Foodborne Zoonoses and Antimicrobial Resistance Unit

Research lines:

• Modification of intestinal microbiota, Healthy Gut (ZTA)
• Genetic characterization of Campylobacter (ZTA)
• Molecular characterization of human reservoirs potentially pathogenic Escherichia coli, animal and environmental (ZTA)
• Genetic characterization of antimicrobial resistance (ZTA)
• Genetic characterization of microorganisms populations (ZTA)
• Foodborne zoonoses in animals and meat, eggs and other products from animal origin intended for human consumption, mainly Salmonella spp. Campylobacter spp., Verotoxigenic Escherichia coli and Yersinia enterocolitica (ZTA)
• Antimicrobial resistances in pathogens, food-borne zoonotic agents and indicators (ZTA)

Next scientific publications:

• Esperon F., Albero B., Ugarte-Ruiz M., Dominguez L., Carballo M., Tadeo JL., Delgado MM., Moreno MA. and de la Torre A.. Assessing the benefits of composting poultry manure in reducing antimicrobial residues, pathogenic bacteria, and antimicrobial resistance genes: a field-scale study. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. In Press (A)
• Teng KT., Martinez-Aviles M., Ugarte-Ruiz M., Barcena C., de la Torre A., Lopez G., Moreno MA., Dominguez L. and Alvarez J.. Spatial trends in Salmonella infection in pigs in Spain. Frontiers in veterinary science. In Press (A)

Last scientific publications:

• Gijon D., Tedim AP., Valverde A., Rodriguez I., Morosini MI., Coque TM., Manrique M., Pareja E., Tobes R., Ruiz-Garbajosa P. and Canton R.. Early OXA-48-Producing Enterobacterales Isolates Recovered in a Spanish Hospital Reveal a Complex Introduction Dominated by Sequence Type 11 (ST11) and ST405 Klebsiella pneumoniae Clones. mSphere, 5(2). 2020. (A)
• Sevilla E., Marin C., Delgado-Blas JF., Gonzalez-Zorn B., Vega S., Kuijper E., Bolea R. and Mainar-Jaime RC.. Wild griffon vultures (Gyps fulvus) fed at supplementary feeding stations: Potential carriers of pig pathogens and pig-derived antimicrobial resistance?. Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 67(3):1295-1305. 2020. (A)
• Moreno MA., Collineau L. and Carson CA.. Antimicrobial Usage in Companion and Food Animals: Methods, Surveys and Relationships With Antimicrobial Resistance in Animals and Humans. Frontiers in veterinary science, 7(63):1-3. 2020. (E)
• Garcia-Vello P., Gonzalez-Zorn B. and Setsoafia-Saba CK.. Antibiotic resistance patterns in human, animal, food and environmental isolates in Ghana: a review. The Pan African medical journal, 12;35:37. 2020. (A)
• Zivanovic J., Kouroussis E., Kohl JB., Adhikari B., Bursac B., Schott-Roux S., Petrovic D., Miljkovic JL., Thomas-Lopez D., Jung Y., Miler M., Mitchell S., Milosevic V., Gomes JE., Benhar M., Gonzalez-Zorn B., Ivanovic-Burmazovic I., Torregrossa R., Mitchell JR., Whiteman M., Schwarz G., Snyder SH., Paul BD., Carroll KS. and Filipovic MR.. Selective Persulfide Detection Reveals Evolutionarily Conserved Antiaging Effects of S-Sulfhydration. Cell metabolism, S1550-4131(19)30562-5. 2020. (A)

Last PhD thesis:

• Gabriel Moyano Ortega. Modelos animales para el estudio de la ecología de las resistencia a antibióticos: Klebsiella pneumoniae resistente a carbapenemas en ambientes nosocomiales. 2019.
• Diego Flórez Cuadrado. Genomic characterization and antimicrobial resistance of Campylobacter. 2017. (Mención Europea)
• Cristina Martínez Ovejero. Mecanismos emergentes de resistencia a antibióticos en enterobacterias de origen humano, animal y ambiental. 2017. (Internacional)
• Andreas Hoefer. Regulation of the 16S rRNA resistance methyltransferases: A functional and mutational analysis of the armA 5´ UTR. 2017.
• Daniel Thomas López. Enterococcus, Salmonella y H2S: Control Remoto de la Resistencia a Antibioticos. 2017.

