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Rabello, Michelle Christiane da Silva ; Matsumoto, Cristianne Kayoko ; de Almeida, Luiz Gonzaga Paula ; Menendez, Maria Carmen ; de Oliveira, Rosangela Siqueira ; Silva, Rosa Maria ; Garcia, Maria Jesus ; Leão, Sylvia Cardoso . First Description of Natural and Experimental Conjugation between Mycobacteria Mediated by a Linear Plasmid. Plos One , v. 7, p. e29884, 2012.
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L'Abbate, Carolina ; Cipriano, Ivone ; Pérez-Hurtado, Elizabeth Cristina ; Leão, Sylvia Cardoso ; Carneiro, Célia Regina Whitaker ; Machado, Joel . TGF-beta-Mediated Sustained ERK1/2 Activity Promotes the Inhibition of Intracellular Growth of Mycobacterium avium in Epithelioid Cells Surrogates. Plos One , v. 6, p. e21465, 2011.
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Amaral, Eduardo Pinheiro ; Kipnis, Thereza Liberman ; de Carvalho, Eulógio Carlos Queiróz ; da Silva, Wilmar Dias ; Leão, Sylvia Cardoso ; Lasunskaia, Elena B. . Difference in Virulence of Mycobacterium avium Isolates Sharing Indistinguishable DNA Fingerprint Determined in Murine Model of Lung Infection. Plos One , v. 6, p. e21673, 2011.
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Leão, Sylvia Cardoso ; Viana-Niero, Cristina ; Matsumoto, Cristianne Kayoko ; Lima, Karla Valeria Batista ; Lopes, Maria Luiza ; Palaci, Moisés ; Hadad, David Jamil ; Vinhas, Solange ; Duarte, Rafael Silva ; Lourenço, Maria Cristina Silva ; Kipnis, André ; das Neves, Zilah Cândida ; Gabardo, Betina Mendez Alcântara ; Ribeiro, Marta Osório ; Baethgen, Ludmila ; de Assis, Denise Brandão ; Madalosso, Geraldine ; Chimara, Erica ; Dalcolmo, Margareth Pretti . Epidemic of surgical-site infections by a single clone of rapidly growing mycobacteria in Brazil. Future Microbiology , v. 5, p. 971-980, 2010.
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RIBEIRO, F.K. ; LEMOS, E.M. ; HADAD, D. J. ; LEAO, S. C. ; VIANA-NIERO, C. ; DIETZE, R. ; JOHNSON, J. L. ; EISENACH, K. D. ; PALACI, M. . Evaluation of Low Colony Counts of Mycobacterium tuberculosis on Solid Media as a Microbiological Marker of Cross-Contamination. Journal of Clinical Microbiology , v. 47, p. 1950-1952, 2009.
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LEAO, S. C. ; Tortoli, E. ; VIANA-NIERO, C. ; UEKI, S. Y. M. ; LIMA, K. V. B. ; LOPES, M. L. ; Yubero, J. ; MENENDEZ, M. C. ; GARCIA, M. J. . Characterization of Mycobacteria from a Major Brazilian Outbreak Suggests that Revision of the Taxonomic Status of Members of the Mycobacterium chelonae-M. abscessus Group Is Needed. Journal of Clinical Microbiology (Print) , v. 47, p. 2691-2698, 2009.
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da Costa, Ana Roberta Fusco ; Lopes, Maria Luiza ; Leão, Sylvia Cardoso ; da Cruz Schneider, Maria Paula ; de Sousa, Maísa Silva ; Suffys, Philip Noel ; Corvelo, Tereza Cristina de Oliveira ; Lima, Karla Valéria Batista . Molecular identification of rapidly growing mycobacteria isolates from pulmonary specimens of patients in the State of Pará, Amazon region, Brazil. Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease , v. 65, p. 358-364, 2009.
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VIANA-NIERO, C. ; LIMA, K. V. B. ; LOPES, M. L. ; RABELLO, M. C. S. ; MARSOLA, L. R. ; BRILHANTE, V. C. R. ; DURHAM, A. M. ; LEAO, S. C. . Molecular characterization of Mycobacterium massiliense and Mycobacterium bolletii in isolates collected from outbreaks of infections after laparoscopic surgeries and cosmetic procedures. Journal of Clinical Microbiology , v. 46, p. 850-855, 2008.
