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Legionella

Desde su creación hasta la actualidad, La Unidad de Legionella tiene como principal función dar apoyo científico-técnico a la Administración General del Estado, a las Comunidades Autónomas y al Sistema Nacional de Salud en el campo de la prevención y control de la legionelosis, así como llevar a cabo investigaciones científicas en el contexto de la legionelosis. Además, la Unidad de Legionella también actúa como Laboratorio de Referencia de España frente al European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), siendo miembro de la red europea de vigilancia de la legionelosis, “European Legionnaires’ Disease Surveillance Network (ELDSNet). Finalmente, la unidad también realiza una actividad docente, participando en cursos de formación especializada, así como en Máster Universitarios.

 

Principales líneas de investigación

Vigilancia microbiológica

Búsqueda de marcadores moleculares con capacidad de predecir el riesgo de una instalación de provocar legionelosis. Factores de virulencia de Legionella spp.

Estudio de la capacidad formadora de biofilms de Legionella spp. Colonización y dispersión.

Búsqueda de marcadores fenotípicos capaces de discriminar especies del Género Legionella; grupos y subgrupos de Legionella pneumophila.

Diferentes estructuras de biofilms en función de la cepa formadora de Legionella pneumophila. En verde la biomasa bacteriana, en rojo el exopolisacárido de la matriz extracelular.

Apoyo al Sistema Nacional de Salud de la Unidad de Legionella

 

La Unidad de Legionella tambien desarrolla actividades con el fin de proporcionar asistencia al sistema nacional de salud a traves de la oferta disponible en la cartera de servicios del CNM, así como a través de programas de vigilancia microbiológica.

Research projects

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1: Título del proyecto: Búsqueda de biomarcadores de patogenicidad en Legionella spp con interés predictivo de riesgo de infección.
Investigador principal: Fernando González Camacho
Entidad financiadora: ISCIII (AESI). Referencia:  MPY 341/22
Periodo: 01/01/2023 - 31/12/2025

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Immunoescape of HIV-1 in Env-EL9 CD8 + T cell response restricted by HLA-B*14:02 in a Non progressor who lost twenty-seven years of HIV-1 control

Moyano A, Blanch-Lombarte O, Tarancon-Diez L, Pedreño-Lopez N, Arenas M, Alvaro T, Casado C, Olivares I, Vera M, Rodriguez C, Del Romero J, López-Galíndez C, Ruiz-Mateos E, Prado JG, Pernas M. Retrovirology. 2022 Mar 26,19(1):6

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The Characteristics of the HIV-1 Env Glycoprotein Are Linked with Viral Pathogenesis

Pérez-Yanes S, Pernas M, Marfil S, Cabrera-Rodríguez R, Ortiz R, Urrea V, Rovirosa C, Estévez-Herrera J, Olivares I, Casado C, Lopez-Galindez C, Blanco J, Valenzuela-Fernández A. Front Microbiol. 2022 Mar 24, 3:763039.

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Analysis of HIV-1 “in vitro” evolution through 3D real fitness landscapes constructed by Self Organizing Maps.

Ramón Lorenzo‐Redondo, Soledad Delgado, Federico Morán, and Cecilio Lopez‐Galindez. Analysis of HIV-1 “in vitro” evolution through 3D real fitness landscapes constructed by Self Organizing Maps. (2014) PLoS One. 9(2): e88579.

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Influence of Mutation and Recombination on HIV-1 in vitro Fitness Recovery

Ramón Lorenzo-Redondo, Miguel Arenas, and Cecilio Lopez-Galindez. (2015) Mol Phylogenet Evol. Sep 7. pii: S1055-7903(15)00259-6

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Additional Information

The Neisseria, Listeria and Bordetella Unit provides support to the National Health System with the aim of improving the health and well-being of citizens, through the development and application of diagnostic and molecular characterization techniques, generating laboratory data essential for the surveillance of infectious diseases covered by the Unit, as well as maintaining lines of research for microbiological and immunological evaluation of vaccines, both in development and those available. 

The Unit has 4 microbiological surveillance programs at the National Center for Microbiology: For invasive meningococcal disease, for gonococcal infection, for listeriosis and for whooping cough. Likewise, the Unit maintains extensive activity in international networks and consortia: it is part of the EU-Ibis consortium for the study of Meningococcal Disease, the EURO-GASP program for the study of antibiotic resistance in gonococcus, the European Listeria typing group network and the European network for Bordetella, all of them coordinated and financed in whole or in part by the ECDC.  

The Unit constitutes the External Reference Laboratory for meningococci of the PAHO/WHO SIREVAII network. Thus, the active lines of research in the Unit respond to the objectives defined both by the support for the National Health System and by the international collaborative work in which it actively participates.

The Neisseria, Listeria and Bordetella Unit provides support to the National Health System with the aim of improving the health and well-being of citizens, through the development and application of diagnostic and molecular characterization techniques, generating laboratory data essential for the surveillance of infectious diseases covered by the Unit, as well as maintaining lines of research for microbiological and immunological evaluation of vaccines, both in development and those available. 

The Unit has 4 microbiological surveillance programs at the National Center for Microbiology: For invasive meningococcal disease, for gonococcal infection, for listeriosis and for whooping cough. Likewise, the Unit maintains extensive activity in international networks and consortia: it is part of the EU-Ibis consortium for the study of Meningococcal Disease, the EURO-GASP program for the study of antibiotic resistance in gonococcus, the European Listeria typing group network and the European network for Bordetella, all of them coordinated and financed in whole or in part by the ECDC.  

The Unit constitutes the External Reference Laboratory for meningococci of the PAHO/WHO SIREVAII network. Thus, the active lines of research in the Unit respond to the objectives defined both by the support for the National Health System and by the international collaborative work in which it actively participates.

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