Last outreach publications:

• Juez-García M., Alvarez J., Sotodosos-Carpintero M. and Ugarte-Ruiz M.. Asociación entre resistencia a antibióticos y serotipos en Salmonella de transmisión alimentaria. Revista Madrileña de Salud Pública, 4(5):1-8, Dirección General de Salud Pública de la Consejería de Sanidad de la Comunidad de Madrid. 2020.
• Gonzalez-Zorn B.. Listeriosis: así es la alarma sanitaria del verano 2019. ucm.es/otri, Universidad Complutense. 2019.
• Florez-Cuadrado D., Moreno MA., Ugarte-Ruiz M. and Dominguez L.. Antimicrobial Resistance in the Food Chain in the European Union. Biological Emerging Risks in Foods. Ed. 1. 86(5):115-136, Academic Press. 2018.
• Rodriguez Beltran J., Hernandez Beltran JCR., de la Fuente J., Escudero JA., Fuentres Hernandez A., Craig MacLean R., Pena Miller R. and San Millan A.. Multicopy plasmids allow bacteria to escape from fitness trade-offs during evolutionary innovation. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2(5):873-881, Macmillan Publishers Limited. 2018.
• Leekitcharoenphon P., Garcia-Graels C., Botteldoorn N., Dierick K., Kempf I., Olkkola S., Rossi M., Nykasenoja S., Malorny B., Stingl K., Battisti A., Franco A., Mossong J., Veldman K., Mevius D., Wasyl D., Wieczorek K., Osek J., Clemente L., Lacatus A., Nicorescu I., Aguero Garcia M., de Frutos Escobar C., Duran Ferrer M., Ugarte-Ruiz M., Anjum MF., Teale C., Agren J., Hendriksen RS. and Aarestrup FM.. Comparative genomics of quinolone-resistantand susceptibleCampylobacter jejuniof oultry origin from major poultry producing European countries (GENCAMP). EFSA Journal, European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). 2018.

Last communications:

• Ugarte-Ruiz M.. Case study: Impact of reducing antimicrobial usage in animal production, lessons from colistin. Parma Summer School. One Health. 2020. (Online communication)
• Miguela-Villoldo P., Rebollada A., Rodriguez-Bertos A., Moreno MA., Dominguez L. y Ugarte-Ruiz M.. Effect of colistin on the selection of mcr-1 in bacteria in broiler chicken gut. One Health EJP Annual Scientific Meeting. 2020. (Oral communication)
• Ugarte-Ruiz M., Juez-García M., Alvarez J., Sanchez E., Garcia M., Inigo S., Maasoumi N., Rivero E., Martinez-Fernandez E., Porrero MC. y Dominguez L.. Detection and antimicrobial characterization of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica isolated from eggs at retail in Madrid, Spain from 2003 to 2019. One Health EJP Annual Scientific Meeting. 2020. (Oral communication)
• Leng J., Ritchie J., Fivian-Hughes A., Van de Putten B., Trung-Nguyen V., Oldenkamp R., Bootsma M., Kumar Tiwari S., Matamoros S., Thi Hoa N., Berens C., Alvarez J., Jolivet D., Ferrandis-Vila M., Fruth A., Schwarz S., Dominguez L., Ugarte-Ruiz M., Bethe A., Wieler LH., Menge C., Schultsz C., Semmler T. y La Ragione R.. The survival of 17 E. coli strains within an in vitro model of the chicken caeca. One Health EJP Annual Scientific Meeting. 2020. (Poster communication)
• Ferrandis-Vila M., Mamerow S., Van de Putten B., Tiwari SK., Nguyen VT., Oldenkamp R., Bootsma M., Matamoros BR., Thi Hoa N., Leng J., Ritchie J., Fivian-Hughes A., Alvarez J., Fruth A., Schwarz S., Ugarte-Ruiz M., Bethe A., Schultsz C., Semmler T., La Ragione R., Menge C. y Berens C.. In vivo analysis of E. coli strains selected for different host specificities by a "Nearest Neighbour" bioinformatics approach in experimentally inoculated piglets. One Health EJP Annual Scientific Meeting. 2020. (Poster communication)