Beatriz Romero Martínez
Appointments:
Unit Chief of MYC. 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:
Last scientific publications:
- 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. (A)
- 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)
- Infantes-Lorenzo JA., Romero B., Rodriguez-Bertos A., Roy A., Ortega Martín J., de Juan L., Moreno I., Dominguez M., Dominguez L. and Bezos J.. Tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium caprae in a camel (Camelus dromedarius). BMC Veterinary Research, 16:435. 2020. (A)
Last PhD thesis supervised:
Outreach
Last outreach publications:
- 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.
- Lorente-Leal V., Liandris E., Bezos J., Dominguez L., de Juan L. and Romero B.. Detección de las bacterias productoras de la tuberculosis bovina en tejidos mediante PCR directa. Ruminews, 74-79, Grupo de Comunicación Agrinews S.L.. 2019.
Last communications:
- Cruz F., Perez-Sancho M., Bezos J., Gonzalez S., Camino E., Garcia N., Romero B., Briones V., Mazariegos M., Barcena C., Buendia A., Fores P. and de Juan L.. Infequus: Equine Infectious Diseases Online Database. II Congreso Virtual Internacional de Innovación Docente Universitaria. We teach & We learn. 2021. (Poster communication)
- Romero B.. Visita a un laboratorio de alta seguridad biológica: Centro VISAVET. Asignatura de Coordinación en la respuesta tras un desastre. Máster Universitario en Gestión de Desastres. 2021. (Oral communication)
- Alvarez J., Bezos J., Romero B., Diez-Guerrier A., Minguez O. and de Juan L.. Diagnóstico de la tuberculosis bovina. Mitos, preguntas y respuestas. Jornada Divulgativa del Grupo Operativo Supraautonómico Tuberculosis (GOSTU). 2021. (Online communication)
- Romero B.. Epidemiología molecular de la tuberculosis. Aplicación práctica de la base de datos mycoDB.es. Curso de formación en los aspectos teóricos, prácticos y de base legal en el diagnóstico de la tuberculosis bovina. 2021. (Online communication)
- Romero B.. Diagnóstico microbiológico de la tuberculosis. Identificación del agente etiológico. Manual y normativa aplicable. Toma de muestras. Curso de formación en los aspectos teóricos, prácticos y de base legal en el diagnóstico de la tuberculosis bovina. 2021. (Online communication)
