferring transferable quinolone resistance in Salmonella enterica serovar Kentucky and Bovismorbificans strains of human origin. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2009;53(2):603-608. doi:10.1128/AAC.00997-08