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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  • Sainz de la Maza S, Walo-Delgado PE, Rodríguez-Domínguez M, Monreal E, Rodero-Romero A, Chico-García JL, Pariente R, Rodríguez-Jorge F, Ballester-González R, Villarrubia N, Romero-Hernández B, Masjuan J, Costa-Frossard L, Villar LM.

    Short- and Long-Term Humoral and Cellular Immune Responses to SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis Treated with Disease-Modifying Therapies.

    Vaccines . 11(4): . Number of citations: 1

    [doi:10.3390/vaccines11040786]

  • Martín Sánchez FJ, Martínez-Sellés M, Molero García JM, Moreno Guillén S, Rodríguez-Artalejo FJ, Ruiz-Galiana J, Cantón R, De Lucas Ramos P, García-Botella A, García-Lledó A, Hernández-Sampelayo T, Gómez-Pavón J, González Del Castillo J, Martín-Delgado MC, Bouza E.

    Insights for COVID-19 in 2023.

    REVISTA ESPANOLA DE QUIMIOTERAPIA . 36(2): 114-124. Number of citations: 4

    [doi:10.37201/req/122.2022]

  • Avendaño-Ortiz J, Redondo-Calvo FJ, Lozano-Rodríguez R, Terrón-Arcos V, Bergón-Gutiérrez M, Rodríguez-Jiménez C, Rodríguez JF, Del Campo R, Gómez LA, Bejarano-Ramírez N, Pérez-Ortiz JM, López-Collazo E.

    Thiosulfinate-Enriched Allium sativum Extract Exhibits Differential Effects between Healthy and Sepsis Patients: The Implication of HIF-1a.

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES . 24(7): .

    [doi:10.3390/ijms24076234]

  • Escudero-Sánchez R, Rubio Martín E, Vizcarra P, Braojos Sánchez F, Diaz Gago Á, Del Campo Albendea L, Muriel A, Halperin A, Ponce Alonso M, Moreno Guillén S, Cobo J.

    Conventional versus extended-pulsed fidaxomicin dosing in patients at high risk of recurrence of Clostridioides difficile infection: a propensity score analysis.

    JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY . 78(3): 823-827.

    [doi:10.1093/jac/dkad019]

  • Pérez-Galera S, Bravo-Ferrer JM, Paniagua M, Kostyanev T, de Kraker MEA, Feifel J, Sojo-Dorado J, Schotsman J, Cantón R, Daikos GL, Carevic B, Dragovac G, Tan LK, Raka L, Hristea A, Viale P, Akova M, Reguera JM, Valiente de Santis L, Torre-Cisneros J, Cano Á, Roilides E, Radulovic L, Kirakli C, Shaw E, Falagas ME, Pintado V, Goossens H, Bonten MJ, Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez B, Rodriguez-Baño J.

    Risk factors for infections caused by carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales: an international matched case-control- control study (EURECA)

    Eclinicalmedicine . 57: 101871-101871. Number of citations: 8

    [doi:10.1016/j.eclinm.2023.101871]

  • Cerrudo V, Cortés-Cuevas JL, García-Fernández S, Morosini MI, Cantón R, Sánchez-Díaz AM.

    Usefulness of EUCAST rapid antibiotic susceptibility breakpoints and screening cut-off values directly from blood cultures for the inference of ß-lactam resistance mechanisms in Enterobacterales.

    Jac-Antimicrobial Resistance . 5(1): . Number of citations: 1

    [doi:10.1093/jacamr/dlad017]

  • Avendaño-Ortiz J, Ponce-Alonso M, Llanos-González E, Barragán-Prada H, Barbero-Herranz R, Lozano-Rodríguez R, Márquez-Garrido FJ, Hernández-Pérez JM, Morosini MI, Cantón R, Del Campo R, López-Collazo E.

    The Impact of Colistin Resistance on the Activation of Innate Immunity by Lipopolysaccharide Modification

    INFECTION AND IMMUNITY . 91(2): . Number of citations: 1

    [doi:10.1128/iai.00012-23]

  • Guerrero-Lopez, Alejandro, Sevilla-Salcedo, Carlos, Candela, Ana, Hernandez-Garcia, Marta, Cercenado, Emilia, Olmos, Pablo M., Canton, Rafael, Munoz, Patricia, Gomez-Verdejo, Vanessa, del Campo, Rosa, Rodriguez-Sanchez, Belen.

    Automatic antibiotic resistance prediction in Klebsiella pneumoniae based on MALDI-TOF mass

    ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE . 118: .

