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Maria Silva Filipe Pequito Luís UCIBIO – NOVA School of Science and Technology ms.luis@campus.fct.unl.pt Catarina Simões1,2,3, Luís Jaime Mota1,2 1Associate Laboratory i4HB - Institute for Health and Bioeconomy, NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, Caparica, Portugal. 2UCIBIO - Applied Molecular Biosciences Unit, Department of Life Sciences, NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, Caparica, Portugal 3Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.

Sónia Margarida Tavares Matos Almeida Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology of Human Pathogens, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier Universidade Nova de Lisboa (ITQB NOVA) soniaalmeida@itqb.unl.pt Ana C. Paulo, LMMHP, ITQB NOVA, Oeiras, Portugal; Hermínia de Lencastre, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, ITQB NOVA, Oeiras, Portugal; and Laboratory of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, The Rockefeller University, New York, USA; Raquel Sá-Leão, LMMHP, ITQB NOVA, Oeiras, Portugal

Catarina Isabel Brandão Candeias Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology of Human Pathogens, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier Universidade Nova de Lisboa (ITQB NOVA) candeias@itqb.unl.pt Sónia T. Almeida*, LMMHP, ITQB NOVA, Oeiras, Portugal; Alexandra S. Simões*, LMMHP, ITQB NOVA, Oeiras, Portugal; Bárbara Ferreira, LMMHP, ITQB NOVA, Oeiras, Portugal; Ana Raquel Cruz, LMMHP, ITQB NOVA, Oeiras, Portugal; Miguel Queirós, LMMHP, ITQB NOVA, Oeiras, Portugal; Tiago Touret, LMMHP, ITQB NOVA, Oeiras, Portugal; António Brito-Avô, Clinical Associate, MostMicro Unit, ITQB NOVA, Oeiras, Portugal; Hermínia de Lencastre, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, ITQB NOVA, Oeiras, Portugal, and Laboratory of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, The Rockefeller University, New York, USA; Raquel Sá-Leão, LMMHP, ITQB NOVA, Oeiras, Portugal *C.C., S.A. and A.S. contributed equally to this work.