IUIBS: Trypanosomosis, Antibiotic Resistance, Virology and Animal Medicine

Affiliated Research areas

• Adaptive immunity
• Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Human Diseases
• Veterinary and applied animal sciences
• Social aspects of teaching and learning, curriculum studies, education and educational policies

Scientific Areas

• Not available

Keywords

• Veterinary Neurology
• Nanobodies
• Infection
• Antimicrobials
• Mechanisms of resistance
• International travelers
• Surra
• Dromedary camels
• Nanobodies
• Veterinary Medicine
• Zoonoses and wildlife
• Q Fever
• Antimicrobial resistance
• Chagas Disease
• Trypanosoma

Summary

- Great animals and camelid clinic: Large animal and camel internal medicine. We are specially focused on the study of the diseases that affects ruminants, particularly those from parasitological origin.
- Molecular Biology of Virus of Human and Animal Interest: Pandemic viruses such as human immunodeficiency virus 1 (HIV-1), influenza A virus (IAV) or severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) are major threats to human and animal health. This line of research aims to unveil the molecular and biochemical determinants governing the replication of these and other viruses, and the cellular defence mechanisms fighting infection.
- Domestic and wild animal clinic. Nanoantibodies of dromedaries: Study of diseases affecting domestic and wild animals; we are particularly interested in those transmitted by vectors and those that affect the nervous system. On the other hand, we develop the generation of nanoantibodies in dromedaries (Camelus dromedarius) by immunization of different antigens.
- Emerging infectious diseases: Infections in international travelers and immigrants coming from less developed countries (helminthosis, Chagas disease, malaria). Infections responsible for fever of intermediate duration (Q fever, rickettsiosis)
- Animal trypanosomosis: Trypanosoma in ruminants and camelids. Characterization of strains. Vectors. New laboratory techniques for diagnostic. Control Methods.
- Antibiotic resistance in bacteria of human, animal and environmental origin: Antibiotic susceptibility patterns in bacteria of human', animal' and environmental' origen. Molecular bases of this resistance.