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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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  • Larrosa MN, Benito, Natividad, Canton, Rafael, Canut, Andres, Cercenado, Emilia, Fernandez-Cuenca, Felipe, Guinea, Jesus, Lopez-Navas, Antonio, Moreno MÁ, Oliver, Antonio, Martinez-Martinez, Luis.

    From CLSI to EUCAST, a necessary step in Spanish laboratories

    ENFERMEDADES INFECCIOSAS Y MICROBIOLOGIA CLINICA . 38(2): 79-83. Number of citations: 7

    [doi:10.1016/j.eimc.2018.09.014]

  • Quiñones D, Aung MS, Carmona Y, González MK, Pereda N, Hidalgo M, Rivero M, Zayas A, del Campo R, Urushibara N, Kobayashi N.

    High Prevalence of CTX-M Type Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase Genes and Detection of NDM-1 Carbapenemase Gene in Extraintestinal Pathogenic Escherichia coli in Cuba.

    PATHOGENS . 9(1): . Number of citations: 14

    [doi:10.3390/pathogens9010065]

  • Fluit, Ad C., Rogers MRC, Diez-Aguilar, Maria, Canton, Rafael, Benaissa-Trouw, Barry J., Bayjanov, Jumamurat R., Ekkelenkamp, Miquel B..

    Draft genome sequence of the strain 16-537536, isolated from a patient with bronchiectasis and its relationship to the Pseudomonas koreensis group of the Pseudomonas fluorescens complex

    BMC research notes . 13(1): 10-10.

    [doi:10.1186/s13104-019-4863-2]

  • Roqué M, Martínez-García L, Solà I, Alonso-Coello P, Bonfill X, Zamora J.

    Toolkit of methodological resources to conduct systematic reviews.

    F1000Research . 9: 82-82. Number of citations: 8

    [doi:10.12688/f1000research.22032.3]

  • Kluytmans, J., Voss, A., Kahlmeter, G., Giske, C., MacGowan, A., Brown, D., Gatermann, S., Lina, G., Lindemann, C., Turnidge, J., Canton, R., Petinaki, E., Vaz, C. Pina, Rodriguez Bano, J..

    Obituary: Johan Willem Mouton

    Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases . 26(1): 125-126. Number of citations: 2

    [doi:10.1016/j.cmi.2019.11.002]

  • Vivancos-Gallego, Maria J., Okhai, Hajra, Perez-Elias, Maria J., Gomez-Ayerbe, Cristina, Moreno-Zamora, Ana, Casado, Jose L., Quereda, Carmen, Sanz JM, Sanchez-Conde, Matilde, Serrano-Villar, Sergio, Del Campo, Santos, Dronda, Fernando, Galan JC, Sabin, Caroline A., Moreno, Santiago.

    CD4(+):CD8(+) T-cell ratio changes in people with HIV receiving antiretroviral treatment

    ANTIVIRAL THERAPY . 25(2): 91-100. Number of citations: 4

    [doi:10.3851/IMP3354]

  • Merino, Irene, Porter, Stephen B., Johnston, Brian, Clabots, Connie, Thuras, Paul, Ruiz-Garbajosa, Patricia, Canton, Rafael, Johnson, James R..

    Molecularly defined extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli status predicts virulence in a murine sepsis model better than does virotype, individual virulence genes, or clonal subset among E. coli ST131 isolates

    Virulence . 11(1): 327-336. Number of citations: 12

    [doi:10.1080/21505594.2020.1747799]

  • Freitas, Ana R, Tedim, Ana P, Novais, Carla, Lanza, Val F, Peixe, Luisa.

    Comparative genomics of global optrA-carrying Enterococcus faecalis uncovers a common chromosomal hotspot for optrA acquisition within a diversity of core and accessory genomes.