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CHIMARA, E. ; FERRAZOLI, L. ; UEKI, S. Y. M. ; MARTINS, M. C. ; DURHAM, A. M. ; ARBEIT, R. ; LEAO, S. C. . Reliable identification of mycobacterial species by PCR-restriction enzyme analysis (PRA)-hsp65 in a reference laboratory and elaboration of a sequence-based extended algorithm of PRA-hsp65 patterns. BMC Microbiology (Online) , v. 8, p. 48, 2008.
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Moraes, Paulo Ricardo de Souza ; Chimara, Erica ; Telles, Maria Alice da Silva ; Ueki, Suely Yoko Misuka ; Cunha, Eunice Atsuko Totumi ; Honer, Michael Robin ; Leão, Sylvia Cardoso . Identification of non-tuberculous mycobacteria from the Central Public Health Laboratory from Mato Grosso do Sul and analysis of clinical relevance. Brazilian Journal of Microbiology , v. 39, p. 268-272, 2008.
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MARTIN, A. ; UWIZEYE, C. ; FISSETTE, K. ; DE RIJK, P. ; PALOMINO, J. C. ; LEAO, S. C. ; PORTAELS, F. . Application of the hsp65 PRA method for the rapid identification of mycobacteria isolated from clinical samples in Belgium. Journal of Microbiological Methods , v. 71, p. 39-43, 2007.
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Oliveira, Eugenia Márcia de Deus ; Rodriguez, César Alejandro Rosales ; Rocha, Vivianne Cambuí Mesquita ; Ambrosio, Simone Rodriguez ; Ohara, Patrícia Miyuki ; Amaku, Marcos ; Ferreira, Fernando ; Dias, Ricardo Augusto ; Leão, Sylvia Cardoso ; Ferreira Neto, José Soares . Comparison of methods for mycobacteria isolation from swine feces. Brazilian Journal of Microbiology , v. 38, p. 687-692, 2007.
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MARCONDES, A. G. ; SHIKAMA, M. L. M. ; VASCONCELOS, S. A. ; BENITES, N. R. ; MORAES, Z. M. ; ROXO, E. ; LEAO, S. C. ; PINHEIRO, S. R. . Comparação entre a técnica de cultivo em camada delgada de ágar Middlebrook 7H11 e meio de Stonebrink para isolamento de Mycobacterium bovis em amostras de campo. Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Research and Animal Science , v. 43, p. 362-369, 2006.
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OLIVEIRA, E. M. D. ; RODRIGUEZ, C. A. R. ; LEAO, S. C. ; AMAKU, M. ; FERREIRA-NETO, J. S. . Estudo da dinâmica da infecção por Mycobacterium avium am uma população suína através de modelagem matemática. Arquivos do Instituto Biológico , v. 73, p. 409-414, 2006.
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LEAO, S. C. ; LEAO, S. C. BERNARDELLI, A. CATALDI, A. ZUMARRAGA, M. ROBLEDO, J. REALPE, T. MEJIA, G. TELLES, M. A. S. CHIMARA, E. VELAZCO, M. FERNANDEZ, J. RODRIGUEZ, P. A. GUERRERO, M. I. LEON, C. I. PORRAS, T. B. RASTOGI, N. GOH, K. S. SUFFYS, P. DA SILVA ROCHA, A. SANTOS NETTO, D. RITACCO, V. LÓPEZ, B. BARRERA, L. PALOMINO, J. C. MARTIN, A. , et al. PORTAELS, F. ; Multicenter evaluation of mycobacteria identification by PCR-Restriction Enzyme Analysis in laboratories from Latin America and the Caribbean. Journal of Microbiological Methods , v. 61, n.2, p. 193-199, 2005.
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MENDES, C. M. F. ; SINTO, S. ; SAMPAIO, J. L. M. ; LEAO, S. C. ; OPLUSTIL, C. P. ; TURNER, P. ; KIFFER, C. R. V. . Pseudomonas aeruginosa clonal dissemination in Brazilian intensive care units. Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica , Espanha, v. 23, n.7, p. 402-405, 2005.
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LEAO, S. C. ; SAMPAIO, J. L. M. ; MARTIN, A. ; PALOMINO, J. C. ; PORTAELS, F. . Profiling Mycobacterium ulcerans with hsp65 (Letter). Emerging Infectious Diseases , USA, v. 11, n.11, p. 1795-1796, 2005.
