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Spain
2023

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Citations
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Microbiology in Spain Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Microbiology in Spain Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Medicine in Spain Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Microbiology in Spain Leader Award
  • 2012 - European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Excellence Award

Overview

Emilio Bouza is affiliated with the Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on infectious diseases and related medical fields, with a significant body of work in medicine, including specialized contributions to epidemiology, surgery, critical care and intensive care medicine, and clinical biochemistry.

Key areas of Bouza's research encompass:

  • Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management
  • Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
  • Antifungal resistance and susceptibility
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Microscopic Colitis

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Patricia Muñóz
  • Maricela Valerio
  • Luís Alcalá
  • Manuel Martínez-Sellés
  • Marina Machado

Bouza has published extensively in various scientific journals, with notable repeated contributions to:

  • Revista Española de Quimioterapia (48 publications)
  • Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases (9 publications)
  • Clinical Microbiology and Infection (8 publications)
  • Cirugía Cardiovascular (8 publications)
  • Microbiology Spectrum (6 publications)

Among their recent papers are:

  • "European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases: 2021 update on the treatment guidance document for Clostridioides difficile infection in adults," published in 2021 in Clinical Microbiology and Infection
  • "Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in the COVID-19 era: An expected new entity," published in 2020 in Mycoses
  • "Post-COVID-19 syndrome. SARS-CoV-2 RNA detection in plasma, stool, and urine in patients with persistent symptoms after COVID-19," published in 2022 in BMC Infectious Diseases
  • "Microbiota-based markers predictive of development of Clostridioides difficile infection," published in 2021 in Nature Communications
  • "Insights for COVID-19 in 2023," published in 2022 in Revista Española de Quimioterapia

Emilio Bouza was awarded the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Excellence Award in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Circulating microRNAs in sera correlate with soluble biomarkers of immune activation but do not predict mortality in ART treated individuals with HIV-1 infection : a case control study

    Daniel D. Murray;Kazuo Suzuki;Matthew Law;Jonel Trebicka

  • Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Intravascular Catheter-Related Infection: 2009 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America

    Leonard A. Mermel;Michael Allon;Emilio Bouza;Donald E. Craven

  • Diagnosis and management of Aspergillus diseases: executive summary of the 2017 ESCMID-ECMM-ERS guideline

    A. J. Ullmann;J. M. Aguado;S. Arikan-Akdagli;D. W. Denning

  • Bezlotoxumab for Prevention of Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection

    Mark H. Wilcox;Dale N. Gerding;Ian R. Poxton;Ciaran Kelly

  • Liposomal Amphotericin B as Initial Therapy for Invasive Mold Infection: A Randomized Trial Comparing a High–Loading Dose Regimen with Standard Dosing (AmBiLoad Trial)

    Oliver A. Cornely;Johan Maertens;Mark Bresnik;Ramin Ebrahimi

  • Zygomycosis in Europe: analysis of 230 cases accrued by the registry of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology (ECMM) Working Group on Zygomycosis between 2005 and 2007

    A. Skiada;L. Pagano;A. Groll;S. Zimmerli

  • A SHORT-TERM STUDY OF THE SAFETY, PHARMACOKINETICS, AND EFFICACY OF RITONAVIR, AN INHIBITOR OF HIV-1 PROTEASE

    Sven A. Danner;Andrew Carr;John M. Leonard;Leah M. Lehman

  • Tuberculous Meningitis in Patients Infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus

    Juan Berenguer;Santiago Moreno;Fernando Laguna;Teresa Vicente

  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae Fungemia: An Emerging Infectious Disease

    Patricia Muñoz;Emilio Bouza;Manuel Cuenca-Estrella;Jose María Eiros

  • European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases: 2021 update on the treatment guidance document for Clostridioides difficile infection in adults.

    J. van Prehn;E. Reigadas;E.H. Vogelzang;E. Bouza

  • Pulmonary aspergillosis in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: incidence, risk factors, and outcome.

    J. Guinea;M. Torres-Narbona;P. Gijón;P. Muñoz

  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in recipients of solid organ transplants.

    Patricia Muñoz;Claudia Rodríguez;Emilio Bouza

  • Nocardiosis at the turn of the century.

    Maricela Valerio Minero;Mercedes Marín;Emilia Cercenado;Pablo Martín Rabadán

  • Underdiagnosis of Clostridium difficile across Europe: the European, multicentre, prospective, biannual, point-prevalence study of Clostridium difficile infection in hospitalised patients with diarrhoea (EUCLID)

    Kerrie A Davies;Christopher M Longshaw;Georgina L Davis;Emilio Bouza

  • The relationship between the initiation of antimicrobial therapy and the incidence of stroke in infective endocarditis: an analysis from the ICE Prospective Cohort Study (ICE-PCS).

    Stuart A. Dickerman;Elias Abrutyn;Bruno Barsic;Emilio Bouza

  • Update of Clostridium difficile infection due to PCR ribotype 027 in Europe, 2008.

    E J Kuijper;F Barbut;J S Brazier;N Kleinkauf

  • Current features of infective endocarditis in elderly patients: results of the International Collaboration on Endocarditis Prospective Cohort Study

    Emanuele Durante-Mangoni;Suzanne Bradley;Christine Selton-Suty;Marie Françoise Tripodi

  • Reassessment of Clostridium difficile Susceptibility to Metronidazole and Vancomycin

    T. Peláez;L. Alcalá;R. Alonso;M. Rodríguez-Créixems

  • Legionnaires' disease

    Unknown

  • Catheter-related infections: diagnosis and intravascular treatment.

    E. Bouza;A. Burillo;P. Muñoz

  • Visceral leishmaniasis in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected and non-HIV-infected patients. A comparative study.

    Vicente Pintado;Pablo MartÍn-rabadÁn;MarÍa Luisa Rivera;Santiago Moreno

  • Ventilator-associated pneumonia: European Task Force on ventilator-associated pneumonia Chairmen of the Task Force: A. Torres and J. Carlet

    Unknown

Frequent Co-Authors

Patricia Muñoz
Patricia Muñoz Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón
Marta Rodríguez-Créixems
Marta Rodríguez-Créixems Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón
Jesús Guinea
Jesús Guinea Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón
Emilia Cercenado
Emilia Cercenado Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón
Teresa Peláez
Teresa Peláez Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón
Juan Berenguer
Juan Berenguer Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón
Santiago Moreno
Santiago Moreno Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal
José M. Miró
José M. Miró University of Barcelona
Matteo Bassetti
Matteo Bassetti University of Genoa
Francesc Marco
Francesc Marco University of Barcelona

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