Senior consultant
Hospital Clínic – Biomedical Diagnostic Center – Microbiology
- Phenotypic and genotypic techniques applied to diagnosis of tuberculosis and other mycobacterial infections on clinical specimens and on culture isolates.
- Phenotypic and genotypic techniques to characterize the resistance of M. tuberculosis against drugs of 1st and 2nd line in culture isolates. Direct detection in clinical samples.
- detection of gamma interferon production in the diagnosis of latent TB infection by an ELISA technique (TB gold Quantiferon)
- Study of the virulence of strains of M. tuberculosis on a model of human macrophage culture. Characterization of strains with several virulence factors.
- Phenotypic characterization of resistance in M tuberculosis. Characterization of the mechanisms of resistance to antituberculosis drugs; design of genetic screening methods.
- Rapid diagnostic techniques applied to molecular mycobacterial infections: gene amplification, MALDI-TOF
- Teaching Clinical Microbiology in students at the UB: Medicine grade, Biomedical Sciences, Master in International Health, Master in Biomedicine, Master of Clinical Microbiology
Other charges
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Coordinator of Education of CDB
Hospital Clínic – CDB Centro de Diagnóstico Biomédico –
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Member of the Committee of Humanitarian Aid of the Hospital Clinic
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Member of the Standing Committee of the Doctoral Program Traslacional Medicine. Faculty of Medicine. University of Barcelona
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Associate Professor of Microbiology. Faculty of Medicine. University of Barcelona
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Coordinator of the speciality Clinical Microbiology, Master of Clinical Research. University of Barcelona
Recent articles
- Implementation of Maldi-Tof mass spectrometry technology for identification of clinical isolates of Mycobacterium spp in mycobacterial diagnosis
Tudó, G; Monté, MR; Vergara, A; Lopez, A; Hurtado, JC; Ferrer-Navarro, M; Vila, J; Gonzalez-Martin, J .
European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases . 2015;:- - Activity and interactions of levofloxacin, linezolid, ethambutol and amikacin in three-drug combinations against Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in a human macrophage model.
Rey-Jurado E, Tudó G, Soy D, Gonzalez-Martin J. .
Int J Antimicrob Agents. . 2013; 42:524-530 - In vitro effect of three-drug combinations of antiturberculous drugs against multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates
Rey-Jurado E, Tudó G, de la Bellacasa J, Espasa M, González-Martín J. .
Int J antimicrob Agents . 2013;41:278-280 - In vitro synergistic effect of two combinations of antituberculous drugs against Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Rey E, Tudó G, Martínez JA, González-Martín J .
Tuberculosis. 2012;92:260-262 - Evaluation of VersaTREK compared to BACTEC MGIT 960 systems for first line drug susceptibility testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Espasa M, Salvadó M, Vicente E, Tudó G, Alcaide F, Coll P,Martín-Casabona N, Torra M, Fontanals D, González-Martín J.
J Clin Microbiol . 2012;50:488-491.
Academic Qualifications
- Doctorate in Medicine (PhD) (1996)
- Especiality in Microbiology and Parasitology (1987)
- Graduate in Medicine (MD) (1982)