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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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  • Morales-Suárez-Varela M, Llopis-González A, González-Candela F, Astray J, Alonso J, Garin O, Castro A, Galan JC, Soldevila N, Castilla J, Godoy P, Delgado-Rodríguez M, Martin V, Mayoral JM, Pumarola T, Quintana JM, Tamames S, Rubio-López N, Dominguez A.

    Economic Evaluation of Health Services Costs During Pandemic Influenza A (H1N1) Pdm09 Infection in Pregnant and Non-Pregnant Women in Spain.

    IRANIAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH . 45(4): 423-434. Number of citations: 2

  • Escobar-Villalba A, Sainz de la Maza S, Pérez Torre P, Galán JC, Rodríguez-Domínguez M, Monreal Laguillo E, Martínez Ulloa PL, Buisán Catevilla J, Corral I.

    Acute myelitis by human herpes virus 7 in an HIV-infected patient.

    JOURNAL OF CLINICAL VIROLOGY . 77: 63-65. Number of citations: 8

    [doi:10.1016/j.jcv.2016.02.001]

  • María DA, María-Isabel M, María-Carmen C, Álvaro P, Jorge C, Luis MM, Francesc M, Jordi V, Adriana O, Jesús O, Rafael C.

    Establishing the validity of different susceptibility testing methods to evaluate the in vitro activity of amoxicillin-clavulanate against Escherichia coli.

    DIAGNOSTIC MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE . 84(4): 334-336. Number of citations: 3

    [doi:10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2015.12.012]

  • Butt J, Romero-Hernández B, Pérez-Gómez B, Willhauck-Fleckenstein M, Holzinger D, Martin V, Moreno V, Linares C, Dierssen-Sotos T, Barricarte A, Tardón A, Altzibar JM, Moreno-Osset E, Franco F, Olmedo Requena R, María Huerta J, Michel A, Waterboer T, Castaño-Vinyals G, Kogevinas M, Pollán M, Boleij A, de Sanjosé S, Del Campo R, Tjalsma H, Aragonés N, Pawlita M.

    Association of Streptococcus gallolyticus subspecies gallolyticus with colorectal cancer: Serological evidence

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CANCER . 138(7): 1670-1679. Number of citations: 30

    [doi:10.1002/ijc.29914]

  • Pujol J, Godoy P, Soldevila N, Castilla J, González-Candelas F, Mayoral JM, Astray J, Garcia S, Martin V, Tamames S, Delgado M, Domínguez A.

    Social class based on occupation is associated with hospitalization for A(H1N1)pdm09 infection. Comparison between hospitalized and ambulatory cases.

    EPIDEMIOLOGY AND INFECTION . 144(4): 732-740. Number of citations: 5

    [doi:10.1017/S0950268815001892]

  • Ponce-Alonso M, Rodríguez-Rojas L, Campo RD, Cantón R, Morosini MI.

    Comparison of different methods for identification of species of the genus Raoultella: report of 11 cases of Raoultella causing bacteraemia and literature review

    CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION . 22(3): 252-257. Number of citations: 28

    [doi:10.1016/j.cmi.2015.10.035]

  • Clutter DS, Sánchez PR, Rhee SY, Shafer RW.

    Genetic Variability of HIV-1 for Drug Resistance Assay Development.

    VIRUSES-BASEL . 8(2): . Number of citations: 12

    [doi:10.3390/v8020048]

  • Gil-Bona A, Reales-Calderon JA, Parra-Giraldo CM, Martinez-Lopez R, Monteoliva L, Gil C.

    The Cell Wall Protein Ecm33 of Candida albicans is Involved in Chronological Life Span, Morphogenesis, Cell Wall Regeneration, Stress Tolerance, and Host-Cell Interaction.

    FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY . 7: 64-64. Number of citations: 24

    [doi:10.3389/fmicb.2016.00064]

  • Díez-Aguilar M, Martínez-García L, Cantón R, Morosini MI.

    Is a New Standard Needed for Diffusion Methods for In Vitro Susceptibility Testing of Fosfomycin against Pseudomonas aeruginosa?

    ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY . 60(2): 1158-1161. Number of citations: 7

    [doi:10.1128/AAC.02237-15]

  • García-Fernández S, Morosini MI, Gijón D, Beatobe L, Ruiz-Garbajosa P, Domínguez L, Cantón R, Valverde A.

