VISAVET | Foodborne Zoonoses and Antimicrobial Resistance Unit

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Foodborne Zoonoses and Antimicrobial Resistance Unit
VISAVET Health Surveillance Centre
Universidad Complutense
Av. Puerta de Hierro s/n. 28040 Madrid. Spain

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Head office phone: (+34) 913 944 097

Fax: (+34) 913 943 795

Foodborne Zoonoses and Antimicrobial Resistance Unit became operational in 1996 based on the Veterinary Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network (VAV). Nowadays, it includes the study of different food-borne zoonoses (Salmonella, Campylobacter, E. coli, Yersinia, Staphylococcus aureus ...). It is also responsible for analyzing antimicrobial resistance in zoonotic organisms, commensal bacteria of the intestinal tract or clinical isolates. The group has several lines of research on the characterization of important foodborne pathogens for Public Health and the mechanisms involved in the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance by using molecular tecniques as well as sequencing. It is outstanding the leadership of this group in international research projects and its collaboration with Public Administrations and companies. ZTA gives support to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food and Environment (MAPAMA) and the Community of Madrid developing surveillance programs for zoonotic agents.

Research

Research lines:

Last scientific publications:

Ares M., Rocha EPC. and Gonzalez-Zorn B.. Evolution of ColE1-like plasmids across γ-Proteobacteria: From bacteriocin production to antimicrobial resistance. PLoS Genetics, 17(11):e1009919. 2021. (A)
Palencia-Gandara C., Getino M., Moyano G., Redondo S., Fernandez-Lopez R., Gonzalez-Zorn B. and de la Cruz F.. Conjugation Inhibitors Effectively Prevent Plasmid Transmission in Natural Environments. MBio, 12(4):e0127721. 2021. (A)
Joosten P., Sarrazin S., Chauvin C., Moyano G., Wadepohl K., Van Gompel L., Wagenaar J., Dewulf J. and EFFORT Group.. Assigning Defined Daily/Course Doses for Antimicrobials in Turkeys to Enable a Cross-Country Quantification and Comparison of Antimicrobial Use. Antibiotics, 10(8):971. 2021. (A)
Leekitcharoenphon P., Hans Kristofer Johansson M., Munk P., Malorny B., Skarzynska M., Wadepohl K., Moyano G., Hesp A., Veldman KT., Bossers A., EFFORT Consortium., Zajac M., Wasyl D., Sanders P., Gonzalez-Zorn B., Brouwer A., Wagenaar J., Heederik D., Mevius D. and Aarestrup FM.. Genomic evolution of antimicrobial resistance in Escherichia coli. Scientific reports, 11(1):15108. 2021. (A)
Collineau L., Carson CA. and Moreno MA.. Antimicrobial Usage in Companion and Food Animals: Methods, Surveys and Relationships With Antimicrobial Resistance in Animals and Humans, Volume II. Frontiers in veterinary science, 8:728267. 2021. (E)

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Last PhD thesis:

José Francisco Delgado Blas. Emergencia y diseminación de mecanismos de resistencia a antibióticos de último recurso en bacterias humanas, animales y ambientales. 2021. (Doctorado Europeo)
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. (Doctorado Europeo)
Cristina Martínez Ovejero. Mecanismos emergentes de resistencia a antibióticos en enterobacterias de origen humano, animal y ambiental. 2017. (Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado, Doctorado Internacional)
Andreas Hoefer. Regulation of the 16S rRNA resistance methyltransferases: A functional and mutational analysis of the armA 5´ UTR. 2017.

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Outreach

Last outreach publications:

Ugarte-Ruiz M., Alvarez J., Escudero JA., Gonzalez-Zorn B., Miguela-Villoldo P., Moreno MA., Rebollada A., Rodriguez-Bertos A. and Dominguez L.. Resistencias antimicrobianas y One Health. REDRISA, Vetdivulga. 2020.
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.