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Overview

José Luis Balcázar is affiliated with the Catalan Institute for Water Research in Spain. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and intersects with biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

Their work spans several subfields, including ecology, molecular biology, pollution, molecular medicine, and immunology. Key topics within their research encompass bacteriophages and microbial interactions, pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts, antibiotic resistance in bacteria, aquaculture disease management and microbiota, aquatic life and conservation, genomics and phylogenetic studies, and microbial community ecology and physiology.

José Luis Balcázar has contributed to multiple publications across various venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Microbial Pathogenesis
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Microbial Ecology

Coauthorship has been significant in their career, working frequently with several researchers including:

  • Edgar González-Villalobos
  • Carles Borrego
  • Carlos Omar Lomelí-Ortega
  • Mingming Sun
  • Brenda Mora-Sánchez

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Rethinking wastewater risks and monitoring in light of the COVID-19 pandemic," 2020, Nature Sustainability
  • "A global multinational survey of cefotaxime-resistant coliforms in urban wastewater treatment plants," 2020, Environment International
  • "Effect of COD on mainstream anammox: Evaluation of process performance, granule morphology and nitrous oxide production," 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Metagenomic analysis of urban wastewater resistome and mobilome: A support for antimicrobial resistance surveillance in an endemic country," 2021, Environmental Pollution
  • "Benzo[a]pyrene stress impacts adaptive strategies and ecological functions of earthworm intestinal viromes," 2023, The ISME Journal

Best Publications

  • The role of probiotics in aquaculture

    José Luis Balcázar;Ignacio de Blas;Imanol Ruiz-Zarzuela;David Cunningham

  • Occurrence of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes in hospital and urban wastewaters and their impact on the receiving river.

    Sara Rodriguez-Mozaz;Sara Chamorro;Elisabet Marti;Belinda Huerta

  • The role of aquatic ecosystems as reservoirs of antibiotic resistance

    Elisabet Marti;Eleni Variatza;Jose Luis Balcazar

  • A review on the interactions between gut microbiota and innate immunity of fish.

    Geovanny D. Gómez;José Luis Balcázar

  • Effects of Bacillus subtilis on the growth performance, digestive enzymes, immune gene expression and disease resistance of white shrimp, Litopenaeus vannamei.

    Hadi Zokaeifar;José Luis Balcázar;Che Roos Saad;Mohd Salleh Kamarudin

  • The role of biofilms as environmental reservoirs of antibiotic resistance

    José L. Balcázar;Jéssica Subirats;Carles M. Borrego;Carles M. Borrego

  • Lactococcus garvieae in fish: a review.

    Daniel Vendrell;José Luis Balcázar;Imanol Ruiz-Zarzuela;Ignacio de Blas

  • Host–microbiota interactions within the fish intestinal ecosystem

    T Pérez;J L Balcázar;I Ruiz-Zarzuela;N Halaihel

  • Prevalence of Antibiotic Resistance Genes and Bacterial Community Composition in a River Influenced by a Wastewater Treatment Plant

    Elisabet Marti;Juan Jofre;Jose Luis Balcazar

  • Characterization of probiotic properties of lactic acid bacteria isolated from intestinal microbiota of fish

    José Luis Balcázar;José Luis Balcázar;Daniel Vendrell;Ignacio de Blas;Imanol Ruiz-Zarzuela

  • Exploring the links between antibiotic occurrence, antibiotic resistance, and bacterial communities in water supply reservoirs

    Belinda Huerta;Elisabet Marti;Meritxell Gros;Pilar López

  • The effect of Pediococcus acidilactici on the gut microbiota and immune status of on‐growing red tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)

    R.M.W. Ferguson;D.L. Merrifield;G.M. Harper;M.D. Rawling

  • Effect of the addition of four potential probiotic strains on the survival of pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) following immersion challenge with Vibrio parahaemolyticus.

    José Luis Balcázar;Tyrone Rojas-Luna;David P. Cunningham

  • Rethinking wastewater risks and monitoring in light of the COVID-19 pandemic

    Anne Bogler;Aaron Packman;Alex Furman;Amit Gross

  • Changes in intestinal microbiota and humoral immune response following probiotic administration in brown trout (Salmo trutta).

    José Luis Balcázar;Ignacio de Blas;Imanol Ruiz-Zarzuela;Daniel Vendrell

  • Enhancement of the immune response and protection induced by probiotic lactic acid bacteria against furunculosis in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

    José Luis Balcázar;Ignacio de Blas;Imanol Ruiz-Zarzuela;Daniel Vendrell

  • Bacteriophages as vehicles for antibiotic resistance genes in the environment.

    Jose Luis Balcazar

  • Expression of immune-related genes in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) induced by probiotic bacteria during Lactococcus garvieae infection

    Tania Pérez-Sánchez;José Luis Balcázar;Daniel L. Merrifield;Oliana Carnevali

  • Abundance of antibiotics, antibiotic resistance genes and bacterial community composition in wastewater effluents from different Romanian hospitals.

    Edina Szekeres;Andreea Baricz;Cecilia Maria Chiriac;Anca Farkas

  • Probiotics in aquaculture: a current assessment

    Tania Pérez-Sánchez;Imanol Ruiz-Zarzuela;Ignacio de Blas;José L. Balcázar

  • Biological Approaches for Disease Control in Aquaculture: Advantages, Limitations and Challenges.

    Tania Pérez-Sánchez;Brenda Mora-Sánchez;Brenda Mora-Sánchez;José Luis Balcázar

Frequent Co-Authors

Carles M. Borrego
Carles M. Borrego Catalan Institute for Water Research
Damià Barceló
Damià Barceló University of Almería
Sara Rodríguez-Mozaz
Sara Rodríguez-Mozaz Catalan Institute for Water Research
Sergi Sabater
Sergi Sabater University of Girona
Daniel L. Merrifield
Daniel L. Merrifield Plymouth University
Rafael Marcé
Rafael Marcé Catalan Institute for Water Research
Meritxell Gros
Meritxell Gros Catalan Institute for Water Research
Maite Pijuan
Maite Pijuan Catalan Institute for Water Research
Ignasi Rodríguez-Roda
Ignasi Rodríguez-Roda University of Girona
Vicenç Acuña
Vicenç Acuña Catalan Institute for Water Research

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