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HÖFLING-LIMA, A. L. ; FREITAS, D. ; SAMPAIO, J. L. M. ; LEAO, S. C. ; CONTARINI, P. . In vitro activity of fluoroquinolones against Mycobacterium abscessus and Mycobacterium chelonae causing infectious keratitis after LASIK in Brazil. Cornea , Estados Unidos, v. 24, n.6, p. 730-734, 2005.
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ROMANO, M. I. ; AMADIO, A. ; BIGI, F. ; KLEPP, L. ; ETCHECHOURY, I. ; LLANA, M. N. ; MORSELLA, C. ; PAOLICCHI, F. ; PAVLIK, I. ; BARTOS, M. ; LEAO, S. C. ; CATALDI, A. . Further Analysis of VNTR and MIRU in the genome of Mycobacterium avium complex, and application to molecular epidemiology of isolates from South America. Veterinary Microbiology (Amsterdam) , Amsterdam, v. 110, n.3-4, p. 221-237, 2005.
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Gusmão, Filipe Accioly de ; Alvarenga, Lênio ; Barbosa, Luciene ; Sampaio, Jorge ; Leão, Sylvia Cardoso ; Hofling-Lima, Ana Luisa ; Freitas, Denise de . Deep stromal mycobacterial keratitis: viable bacteria after six months of treatment: case report and literature review. Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologia , v. 68, n.4, p. 551-553, 2005.
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LOPES, M. L. ; LIMA, K. V. B. ; LEAO, S. C. ; SOUZA, M. S. ; SANTI, L. Q. ; LOUREIRO, E. C. B. . Micobacterioses associadas a procedimentos médicos invasivos em Belém. Revista Paraense de Medicina , Brasil, v. 19, n.2, p. 87-89, 2005.
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VIANA-NIERO, C. ; DE HAAS, P. W. ; VAN SOOLINGEN, D. ; LEAO, S. C. . Analysis of genetic polymorphisms affecting the four phospholipase C (plc) genes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex clinical isolates. Microbiology (Reading) , Grã Bretanha, v. 150, p. 967-978, 2004.
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MURCIA, M. ; LEAO, S. C. ; RITACCO, V. ; PALENQUE, E. ; OLIVEIRA, R. S. ; RENIERO, A ; MENENDEZ, M. C. ; TELLES, M. A. S. ; HADAD, D. J. ; BARRERA, L. ; GARCIA, M. J. . Distribucion de patrones PRA en aislamientos clinicos del Complejo Mycobacterium avium procedentes de Espaa y Sudamerica. Biomédica (Bogotá) , Colômbia, v. 24, n.Suppl, p. 60-64, 2004.
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Adan, C.B.D. ; Sato, E.H. ; Sousa, L.B. ; Oliveira, R.S. ; Leão, S.C. ; FREITAS, D. . An experimental model of mycobacterial infection under corneal flaps. Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research , Brasil, v. 37, p. 1015-1021, 2004.
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Chimara, Erica ; Ferrazoli, Lucilaine ; Leão, Sylvia Cardoso . Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex differentiation using gyrB-restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz , Brasil, v. 99, n.7, p. 745-748, 2004.
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Viana-Niero, Cristina ; Leão, Sylvia Cardoso . Limitações do uso do fragmento mtp40 como marcador de diferenciação entre Mycobacterium tuberculosis e M. bovis. Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia , Brasil, v. 30, n.4, p. 408-410, 2004.
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OLIVEIRA, R. S. ; SIRCILI, M. P. ; OLIVEIRA, E. M. D. ; BALIAN, S. C. ; FERREIRA-NETO, J. S. ; LEAO, S. C. . Identification of Mycobacterium avium genotypes with distinctive traits by combination of IS1245-RFLP and restriction analysis of hsp65. Journal of Clinical Microbiology (Print) , USA, v. 41, n.1, p. 44-49, 2003.
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MARTINS, L. S. ; LEAO, S. C. ; MORES, N. ; SILVA, V. S. ; DUTRA, V. ; PINHEIRO, S. R. ; BALIAN, S. C. ; FERREIRA, F. ; FERREIRA-NETO, J. S. . Epidemiologia e controle das micobacterioses suínas no sul do Brasil - estimativa do impacto econômico. Arquivos do Instituto Biológico , São Paulo, Brasil, v. 69, n.1, p. 39-43, 2002.
