Docente
Juliana Cruz De Oliveira De Menezes

Resume

Dr Juliana Menezes is a Professor and Researcher at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Lusófona University – Lisbon, since March 2025. She completed her PhD in Veterinary Science at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Lisbon, in 2025. Dr Menezes holds a Master’s degree in Applied Microbiology from the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon (2017), and a BSc in Cell and Molecular Biology from the NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon (2015). She also completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Laboratory Animal Science. As a Master's student, she participated in the clinical surveillance of Clostridium difficile at the National Institute of Health between 2016 and 2017. In 2018, she joined the international consortium PET-Risk, funded by the Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance (JPIAMR), which advanced understanding of antimicrobial resistance transfer dynamics between humans and companion animals. In 2020, she was awarded a national grant to undertake a PhD programme in Veterinary Biological and Biomedical Sciences, focusing on antimicrobial resistance in both companion animals and humans. During her PhD, Dr Menezes received several awards and distinctions at national and international scientific meetings for the quality of her research. She also secured competitive funding from the Research Centre of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Lisbon – CIISA, a Centre of Excellence in Portugal – to lead three research projects as Principal Investigator, under the One Health approach. Her doctoral research resulted in five publications in high-impact, peer-reviewed international journals as first author. Overall, Dr Menezes has 18 published papers, contributed to one book chapter, and has presented approximately 80 scientific communications (oral and poster) at national and international conferences. She is a regular peer reviewer for Q1 journals, including Veterinary Research Communications (IF: 2.1) and Scientific Reports (IF: 4.996), and was recently invited to serve as Guest Editor for special issues of the journal Antibiotics (IF: 4.9). She has taught in the Integrated Master’s Degree in Veterinary Medicine and the Postgraduate Programme in Veterinary Nursing at the University of Lisbon’s Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. In parallel, she has been actively involved in student mentoring, including supervision of MSc and PhD students. Her current research interests lie in understanding the dissemination of antimicrobial resistance and its implications for both human and animal health.

Graus

• Licenciatura
  Biologia Celular e Molecular
• Mestrado integrado
  Microbiologia Aplicada
• Doutoramento
  Ciências Veterinárias
• Pós-Graduação
  Pós-Graduado de Atualização de Ciências em Animais de Laboratório – Categoria B
• Postgraduate Certificate
  19th ESCMID Summer School

Publicações

Journal article

