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Respiratory viruses and Influenza
Líneas de investigación
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Virus Respiratorios y Gripe
• Gripe humana y animal. Vigilancia de su circulación. Antigripales, resistencias virales. Vacunas
• Infecciones víricas respiratorias en pacientes pediátricos • Diagnóstico, referencia y Nuevos procedimientos basados en la metagenómica viral para el estudio de virus respiratorios.
• Epidemiologia de Virus respiratorios: Gripe, Virus Respiratorio Sincitial, Adenovirus, Metapneumovirus humano, Coronavirus (MERS, 229E, OC43, HKU1, NL63), Parainfluenzavirus, Rinovirus, Bocavirus humano
• Virus respiratorios emergentes • Biodefensa y virus
Proyectos de investigación
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CURRENT PROJECTS: Award of the RETOS-COLABORATION 2019 Call for Proposals: Development of diagnostic kits using real-time multiplex PCR in liquid and gel format for the detection of viral diseases and sepsis.
Reference: RTC2019-007023-1 / MPY 292/20. Project funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation and the State Research Agency.
PI: Inmaculada Casas and Giovanni Fedele.
Execution dates: 2020-2023.
Amount financed: 442,653 €.
Collaborator: Francisco Pozo
Publicaciones destacadas
The formation of titan cells in Cryptococcus neoformans depends on the mouse strain and correlates with induction of Th2-type responses
García-Barbazán, I., Trevijano-Contador, N., Rueda, C., de Andrés, B., Pérez-Tavárez, R., Herrero-Fernández, I., Gaspar ML., and Zaragoza, O. Cellular Microbiology (2015) 18:111-124
PUBMED DOIRoles of the multiplex real-time PCR assay and β-D-glucan in a high-risk population for intra-abdominal candidiasis (IAC)
Fortún J, Buitrago MJ, Gioia F, Gómez-Gª de la Pedrosa E, Alvarez ME, Martín-Dávila P, Pintado V, Cobeta P, Martinez-Castro N, Soriano C, Moreno I, Corral S, Muñoz P, Moreno-Jimenez G, Cuenca-Estrella M, Moreno-Guillen S. Med Mycol. 2020 Aug 1;58(6):789-796.
PUBMED DOIPrograma de Legionelosis. En Echevarría Mayo JE y Oteo Iglesias J (Editores) Programas de Vigilancia Microbiológica Centro Nacional de Microbiología.
Fernando González-Camacho y Almudena Cascajero. Programa de Legionelosis. En Echevarría Mayo JE y Oteo Iglesias J (Editores) Programas de Vigilancia Microbiológica Centro Nacional de Microbiología. Volumen 2:77-89. 2021-2022 Majadahonda (Madrid); Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Centro Nacional de Microbiología: 2023.
Legionella-Biofilms-Amebas, un problema industrial, de sanidad ambiental y de salud pública
Juana María González-Rubio, Celia Játiva, Almudena Cascajero, Fernando González-Camacho. Infoplagas, nº 112, agosto 2023 pags: 20-24. (Artículo de divulgación).
DOIPrograma de Legionelosis. En Echevarría Mayo JE y Oteo Iglesias J (Editores). Programas de Vigilancia Microbiológica pags: 74-80. Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Madrid: Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 2021.
Bellido B y Pelaez C: Programa de Legionelosis. En Echevarría Mayo JE y Oteo Iglesias J (Editores). Programas de Vigilancia Microbiológica pags: 74-80. Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Madrid: Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 2021.
Diagnósitico microbiológico y control de la legionelosis
Pelaz Antolín, C., et al., En Procedimientos en Microbiología Clínica, E.C.y.R. Cantón, Editor. 2005, SEIMC. p. 1-72.
