Beatriz Romero Martínez
Appointments:
Unit Chief of MYC. VISAVET Centre. UCM
Subdirector de Gestión, Recursos Humanos y Docencia. VISAVET Centre. UCM
Qualifications:
PhD in Veterinary Sciences
Degree in Biological Sciences
Contact
VISAVET, Health Surveillance Centre
Universidad Complutense
Av. Puerta de Hierro s/n. 28040 Madrid. Spain
e-mail:
Telephone: (+34) 91 394 3992
Fax: (+34) 91 394 3795
Biography
Degree in Biology at the Complutense University of Madrid (1996-2001) and PhD from the same University within the Veterinary Sciences program with the thesis entitled "Bovine Tuberculosis: its molecular epidemiology and its implication in Animal Health and Public Health" (2010).
She currently works as deputy director of the European Union Reference Laboratory (EU-RL) for Bovine Tuberculosis, located at the VISAVET Health Surveillance Centre of the UCM and she is also the Head of the Mycobacteria Unit. Her main research activity is related to the laboratory diagnosis of tuberculosis in animals and molecular epidemiology of this disease. In addition, she is responsible for quality assurance in this area according to the UNE-EN ISO/IEC 17025 standard for testing laboratories to ensure the technical competence.
Author of more than 90 scientific publications in indexed journals and more than 140 presentations at national and international congresses. Shee has participated in more than 20 national and international projects, as well as in R&D contracts of special relevance with companies and / or administrations. She collaborates as a reviewer for various international journals and has been included among the 20 leading experts on bovine tuberculosis in the world according to the Expertscape web portal. In recent years, she has been involved in the evaluation, improvement and development of new methodologies for laboratory diagnosis and detection of tuberculosis in animals.
She currently works as deputy director of the European Union Reference Laboratory (EU-RL) for Bovine Tuberculosis, located at the VISAVET Health Surveillance Centre of the UCM and she is also the Head of the Mycobacteria Unit. Her main research activity is related to the laboratory diagnosis of tuberculosis in animals and molecular epidemiology of this disease. In addition, she is responsible for quality assurance in this area according to the UNE-EN ISO/IEC 17025 standard for testing laboratories to ensure the technical competence.
Author of more than 90 scientific publications in indexed journals and more than 140 presentations at national and international congresses. Shee has participated in more than 20 national and international projects, as well as in R&D contracts of special relevance with companies and / or administrations. She collaborates as a reviewer for various international journals and has been included among the 20 leading experts on bovine tuberculosis in the world according to the Expertscape web portal. In recent years, she has been involved in the evaluation, improvement and development of new methodologies for laboratory diagnosis and detection of tuberculosis in animals.
Investigation
Research lines:
Next scientific publications:
- Ortega Martín J., Infantes-Lorenzo JA., Bezos J., Roy A., de Juan L., Romero B., Moreno I., Gómez-Buendía A., Agullo-Ros I., Dominguez L. and Dominguez M.. Evaluation of the P22 ELISA for the detection of Mycobacterium bovis-specific antibodies in oral fluid samples obtained from goats. Frontiers in veterinary science. (A)
Last scientific publications:
- Blanco-Vazquez C., Doria-Barral T., Romero B., Queipo M., Merediz I., Quiros P., Armenteros JA., Juste R., Dominguez L., Dominguez M., Casais R. and Balseiro A.. Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Infection in Eurasian Badger (Meles meles) and Cattle in Asturias, Spain. Animals, 11(5):1294. 2021. (A)
- Gómez-Buendía A., Romero B., Bezos J., Lozano F., de Juan L. and Alvarez J.. Spoligotype-specific risk of finding lesions in tissues from cattle infected by Mycobacterium bovis. BMC Veterinary Research, 17(1):148. 2021. (A)
- Perez del Val B., Romero B., Tortola MT., Herrera-Leon L., Pozo P., Mercader I., Saez JL., Domingo M. and Vidal E.. Polyresistant Mycobacterium bovis Infection in Human and Sympatric Sheep, Spain, 2017-2018. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 27(4):1241-1243. 2021. (L)
- Pozo P., Cespedes-Cardenas N., Bezos J., Romero B., Grau A., Nacar J., Saez JL., Minguez O. and Alvarez J.. Evaluation of the performance of slaughterhouse surveillance for bovine tuberculosis detection in Castilla y Leon, Spain. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 189:105307. 2021. (A)
- Lorente-Leal V., Liandris E., Pacciarini M., Botelho A., Kenny K., Loyo B., Fernandez R., Bezos J., Dominguez L., de Juan L. and Romero B.. Direct PCR on tissue samples to detect Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex: an alternative to the bacteriological culture. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 01404-20. 2020. (A)
Last PhD thesis supervised:
Outreach
Last outreach publications:
- Gonzalez S., Lozano F., Alvarez J., Romero B., Bezos J. and de Juan L.. Tuberculosis in the new Animal Health Law. VISAVET Outreach Journal, VISAVET Health Surveillance Centre (U.C.M.). 2021.