• 2025-05-05, Evaluation of multidrug-resistant bacteria and their molecular mechanisms found in small animal veterinary practices in Portugal, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
• 2024-10-21, Molecular Patterns and Antimicrobial Resistance Characterization of Salmonella enterica Non-Typhoidal from Human, Food, and Environment Samples Isolated in Luanda, Angola, Zoonotic Diseases
• 2024-09-03, Transmission dynamics of ESBL/AmpC and carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales between companion animals and humans, Frontiers in Microbiology
• 2024-03-06, Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales strains causing infections in companion animals—Portugal, Microbiology Spectrum
• 2024-02, Dynamics of blaOXA-23 gene transmission in Acinetobacter spp. from contaminated veterinary environmental surfaces: An Emerging One Health threat?, Journal of Hospital Infection
• 2023-12, Dissemination of blaNDM-5-carrying IncX3-type plasmid among non-clonal Escherichia coli strains colonising a dog with a skin infection caused by a carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae, United Kingdom, Journal of Infection and Public Health
• 2023-07-08, Longitudinal study of ESBL/AmpC-producing Enterobacterales strains sharing between cohabiting healthy companion animals and humans in Portugal and in the United Kingdom, European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
• 2023-01-13, Detecting mecA in Faecal Samples: A Tool for Assessing Carriage of Meticillin-Resistant Staphylococci in Pets and Owners in the Microbiological ‘Fast Age’?, Microbiology Research
• 2022-11-03, mcr-1 colistin resistance gene sharing between Escherichia coli from cohabiting dogs and humans, Lisbon, Portugal, 2018 to 2020, Eurosurveillance
• 2022-06-23, KPC-3-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae Sequence Type 392 from a Dog’s Clinical Isolate in Portugal, Microbiology Spectrum
• 2022-04-22, ESBL/pAmpC-Producing Escherichia coli Causing Urinary Tract Infections in Non-Related Companion Animals and Humans. , Antibiotics
• 2022-04-17, Companion Animals—An Overlooked and Misdiagnosed Reservoir of Carbapenem Resistance, Antibiotics
• 2021-12-29, Human and Companion Animal Proteus mirabilis Sharing, Microbiology Research
• 2020-06, High prevalence of Multidrug-resistant Nontyphoidal Salmonella recovered from broiler chickens and chicken carcasses in Brazil, Brazilian Journal of Poultry Science
• 2020-04-30, Sharing of Clinically Important Antimicrobial Resistance Genes by Companion Animals and Their Human Household Members, Microbial Drug Resistance
• 2020-01-21, OXA-181-Producing Extraintestinal Pathogenic Escherichia coli Sequence Type 410 Isolated from a Dog in Portugal, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
• 2018-12-10, Klebsiella pneumoniae causing urinary tract infections in companion animals and humans: population structure, antimicrobial resistance and virulence genes, Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
• 2018-12-06, Genomic Study of a Clostridium difficile Multidrug Resistant Outbreak-Related Clone Reveals Novel Determinants of Resistance, Frontiers in Microbiology

