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Analysis of strain relatedness using High Resolution Melting in a case of recurrent candiduria
7. Gago S, Lorenzo B, Gomez-Lopez A, Cuesta I, Cuenca-Estrella M, Buitrago MJ. Analysis of strain relatedness using high resolution melting in a case of recurrent candiduria. BMC Microbiol. 2013 Jan 23;13:13. doi: 10.1186/1471-2180-13-13. PMID: 23343107.
PUBMED DOIHigh-Resolution Melting Analysis for Identification of the Cryptococcus neoformans-Cryptococcus gattii Complex
8. Gago S, Zaragoza Ó, Cuesta I, Rodríguez-Tudela JL, Cuenca-Estrella M, Buitrago MJ. High-resolution melting analysis for identification of the Cryptococcus neoformans-Cryptococcus gattii complex. J Clin Microbiol. 2011 Oct;49(10):3663-6. doi: 10.1128/JCM.01091-11. Epub 2011 Aug 10. PMID: 21832024.
PUBMED DOIPerformance of Panfungal- and Specific-PCR-Based Procedures for Etiological Diagnosis of Invasive Fungal Diseases on Tissue Biopsy Specimens with Proven Infection: a 7-Year Retrospective Analysis from a Reference Laboratory
9. Buitrago MJ, Bernal-Martinez L, Castelli MV, Rodriguez-Tudela JL, Cuenca-Estrella M Performance of panfungal--and specific-PCR-based procedures for etiological diagnosis of invasive fungal diseases on tissue biopsy specimens with proven infection: a 7-year retrospective analysis from a reference laboratory. J Clin Microbiol. 2014 May;52(5):1737-40. doi: 10.1128/JCM.00328-14. Epub 2014 Feb 26.PMID: 24574295.
PUBMED DOIEpidemiología actual y diagnóstico de laboratorio de las micosis endémicas en España
11. Buitrago MJ, Cuenca-Estrella M. [Current epidemiology and laboratory diagnosis of endemic mycoses in Spain]. Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin. 2012 Aug;30(7):407-13. doi: 10.1016/j.eimc.2011.09.014. Epub 2011 Nov 29. PMID: 22130575 Review. Spanish.
PUBMED DOIA matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time of flight mass spectrometry reference database for the identification of Histoplasma capsulatum
12. Buitrago MJ, Bernal-Martínez L, Castelli MV, Rodríguez-Tudela JL, Cuenca-Estrella M. Histoplasmosis and paracoccidioidomycosis in a non-endemic area: a review of cases and diagnosis. J Travel Med. 2011 Jan-Feb;18(1):26-33. doi: 10.1111/j.1708-8305.2010.00477.x. Epub 2010 Nov 28. PMID: 21199139.
PUBMED DOICopy Number Variation of Mitochondrial DNA Genes in Pneumocystis jirovecii According to the Fungal Load in BAL Specimens
13. Valero C, Buitrago MJ, Gago S, Quiles-Melero I, García-Rodríguez J. A matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time of flight mass spectrometry reference database for the identification of Histoplasma capsulatum. Med Mycol. 2018 Apr 1;56 (3):307-314. doi: 10.1093/mmy/myx047. PMID: 28992262.
PUBMED DOICopy Number Variation of Mitochondrial DNA Genes in Pneumocystis jirovecii According to the Fungal Load in BAL Specimens
14. Valero C, Buitrago MJ, Gits-Muselli M, Benazra M, Sturny-Leclère A, Hamane S, Guigue N, Bretagne S, Alanio A. Copy Number Variation of Mitochondrial DNA Genes in Pneumocystis jirovecii According to the Fungal Load in BAL Specimens. Front Microbiol. 2016 Sep 12;7:1413. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01413. eCollection 2016. PMID: 27672381.
PUBMED DOIIdentification of Off-Patent Compounds That Present Antifungal Activity Against the Emerging Fungal Pathogen Candida auris
2: de Oliveira HC, Monteiro MC, Rossi SA, Pemán J, Ruiz-Gaitán A, Mendes- Giannini MJS, Mellado E, Zaragoza O. Identification of Off-Patent Compounds That Present Antifungal Activity Against the Emerging Fungal Pathogen Candida auris. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2019 Apr 2;9:83. PMCID: PMC6454888.
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generic email: pirv.isciii@gmail.com
Scientific Societies
• Spanis Society for Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology (SEIMC).
• AIDS Study Group (GeSIDA) of SEIMC.
• PIRV is member of the Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Enfermedades Infecciosas (CIBERINFEC, group CB21/13/00015).
