Research Group: MicroMed – Medical Microbiology
Thematic Line: TL2 – Clinical & Translational Research
Hub: Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto
Research Areas: Microbiology, Environmental Sciences, Pharmacology and Pharmacy, Toxicology
updated on 19/03/2018
Maria Manuel da Silva Azevedo is an integrated researcher of the MicroMed group of CINTESIS.
She graduated in Biology / Geology at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, and completed her Master in Environmental Sciences and her Doctoral Degree in Sciences at the University of Minho.
She has been teaching in Primary / Secondary Education since 1989, and currently she works at the D. Maria II Schools Group, in Vila Nova de Famalicão.
Since 2009, she is a researcher of the Microbiology Department of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto / CINTESIS.
TITLE: In vivo antibiofilm effect of cerium, chitosan and hamamelitannin against usual agents of catheter-related bloodstream infections
AUTHORS: Cobrado, L ; Silva Dias, A ; Azevedo, MM ; Pina Vaz, C ; Rodrigues, AG ;
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY, VOLUME: 68, ISSUE: 1, PUBLISHED: 2013
TITLE: Determination of chitin content in fungal cell wall: An alternative flow cytometric method
AUTHORS: Sofia Costa de Oliveira ; Ana P Silva ; Isabel M Miranda ; Alexandre Salvador; Maria M Azevedo ; Carol A Munro;Acacio G Rodrigues ; Cidalia Pina Vaz ;
SOURCE: CYTOMETRY PART A, VOLUME: 83A, ISSUE: 3, PUBLISHED: 2013
TITLE: Polyethyleneimine and polyethyleneimine-based nanoparticles: novel bacterial and yeast biofilm inhibitors
AUTHORS: Azevedo, MM ; Ramalho, P; Silva, AP ; Teixeira Santos, R; Pina Vaz, C ; Rodrigues, AG ;
SOURCE: JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY, VOLUME: 63,
ISSUE: PART 9, PUBLISHED: 2014
TITLE: Impact of an Educational Hands-on Project on the Antimicrobial, Antitumor and Anti-Inflammatory Properties of Plants on Portuguese Students’ Awareness, Knowledge, and Competences
AUTHORS: Maria Manuel Azevedo ; Celine Pinheiro; Alberto C P Dias; Filipa Pinto Ribeiro; Fatima Baltazar;
SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH, VOLUME: 12, ISSUE: 3,PUBLISHED: 2015
TITLE: Assessing the Impact of a School Intervention to Promote Students’ Knowledge and Practices on Correct Antibiotic Use
AUTHORS: Maria Manuel Azevedo ; Celine Pinheiro; John Yaphe; Fatima Baltazar ;
SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH, VOLUME: 10, ISSUE: 7,PUBLISHED: 2013