Publications

Quill L, Ferreira D, Joyce B, Coleman G, Martins M, Hodkinson T, Trimble D, Gill L, O'Connell D. 2024. An Integrated Mitigation Approach to Diffuse Agricultural Water Pollution - A Scoping Review. Front. Environ. Sci. 12: 1-17.

Friaes S, Trigueiros C, Gomes CSB, Fernandes AR, Lenis-Rojas OA, Martins M, Royo B. 2023. Antimicrobial Activity of Manganese(I) Tricarbonyl Complexes Bearing 1,2,3-Triazole Ligands. Molecules 6;28(21):7453.

Alves Ferreira D, Martins LMDRS, Fernandes AR, Marta Martins. 2020. A Tale of Two Ends: Repurposing Metallic Compounds from Anti-Tumour Agents to Effective Antibacterial Activity. Antibiotics, 9(6), 321:1-14.

Hurley D, Hoffmann M, Muruvanda T, Allard MW, Brown EW, Martins M, Fanning S. 2020. Atypical Salmonella enterica Serovars in Murine and Human Macrophage Infection Models. Infect Immun 88(4):e00353-19.

Mohan NM, Zorgani A, Jalowicki G, Kerr A, Khaldi N, Martins M. 2019. Unlocking NuriPep 1653 From Common Pea Protein: A Potent Antimicrobial Peptide to Tackle a Pan-Drug Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii. Front Microbiol. 10:2086.

McCusker MP, Alves Ferreira D, Cooney D, Martins Alves B, Fanning S, Pagès JM, Martins M*, Davin-Regli A*. 2019. Modulation of antimicrobial resistance in clinical isolates of Enterobacter aerogenes: A strategy combining antibiotics and chemosensitisers. J Glob Antimicrob Resist. 16:187-198. *corresponding authors.

Anes J, Martins M, Fanning S. 2018. Reversing Antimicrobial Resistance in Multidrug-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae of Clinical Origin Using 1-(1-Naphthylmethyl)-Piperazine. Microb Drug Resist. 24(10).

Baptista PV, McCusker MP, Carvalho A, Ferreira DA, Mohan NM, Martins M*, Fernandes AR*. 2018. Nano-Strategies to Fight Multidrug Resistant Bacteria-"A Battle of the Titans". Frontiers in Microbiology 9:1441. *corresponding authors.

Anes J, Hurley D, Martins M, Fanning S. 2017. Exploring the Genome and Phenotype of Multi-Drug Resistant pneumoniae of Clinical Origin. Frontiers in Microbiology 8:1913.

Martins M. and McCusker MP. 2016. Editorial: “Alternative therapeutics against MDR bacteria – fighting the epidemic of antibiotic resistance”. Frontiers in Microbiology 7:1559. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01559

Brennan E*, Martins M* , McCusker MP, Wang J, Martins Alves B, Hurley D, El Garch F, Woehrlé F, Miossec C, McGrath L, Sriumar S, Wall P, Fanning S. 2016. Characterisation of multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli cultured from bovine animals in Europe: identification of the mcr-1 gene in a bacterium of animal origin co-resistant to ß-lactams, florfenicol and fluoroquinolones. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 22(9): 1650-1652. *equal contribution by the authors.

Machado D, Pires D, Perdigão J, Couto I, Portugal I, Martins M , Amaral L, Anes E, Viveiros M. 2016. Ion Channel Blockers as Antimicrobial Agents, Efflux Inhibitors, and Enhancers of Macrophage Killing Activity against Drug Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis . PLoS One. 26;11(2):e0149326.

João Anes, Matthew P. McCusker, Séamus Fanning and Marta Martins. 2015. The Ins and Outs of RND Efflux pumps in Escherichia coli . Frontiers in Microbiology, section Antimicrobials, Resistance and Chemotherapy. Research Topic Title: Bad bugs in the XXIth century: resistance mediated by multi-drug efflux pumps. Front Microbiol. 6: 587.

I. Roca, M. Akova, F. Baquero, J. Carlet, M. Cavaleri, S. Coenen, J. Cohen, D. Findlay, I. Gyssens, O. E. Heure, G. Kahlmeter, H. Kruse, R. Laxminarayan, E. Liébana, L. López-Cerero, A. MacGowan, M. Martins , J. Rodríguez-Baño, J.-M. Rolain, C. Segovia, B. Sigauque, E. Taconelli, E. Wellington and J. Vila. 2015. The global threat of Antimicrobial Resistance: Science for Intervention. New Microbe and New Infect 2015; 6: 22–29.