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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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  • Mayoral JM, Alonso J, Garín O, Herrador Z, Astray J, Baricot M, Castilla J, Cantón R, Castro A, Delgado-Rodríguez M, Ferri A, Godoy P, Gónzález-Candelas F, Martín V, Pumarola T, Quintana JM, Soldevila N, Tamames S, Domínguez A, CIBERESP Cases and Controls in Pandemic Influenza Working Group, Spain.

    Social factors related to the clinical severity of influenza cases in Spain during the A (H1N1) 2009 virus pandemic.

    Bmc Public Health . 13: 118-118. Number of citations: 14

    [doi:10.1186/1471-2458-13-118]

  • Sánchez Valenzuela A, Lavilla Lerma L, Benomar N, Gálvez A, Pérez Pulido R, Abriouel H.

    Phenotypic and Molecular Antibiotic Resistance Profile of Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium Isolated from Different Traditional Fermented Foods

    FOODBORNE PATHOGENS AND DISEASE . 10(2): 143-149. Number of citations: 31

    [doi:10.1089/fpd.2012.1279]

  • Leclercq R, Cantón R, Brown DF, Giske CG, Heisig P, MacGowan AP, Mouton JW, Nordmann P, Rodloff AC, Rossolini GM, Soussy CJ, Steinbakk M, Winstanley TG, Kahlmeter G.

    EUCAST expert rules in antimicrobial susceptibility testing

    CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION . 19(2): 141-160. Number of citations: 340

    [doi:10.1111/j.1469-0691.2011.03703.x]

  • Muñoz-Atienza E, Gómez-Sala B, Araújo C, Campanero C, del Campo R, Hernández PE, Herranz C, Cintas LM.

    Antimicrobial activity, antibiotic susceptibility and virulence factors of Lactic Acid Bacteria of aquatic origin intended for use as probiotics in aquaculture

    BMC MICROBIOLOGY . 13: 15-15. Number of citations: 126

    [doi:10.1186/1471-2180-13-15]

  • Baquero F.

    Epigenetics, epistasis and epidemics.

    EVOLUTION MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH . 2013(1): 86-88.

    [doi:10.1093/emph/eot009]

  • Gutiérrez C, Hernández-Novoa B, Pérez-Elías MJ, Moreno AM, Holguín A, Dronda F, Casado JL, Moreno S.

    Prevalence of primary resistance mutations to integrase inhibitors in treatment-naïve and -experienced patients infected with B and non-B HIV-1 variants.

    HIV CLINICAL TRIALS . 14(1): 10-16.

    [doi:10.1310/hct1401-10]

  • Morrissey I, Seifert H, Canton R, Nordmann P, Stefani S, Macgowan A, Janes R, Knight D.

    Activity of oritavancin against methicillin-resistant staphylococci, vancomycin-resistant enterococci and beta-haemolytic streptococci collected from western European countries in 2011

    JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY . 68(1): 164-167. Number of citations: 24

    [doi:10.1093/jac/dks344]

  • Glasner C, Albiger B, Buist G, Tambic Andrasevic A, Canton R, Carmeli Y, Friedrich AW, Giske CG, Glupczynski Y, Gniadkowski M, Livermore DM, Nordmann P, Poirel L, Rossolini GM, Seifert H, Vatopoulos A, Walsh T, Woodford N, Donker T, Monnet DL, Grundmann H.

    Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in Europe: a survey among national experts from 39 countries, February 2013.

    Eurosurveillance . 18(28): .

  • Faria-Ramos I, Espinar MJ, Rocha R, Santos-Antunes J, Rodrigues AG, Cantón R, Pina-Vaz C.

    A novel flow cytometric assay for rapid detection of extended-spectrum beta-lactamases

    CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION . 19(1): 8-15. Number of citations: 32

    [doi:10.1111/j.1469-0691.2012.03986.x]

  • de Mulder M, Yebra G, Navas A, de José MI, Gurbindo MD, González-Tomé MI, Mellado MJ, Saavedra-Lozano J, Muñoz-Fernández MÁ, de Ory SJ, Ramos JT, Holguín A.

    High drug resistance prevalence among vertically HIV-infected patients transferred from pediatric care to adult units in Spain.

    Plos One . 7(12): . Number of citations: 27

    [doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0052155]

  • Cantón R, Bryan J.

    Global antimicrobial resistance: from surveillance to stewardship. Part 2: stewardship initiatives

    EXPERT REVIEW OF ANTI-INFECTIVE THERAPY . 10(12): 1375-1377. Number of citations: 33

    [doi:10.1586/ERI.12.140]

  • Bapteste E, Lopez P, Bouchard F, Baquero F, McInerney JO, Burian RM.

    Evolutionary analyses of non-genealogical bonds produced by introgressive descent.

    PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA . 109(45): 18266-18272. Number of citations: 58

    [doi:10.1073/pnas.1206541109]

  • de Mulder M, Yebra G, Navas A, Martin L, de Jose MI, Navarro ML, de Ory SJ, Gonzalez-Granado I, Mellado MJ, Ramos JT, Holguin A.

    Trends in drug resistance prevalence in HIV-1-infected children in Madrid: 1993 to 2010 analysis.

    PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASE JOURNAL . 31(11): 213-221. Number of citations: 15

    [doi:10.1097/INF.0b013e3182678c7c]

  • Cantón R, Bryan J.

    Global antimicrobial resistance: from surveillance to stewardship. Part 1: surveillance and risk factors for resistance.

    EXPERT REVIEW OF ANTI-INFECTIVE THERAPY . 10(11): 1269-1271.

    [doi:10.1586/eri.12.120]

  • Giani T, Morosini MI, D'Andrea MM, García-Castillo M, Rossolini GM, Cantón R.

    Assessment of the Phoenix (TM) automated system and EUCAST breakpoints for antimicrobial susceptibility testing against isolates expressing clinically relevant resistance mechanisms

    CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION . 18(11): 452-458. Number of citations: 12

    [doi:10.1111/j.1469-0691.2012.03980.x]

  • Novais C, Freitas AR, Silveira E, Baquero F, Peixe L, Roberts AP, Coque TM.

    Different genetic supports for the tet(S) gene in Enterococci.

    ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY . 56(11): 6014-6018. Number of citations: 12

    [doi:10.1128/AAC.00758-12]

  • Briz V, García D, Méndez-Lagares G, Ruiz-Mateos E, de Mulder M, Moreno-Pérez D, Navarro ML, León-Leal JA, de José MI, Ramos JT, Mellado MJ, González-Tomé MI, Leal M, Muñoz-Fernández MA.

    High Prevalence of X4/DM-Tropic Variants in Children and Adolescents Infected With HIV-1 by Vertical Transmission

    PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASE JOURNAL . 31(10): 1048-1052. Number of citations: 16

    [doi:10.1097/INF.0b013e3182684d8e]

  • Capelastegui A, Quintana JM, Bilbao A, España PP, Garin O, Alonso J, Astray J, Cantón R, Castilla J, Castro A, Delgado-Rodríguez M, Godoy P, Gónzález-Candelas F, Martín V, Mayoral JM, Pumarola T, Tamames S, Soldevila N, Baricot M, Domínguez A.

    Score to identify the severity of adult patients with influenza A (H1N1) 2009 virus infection at hospital admission.

    EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY & INFECTIOUS DISEASES . 31(10): 2693-2701. Number of citations: 10

    [doi:10.1007/s10096-012-1616-8]