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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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  • García-Fernández S, Simner PJ, Thomson G, Faron M, Bosboom R, van Griethuijsen A, García-Castillo M, Harris R, Ledeboer NA, Cantón R, Thomson KS.

    Rapid identification from rectal swabs of the clinically most relevant carbapenemase genes from gram-negative bacteria using the BD MAX Check-Points CPO Assay.

    DIAGNOSTIC MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE . 102(1): 115554-115554. Number of citations: 1

    [doi:10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2021.115554]

  • García-Caballero A, de Dios Caballero J, Maruri A, Serrano-Tomás MI, del Campo R, Morosini MI, Cantón R.

    Evaluation of different phenotypic methods to detect methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus isolates recovered from cystic fibrosis patients.

    DIAGNOSTIC MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE . 102(1): 115559-115559. Number of citations: 1

    [doi:10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2021.115559]

  • Otheo E, Rodríguez M, Moraleda C, Domínguez-Rodríguez S, Martín MD, Herreros ML, Vázquez C, Folgueira MD, Pérez-Rivilla A, Jensen J, López A, Berzosa A, Sanz de Santaeufemia FJ, Jiménez AB, Sainz T, Llorente M, Santos M, Garrote E, Muñoz C, Sánchez P, Illán M, Coca A, Barrios A, Pacheco M, Arquero C, Gutiérrez L, Epalza C, Rojo P, Serna-Pascual M, Mota I, Moreno S, Galán JC, Tagarro A.

    Viruses and Mycoplasma pneumoniae are the main etiological agents of community-acquired pneumonia in hospitalized pediatric patients in Spain

    PEDIATRIC PULMONOLOGY . 57(1): 253-263. Number of citations: 3

    [doi:10.1002/ppul.25721]

  • Tagarro A, Moraledas C, Domínguez-Rodríguez S, Rodríguez M, Martín MD, Luisa Herreros M, Jensen J, López A, Carlos Galán J, Otheo E.

    A Tool to Distinguish Viral From Bacterial Pneumonia

    PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASE JOURNAL . 41(1): 31-36. Number of citations: 3

    [doi:10.1097/INF.0000000000003340]

  • Rodríguez I, Figueiredo AS, Sousa M, Aracil-Gisbert S, Fernández-de-Bobadilla MD, Lanza VF, Rodríguez C, Zamora J, Loza E, Mingo P, Brooks CJ, Cantón R, Baquero F, Coque TM.

    A 21-Year Survey of Escherichia coli from Bloodstream Infections (BSI) in a Tertiary Hospital Reveals How Community-Hospital Dynamics of B2 Phylogroup Clones Influence Local BSI Rates.

    mSphere . 6(6): . Number of citations: 4

    [doi:10.1128/msphere.00868-21]

  • Berzosa P, Molina de la Fuente I, Ta-Tang TH, González V, García L, Rodríguez-Galet A, Díaz-Regañón R, Galán R, Cerrada-Gálvez L, Ncogo P, Riloha M, Benito A.

    Temporal evolution of the resistance genotypes of Plasmodium falciparum in isolates from Equatorial Guinea during 20 years (1999 to 2019)

    MALARIA JOURNAL . 20(1): 463-463. Number of citations: 1

    [doi:10.1186/s12936-021-04000-w]

  • López-Pintor JM, Sánchez-López J, Navarro-San Francisco C, Sánchez-Díaz AM, Loza E, Cantón R.

    Real Life Clinical Impact of Antimicrobial Stewardship Actions on the Blood Culture Workflow from a Microbiology Laboratory.

    ANTIBIOTICS-BASEL . 10(12): . Number of citations: 1

    [doi:10.3390/antibiotics10121511]

  • Aravena C, Cáceres J, Bastías A A, Opazo JF, Magna Y, Saralegui C, Quintana C, Del-Campo R.

    Portación nasal, antibiotipo y genotipo de cepas de Staphylococcus aureus aisladas en estudiantes de Medicina y de Enfermería Campus San Felipe, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile, durante el año 2017.

    REVISTA CHILENA DE INFECTOLOGIA . 38(6): 774-782.

    [doi:10.4067/s0716-10182021000600774]

  • Baquero, F, Campos, M, Llorens, C, Sempere, JM.

