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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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  • Ortiz-Diez, Gustavo, Lopez, Raul, Sánchez-Díaz AM, Turrientes, Maria-Carmen, Baquero, Maria-Rosario, Luque, Ruth, Maroto, Alba, Fernandez, Cristina, Ayllon, Tania.

    Epidemiology of the colonization and acquisition of methicillin-resistant staphylococci and vancomycin-resistant enterococci in dogs hospitalized in a clinic veterinary hospital in Spain

    COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES . 72: 101501-101501. Number of citations: 4

    [doi:10.1016/j.cimid.2020.101501]

  • Fernandez-Nieto, D., Ortega-Quijano, D., Jimenez-Cauhe, J., Burgos-Blasco, P., de Perosanz-Lobo, D., Suarez-Valle, A., Cortes-Cuevas, J. L., Carretero, I., Garcia-Del Real, C., Fernandez-Guarino, M..

    Clinical and histological characterization of vesicular COVID-19 rashes: a prospective study in a tertiary care hospital

    CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL DERMATOLOGY . 45(7): 872-875. Number of citations: 85

    [doi:10.1111/ced.14277]

  • Tellapragada, C., Hasan, B., Antonelli, A., Maruri, A., de Vogel, C., Gijon, D., Coppi, M., Verbon, A., van Wamel, W., Rossolini, G. M., Canton, R., Giske, C. G..

    Isothermal microcalorimetry minimal inhibitory concentration testing in extensively drug resistant Gram-negative bacilli: a multicentre study

    CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION . 26(10): . Number of citations: 12

    [doi:10.1016/j.cmi.2020.01.026]

  • Diaz-Garcia, Judith, Arendrup, Maiken C., Canton, Rafael, Garcia-Rodriguez, Julio, Gomez, Ana, Gomez, Elia, Orden, Beatriz, Parisi, Gabriella, Peman, Javier, Posteraro, Brunella, Sanguinetti, Maurizio, Da Matta DA, Colombo, Arnaldo L., Muñoz P, Sanchez-Carrillo, Carlos, Guinea, Jesus, Escribano, Pilar.

    Candidemia Candida albicans clusters have higher tendency to form biofilms than singleton genotypes

    Medical mycology . 58(7): 887-895. Number of citations: 3

    [doi:10.1093/mmy/myaa002]

  • Ambroa, Anton, Blasco, Lucia, Lopez-Causape, Carla, Trastoy, Rocio, Fernandez-Garcia, Laura, Bleriot, Ines, Ponce-Alonso, Manuel, Pacios, Olga, Lopez, Maria, Canton, Rafael, Kidd, Timothy J., Bou, German, Oliver, Antonio, Tomas, Maria.

    Temperate Bacteriophages (Prophages) inPseudomonas aeruginosaIsolates Belonging to the International Cystic Fibrosis Clone (CC274)

    FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY . 11: 556706-556706. Number of citations: 13

    [doi:10.3389/fmicb.2020.556706]

  • Pacios O, Blasco L, Bleriot I, Fernandez-Garcia L, Ambroa A, López M, Bou G, Cantón R, Garcia-Contreras R, Wood TK, Tomás M.

    (p)ppGpp and its role in bacterial persistence: New challenges.

    ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY . 64(10): .

    [doi:10.1128/AAC.01283-20]

  • Herencias, Cristina, Salgado-Briegas, Sergio, Prieto, Maria A., Nogales, Juan.

    Providing new insights on the biphasic lifestyle of the predatory bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus through genome-scale metabolic modeling

    PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY . 16(9): . Number of citations: 6

    [doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007646]

  • Munoz-Gallego I, Viedma E, Esteban J, Mancheno-Losa M, Garcia-Canete J, Blanco-Garcia A, Rico A, Garcia-Perea A, Ruiz Garbajosa P, Escudero-Sanchez R, Sanchez Somolinos M, Marin Arriaza M, Romanyk J, Barbero JM, Arribi Vilela A, Gonzalez Romo F, Perez-Jorge C, M Arana D, Monereo A, Domingo D, Cordero J, Sanchez Romero MI, Garcia Viejo MA, Lora-Tamayo J, Chaves F, Grupo de Infeccion Osteoarticular de la Comunidad de Madrid.

    Genotypic and Phenotypic Characteristics of Staphylococcus aureus Prosthetic Joint Infections: Insight on the Pathogenesis and Prognosis of a Multicenter Prospective Cohort

    Open forum infectious diseases . 7(9): . Number of citations: 7

    [doi:10.1093/ofid/ofaa344]

  • Lopez, Y., Tato, M., Gargallo-Viola, D., Canton, R., Vila, J., Zsolt, I.

    Comparative activity of ozenoxacin and other quinolones in Staphylococcus aureus strains overexpressing the efflux pump-encoding genes mepA and norA

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS . 56(3): 106082-106082. Number of citations: 3

    [doi:10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2020.106082]

  • Colmenarejo, Cristina, Hernandez-Garcia, Marta, Muñoz-Rodríguez JR, Huertas, Natalia, Navarro FJ, Mateo AB, Pellejero EM, Illescas, Soledad, Vidal MD, Del Campo, Rosa.