Thesis / Dissertation

• 2025-02-28, PhD, Sharing more than friendship : dynamics of direct transmission of antimicrobial resistance between human families and their companion animals
• 2017, Master, Molecular epidemiology and antibiotic resistance of Clostridium difficile: focus on toxin A-negative/toxin B-positive strains isolated in Portugal

Book chapter

• 2020, The Public Health Risk of Companion Animal to Human Transmission of Antimicrobial Resistance During Different Types of Animal Infection, Advances in Animal Health, Medicine and Production, Springer International Publishing

Conference paper

• Major international high-risk resistant human Klebsiella pneumoniae lineages are causing urinary tract infections in companion animals, 25th European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine - Companion Animals Congress
• Companion Animals and Humans with UTI Share Common Uropathogenic Klebsiella pneumoniae, 27th European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine - Companion Animals Congress

Conference abstract

• 2024-09-07, Dynamics of direct transmission of extended-spectrum cephalosporin and carbapenem resistant Enterobacterales between human families and their companion animals during different types of animal infection, 6th International Conference of the European College of Veterinary Microbiology
• 2024-09-07, Carbapenem emerging resistance in the environment and staff of small animal veterinary practices, 6th International Conference of the European College of Veterinary Microbiology
• 2024-06, Klebsiella pneumoniae in pets: carbapenem resistance surveillance and invasive disease in veterinary care, ACVIM Forum 2024
• 2023-12, Colistin resistance colonisation in companion animals and their cohabiting Humans, VIII PhD Students Meeting in Environment and Agriculture
• 2023-11-03, Carbapenemase and ESBL-producing Enterobacterales colonisation in the human-companion animals interface, 2nd Egas Moniz One Health Symposium
• 2023-11, Exploring trends of resistance of Klebsiella spp. in companion animal infections: a three-year study, "Big Data" – Thematic Line 2, "Emergent Infectious Diseases and Zoonosis"
• 2023-11, Environmental Contamination and Staff Colonization by Carbapenem-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacte-ria in Small Animal Veterinary Practices, "Big Data" – Thematic Line 2, "Emergent Infectious Diseases and Zoonosis"
• 2023-11, Carriage of Carbapenemase and ESBL-producing Escherichia coli in dogs and cats in veterinary care and co-carriage with their owners, "Big Data" – Thematic Line 2, "Emergent Infectious Diseases and Zoonosis"
• 2023-04-15, Faecal colonisation with Carbapenemase and ESBL/AmpC-producing Enterobacterales in Portugal and the United Kingdom: A One Health perspective on the Human-Companion animal relationship, 33rd ECCMID (European congress of clinical microbiology and infectious diseases)
• 2023-04-14, Critical surfaces Sontamination by Multidrug Resistant Bacteria in the Companion Animal Veterinary Healthcare Setting, 10º Encontro de Formação da Ordem dos Médicos Veterinários (EFOMV)
• 2022-11, Screening for carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales clinical strains causing infections in companion animals., CIISA Congress 2022
• 2022-11, Highest Priority Critically Important Antimicrobial Resistance Gene, mcr-1, Shared Within Households, Lisbon, Portugal, 2018-2020, CIISA Congress 2022
• 2022-09, Transmission of mcr-1-positive Escherichia coli between co-habiting dogs and humans in the community, 2022 ISCAID Symposium, Glasgow, Scotland
• 2022-09, Role of companion animal-human households in the dissemination of colistin and extended-spectrum beta-lactam resistance, at 4th International Conference of the European College of Veterinary Microbiology
• 2020-11-17, Dynamics of direct transmission of Carbapenem resistance in Enterobacterales between human families and their companion animal , Reproducible genomics workflows using Nextflow and nf-core workshop
• 2020-11, Occurrence and Characterization of Carbapenemase and ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae isolates from companion animals with skin/soft tissue or urinary tract infections in Portugal and United Kingdom: a potential risk to public health, 2nd International Conference of the European College of Veterinary Microbiology
• 2020-10, Sharing of similar bacteria and/or antibiotic resistance genes between companion animals and humans in the same household (Portugal and United Kingdom), 2nd International Conference of the European College of Veterinary Microbiology
• 2020-10, Identification of colistin-resistant Escherichia coli strains isolated from Portuguese dogs, 2nd International Conference of the European College of Veterinary Microbiology
• 2020-09-03, Plasmid-mediated colistin resistance mcr-1 gene harboured on multi-drug resistant isolates from companion animals in Portugal. , 30th European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine - Companion Animals Congress
• 2020-09-03, Extended-spectrum-beta-lactamases- and carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae isolated from the gut of sick companion animals in Portugal, 30th European College of Veterinary Internal Medicine - Companion Animals Congress
• 2019-07, ESBLs/pAmpC- producing Escherichia coli causing urinary tract infections in companion animals and humans in Portugal: antimicrobial resistance, pathogenicity and clonal diversity, 1st International Conference of the European College of Veterinary Microbiology
• 2017-04, Genomic study of a Clostridium difficile multidrug resistant outbreak clone reveals novel determinants of resistance, 28th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Conference poster