    Detection of Carbapenemase Production in a Collection of Enterobacteriaceae with Characterized Resistance Mechanisms from Clinical and Environmental Origins by Use of Both Carba NP and Blue-Carba Tests

    JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY . 54(2): 464-466. Number of citations: 16

    [doi:10.1128/JCM.02580-15]

  • Llácer Delicado T, Torrecilla E, Holguín Á.

    Deep analysis of HIV-1 natural variability across HIV-1 variants at residues associated with integrase inhibitor (INI) resistance in INI-naive individuals.

    JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY . 71(2): 362-366. Number of citations: 13

    [doi:10.1093/jac/dkv333]

  • Delgado-Valverde M, Torres E, Valiente-Mendez A, Almirante B, Gómez-Zorrilla S, Borrell N, Corzo JE, Gurgui M, Almela M, García-Álvarez L, Fontecoba-Sánchez MC, Martínez-Martínez L, Cantón R, Praena J, Causse M, Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez B, Roberts JA, Farkas A, Pascual Á, Rodríguez-Baño J, REIPI/GEIH-SEIMC BACTERAEMIA-MIC group.

    Impact of the MIC of piperacillin/tazobactam on the outcome for patients with bacteraemia due to Enterobacteriaceae: the Bacteraemia-MIC project

    JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY . 71(2): 521-530. Number of citations: 17

    [doi:10.1093/jac/dkv362]

  • Palacios-Baena ZR, Oteo J, Conejo C, Larrosa MN, Bou G, Fernández-Martínez M, González-López JJ, Pintado V, Martínez-Martínez L, Merino M, Pomar V, Mora-Rillo M, Rivera MA, Oliver A, Ruiz-Carrascoso G, Ruiz-Garbajosa P, Zamorano L, Bautista V, Ortega A, Morales I, Pascual Á, Campos J, Rodríguez-Baño J.

    Comprehensive clinical and epidemiological assessment of colonisation and infection due to carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in Spain

    JOURNAL OF INFECTION . 72(2): 152-160. Number of citations: 53

    [doi:10.1016/j.jinf.2015.10.008]

  • Ruiz-Garbajosa P, Hernández-García M, Beatobe L, Tato M, Méndez MI, Grandal M, Aranzábal L, Alonso S, Lópaz MÁ, Astray J, Cantón R.

    A single-day point-prevalence study of faecal carriers in long-term care hospitals in Madrid (Spain) depicts a complex clonal and polyclonal dissemination of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae

    JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY . 71(2): 348-352. Number of citations: 30

    [doi:10.1093/jac/dkv355]

  • Del Corral T, Percegona J, López N, Valiente A, Garriga M, Seborga M, Vilaró J.

    Validity of a Spanish Version of the Leicester Cough Questionnaire in Children With Cystic Fibrosis

    ARCHIVOS DE BRONCONEUMOLOGIA . 52(2): 63-69. Number of citations: 4

    [doi:10.1016/j.arbres.2015.01.016]

  • Martín V, Dávila-Batista V, Castilla J, Godoy P, Delgado-Rodríguez M, Soldevila N, Molina AJ, Fernandez-Villa T, Astray J, Castro A, González-Candelas F, Mayoral JM, Quintana JM, Domínguez A.

    Comparison of body mass index (BMI) with the CUN-BAE body adiposity estimator in the prediction of hypertension and type 2 diabetes

    Bmc Public Health . 16(1): 82-82. Number of citations: 22

    [doi:10.1186/s12889-016-2728-3]

  • Vialas V, Sun Z, Reales-Calderón JA, Hernáez ML, Casas V, Carrascal M, Abián J, Monteoliva L, Deutsch EW, Moritz RL, Gil C.

    A comprehensive Candida albicans PeptideAtlas build enables deep proteome coverage

    JOURNAL OF PROTEOMICS . 131: 122-130. Number of citations: 5

    [doi:10.1016/j.jprot.2015.10.019]

  • León-Sampedro R, Novais C, Peixe L, Baquero F, Coque TM.

    Diversity and Evolution of the Tn5801-tet(M)-Like Integrative and Conjugative Elements among Enterococcus, Streptococcus, and Staphylococcus.

    ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY . 60(3): 1736-1746. Number of citations: 26

    [doi:10.1128/AAC.01864-15]