    Prevalence and risks factors associated with ESBL-producing faecal carriage in a single long-term-care facility in Spain: emergence of CTX-M-24-and CTX-M-27-producing Escherichia coli ST131-H30R

    JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY . 75(9): 2480-2484. Number of citations: 9

    [doi:10.1093/jac/dkaa219]

  • Kostyanev, Tomislav, Nguyen, M. N., Markovska, R., Stankova, P., Xavier, B. B., Lammens, C., Marteva-Proevska, Y., Velinov, T., Canton, R., Goossens, H., Malhotra-Kumar, S..

    Emergence of ST654 Pseudomonas aeruginosa co-harbouring bla(NDM-1) and bla(GES-5) in novel class I integron In 1884 from Bulgaria

    JOURNAL OF GLOBAL ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE . 22: 672-673. Number of citations: 3

    [doi:10.1016/j.jgar.2020.06.008]

  • Cambau, E., Gutmann, L., Mainardi, J. -L., Goldstein, F., Hoi AB, Collatz, E., Poljak, M., Kahlmeter, G., Phillips, I., Baquero, F..

    Jacques F. Acar (1931-2020) Obituary

    CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION . 26(9): 1261-1263. Number of citations: 1

    [doi:10.1016/j.cmi.2020.06.001]

  • Beltran-Corbellini, A., Chico-Garcia, J. L., Martinez-Poles, J., Rodriguez-Jorge, F., Natera-Villalba, E., Gomez-Corral, J., Gomez-Lopez, A., Monreal, E., Parra-Diaz, P., Cortes-Cuevas, J. L., Galan, J. C., Fragola-Arnau, C., Porta-Etessam, J., Masjuan, J., Alonso-Canovas, A..

    Acute-onset smell and taste disorders in the context of COVID-19: a pilot multicentre polymerase chain reaction based case-control study

    EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY . 27(9): 1738-1741. Number of citations: 262

    [doi:10.1111/ene.14273]

  • Hernando-Amado, Sara, Coque, Teresa M., Baquero, Fernando, Martinez, Jose L..

    Antibiotic Resistance: Moving From Individual Health Norms to Social Norms in One Health and Global Health

    FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY . 11: 1914-1914. Number of citations: 48

    [doi:10.3389/fmicb.2020.01914]

  • Alreshidi, Mousa M., Veettil, Vajid N., Noumi, Emira, Campo RD, Snoussi, Mejdi.

    Description of microbial diversity associated with ticks Hyalomma dromedarii (Acari: Ixodidae) isolated from camels in Hail region (Saudi Arabia) using massive sequencing of 16S rDNA

    Bioinformation . 16(8): 602-610. Number of citations: 5

    [doi:10.6026/97320630016602]

  • Mondejar-Lopez P, Quintana-Gallego E, Giron-Moreno RM, Cortell-Aznar I, Ruiz de Valbuena-Maiz M, Diab-Caceres L, Prados-Sanchez C, Alvarez-Fernandez A, Garcia-Marcos PW, Peñalver-Mellado C, Pastor-Vivero MD, Olveira C, Lopez-Neyra A, Castillo-Corullon S, Palma-Milla S, Perez-Ruiz E, Sole-Jover A, Barrio MI, Sanchez-Solis M, Asensio de la Cruz Ó, CF-COVID19-Spain Registry Group.

    Impact of SARS-CoV-2 infection in patients with cystic fibrosis in Spain: Incidence and results of the national CF-COVID19-Spain survey

    RESPIRATORY MEDICINE . 170: 106062-106062. Number of citations: 27

    [doi:10.1016/j.rmed.2020.106062]

  • Braun, Patrick, Glass, Allison, Maree, Leana, Krugel, Maria, Pacenti, Monia, Onelia, Francesco, Gunson, Rory, Goldstein, Emily, Martinez-Garcia, Laura, Galan, Juan-Carlos, Vilas, Alba, D'costa, Jodie, Sameer, Rizmina, Ehret, Robert, Knechten, Heribert, Naeth, Gudrun, Bouvier-Alias, Magali, Marlowe, Natalia, Palm, Michael J., Joseph, Ajith M., Dhein, Jens, Reinhardt, Birgit, Pfeifer, Karin, Lucic, Danijela, Obermeier, Martin.

    Multicenter clinical comparative evaluation of Alinity m HIV-1 assay performance

    JOURNAL OF CLINICAL VIROLOGY . 129: 104530-104530. Number of citations: 9

    [doi:10.1016/j.jcv.2020.104530]

  • Bonanzinga, Sara, Onelia, Francesco, Jackson, Kathy, Glass, Allison, Maree, Leana, Krugel, Mari, Pacenti, Monia, Gunson, Rory, Goldstein, Emily, García LM, Galan, Juan-Carlos, Vilas, Alba, Ehret, Robert, Knechten, Heribert, Naeth, Gudrun, Braun, Patrick, Obermeier, Martin, Marlowe, Natalia, Palm, Michael J., Pfeifer, Karin, Joseph, Ajith M., Dhein, Jens, Reinhardt, Birgit, Lucic, Danijela, Chevaliez, Stephane.

    Multicenter clinical evaluation of alinity m HBV assay performance

    JOURNAL OF CLINICAL VIROLOGY . 129: 104514-104514. Number of citations: 9

    [doi:10.1016/j.jcv.2020.104514]