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Biology and Evolution of Microorganisms

The Biology and Evolution of Microorganisms Group, whose head is Dr. Rafael Cantón and which is made up of nine other principal investigators as well as numerous pre- and post-doctoral researchers, technicians and other healthcare personnel, has participated in the last 5 years in 17 national and international research projects and in 15 contracts with pharmaceutical companies or companies dedicated to in vitro diagnostics. During this period of time this work has resulted in more than 190 publications in national and international journals with a high impact index and more than 11 doctoral theses. Likewise, more than 400 communications have been presented at numerous national and international congresses. And all this always seeking the highest excellence in the fields of population biology, antibiotic resistance, respiratory infection, microbiota, metagenomics and HIV.

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  • Rebelo A, Duarte B, Ferreira C, Mourão J, Ribeiro S, Freitas AR, Coque TM, Willems R, Corander J, Peixe L, Antunes P, Novais C.

    Enterococcus spp. from chicken meat collected 20 years apart overcome multiple stresses occurring in the poultry production chain: Antibiotics, copper and acids.

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD MICROBIOLOGY . 384: 109981-109981.

    [doi:10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2022.109981]

  • de Salazar A, Martínez MJ, Navero-Castillejos J, Negredo A, Galán JC, Rojo Molinero E, Lagarejos E, Muñoz-Almagro C, Hernández Rodríguez Á, Lepe JA, Antón Pagarolas A, Pérez Castro S, Zamora Cintas MI, Domínguez-Gil González M, Niubó-Bosch J, Gutiérrez Arroyo A, Vazquez A, García F, Sánchez-Seco Fariñas MP.

    The imperative for quality control programs in Monkeypox virus DNA testing by PCR: CIBERINFEC quality control.

    JOURNAL OF MEDICAL VIROLOGY . 95(11): 29240-29240.

    [doi:10.1002/jmv.29240]

  • Pereira AP, Antunes P, Bierge P, Willems RJL, Corander J, Coque TM.

    Unraveling Enterococcus susceptibility to quaternary ammonium compounds: genes, phenotypes, and the impact of environmental conditions

    Microbiology spectrum . 11(5): .

    [doi:10.1128/spectrum.02324-23]

  • Troyano-Hernáez P, Herrador P, Gea F, Romero-Hernández B, Reina G, Albillos A, Galán JC, Holguín Á.

    Impact of storage time in dried blood samples (DBS) and dried plasma samples (DPS) for point-of-care hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA quantification and HCV core antigen detection

    Microbiology spectrum . 11(5): .

    [doi:10.1128/spectrum.01748-23]

  • Vargas JM, Moreno Mochi MP, Nuñez JM, Mochi S, Cáceres M, del Campo R, Jure MA.

    Emergence and clonal spread of KPC-2-producing clinical Klebsiella aerogenes isolates in a hospital from northwest Argentina.

    JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY . 72(1): .

    [doi:10.1099/jmm.0.001635]

  • Martin, Margarita, Vallejo, Carmen, Lopez-Campos, Fernando, Quereda, Carmen, Munoz, Teresa, Sanchez-Conde, Matilde, Dominguez, Jose Antonio, Soriano, Cruz, Martin, Mercedes, Suarez-Carantona, Cecilia, Muriel, Alfonso, Garrido, Pilar, Acero, Julio, Alvarez-Diaz, Ana, de la Pinta, Carolina, Martinez-Garcia, Laura, Hernanz, Raul, Fernandez, Eva, Alarza, Marina, Hervas, Asuncion, Sancho, Sonsoles.

    SARS-CoV-2 Virus in Cancer Patients: A New Unknown in an Unsolved Equation

    ONCOLOGY . 101(1): 1-11.

    [doi:10.1159/000525802]

  • Bermejo-Peláez D, Marcos-Mencía D, Álamo E, Pérez-Panizo N, Mousa A, Dacal E, Lin L, Vladimirov A, Cuadrado D, Mateos-Nozal J, Galán JC, Romero-Hernandez B, Cantón R, Luengo-Oroz M, Rodriguez-Dominguez M.

    Smartphone-based Platform Assisted by Artificial Intelligence for Reading and Reporting Rapid Diagnostic Tests: Application to SARS-CoV-2 Lateral Flow Immunoassays.

    Jmir Public Health And Surveillance . 8(12): 38533-38533. Number of citations: 4

    [doi:10.2196/38533]

  • Rodriguez-Galet, Ana, Ventosa-Cubillo, Judit, Bendomo, Veronica, Eyene, Manuel, Mikue-Owono, Teresa, Nzang, Jesus, Ncogo, Policarpo, Gonzalez-Alba, Jose Maria, Benito, Agustin, Holguin, Africa.

