Infectious Diseases

Overview

The aim of the seven groups of this area is to improve the outcomes of patients with infectious diseases. The Epidemiology and Public Health group is mainly focused on the epidemiology and prevention of healthcare acquired infections, transmissible infections and on the new preventive vaccines. The Infectious Diseases group focuses on improving the strategies of clinical problems observed in clinical practice. Microbiology studies mechanisms of resistance to antimicrobials, pathogenicity, taxonomy and epidemiology, and infectious diseases diagnostics.

The CRIPS group focuses on the most prevalent aspects of infections in the intensive care unit (ICU), while SODIR group works in the areas of shock, organ dysfunction and resuscitation.

There is also a group focused on infection in immunocompromised pediatric patients, and a group from the CIBBIM-Nanomedicine interested in the synthesis, characterization and applications of engineered inorganic nanoparticles in the field of medicine.

Publications

236

total

1,029.655

impact factor

4.363

average impact factor

Director: Pere Soler Palacin

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The group has consolidated its structure along 2017 and we are currently leading national and European projects on Zika infection in children and gene therapy in primary immunodeficiencies. The consolidation of the group has allowed our involvement in eight currently active clinical trials, and other seventeen active research projects and an increase in the number of publications and its resulting impact factor. During 2017, in addition to previous recognitions, our group has been recognized as the reference unit for SCID newborn screening in Catalonia, a pioneer project in Europe and as a pre-consolidated group by the AGAUR. Moreover, we have five-fold increased our funding from the 2008-2013 to 2014-2016 period. Finally, our close relationship with the patients’ associations and regional foundations brings a central role to patients and their families in conducting responsible research.

16

total

70^.578

impact factor

4^.411

average impact factor

SELECTED ARTICLES

Franco-Jarava C, Álvarez de la Campa E, Solanich X, Morandeira-Rego F, Mas-Bosch V, García-Prat M, de la Cruz X, Martín-Nalda A, Soler-Palacín P, Hernández-González M, Colobran R.
Early Versus Late Diagnosis of Complement Factor I Deficiency: Clinical Consequences Illustrated in Two Families with Novel Homozygous CFI Mutations.
J Clin Immunol. 2017 Nov;37(8):781-789.
doi: 10.1007/s10875-017-0447-x.
IF: 3’253
Jolles S, Sánchez-Ramón S, Quinti I, Soler-Palacín P, Agostini C, Florkin B, Couderc LJ, Brodszki N, Jones A, Longhurst H, Warnatz K, Haerynck F, Matucci A, de Vries E.
Screening protocols to monitor respiratory status in primary immunodeficiency disease: findings from a European survey and subclinical infection working group.
Clin Exp Immunol. 2017 Nov;190(2):226-234
doi: 10.1111/cei.13012.
IF: 3’41
Hoenig M, Lagresle-Peyrou C, Pannicke U, Notarangelo LD, Porta F, Gennery AR, Slatter M, Cowan MJ, Stepensky P, Al-Mousa H, Al-Zahrani D, Pai SY, Al Herz W, Gaspar HB, Veys P, Oshima K, Imai K, Yabe H, Noroski LM, Wulffraat NM, Sykora KW, Soler-Palacin P, Muramatsu H, Al Hilali M, Moshous D, Debatin KM, Schuetz C, Jacobsen EM, Schulz AS, Schwarz K, Fischer A, Friedrich W, Cavazzana M; European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) Inborn Errors Working Party.
Reticular dysgenesis: international survey on clinical presentation, transplantation, and outcome.
Blood. 2017 May 25;129(21):2928-2938
doi: 10.1182/blood-2016-11-745638.
IF: 13’164
Goycochea-Valdivia WA, Baquero-Artigao F, Del Rosal T, Frick MA, Rojo P, Echeverría MJ, Noguera-Julian A, Bringué X, Saavedra-Lozano J, Vives-Oñós I, Moliner E, Cilleruelo MJ, Cuadrado I, Colino E, Castells L, Tagarro A, Vilas J, Soler-Palacin P, Blázquez-Gamero D; Spanish Registry of Infants with Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection (REDICCMV) Study Group.
Cytomegalovirus DNA Detection by Polymerase Chain Reaction in Cerebrospinal Fluid of Infants With Congenital Infection: Associations With Clinical Evaluation at Birth and Implications for Follow-up.
Clin Infect Dis. 2017 May 15;64(10):1335-1342
doi: 10.1093/cid/cix105.
IF: 8’216
Norman FF, López-Polín A, Salvador F, Treviño B, Calabuig E, Torrús D, Soriano-Arandes A, Ruíz-Giardín JM, Monge-Maillo B, Pérez-Molina JA, Perez-Ayala A, García M, Rodríguez A, Martínez-Serrano M, Zubero M, López-Vélez R; REDIVI Study Group.
Imported malaria in Spain (2009-2016): results from the REDIVI Collaborative Network.
Malar J. 2017 Oct 10;16(1):407.
doi: 10.1186/s12936-017-2057-8.
IF: 2’715

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