• 2024-11-21, Genomic characterization of carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in companion animal infections in Portugal, Klebsiella Symposium 2024
• 2024-09-06, Antibiotic resistance trends in Klebsiella spp. from companion animal infections: a four-year study, 6th International Conference of the European College of Veterinary Microbiology
• 2024-04, Paws and Pathogens: co-carriage of ESBL-producing Enterobacterales strains between companion animals and owners, ESCMID Global 2024
• 2024-04, Extended co-colonisation of IncX3-type plasmid harbouring blaNDM-5 among non-clonal Escherichia coli in a dog, ESCMID Global 2024
• 2024-04, Emerging Challenges: Environmental and Staff Colonization by Carbapenem-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria in Veterinary Practices, ESCMID Global 2024
• 2024-04, Emergence of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in companion animals: unveiling a growing public health concern and the need for surveillance in veterinary medicine., ESCMID Global 2024
• 2023-11-03, Trends of resistance of Klebsiella spp. in companion animals, a three year retrospective study, 2nd Egas Moniz One Health Symposium
• 2023-11-03, Trasmission of blaOXA-23 gene in Acinetobacter spp. from contaminated veterinary environmental surfaces, 2nd Egas Moniz One Health Symposium
• 2023-11, Small animal veterinary practices as reservoirs of antimicrobial-resistance: dissemination of OXA-23-producing Acinetobacter species on the environment and MRSA nasal colonization of veterinary staff, 48th World Small Animal Veterinary Association World Congress
• 2023-09, Transmission and carriage of ESBL-carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales between companion animals and humans in households from Portugal and the United Kingdom, 48th World Small Animal Veterinary Association World Congress
• 2023-09, Infections by ESBL-producing Klebsiella in companion animals: a three year study, 48th World Small Animal Veterinary Association World Congress
• 2023-04-14, Faecal Klebsiella pneumoniae carriage and sharing between companion animals and owners in Portugal, 10º Encontro de Formação da Ordem dos Médicos Veterinários (EFOMV)
• 2023-04, Companion animal veterinary practices critical surfaces contamination and employees’ carriage by multidrug resistant bacteria in Portugal, 33rd ECCMID (European congress of clinical microbiology and infectious diseases)
• 2022-12-09, KPC-3-, OXA-181- producing Klebsiella pneumoniae clonal group 147 and OXA-48-producing Escherichia coli detected on clinical isolates from companion animals, XIII IHMT Scientific Day
• 2022-11, Prevalence of multidrug-resistant mcr-1-positive Escherichia coli isolates from humans and companion animals in Portugal: sharing more than friendship, 1st Egas Moniz One Health Symposium
• 2022-11, Presence of a KPC-3-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in a dog with chronic rhinitis, CIISA Congress 2022
• 2022-11, Environmental contamination with Staphylococci and OXA-23-producing Acinetobacter spp. in Portuguese small animal veterinary practices, CIISA Congress 2022
• 2022-11, Environmental contamination with OXA-23-producing Acinetobacter spp. and nasal colonization with MRSA in Portuguese small animal veterinary practices, 1st Egas Moniz One Health Symposium
• 2022-11, Emergence of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales causing infection in companion animals, European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology 2022
• 2022-11, ESBL/AmpC-Producing Enterobacterales Colonization and Sharing By Co habiting Companion Animals and Humans In The Community, Portugal And United Kingdom, CIISA's Congress 2022
• 2022-11, Characterization of Klebsiella spp. virulence from different small animal infection sites, CIISA Congress 2022
• 2022-09, Virulence profiles of Klebsiella pneumoniae from different small animal infection sites, 4th International Conference of the European College of Veterinary Microbiology
• 2022-09, Environmental contamination with Multidrug Resistant bacteria and Carbapenemase-producing Acinetobacter spp. in Portuguese small animal Veterinary practices, 4th International Conference of the European College of Veterinary Microbiology
• 2022-09, Characterization of a KPC-3-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae isolated in a chronic rhinitis in a dog, Portugal, 2022 ISCAID Symposium
• 2022-09, Carbapenemases-producing Enterobacterales clinical isolates from companion animals, 2022 ISCAID Symposium
• 2022-04, KPC-3, OXA-181 and OXA-48 – producing Enterobacterales found on clinical isolates from companion animals, 32nd European congress of clinical microbiology and infectious diseases
• 2022-04, Characterization of ESBL/AmpC-producing Escherichia coli isolated from healthy companion animals and humans in Portugal and in the United Kingdom 2018-2020: a shared dynamic, 32nd European congress of clinical microbiology and infectious diseases
• 2021-11, Evaluation of Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria Spreading in Veterinary Practices – Preliminary Results, MICROBIOTEC'21
