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- Título: Desvelando la genómica de las bacterias anaerobias procedentes de bacteriemias
Referencia Proyecto: PID202-1127477OB-I00-MPY 302/22.
Entidad financiador: Agencia Estatal de Investigación.
Fechas de ejecución: 2023-2026
Financiación 108.900 €.
Investigadora principal: Sylvia Valdezate


 

- Título: Plataformas MALDI-TOF/CMI SENSITITRETM Personal Técnico Apoyo
Referencia: PTA2019-016623-I. 
Entidad Financiadora: Agencia Estatal de Investigación. 
Fechas ejecución 12/2020-11/2023
Investigadora principal: Sylvia Valdezate

- Título: Elementos genéticos móviles protagonistas en la evolución de los serotipos pandémicos M1 y M89 de Streptococcus pyogenes en el síndrome del shock tóxico y otras infecciones invasivas
Referencia: (MPY 377/18).
Entidad financiadora: Instituto de Salud Carlos III. Agencia Estatal de Investigación en Salud Intramural (AESI). 
Fechas de ejecución: 11/2018-12/2022. 
Financiación: 40.000 €.
Investigadoras principales: Pilar Villalón. Co-IP Sylvia Valdezate. 

- Título: Plataformas genéticas y su influencia en la resistencia a co-trimoxazol, macrólidos y tetraciclina en Nocardia spp.
Referencia: MPY 1278/15
Entidad financiadora: Instituto de Salud Carlos III. Agencia Estatal de Investigación en Salud Intramural (AESI).
Fechas de ejecución: 2015-2017.
Financiación: 88.141,8 €. 
Investigadora principal: Sylvia Valdezate

- Título: Filogenia y caracterización de mecanismos moleculares de resistencia en Nocardia spp. 
Referencia: MPY 1446/11
Entidad financiadora: Instituto de Salud Carlos III. Fondo de Investigación Sanitaria (AES). () 
Fechas de ejecución: 04/2012-10/2015
Financiación: 115.457 €. 
Investigadora principal: Sylvia Valdezate.

- Título: Iberian network of laboratories of biological alert. Accreditation of methods for detection highly pathogenic agents (IB-BIOALERTNET). 
Entidad financiadora: COMISIÓN EUROPEA HOME/2012/ISEC/AG/CBRN/4000003810. (Instituto de Salud Carlos III (VISAVET, IVIA, INSA, INIAV))
Referencia: SAFI 1132/13-7. 
Fecha de ejecución: 2013-2015.
Financiación: 699.175 €. 
Tipo de participación: Miembro del equipo investigador.

- Título: EQUATOX Project Establishment of Quality Assurances for theDetection of Biological Toxins of potential Bioterrorism risk. 
Entidad financiadora y convocatoria: Seven Framework Programme for Research FP7-SECURITY. (Robert Koch-Institut Berlin Alemania). 
Referencia: SEC-2011.5.4-1. 
Fechas de ejecución: 2012-2014.

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Characterizing carbapenemase-producing Escherichia coli isolates from Spain: high genetic heterogeneity and wide geographical spread.

1. Characterizing carbapenemase-producing Escherichia coli isolates from Spain: high genetic heterogeneity and wide geographical spread. Dahdouh E, Gómez-Marcos L, Cañada-García JE, de Arellano ER, Sánchez-García A, Sánchez-Romero I, López-Urrutia L, de la Iglesia P, Gonzalez-Praetorius A, Sotelo J, Valle-Millares D, Alonso-González I, Bautista V, Lara N, García-Cobos S, Cercenado E, Aracil B, Oteo-Iglesias J, Pérez-Vázquez M; Spanish Eco-Carba Study Group. Revista: Front Cell Infect Microbiol 2024 May 16;14:1390966.

