Josefina Liñares Louzao

Pathology and Experimental Therapeutics
University of Barcelona
Spain

Professor Pathology
Biography

 Josefina Liñares Louzao is Associate Professor  from Department of Pathology and Experimental Therapeutics at University of Barcelona. 1. FIS 2006 (PI 06 0647): Principal Investigator Clinical and molecular epidemiology of invasive pneumococcal disease in adult patients in the postvaccine era. Changes in the serotype distribution. Molecular typing of S. pneumoniae clones. 2. CIBER 6 (Center of Biomedical Investigation Network):Respiratory Diseases. Principal Investigator of Hospital de Bellvitge Node . 3. Marató 2006-09: Collaborator

Research Intrest

 Epidemiological microbiological and molecular studies of Streptococcus pneumoniae. Mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance Nosocomial infections

List of Publications
Combinations of PBPs and MurM protein variants in early and contemporary high-level penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates in Spain.
Streptococcus pneumoniae endophthalmitis: a study of 36 cases with special reference to antibiotic resistance and treatment options.
Increase of the M phenotype among erythromycin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates from Spain related to the serotype 14 variant of the Spain9V-3 clone.