• 2021-11, Co-carriage of clinically important antimicrobial resistance genes by healthy companion animals and their human household members, MICROBIOTEC'21
• 2021-10, Survey of beta-lactamase production and colistin resistance among Enterobacterales from healthy companion animals in close contact with humans., XVII Congresso Internacional Veterinário Montenegro
• 2021-10, Occurrence of Class D Carbapenemase Producers in a Veterinary Hospital From the Lisbon Area, XVII Congresso Internacional Veterinário Montenegro
• 2021-09, Sharing of mcr-1 ST744 Escherichia coli between dogs and humans in two families, Portugal. , 3nd International Conference of the European College of Veterinary Microbiology
• 2021-09, Rising trends on ESBL–producing Enterobacterales clinical strains from companion animals, 31st ECVIM (European College Veterinary Internal Medicine)
• 2021-07, Screening for Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales in clinical strains reveals an OXA-181 producing Klebsiella pneumoniae ST273 in a cat, 31st European congress of clinical microbiology and infectious diseases
• 2021-07, Detection of mcr-1 transmission between co-habiting dog and human in the community, 31st European congress of clinical microbiology and infectious diseases
• 2021-06, Soft skin and tissue infection caused by OXA-181 producing Klebsiella pneumoniae ST273 in Portugal, ISFM World Feline Congress
• 2021-06, Rising trends on ESBLS-producing Enterobacterales clinical strains from cats, ISFM World Feline Congress
• 2020-10, Screening and characterization of multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in healthy companion animals in close contact with humans , 30th European congress of clinical microbiology and infectious diseases
• 2020-10, Rising trends on ESBLs–producing Enterobacteriaceae clinical strains from companion animals, 2nd International Conference of the European College of Veterinary Microbiology
• 2020-10, Molecular detection of the mcr-1 mobile colistin resistance gene in healthy humans and a dog with skin infection from Portugal, 30th European congress of clinical microbiology and infectious diseases
• 2020-04-18, qPCR to detect mecA in faecal samples: a tool for assessing resistance burden amongst pets and their owners in the microbiological ‘fast age’?, 30th European congress of clinical microbiology and infectious diseases
• 2020-02, Screening of vancomycin-resistant enterococci gut colonization in companion animal, XVI Congresso Internacional Veterinário Montenegro
• 2019-12, Sharing of ESBLS/pAmpC-producing Escherichia coli in healthy companion animals and their household human member, Microbiotec 19
• 2019-12, Risk human ST69 Escherichia coli clone producing KPC-3 from lemurs (Varecia variegata), Microbiotec 19
• 2019-12, Public health impact of ESBLs/pAmpC- producing Escherichia coli causing urinary tract infections in non-related companion animals and humans, Microbiotec 19
• 2019-12, ESBL/Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in healthy companion animals in close contact with humans, Microbiotec 19
• 2019-12, Companion animals with Skin and Soft Tissue Infection share multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli strains gut colonization with their human household members, Microbiotec 19
• 2019-10-06, AmpC ß-lactamase in Salmonella enterica serovar Heidelberg from poultry carcasses and broilers from Brazil, 30º Congresso Brasileiro de Microbiologia
• 2019-09, Survey of ESBL/Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae and MRSA in Companion Animals in close contact with humans, Portugal, 1st International Conference of the European College of Veterinary Microbiology
• 2019-09, Detection of a High-Risk human ST410 Escherichia coli clone producing OXA-181 from a dog in Portugal, 1st International Conference of the European College of Veterinary Microbiology
• 2019-09, Detection of KPC-3-producing Enterobacteriaceae isolates in an animal zoo, Portugal., 1st International Conference of the European College of Veterinary Microbiology
• 2019-07, Analysis of ESBL-producing Escherichia coli from pets and their owners – faecal carriage of different CTX-M-producing E. coli in a dog and a human in Portugal, 8th Symposium on Antimicrobial Resistance in Animals and the Environment
• 2019-04, First report of an OXA-181-producing Escherichia coli from a dog in Portugal, 29th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
• 2018-11, Companion animals as reservoirs of Klebsiella pneumoniae, CIISA's Congress 2018
• 2017-06, Study of Clostridium difficile multiresistant strain from ribotype 017 in a hospital centre in Portugal, 2nd International Caparica Conference in Antibiotic Resistance
• 2016-06, CTX-M-15-producing multidrug resistant Klebsiella Pneumoniae high-risk lineages cause urinary tract infection in companion animals, ASM Microbe 2016
• 2016-04, Expansion of ESBL-producing high-risk virulent ST15 Klebsiella pneumoniae lineage causing UTI in companion animals, 26th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases