Carmen Muñoz-Almagro

Researcher

Address:

Hospital Sant Joan de Deu

Molecular Microbiology Department. University Hospital Sant Joan de Deu. Pº Sant Joan de Deu , nº 2

08950 Esplugues,Barcelona Spain

Spain

Url of your web site:

http://www.fsjd.org

Other research topics:

Pediatric infectious diseases

Any further information you consider relevant:

The Hospital Sant Joan de Déu (HSJD) is a 360-bedsize university hospital that provides top-level technological health care services to children and pregnant mothers, covering a paediatric population of 200.000 children. Our institution manages around 25.000 in-patient admissions, 212.000 outpatient visits and 3.000 child births. Integrated into the network of public utility hospitals of Catalonia, it is ranked as the largest children’s hospital in Spain and the third medical centre of its kind in Europe by volume of activity. HSJD combines basic general paediatrics with specialized care for all tertiary-level paediatric pathologies. Associated with the University of Barcelona, HSJD is also a teaching hospital that conducts basic and translational research in order to continue improving the quality of health care provided to its patients. The HSJD Paediatric Infectious Diseases Research Group, coordinated by Dr. Muñoz-Almagro, MD, PhD microbiologist, is focused on the study of the clinical, molecular and epidemiologic aspects of main paediatric infectious diseases, including vaccine-preventable diseases such as pneumococcal disease and pertussis. Our research is also orientated to early diagnosis of infectious diseases by molecular methods and development of innovative molecular-based diagnostic techniques. The multidisciplinary character of the members of our group, including clinicians, microbiologists and epidemiologists, promotes a translational and comprehensive study of patients' infections.

Your research topics:

diagnostic

interactions host-pathogen

Organism studied by your group:

Bacteria

Virus

Special methods/technologies:

Molecular Biology