    P systems in the time of COVID-19

    Journal Of Membrane Computing . 3(4): 246-257. Number of citations: 1

    [doi:10.1007/s41965-021-00083-1]

  • Mangas-Sánchez C, Garriga-García M, Serrano-Nieto MJ, García-Romero R, Álvarez-Beltrán M, Crehuá-Gaudiza E, Muñoz-Codoceo R, Suárez-Cortina L, Vicente-Santamaría S, Martínez-Costa C, Díaz-Martin JJ, Bousoño-García C, González-Jiménez D.

    Vitamin D Status in Pediatric and Young Adult Cystic Fibrosis Patients. Are the New Recommendations Effective?

    Nutrients . 13(12): . Number of citations: 2

    [doi:10.3390/nu13124413]

  • López Y, Muñoz L, Gargallo-Viola D, Cantón R, Vila J, Zsolt I.

    Uptake of Ozenoxacin and Other Quinolones in Gram-Positive Bacteria

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES . 22(24): . Number of citations: 1

    [doi:10.3390/ijms222413363]

  • Baquero F, Saralegui C, Marcos-Mencía D, Ballestero L, Vañó-Galván S, Moreno-Arrones ÓM, del Campo R.

    Epidermis as a Platform for Bacterial Transmission

    Frontiers in immunology . 12: 774018-774018. Number of citations: 1

    [doi:10.3389/fimmu.2021.774018]

  • Fernández-de-Bobadilla MD, Talavera-Rodríguez A, Chacón L, Baquero F, Coque TM, Lanza VF.

    PATO: Pangenome Analysis Toolkit

    Bioinformatics . 37(23): 4564-4566. Number of citations: 3

    [doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btab697]

  • Gómez-Zorrilla S, Becerra-Aparicio F, López Montesinos I, Ruiz de Gopegui E, Grau I, Pintado V, Padilla B, Benito N, Boix-Palop L, Fariñas MC, Peñaranda M, Gamallo MR, Martinez JA, Morte-Romea E, Del Pozo JL, Durán-Jordá X, Díaz-Regañón J, López-Mendoza D, Cantón R, Oliver A, Ruiz-Garbajosa P, Horcajada JP, REIPI/GEIRAS-GEMARA SEIMC ITUBRAS-2 Group.

    A Large Multicenter Prospective Study of Community-Onset Healthcare Associated Bacteremic Urinary Tract Infections in the Era of Multidrug Resistance: Even Worse than Hospital Acquired Infections?

    Infectious diseases and therapy . 10(4): 2677-2699. Number of citations: 1

    [doi:10.1007/s40121-021-00537-0]

  • López-Pintor JM, García-Fernández S, Ponce-Alonso M, Sánchez-Díaz AM, Ruiz-Garbajosa P, Morosini MI, Cantón R.

    Etiology and antimicrobial susceptibility profiles of anaerobic bacteria isolated from clinical samples in a university hospital in Madrid, Spain

    Anaerobe . 72: 102446-102446. Number of citations: 1

    [doi:10.1016/j.anaerobe.2021.102446]

  • Pérez-Viso B, Aracil-Gisbert S, Coque TM, del Campo R, Ruiz-Garbajosa P, Cantón R.

    Evaluation of CHROMagar (TM)-Serratia agar, a new chromogenic medium for the detection and isolation of Serratia marcescens

    EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY & INFECTIOUS DISEASES . 40(12): 2593-2596.

    [doi:10.1007/s10096-021-04328-w]

  • Gill CM, Aktaþ E, Alfouzan W, Bourassa L, Brink A, Burnham CD, Canton R, Carmeli Y, Falcone M, Kiffer C, Marchese A, Martinez O, Pournaras S, Satlin M, Seifert H, Thabit AK, Thomson KS, Villegas MV, Nicolau DP, ERACE-PA Global Study Group.

    The ERACE-PA Global Surveillance Program: Ceftolozane/tazobactam and Ceftazidime/avibactam in vitro Activity against a Global Collection of Carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY & INFECTIOUS DISEASES . 40(12): 2533-2541. Number of citations: 16

    [doi:10.1007/s10096-021-04308-0]

  • Baquero F, Martínez JL, F Lanza V, Rodríguez-Beltrán J, Galán JC, San Millán A, Cantón R, Coque TM.

    Evolutionary Pathways and Trajectories in Antibiotic Resistance

    CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY REVIEWS . 34(4): . Number of citations: 24

    [doi:10.1128/CMR.00050-19]