    High Drug Resistance Levels Compromise the Control of HIV Infection in Pediatric and Adult Populations in Bata, Equatorial Guinea.

    VIRUSES-BASEL . 15(1): .

    [doi:10.3390/v15010027]

  • Saralegui C, García-Durán C, Romeu E, Hernáez-Sánchez ML, Maruri A, Bastón-Paz N, Lamas A, Vicente S, Pérez-Ruiz E, Delgado I, Luna-Paredes C, Caballero JD, Zamora J, Monteoliva L, Gil C, Del Campo R.

    Statistical Evaluation of Metaproteomics and 16S rRNA Amplicon Sequencing Techniques for Study of Gut Microbiota Establishment in Infants with Cystic Fibrosis

    Microbiology spectrum . 10(6): . Number of citations: 3

    [doi:10.1128/spectrum.01466-22]

  • Martínez-García L, González-Alba JM, Puerta T, Comunión A, Rodríguez-Jiménez MC, Orviz E, Sánchez-Conde M, Rodríguez-Domínguez M, Cantón R, Galán JC.

    Specific high-resolution scheme to improve understanding of the spatio-temporal dispersion of lymphogranuloma venereum epidemic.

    FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY . 13: 1056216-1056216.

    [doi:10.3389/fmicb.2022.1056216]

  • Martín-Delgado MC, Martín Sánchez FJ, Martínez-Sellés M, Molero García JM, Moreno Guillén S, Rodríguez-Artalejo FJ, Ruiz-Galiana J, Cantón R, De Lucas Ramos P, García-Botella A, García-Lledó A, Hernández-Sampelayo T, Gómez-Pavón J, González Del Castillo J, Muñoz P, Valerio M, Catalán P, Burillo A, Cobo A, Alcamí A, Bouza E.

    Monkeypox in humans: a new outbreak.

    REVISTA ESPANOLA DE QUIMIOTERAPIA . 35(6): 509-518. Number of citations: 27

    [doi:10.37201/req/059.2022]

  • Casado JL, Vizcarra P, del Rey JM, Soriano MC, Rodriguez-Dominguez M, Manzano L, Acero J, Palomar-Fernandez C, Vallejo A, On Behalf Of The Covid-Irycis Team.

    Lost in Translation: Evaluation of Subcutaneous Interferon-ß Treatment for SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Real Life

    Journal Of Clinical Medicine . 11(23): .

    [doi:10.3390/jcm11236952]

  • Ventosa-Cubillo J, Pinzón R, González-Alba JM, Estripeaut D, Navarro ML, Holguín Á.

    Drug resistance in children and adolescents with HIV in Panama.

    The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy . 78(2): 423-435.

    [doi:10.1093/jac/dkac407]

  • DelaFuente J, Toribio-Celestino L, Santos-Lopez A, León-Sampedro R, Alonso-Del Valle A, Costas C, Hernández-García M, Cui L, Rodríguez-Beltrán J, Bikard D, Cantón R, San Millan A.

    Within-patient evolution of plasmid-mediated antimicrobial resistance

    Nature Ecology & Evolution . 6(12): 1980. Number of citations: 9

    [doi:10.1038/s41559-022-01908-7]

  • López JN, Prieto-Tato L, Escosa L, Bernardino JI, Muñoz E, Díez C, Carrasco I, Ryan P, Guillén-Martín S, Ramos Amador JT, Navarro ML, Holguín A, Sainz T.

    Pregnancy Outcomes Among Perinatally HIV-infected women in Spain.

    JAIDS-JOURNAL OF ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROMES . 91(4): 373-380.

    [doi:10.1097/QAI.0000000000003070]

  • Navarrete-Muñoz MA, Ramos R, Holguín Á, Cabello A, Górgolas M, Benito JM, Rallón N.

    High frequency of CD8 escape mutations in elite controllers as new obstacle for HIV cure.

    Virulence . 13(1): 1713-1719.

    [doi:10.1080/21505594.2022.2129353]

  • Baquero F, Coque TM, Martínez JL.

    Natural detoxification of antibiotics in the environment: A one health perspective

    FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY . 13: 1062399-1062399. Number of citations: 3

    [doi:10.3389/fmicb.2022.1062399]

  • López-Causapé C, Maruri-Aransolo A, Gomis-Font MA, Penev I, Castillo MG, Mulet X, de Dios Caballero J, Campo RD, Cantón R, Oliver A.

    Cefiderocol resistance genomics in sequential chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from cystic fibrosis patients.

    Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases . 29(4): . Number of citations: 2

    [doi:10.1016/j.cmi.2022.11.014]