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The Association of HIV-1 Neutralization in Aviremic Children and Adults with Time to ART Initiation and CD4+/CD8+ Ratios

Sanchez-Merino V, Martin-Serrano M, Beltran M, Lazaro-Martin B, Cervantes E, Oltra M, Sainz T, Garcia F, Navarro ML, Yuste E; Vaccines (Basel). 2023 Dec 20;12(1):8;

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The sulfur-related metabolic status of Aspergillus fumigatus during infection reveals cytosolic serine hydroxymethyltransferase as a promising antifungal target

Alharthi R, Sueiro-Olivares M, Storer I, Bin Shuraym H, Scott J, Al-Shidhani R, Fortune-Grant R, Bignell E, Tabernero L, Bromley M and Amich J. 2025. Virulence, 16(1):2449075

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The importance of microbiology reference laboratories and adequate funding for infectious disease surveillance

Shaw D, Torreblanca RA, Amin-Chowdhury Z, Bautista A, Bennett D, Broughton K, Casanova C, Choi EH, Claus H, Corcoran M, Cottrell S, Cunney R, Cuypers L, Dalby T, Davies H, de Gouveia L, Deghmane AE, Desmet S, Domenech M, Drew R, Plessis MD, Duarte C, Fuursted K, Golden A, Almeida SCG, Henares D, Henriques-Normark B, Hilty M, Hoffmann S, Humphreys H, Jacobsson S, Johnson C, Jolley KA, Kawabata A, Kozakova J, Kristinsson KG, Krizova P, Kuch A, Ladhani S, Lâm TT, Ayala MEL, Lindholm L, Litt D, Maiden MCJ, Martin I, Martiny D, Mattheus W, McCarthy ND, Meehan M, Meiring S, Mölling P, Morfeldt E, Morgan J, Mulhall R, Muñoz-Almagro C, Murdoch D, Musilek M, Novakova L, Oftadeh S, Perez-Arguello A, Pérez-Vázquez MD, Perrin M, Prevost B, Roberts M, Rokney A, Ron M, Sanabria OM, Scott KJ, Sempere J, Siira L, de Lemos APS, Sintchenko V, Skoczyńska A, Slotved HC, Smith AJ, Taha MK, Toropainen M, Tzanakaki G, Vainio A, van der Linden MPG, van Sorge NM, Varon E, Moreno JV, Vohrnova S, von Gottberg A, Yuste J, Brueggemann AB. Lancet Digit Health. 2025 Apr;7(4):e275-e281.

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Our objectives are research into well-established autochthonous viruses (Toscana, West Nile and Lymphocoriomeningitis), imported viruses with a vector in Spain (mainly Zika, Dengue and Chikungunya), and viruses that cause haemorrhagic fevers (such as Ebola, Lassa or Crimea Congo, which despite being autochthonous, we include in this category) without forgetting other viruses that, at any time, may become emerging viruses and cause public health alerts.

The group's main research objective is to identify and characterise the aforementioned viruses that cause disease and those circulating in our environment with pathogenic potential.

One of the cross-cutting objectives of the laboratory is to optimise methods for the detection of these viruses and their application to determine the incidence, prevalence and/or presence of the viruses in our environment.

However, in addition to methodological development, it is important to know the origin of the circulating viruses, their antigenic relationships with related viruses, the pathogenicity of the different isolates or the interactions of the agents with their host both in cell culture and in arthropod vectors when this is possible. The aim is to strengthen our role as a National Reference Laboratory for zoonoses through research.

Our objectives are research into well-established autochthonous viruses (Toscana, West Nile and Lymphocoriomeningitis), imported viruses with a vector in Spain (mainly Zika, Dengue and Chikungunya), and viruses that cause haemorrhagic fevers (such as Ebola, Lassa or Crimea Congo, which despite being autochthonous, we include in this category) without forgetting other viruses that, at any time, may become emerging viruses and cause public health alerts.

The group's main research objective is to identify and characterise the aforementioned viruses that cause disease and those circulating in our environment with pathogenic potential.

One of the cross-cutting objectives of the laboratory is to optimise methods for the detection of these viruses and their application to determine the incidence, prevalence and/or presence of the viruses in our environment.

However, in addition to methodological development, it is important to know the origin of the circulating viruses, their antigenic relationships with related viruses, the pathogenicity of the different isolates or the interactions of the agents with their host both in cell culture and in arthropod vectors when this is possible. The aim is to strengthen our role as a National Reference Laboratory for zoonoses through research.

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