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Collaboration in other projects
Project Title: Rectal microbiota as a factor associated with vulnerability to repeated sexually transmitted infections. Microsex Studio
Principal investigators: Vicente Estrada Pérez (San Carlos Clinical Hospital)
Financing agency: Strategic Action in Health (AES) 2023
Participating entities: San Carlos Clinical Hospital, ISCIII
Duration: 01/01/2024-12/31/2026. Contract/project file: PI23/01545
Project title: Prospective, observational, longitudinal, multicenter study to evaluate clinical efficacy, safety and immunogenicity developed in individuals with Philadelphia-negative Chronic Myeloproliferative Neoplasms treated with JAK inhibitors after receiving full vaccination with Adjuvanted Herpes Zoster Subunit vaccine (Shingrix)
Principal investigators: Valentín García Gutiérrez (Hospital Univ Ramón y Cajal)
Funding agency: GSK Glaxo Smithkline
Participating entities: IRYCIS, ISCIII
Duration: 01/01/2024 – 12/31/2024
Project title: Infection in Solid Organ Transplant recipients: correlation with immune function. Identification of predictive biomarkers and feasibility evaluation with CD45RAneg cell therapy
Principal investigators: Alejandro Luna de Abia, Jesús Fortún (Univ Ramón y Cajal Hospital)
Financing agency: Strategic Health Action (AES) 2023
Participating entities: IRYCIS, ISCIII
Duration: 01/01/2024-12/31/2026
Contract/project file: PI23/01924
Project title: Evaluation of the levels of the System associated with BLyS in patients with post-infectious syndromes and dysautonomic alterations of the heart rhythm
Principal researcher: Pablo Guisado
Funding agency: Spanish Society of Internal Medicine SEMI.
Participating entities: ISCIII, Quironsalud Research Institute for Research and Innovation
Duration 2023-2025
Project title: HIV Open Science (dissemination project)
Principal researcher: Eva Poveda
Financing agency: Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT), Call for aid for the Promotion of Scientific, Technological and Innovation Culture.
Participating entities: ISCIII, Fundación Biomédica Galicia Sur, IrsiCaixa, Hospital Vall d’Hebron, Hospital de la Princesa, Fundación Imagina Más, Institute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBIS), Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio)
Duration 2023-2024
Contract/project file: 17715
Project title: Identification of immunological biomarkers associated with the cellular and humoral immune response related to vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 in patients with HIV (Annual renewal).
Principal investigator: Rafael Rodríguez Rosado
Funding agency: Alfonso X El Sabio University-Santander Universities. XIII Call for Research Projects.
Participating entities: ISCIII, Severo Ochoa University Hospital
Duration 04/01/2023 – 04/01/2024
Contract/project file: 1,013,006
Project title: Clinical and microbiological impact of the monkeypox virus outbreak in patients in Spain (2022): multicenter project MONKPOX-ESP22, Work package 4, virological research.
Principal researcher: Anabel Negredo (WP4 coordinator); Maria Paz Sánchez Seco (general coordinator)
Financing agency: CIBERINFEC/CIBERESP ISCIII Strategic Action.
Participating entities: ISCIII
Duration July 2022 - May 2023
Contract/project file: MONKPOX-ESP22
Project title: Biomarkers and underlying immunopathological mechanisms of post COVID-19 condition.
Principal investigator: Gemma Moncunill Piñas (IP); Marta Massanella (coIP); María Teresa Coiras López (co-PI)
Financing agency: CIBERINFEC Strategic Action.
Participating entities: ISCIII, IS-Global, IrsiCaixa
Duration 07/28/2022-07/29/2024
Contract/project file: IM22/INF/5
Project title: Identification of immunological biomarkers associated with the cellular and humoral immune response related to vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 in patients with HIV.
Principal investigator: Rafael Rodríguez Rosado
Funding agency: Alfonso X El Sabio University-Santander Universities. XIII Call for Research Projects.
Participating entities: ISCIII, Severo Ochoa University Hospital
Duration 04/01/2022 – 04/01/2023
Contract/project file: 1,013,006
Project title: Characterization of the immune response developed after vaccination with COVID-19 in patients with hematological malignancies.
Principal researcher: Valentín García Gutiérrez
Funding agency: Ministry of Science and Innovation, PI21 - Health research projects (AES 2021). Health research project modality.
Participating entities: ISCIII, Ramón y Cajal University Hospital
Duration 01/01/2022 – 12/31/2024
Contract/project file: PI21_00877
Contact Information
María Teresa Coiras
918223782
mcoiras@isciii.es
generic email: pirv.isciii@gmail.com
Scientific Societies
• Spanis Society for Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology (SEIMC).
• AIDS Study Group (GeSIDA) of SEIMC.
