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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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  • Rubio-Garrido, Marina, Gonzalez-Alba, Jose Maria, Reina, Gabriel, Ndarabu, Adolphe, Barquin, David, Carlos, Silvia, Galan, Juan Carlos, Holguin, Africa.

    Current and historic HIV-1 molecular epidemiology in paediatric and adult population from Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo

    SCIENTIFIC REPORTS . 10(1): 18461-18461. Number of citations: 8

    [doi:10.1038/s41598-020-74558-z]

  • Beltran-Pavez, Carolina, Gutierrez-Lopez, Miguel, Rubio-Garrido, Marina, Valades-Alcaraz, Ana, Prieto, Luis, Ramos, Jose Tomas, Jimenez De Ory S, Navarro, Marisa, Diez-Romero, Cristina, Pulido, Federico, Valencia, Eulalia, Holguin, Africa, Madrid Cohort of HIV-Infected Children integrated in the Pediatric Branch of the.

    Virological outcome among HIV infected patients transferred from pediatric care to adult units in Madrid, Spain (1997-2017)

    SCIENTIFIC REPORTS . 10(1): 16891-16891. Number of citations: 3

    [doi:10.1038/s41598-020-70861-x]

  • Pacios, Olga, Blasco, Lucia, Bleriot, Ines, Fernandez-Garcia, Laura, Ambroa, Anton, Lopez, Maria, Bou, German, Canton, Rafael, Garcia-Contreras, Rodolfo, Wood, Thomas K., Tomas, Maria.

    (p)ppGpp and Its Role in Bacterial Persistence: New Challenges

    ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY . 64(10): . Number of citations: 24

    [doi:10.1128/AAC.01288-20]

  • Mateos, Miriam, Hernandez-Garcia, Marta, Del Campo, Rosa, Martinez-Garcia, Laura, Gijon, Desiree, Morosini MI, Ruiz-Garbajosa, Patricia, Canton, Rafael.

    Emergence and Persistence over Time of Carbapenemase-ProducingEnterobacterIsolates in a Spanish University Hospital in Madrid, Spain (2005-2018)

    MICROBIAL DRUG RESISTANCE . 27(7): 895-903. Number of citations: 11

    [doi:10.1089/mdr.2020.0265]

  • Canton, Rafael, Gijon, Desiree, Ruiz-Garbajosa, Patricia.

    Antimicrobial resistance in ICUs: an update in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic

    CURRENT OPINION IN CRITICAL CARE . 26(5): 433-441. Number of citations: 57

    [doi:10.1097/MCC.0000000000000755]

  • Garcia-Caballero, A., Francisco CN, Martinez-Garcia, L., Lopez-Martinez, M. J., Corral-Corral, I., Gomez-Mampaso, E., Canton, R., Tato-Diez, M..

    Forty years of Tuberculous meningitis: The new face of an old enemy

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES . 99: 62-68. Number of citations: 2

    [doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2020.07.041]

  • de la Rosa Carrillo D, López-Campos JL, Alcázar Navarrete B, Calle Rubio M, Cantón Moreno R, García-Rivero JL, Máiz Carro L, Olveira Fuster C, Martínez-García MÁ, Comité Asesor del Documento, Comité Asesor del Documento de consenso sobre el diagnóstico y tratamiento de la.

    Consensus Document on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Bronchial Infection in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

    ARCHIVOS DE BRONCONEUMOLOGIA . 56(10): 651-664. Number of citations: 38

    [doi:10.1016/j.arbres.2020.04.023]

  • Martins-Oliveira, Ines, Perez-Viso, Blanca, Quintas, Sofia, Silva-Dias, Ana, Gomes, Rosario, Rodrigues, Acacio G., Canton, Rafael, Pina-Vaz, Cidalia.

    Evaluation of ultra-rapid susceptibility testing of ceftolozane-tazobactam by a flow cytometry assay directly from positive blood cultures

    EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY & INFECTIOUS DISEASES . 39(10): 1907-1914. Number of citations: 3

    [doi:10.1007/s10096-020-03926-4]

  • 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 : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases . 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

    The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy . 75(9): 2480-2484. Number of citations: 9

    [doi:10.1093/jac/dkaa219]