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SILVA, T. R. ; FREITAS, J. R. ; SILVA, Q. C. ; ROXO, E. ; LEAO, S. C. ; FREITAS, L. A. R. ; VERAS, P. S. T. . Virulent Mycobacterium fortuitum restricts NO production by a gama interferon-activated J774 cell line and phagosome-lysosome fusion. Infection and Immunity , USA, v. 70, n.10, p. 5628-5634, 2002.
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SAMPAIO, J. L. M. ; ALVES, V. A. F. ; LEAO, S. C. ; MAGALHÃES, V. D. ; MARTINO, M. D. V. ; MENDES, C. M. F. ; MIZIARA, A. C. O. ; MIYASHIRO, K. ; PASTERNAK, J. ; RODRIGUES, E. ; ROZEMBAUM, R. ; SANT'ANNA FILHO, C. A. ; TEIXEIRA, S. R. M. ; XAVIER, A. C. ; LEITE, J. P. G. ; FIGUEIREDO, M. S. . Mycobacterium haemophilum in Brazil: an emerging infectious disease or non-diagnosed entity?. Emerging Infectious Diseases , USA, v. 8, n.11, p. 1359-1360, 2002.
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Oliveira, Eugenia Márcia de Deus ; Morais, Zenaide Maria ; Tabata, Rosana ; Dias, Ricardo Augusto ; Oliveira, Rosângela Siqueira de ; Leão, Sylvia Cardoso ; Morés, Nelson ; Guerra, José Luiz ; Vasconcellos, Sílvio Arruda ; Ferreira, Fernando ; Pinheiro, Sonia Regina ; Balian, Simone Carvalho ; Ferreira Neto, José Soares . Avaliação da virulência em hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus) de estirpes de Mycobacterium avium presentes na população de suínos do sul do Brasil. Brazilian Journal of Veterinary Research and Animal Science , Brasil, v. 39, n.4, p. 202-207, 2002.
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SILVA, Carolina Feher da ; UEKI, Suely Yoko Mizuka ; GEIGER, Débora de Cássia Pires ; Leão, Sylvia Cardoso . hsp65 PCR-restriction enzyme analysis (PRA) for identification of mycobacteria in the clinical laboratory. Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo , Brasil, v. 43, n.1, p. 25-28, 2001.
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SILVA, C. L. ; BONATO, V. L. D. ; LIMA, V. M. ; COELHO-CASTELO, A. A. M. ; FACCIOLI, L. H. ; SARTORI, A. ; SOUZA, A. O. ; LEAO, S. C. . Cytotoxic T cells and mycobacteria. FEMS Microbiology Letters , v. 197, p. 11-18, 2001.
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LIMA, V. M. ; BONATO, V. L. D. ; FACCIOLI, L. H. ; BRANDAO, S. A. S. ; COELHO-CASTELO, A. A. M. ; LEAO, S. C. ; SILVA, C. L. . Comparison of different delivery systems of vaccination for the induction of protection against tuberculosis in mice. Vaccine (Guildford) , v. 19, p. 3518-3525, 2001.
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Zanini, MS ; Moreira, EC ; Lopes, MTP ; Oliveira, RS ; Leão, SC ; Fioravanti, RL ; Roxo, E ; Zumarraga, M ; Romano, MI ; Cataldi, A ; Salas, CE . Mycobacterium bovis: polymerase chain reaction identification in bovine Lymphonode biopsies and genotyping in isolates from Southeast Brazil by spolygotyping and restriction fragment length polymorphism. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz , Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, v. 96, n.6, p. 809-813, 2001.
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SILVA, V. S. ; MORES, N. ; FERREIRA, F. ; DIAS, R. A. ; BALIAN, S. C. ; DUTRA, V. ; LEAO, S. C. ; PINHEIRO, S. R. ; SAKAMOTO, S. M. ; FERREIRA-NETO, J. S. . Identificação dos fatores de risco associados à ocorrência de micobacterioses no sul do Brasil. Estudo caso-controle. Arquivos do Instituto Biológico , São Paulo, Brasil, v. 68, n.2, p. 19-22, 2001.