• PIRV is member of the Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Enfermedades Infecciosas (CIBERINFEC, group CB21/13/00015).
Other links
You can follow the activity of our group in Twitter (X), Instagram and Linkedin.
Collaboration in other projects
Project Title: Rectal microbiota as a factor associated with vulnerability to repeated sexually transmitted infections. Microsex Studio
Principal investigators: Vicente Estrada Pérez (San Carlos Clinical Hospital)
Financing agency: Strategic Action in Health (AES) 2023
Participating entities: San Carlos Clinical Hospital, ISCIII
Duration: 01/01/2024-12/31/2026. Contract/project file: PI23/01545
Project title: Prospective, observational, longitudinal, multicenter study to evaluate clinical efficacy, safety and immunogenicity developed in individuals with Philadelphia-negative Chronic Myeloproliferative Neoplasms treated with JAK inhibitors after receiving full vaccination with Adjuvanted Herpes Zoster Subunit vaccine (Shingrix)
Principal investigators: Valentín García Gutiérrez (Hospital Univ Ramón y Cajal)
Funding agency: GSK Glaxo Smithkline
Participating entities: IRYCIS, ISCIII
Duration: 01/01/2024 – 12/31/2024
Project title: Infection in Solid Organ Transplant recipients: correlation with immune function. Identification of predictive biomarkers and feasibility evaluation with CD45RAneg cell therapy
Principal investigators: Alejandro Luna de Abia, Jesús Fortún (Univ Ramón y Cajal Hospital)
Financing agency: Strategic Health Action (AES) 2023
Participating entities: IRYCIS, ISCIII
Duration: 01/01/2024-12/31/2026
Contract/project file: PI23/01924
Project title: Evaluation of the levels of the System associated with BLyS in patients with post-infectious syndromes and dysautonomic alterations of the heart rhythm
Principal researcher: Pablo Guisado
Funding agency: Spanish Society of Internal Medicine SEMI.
Participating entities: ISCIII, Quironsalud Research Institute for Research and Innovation
Duration 2023-2025
Project title: HIV Open Science (dissemination project)
Principal researcher: Eva Poveda
Financing agency: Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT), Call for aid for the Promotion of Scientific, Technological and Innovation Culture.
Participating entities: ISCIII, Fundación Biomédica Galicia Sur, IrsiCaixa, Hospital Vall d’Hebron, Hospital de la Princesa, Fundación Imagina Más, Institute of Biomedicine of Seville (IBIS), Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio)
Duration 2023-2024
Contract/project file: 17715
Project title: Identification of immunological biomarkers associated with the cellular and humoral immune response related to vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 in patients with HIV (Annual renewal).
Principal investigator: Rafael Rodríguez Rosado
Funding agency: Alfonso X El Sabio University-Santander Universities. XIII Call for Research Projects.
Participating entities: ISCIII, Severo Ochoa University Hospital
Duration 04/01/2023 – 04/01/2024
Contract/project file: 1,013,006
Project title: Clinical and microbiological impact of the monkeypox virus outbreak in patients in Spain (2022): multicenter project MONKPOX-ESP22, Work package 4, virological research.
Principal researcher: Anabel Negredo (WP4 coordinator); Maria Paz Sánchez Seco (general coordinator)
Financing agency: CIBERINFEC/CIBERESP ISCIII Strategic Action.
Participating entities: ISCIII
Duration July 2022 - May 2023
Contract/project file: MONKPOX-ESP22
Project title: Biomarkers and underlying immunopathological mechanisms of post COVID-19 condition.
Principal investigator: Gemma Moncunill Piñas (IP); Marta Massanella (coIP); María Teresa Coiras López (co-PI)
Financing agency: CIBERINFEC Strategic Action.
Participating entities: ISCIII, IS-Global, IrsiCaixa
Duration 07/28/2022-07/29/2024
Contract/project file: IM22/INF/5
Project title: Identification of immunological biomarkers associated with the cellular and humoral immune response related to vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 in patients with HIV.
Principal investigator: Rafael Rodríguez Rosado
Funding agency: Alfonso X El Sabio University-Santander Universities. XIII Call for Research Projects.
Participating entities: ISCIII, Severo Ochoa University Hospital
Duration 04/01/2022 – 04/01/2023
Contract/project file: 1,013,006
Project title: Characterization of the immune response developed after vaccination with COVID-19 in patients with hematological malignancies.
Principal researcher: Valentín García Gutiérrez
Funding agency: Ministry of Science and Innovation, PI21 - Health research projects (AES 2021). Health research project modality.
Participating entities: ISCIII, Ramón y Cajal University Hospital
Duration 01/01/2022 – 12/31/2024
Contract/project file: PI21_00877