- Lorente-Leal V., Pozo P., Alvarez J., Romero B. and de Juan L.. Avances en investigación. Epidemiología. Caracterización molecular y secuenciación masiva. 4.1.1:54-57, Tuberculosis animal: una aproximación desde la perspectiva de la Ciencia y la Administración. Ed. 1. Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación. 2020.
- Sevilla IA., Lorente-Leal V., de Juan L., Dominguez L. and Romero B.. Avances en investigación. Diagnóstico. Detección del complejo Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTBC) mediante técnicas moleculares sobre muestras clínicas y ambientales. 4.2.6:149-162, Tuberculosis animal: una aproximación desde la perspectiva de la Ciencia y la Administración. Ed. 1. Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación. 2020.
- Lorente-Leal V., de Juan L., Bezos J., Dominguez L. and Romero B.. Avances en investigación. Diagnóstico. Técnicas bacteriológicas. 4.2.7:162-170, Tuberculosis animal: una aproximación desde la perspectiva de la Ciencia y la Administración. Ed. 1. Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación. 2020.
- Diez C., Romero B. and Gortazar C.. 50 preguntas y respuestas sobre la tuberculosis animal. Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación. 2020.
Last communications:
- Pozo P., Cespedes-Cardenas N., Bezos J., Romero B., Grau A., Nacar J., Saez JL., Minguez O. and Alvarez J.. Evaluation of the performance of slaughterhouse surveillance for bovine tuberculosis detection in Castilla y León, Spain. One Health EJP Annual Scientific Meeting. 2021. (Poster communication)
- Ortega Martín J., Infantes-Lorenzo JA., Roy A., de Juan L., Romero B., Moreno I., Gómez-Buendía A., Agullo-Ros I., Lorente-Leal V., Dominguez L., Dominguez M., Bezos J. and Pozo P.. Antibody-based diagnosis of caprine tuberculosis using oral fluid samples. One Health EJP Annual Scientific Meeting. 2021. (Poster communication)
- Ortega Martín J., Roy A., Romero B., de Juan L., Moreno I., Infantes-Lorenzo JA., Gómez-Buendía A., Lorente-Leal V., Dominguez M., Dominguez L. and Bezos J.. Milk samples for immunological diagnosis of caprine tuberculosis. One Health EJP Annual Scientific Meeting. 2021. (Poster communication)
- Lorente-Leal V., Farrell D., Alvarez J., Romero B., Gordon S. and de Juan L.. Whole genome sequencing: evaluation of variant calling pipelines for the study of animal tuberculosis. One Health EJP Annual Scientific Meeting. 2021. (Poster communication)
- Cruz F., Gonzalez S., Barcena C., Bezos J., Buendia A., Briones V., Camino E., Fores P., Garcia N., Mazariegos M., Perez-Sancho M., Romero B. and de Juan L.. Infequus: Plataforma de Enfermedades Infecciosas Equinas. Jornada Aprendizaje eficaz con TIC. 2021. (Oral communication)