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SUFFYS, P. ; PALOMINO, J. C. ; LEAO, S. C. ; ESPITIA, C. ; CATALDI, A. ; ALITO A. ; VELAZCO, M. ; ROBLEDO, J. ; DA SILVA ROSA, P. ; ROMANO, M. I. . Evaluation of the polymerase chain reaction for the detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease , França, v. 4, n.2, p. 179-183, 2000.
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MATSUI, T. ; Carneiro, C.R.W. ; Leão, S.C. . Evidence for the expression of native Mycobacterium tuberculosis phospholipase C: recognition by immune sera and detection of promoter activity. Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research , Brasil, v. 33, n.11, p. 1275-1282, 2000.
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OLIVEIRA, R. S. ; SIRCILI, M. P. ; UEKI, S. Y. M. ; TELLES, M. A. S. ; SCHNABEL, B. ; BRIONES, M. R. S. ; LEAO, S. C. . PCR-restriction enzyme analysis of a bone marrow isolate from a human immunodeficiency virus-positive patient discloses polyclonal infection with two Mycobacterium avium strains. Journal of Clinical Microbiology , Washington, DC, v. 38, n.12, p. 4643-4645, 2000.
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SIRCILI, M. P. ; ROXO, E. ; LEAO, S. C. . Molecular identification of members of the Mycobacterium avium complex. Revista de Microbiologia , Brasil, v. 30, p. 144-148, 1999.
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LEAO, S. C. ; BRIONES, M. R. S. ; SIRCILI, M. P. ; BALIAN, S. C. ; MORES, N. ; FERREIRA-NETO, J. S. . Identification of two novel Mycobacterium avium allelic variants by PCR-Restriction Enzyme Analysis (PRA) in pig and human isolates from Brazil. Journal of Clinical Microbiology , USA, v. 37, n.8, p. 2592-2597, 1999.
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SILVA, C. L. ; BONATO, V. L. D. ; LIMA, V. M. ; FACCIOLI, L. H. ; LEAO, S. C. . Characterization of the memory/activated T cells that mediate the long-lived host response against tuberculosis after bacillus Calmette-Guerin or DNA vaccination. Immunology (Oxford) , USA, v. 97, n.4, p. 573-581, 1999.
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MONTORO, E. ; VALDIVIA, J. A. ; LEAO, S. C. . Molecular fingerprinting of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates obtained in Havana, Cuba, by IS6110 Restriction Fragment Lenght Polymorphism analysis and by the Double-Repetitive-Element PCR method. Journal of Clinical Microbiology , USA, v. 36, n.10, p. 3099-3102, 1998.
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VAN SOOLINGEN, D. ; BAUER, J. ; RITACCO, V. ; LEAO, S. C. ; PAVLIK, I. ; VINCENT, V. ; RASTOGI, N. ; GORI, A. ; BODMER, T. ; GARZELLI, C. ; GARCIA, M. J. . IS1245 Restriction Fragment Lenght Polymorphism typing of Mycobacterium avium isolates: proposal for standardization. Journal of Clinical Microbiology , USA, v. 36, n.10, p. 3051-3054, 1998.
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LEAO, S. C. ; ROCHA, C. L. ; MURILLO, L. A. ; PARRA, C. A. ; PATARROYO, M. E. . A species-specific nucleotide sequence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis encodes a protein that exhibits hemolytic activity when expressed in E. coli. Infection and Immunity , USA, v. 63, n.11, p. 4301-4306, 1995.
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LEAO, S. C. ; LOPES, J. D. ; PATARROYO, M. E. . Immunological and functional characterization of proteins of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigen 85 complex using synthetic peptides. Journal of General and Applied Microbiology , United Kingdom, v. 139, p. 1543-1549, 1993.
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LEAO, S. C. . Tuberculosis: new strategies for the development of diagnostic tests and vaccines. Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research , Brasil, v. 26, p. 827-833, 1993.
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BRENTANI, R. R. ; LEAO, S. C. ; CHAMMAS, R. ; BRENTANI, M. M. ; LOPES, J. D. . Expression of receptors for the P1 laminin domain participate in the metastatic phenotype. Journal of Tumor Marker Oncology, Great Britain, v. 4, n.1, p. 33-38, 1989.
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LEAO, S. C. . Avaliação Nutricional do Idoso. Revista Médica do IAMSPE , São Paulo, v. 16, n.1-2, p. 24-30, 1985.