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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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  • Saralegui, Claudia, Ponce-Alonso, Manuel, Perez-Viso, Blanca, Moles Alegre L, Escribano, Esperanza, Lazaro-Perona, Fernando, Lanza, Val F., de Pipaon, Miguel Saenz, Rodriguez, Juan Miguel, Baquero, Fernando, del Campo, Rosa.

    Genomics of Serratia marcescens Isolates Causing Outbreaks in the Same Pediatric Unit 47 Years Apart: Position in an Updated Phylogeny of the Species

    FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY . 11: 451-451. Number of citations: 15

    [doi:10.3389/fmicb.2020.00451]

  • Campanero, Cristina, Muñoz-Atienza E, Diep, Dzung B., Feito, Javier, Arbulu, Sara, del Campo, Rosa, Nes, Ingolf F., Hernandez, Pablo E., Herranz, Carmen, Cintas, Luis M..

    Biochemical, genetic and transcriptional characterization of multibacteriocin production by the anti-pneumococcal dairy strain Streptococcus infantarius LP90

    Plos One . 15(3): . Number of citations: 4

    [doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0229417]

  • Gijon, Desiree, Tedim, Ana P., Valverde, Aranzazu, Rodriguez, Irene, Morosini, Maria-Isabel, Coque, Teresa M., Manrique, Marina, Pareja, Eduardo, Tobes, Raquel, Ruiz-Garbajosa, Patricia, Canton, Rafael.

    Early OXA-48-Producing Enterobacterales Isolates Recovered in a Spanish Hospital Reveal a Complex Introduction Dominated by Sequence Type 11 (ST11) and ST405 Klebsiella pneumoniae Clones

    mSphere . 5(2): . Number of citations: 13

    [doi:10.1128/mSphere.00080-20]

  • Baquero F, F Lanza V, Duval M, Coque TM.

    Ecogenetics of antibiotic resistance in Listeria monocytogenes.

    MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY . 113(3): 570-579. Number of citations: 31

    [doi:10.1111/mmi.14454]

  • Andersson DI, Balaban NQ, Baquero F, Courvalin P, Glaser P, Gophna U, Kishony R, Molin S, Tønjum T.

    Antibiotic resistance: turning evolutionary principles into clinical reality.

    FEMS MICROBIOLOGY REVIEWS . 44(2): 171-188. Number of citations: 90

    [doi:10.1093/femsre/fuaa001]

  • Garcia-Fernandez, Sergio, Garcia-Castillo, Maria, Melo-Cristino, Jose, Pinto, Margarida F., Gonçalves E, Alves, Valquiria, Vieira AR, Ramalheira, Elmano, Sancho, Luisa, Diogo, Jose, Ferreira, Rui, Silva, Daniela, Chaves, Catarina, Passaro, Leonor, Paixão L, Canton, Rafael, STEP Study Group.

    In vitro activity of ceftolozane-tazobactam against Enterobacterales and Pseudomonas aeruginosa causing urinary, intra-abdominal and lower respiratory tract infections in intensive care units in Portugal: The STEP multicenter study

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS . 55(3): 105887-105887. Number of citations: 13

    [doi:10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2020.105887]

  • Moles, Laura, Gomez, Marta, Moroder, Elena, Bustos, Gerardo, Melgar, Ana, del Campo, Rosa, Rodriguez, Juan M..

    Staphylococcus epidermidis in feedings and feces of preterm neonates

    Plos One . 15(2): . Number of citations: 7

    [doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0227823]

  • Schell, Celia M., Tedim, Ana P., Rodriguez-Banos, Mercedes, Sparo, Monica D., Lissarrague, Sabina, Basualdo, Juan A., Coque, Teresa M..

    Detection of beta-Lactamase-Producing Enterococcus faecalis and Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium Isolates in Human Invasive Infections in the Public Hospital of Tandil, Argentina

    PATHOGENS . 9(2): . Number of citations: 4

    [doi:10.3390/pathogens9020142]

  • Ekkelenkamp, Miquel B., Canton, Rafael, Diez-Aguilar, Maria, Tunney, Michael M., Gilpin, Deirdre F., Bernardini, Francesca, Dale, Glenn E., Elborn, J. Stuart, Bayjanov, Jumamurat R., Fluit, Ad.

    Susceptibility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Recovered from Cystic Fibrosis Patients to Murepavadin and 13 Comparator Antibiotics

    ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY . 64(2): . Number of citations: 18

    [doi:10.1128/AAC.01541-19]

  • Garcia-Fernandez, Sergio, Bala, Yohann, Armstrong, Tom, Garcia-Castillo, Maria, Burnham, Carey-Ann D., Wallace, Meghan A., Hardy, Dwight, Zambardi, Gilles, Canton, Rafael.

    Multicenter Evaluation of the New Etest Gradient Diffusion Method for Piperacillin-Tazobactam Susceptibility Testing of Enterobacterales, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Acinetobacter baumannii Complex

    JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY . 58(2): . Number of citations: 12

    [doi:10.1128/JCM.01042-19]

  • Rodriguez-Rojas, Lourdes, Suarez-Lopez, Amaya, Canton, Rafael, Ruiz-Garbajosa, Patricia.

    Eikenella corrodens causing deep-seated infections. Six-year experience in a University Hospital in Madrid

    ENFERMEDADES INFECCIOSAS Y MICROBIOLOGIA CLINICA . 38(2): 76-78. Number of citations: 7

    [doi:10.1016/j.eimc.2019.04.004]

  • 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]