    [doi:10.1016/j.engappai.2022.105644]

  • Fortún J, Mateos M, de la Pedrosa EG, Soriano C, Pestaña D, Palacios J, López J, Moreno S, Covid-Team.

    Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis in Patients with and without SARS-CoV-2 Infection

    JOURNAL OF FUNGI . 9(2): . Number of citations: 3

    [doi:10.3390/jof9020130]

  • Rodríguez-Mateos M, Jaso J, Martínez de Aguirre P, Carlos S, Fernández-Ciriza L, Holguín Á, Reina G.

    Effect of the Hematocrit and Storage Temperature of Dried Blood Samples in the Serological Study of Mumps, Measles and Rubella

    DIAGNOSTICS . 13(3): . Number of citations: 2

    [doi:10.3390/diagnostics13030349]

  • Retamar-Gentil P, Cantón R, Abril López de Medrano V, Barberán J, Canut Blasco A, Dueñas Gutiérrez C, García-Vidal C, Larrosa Escartín N, Lora-Tamayo J, Martínez Marcos FJ, Martín Ruíz C, Pasquau Liaño J, Rascado P, Sanz Peláez O, Yagüe Girao G, Horcajada JP.

    Antimicrobial resistance in Gram-negative bacilli in Spain: an experts' view

    REVISTA ESPANOLA DE QUIMIOTERAPIA . 36(1): 65-81. Number of citations: 1

    [doi:10.37201/req/119.2022]

  • Corral, Luis, de Los Santos, Ignacio, Quereda, Carmen, Acebron, Fernando, Ruiz-Garbajosa, Patricia, Muriel, Alfonso, Corral, Inigo.

    Non-perinatal listeriosis: Changes in frequency, clinical spectrum and prognostic factors.

    Enfermedades Infecciosas Y Microbiologia Clinica (english Ed.) . : .

    [doi:10.1016/j.eimce.2023.01.002]

  • Blasco L, de Aledo MG, Ortiz-Cartagena C, Blériot I, Pacios O, López M, Fernández-García L, Barrio-Pujante A, Hernández-Garcia M, Cantón R, Tomás M.

    Study of 32 new phage tail-like bacteriocins (pyocins) from a clinical collection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and of their potential use as typing markers and antimicrobial agents

    SCIENTIFIC REPORTS . 13(1): 117-117. Number of citations: 2

    [doi:10.1038/s41598-022-27341-1]

  • Rebelo A, Duarte B, Ferreira C, Mourão J, Ribeiro S, Freitas AR, Coque TM, Willems R, Corander J, Peixe L, Antunes P, Novais C.

    Enterococcus spp. from chicken meat collected 20 years apart overcome multiple stresses occurring in the poultry production chain: Antibiotics, copper and acids.

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD MICROBIOLOGY . 384: 109981-109981.

    [doi:10.1016/j.ijfoodmicro.2022.109981]

  • de Salazar A, Martínez MJ, Navero-Castillejos J, Negredo A, Galán JC, Rojo Molinero E, Lagarejos E, Muñoz-Almagro C, Hernández Rodríguez Á, Lepe JA, Antón Pagarolas A, Pérez Castro S, Zamora Cintas MI, Domínguez-Gil González M, Niubó-Bosch J, Gutiérrez Arroyo A, Vazquez A, García F, Sánchez-Seco Fariñas MP.

    The imperative for quality control programs in Monkeypox virus DNA testing by PCR: CIBERINFEC quality control.

    JOURNAL OF MEDICAL VIROLOGY . 95(11): 29240-29240.

    [doi:10.1002/jmv.29240]

  • Pereira AP, Antunes P, Bierge P, Willems RJL, Corander J, Coque TM.

    Unraveling Enterococcus susceptibility to quaternary ammonium compounds: genes, phenotypes, and the impact of environmental conditions

    Microbiology spectrum . 11(5): .

    [doi:10.1128/spectrum.02324-23]

  • Troyano-Hernáez P, Herrador P, Gea F, Romero-Hernández B, Reina G, Albillos A, Galán JC, Holguín Á.

    Impact of storage time in dried blood samples (DBS) and dried plasma samples (DPS) for point-of-care hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA quantification and HCV core antigen detection

    Microbiology spectrum . 11(5): .

    [doi:10.1128/spectrum.01748-23]

  • Vargas JM, Moreno Mochi MP, Nuñez JM, Mochi S, Cáceres M, del Campo R, Jure MA.

    Emergence and clonal spread of KPC-2-producing clinical Klebsiella aerogenes isolates in a hospital from northwest Argentina.

    JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY . 72(1): .

    [doi:10.1099/jmm.0.001635]