Almudena Casamayor Sanz
Laboratory Chief
Microbial Identification and Characterisation Unit
Qualification:
Técnico en Laboratorio de Diagnóstico Clínico
Contact
Investigation

Research lines:
- Application of MALDI-TOF technique in the clinical microbiology and Agri-food field (ICM)
- Malditof profiling and imaging (SAP)
- Forensic Veterinary (SAP)
- Fish pathology (SAP)
- Immunopathology of tuberculosis in domestic and wild animals (SAP)
- Clinical diagnosis (ICM)
- Proliferative and non proliferative lesions of the gastrointestinal tract in small animals (SAP)
- Molecular typing (ICM)
- Bacterial taxonomy (ICM)

Last scientific publications:
- Vela AI., Serna C., Ugarte-Ruiz M., Buendia A., Casamayor A., Calderón-Bernal JM., Dominguez L., Cid D. and Fernandez-Garayzabal JF.. Antibiotic Resistance to Critically Important Antimicrobials and Virulence Genes in Enterococcus faecalis Strains Isolated from Eurasian Griffon Vultures (Gyps fulvus) and Their Association with Mobile Genetic Elements. Veterinary sciences, 12(11):1083. 2025. (A)
- Fernandez-Garayzabal JF., LaFrentz S., Casamayor A., Abarca E., Mohammed HH., Cuming RS., Arias CR., Dominguez L. and Vela AI.. Corynebacterium conjunctivae: A New Corynebacterium Species Isolated from the Ocular Surface of Healthy Horses. Animals, 12(14):1827. 2022. (A)
- Gibello A., Vela AI., Martinez-Nevado E., Rodriguez-Bertos A., Casamayor A., Garcia J., Dominguez L., Montoto P., Fernandez-Garayzabal JF. and Amaro C.. Potentially human-virulent Vibrio vulnificus isolates from diseased great pompano (Trachinotus goodei). Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 66(4):1765-1770. 2019. (A)
- Galan-Relaño A., Gomez-Gascon L., Luque I., Barrero-Dominguez B., Casamayor A., Cardoso-Toset F., Vela AI., Fernandez-Garayzabal JF. and Tarradas C.. Antimicrobial susceptibility and genetic characterization of Trueperella pyogenes isolates from pigs reared under intensive and extensive farming practices. Veterinary Microbiology, 232:89-95. 2019. (A)
- Perez-Sancho M., Vela AI., Kostrzewa M., Zamora L., Casamayor A., Dominguez L. and Fernandez-Garayzabal JF.. First analysis by MALDI-TOF MS technique of Chryseobacterium species relevant to aquaculture. Journal of Fish Diseases, 41(2):389-393. 2018. (A)
Outreach

Last communications:
- Fernandez-Manzano A., Diez-Guerrier A., Garcia-Seco T., Sánchez-Morales L., Perez-Domingo A., Mareque P., Casamayor A., Cruz F., Dominguez L. and Perez-Sancho M.. Explorando alternativas in vitro al desafío experimental con Streptococcus suis en lechones en estudios sobre inmunidad entrenada. XVIII Congreso Nacional SECAL. 2025. (Oral communication)
- Lorente-Leal V., Romero B., Casamayor A. and Perez-Diaz M.. Identification of mycobacteria through MALDI-TOF. EURL Training Mobility. 2024. (Oral communication)
- Perez-Sancho M., Herranz Benito C., Perello-Jiménez A., Garcia-Seco T., Casamayor A., Torre-Fuentes L., Alvarez J., Ugarte-Ruiz M., Ortiz JA., Dominguez L. and Gortazar C.. A multidisciplinary approach to characterize a salmonella enterica serovar enteritidis unusual outbreak in fenced iberian ibex (Capra Pyrenaica). 7th Congress of the European Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians. 2024. (Oral communication)
- Buendia A., Perez-Sancho M., Vela AI., Fernandez-Garayzabal JF., Casamayor A., Garcia-Seco T. and Dominguez L.. Infección concurrente por Lactococcus garvieae y Lactococcus petauri en una piscifactoría de trucha arcoíris. Jornadas Vigilancia Sanitaria 2023: presente y futuro para 2030. 2023. (Poster communication)
- Perez-Sancho M., Garcia-Seco T., Herranz-Benito C., Buendia A., Fernandez-Manzano A., Casamayor A. and Dominguez L.. Q Fever: is the key in the environment?. Congress of the European Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians. 2022. (Oral communication)