    Microbial genomics . 6(6): . Number of citations: 31

    [doi:10.1099/mgen.0.000350]

  • Montealegre, Maria Camila, Talavera Rodriguez, Alba, Roy, Subarna, Hossain, Muhammed Iqbal, Islam, Mohammad Aminul, Lanza, Val F., Julian, Timothy R..

    High Genomic Diversity and Heterogenous Origins of Pathogenic and Antibiotic-Resistant Escherichia coli in Household Settings Represent a Challenge to Reducing Transmission in Low-Income Settings

    mSphere . 5(1): . Number of citations: 19

    [doi:10.1128/mSphere.00704-19]

  • Freitas, Ana R., Novais, Carla, Peixe, Luisa, Coque, Teresa M..

    Isolation and Visualization of Plasmids from Gram-Positive Bacteria of Interest in Public Health

    Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) . 2075: 21-38. Number of citations: 1

    [doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-9877-7_2]

  • Novais, Carla, Freitas, Ana R., Leon-Sampedro, Ricardo, Peixe, Luisa, Coque, Teresa M..

    Methods to Quantify DNA Transfer in Enterococcus

    Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) . 2075: 111-122. Number of citations: 1

    [doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-9877-7_8]

  • de Toro, Maria, Lanza, Val F., Vielva, Luis, Redondo-Salvo, Santiago, de la Cruz, Fernando.

    Plasmid Reconstruction from Next-Gen Data: A Detailed Protocol for the Use of PLACNETw for the Reconstruction of Plasmids from WGS Datasets

    Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) . 2075: 323-339. Number of citations: 3

    [doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-9877-7_23]

  • Fernandez-de-Bobadilla, Miguel D., Coque, Teresa M., Lanza, Val F..

    Statistical Analysis of Accessory Genome

    Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) . 2075: 341-353. Number of citations: 3

    [doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-9877-7_24]

  • DelaFuente, Javier, Rodriguez-Beltran, Jeronimo, San Millan, Alvaro.

    Methods to Study Fitness and Compensatory Adaptation in Plasmid-Carrying Bacteria

    Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) . 2075: 371-382. Number of citations: 11

    [doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-9877-7_26]

  • Vivancos-Gallego MJ, Muriel A, Serrano-Villar S, Moreno-Zamora A, Pérez-Elías MJ, Quereda C, Casado JL, Sánchez-Conde M, Del Campo S, Dronda F, Sánchez-Díaz AM, Valencia-Martín JL, Moreno S.

    Pneumococcal vaccination in adult people living with HIV on suppressive antiretroviral therapy: a case-control study.

    International journal of STD & AIDS . 31(2): 174-182. Number of citations: 1

    [doi:10.1177/0956462419882128]

  • Boon M, Claes I, Havermans T, Fornés-Ferrer V, Calvo-Lerma J, Asseiceira I, Bulfamante A, Garriga M, Masip E, Woodcock S, Walet S, Barreto C, Colombo C, Crespo P, Van der Wiel E, Hulst J, Martinez-Barona S, Nobili R, Pereira L, Ruperto M, Vicente S, De Boeck K, Ribes-Koninckx C, MyCyFAPP consortium.

    Assessing gastro-intestinal related quality of life in cystic fibrosis: Validation of PedsQL GI in children and their parents.

    Plos One . 14(12): 225004-225004. Number of citations: 8

    [doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0225004]

  • Baquero, Fernando, Coque, Teresa M., Martinez, Jose-Luis, Aracil-Gisbert, Sonia, Lanza, Val F..

    Gene Transmission in the One Health Microbiosphere and the Channels of Antimicrobial Resistance

    FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY . 10: 2892-2892. Number of citations: 32

    [doi:10.3389/fmicb.2019.02892]

  • Gonzalez-Alba JM, Baquero F, Cantón R, Galán JC.

    Stratified reconstruction of ancestral Escherichia coli diversification.

    Bmc Genomics . 20(1): 936-936. Number of citations: 15

    [doi:10.1186/s12864-019-6346-1]