PUBMEDChikungunya virus infections among travellers returning to Spain, 2008 to 2014
3. Maria Dolores Fernandez Garcia; Mathieu Bangert; Fernando de Ory; Arantxa Potente; Lourdes Hernandez; Fatima Lasala; Laura Herrero; Francisca Molero; Anabel Negredo; Ana Vázquez; Teodora Minguito; Pilar Balfagón; Jesus de la Fuente; Sabino Puente; Eva Ramírez de Arellano; Mar Lago; Miguel Martinez; Joaquim Gascón; Francesca Norman; Rogelio Lopez Velez; Elena Sulleiro; Diana Pou; Nuria Serre; Ricardo Fernández Roblas; Antonio Tenorio; Leticia Franco; Maria Paz Sanchez Seco. Chikungunya virus infections among travellers returning to Spain, 2008 to 2014. Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin. 21 - 36, (Sweden): 08/09/2016. ISSN 1560-7917
PUBMED DOILegionella feeleii: Ubiquitous Pathogen in the Environment and Causative Agent of Pneumonia
Vaccaro L, Gomes TS, Izquierdo F, Magnet A, Llorens Berzosa S, Ollero D, Salso S, Alhambra A, Gómez C, López Cano M, Pelaz C, Bellido Samaniego B, Del Aguila C, Fenoy S, Hurtado-Marcos C. Front Microbiol. 2021;12:707187.
DOIBroth microdilution protocol for determining antimicrobial susceptibility of Legionella pneumophila to clinically relevant antimicrobials
Sewell M, Farley C, Portal EAR, Lindsay D, Ricci ML, Jarraud S, Scaturro M, Descours G, Krøvel AV, Barton R, Boostom I, Ure R, Kese D, Gaia V, Golob M, Paukner S, Ginevra C, Afshar B, Nadarajah S, Wybo I, Michel C, Echahdi F, González-Rubio JM, González-Camacho F, Mentasti M, Flountzi AS, Petzold M, Moran-Gilad J, Uldum S, Winchell J, Wooton M, Bernard K, Jones LC, Chalker VJ, Spiller OB. J Microbiol Methods. 2025 Jan;228:107071.
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Inmaculada Casas
Jefe de Grupo. Científico Titular de OPIs
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Francisco Pozo
Científico Titular de OPIs
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Mónica González-Esguevillas
Colaborador I+D+I de OPIs
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Mar Molinero Calamita
Colaborador I+D+I de OPIs
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María de la Montaña Iglesias Caballero
Contratado Predoctoral PFIS
List of staff
Información adicional
The Respiratory Viruses and Influenza Unit is the oldest WHO Influenza Center in our country (1968), designated as the National Influenza Center by the Ministry of Health in 1971, and is the national coordinator of the CCAA laboratories in the National Influenza Surveillance Network of the Influenza Surveillance System in Spain.
Its general objective is virological surveillance, detection and control of influenza in Spain. Since 1992, together with the Pediatric Service of the Severo Ochoa Hospital, a line of research has been developed based on the etiological study of viral respiratory infections in hospitalized children.
Since 2015, the La Paz Children's University Hospital and the Immunology Laboratory of the IIS-Fundación Jiménez Díaz have also participated, expanding the study to newborns and neonatal units.
To comprehensively study respiratory viruses and the response of the immune system in viral respiratory infections that affect newborns and pediatric patients.
Deepen the knowledge of the biological properties of the viruses involved in the disease: dependency/facilitation, balance between viruses and their adaptation in multiple infections, relationship with severity, existence of virome imbalance.
The Respiratory Viruses and Influenza Unit is the oldest WHO Influenza Center in our country (1968), designated as the National Influenza Center by the Ministry of Health in 1971, and is the national coordinator of the CCAA laboratories in the National Influenza Surveillance Network of the Influenza Surveillance System in Spain.
Its general objective is virological surveillance, detection and control of influenza in Spain. Since 1992, together with the Pediatric Service of the Severo Ochoa Hospital, a line of research has been developed based on the etiological study of viral respiratory infections in hospitalized children.
Since 2015, the La Paz Children's University Hospital and the Immunology Laboratory of the IIS-Fundación Jiménez Díaz have also participated, expanding the study to newborns and neonatal units.
To comprehensively study respiratory viruses and the response of the immune system in viral respiratory infections that affect newborns and pediatric patients.
Deepen the knowledge of the biological properties of the viruses involved in the disease: dependency/facilitation, balance between viruses and their adaptation in multiple infections, relationship with severity, existence of virome imbalance.