Publications by authors named "Alicia Hernandez-Cabezas"
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- Strain HF14-78462 is a novel environmental bacterium discovered in a clinical sample from an immunocompromised patient in Spain in 2014, characterized as Gram-negative, aerobic, small rods that form whitish-translucent colonies at temperatures between 20-36°C.!* -
- The strain exhibits specific biochemical properties: it is oxidase, catalase, and urease positive, utilizes multiple carbon sources, but does not grow in thiosulfate-oxidizing media and has a narrower temperature range compared to similar strains.!* -
- Genomic analysis shows that strain HF14-78462 has a genome size of 4.83 Mbp with a C+G content of
Streptococcus agalactiae (GBS) remains the leading cause of meningitis and neonatal sepsis in the world, and causes disease in pregnant and puerperal women. This is a retrospective study of GBS infections on women of childbearing age living in Comunitat Valenciana, Spain (years 2009-2014) and GBS colonization rate on pregnant women attending Hospital La Fe (years 2013-2015) according to their origin. An aggregated total of 6,641,960 women exposed during the study period had an average GBS isolation rate of 5.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Candida auris is an emerging multidrug-resistant yeast that can cause invasive infections and is associated with high mortality. It is typically resistant to fluconazole and voriconazole and, some cases, also to echinocandins and amphotericin B. This species, phylogenetically related to Candida haemulonii, is frequently misidentified by commercial identification techniques in clinical laboratories; therefore, the real prevalence of C.
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