João Inácio

Medical mycology and neglected fungal diseases;
Human mycobiota and its relationship with health and disease;
Therapeutic applications of fungal products.

1. Cogliati M, Puccianti E, Montagna MT, De Donno A, Susever S, Ergin C, Velegraki A, Ellabib MS, Nardoni S, Macci C, Trovato L, Dipineto L, Rickerts V, Akcaglar S, Mlinaric-Missoni E, Bertout S, Vencà ACF, Sampaio AC, Criseo G, Ranque S, Çerikçioğlu N, Marchese A, Vezzulli L, Ilkit M, Desnos-Ollivier M, Pasquale V, Polacheck I, Scopa A, Meyer W, Ferreira-Paim K, Hagen F, Boekhout T, Dromer F, Varma A, Kwon-Chung KJ, Inácio J, Colom MF (2017) Fundamental niche prediction of the pathogenic yeasts Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii in Europe. Environmental Microbiology 19: 4318 – 4325
2. Yurkov A., Inácio J., Fonseca A., Chernov I.Y. 2015. Yeast biogeography and the effects of species recognition approaches: the case study of widespread basidiomycetous species from birch forests in Russia. Current Microbiology 70: 587-601
3. Maduro A.P., Mansinho K., Teles F., Silva I., Meyer W., Martins M.L., Inácio J. 2014. Insights on the genotype distribution among Cryptococcus neoformans and C. gattii Portuguese clinical isolates. Current Microbiology 68: 199-203
4. Lucas S., Martins M. L., Flores O., Meyer W., Spencer-Martins I., Inácio J. 2010. Differentiation of Cryptococcus neoformans varieties and Cryptococcus gattii using CAP59-based loop-mediated isothermal DNA amplification. Clinical Microbiology and Infection 16: 711 – 714
5. Inácio J, Flores O, Spencer-Martins I (2008) Efficient identification of clinically relevant yeasts combining a panfungal loop-mediated isothermal DNA amplification (LAMP) with hybridization to species-specific oligonucleotide probes. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 46: 713–720