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Pilar M. Muñoz is affiliated with the Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentaria de Aragón in Zaragoza, Spain. Their research focuses primarily on veterinary sciences, medicine, and agricultural and biological sciences, with a particular emphasis on small animals, epidemiology, and food science.

Their work covers a range of topics including Brucella diagnosis, epidemiology, and treatment, Burkholderia infections and melioidosis, Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology, as well as studies on animal diversity and health, trace elements in health, prion diseases and protein misfolding, and bacterial resistance to infections.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Pilar M. Muñoz include:

  • If You're Not Confused, You're Not Paying Attention: Ochrobactrum Is Not Brucella (2023), Journal of Clinical Microbiology
  • A review of three decades of use of the cattle brucellosis rough vaccine Brucella abortus RB51: myths and facts (2023), BMC Veterinary Research
  • Development of attenuated live vaccine candidates against swine brucellosis in a non-zoonotic B. suis biovar 2 background (2020), Veterinary Research
  • The Phospholipid N-Methyltransferase and Phosphatidylcholine Synthase Pathways and the ChoXWV Choline Uptake System Involved in Phosphatidylcholine Synthesis Are Widely Conserved in Most, but Not All Brucella Species (2021), Frontiers in Microbiology
  • A Brucella melitensis H38ΔwbkF rough mutant protects against Brucella ovis in rams (2022), Veterinary Research

Pilar M. Muñoz has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Veterinary Research
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Journal of Clinical Microbiology
  • BMC Veterinary Research
  • Microbiology Spectrum

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Raquel Conde-Álvarez
  • Amaia Zúñiga-Ripa
  • Ignacio Moriyón
  • María Jesús de Miguel
  • Maite Iriarte

The main areas of study associated with Pilar M. Muñoz's research are:

  • Veterinary
  • Medicine
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

In subfields, they have focused on:

  • Small Animals
  • Epidemiology
  • Food Science
  • Molecular Biology
  • Endocrinology

Their principal research topics include:

  • Brucella: diagnosis, epidemiology, treatment
  • Burkholderia infections and melioidosis
  • Salmonella and Campylobacter epidemiology
  • Animal Diversity and Health Studies
  • Trace Elements in Health
  • Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding
  • Infections and bacterial resistance

Best Publications

  • Evaluation of a Multiplex PCR Assay (Bruce-ladder) for Molecular Typing of All Brucella Species, Including the Vaccine Strains

    I. López-Goñi;D. García-Yoldi;C. M. Marín;M. J. de Miguel

  • Multiplex PCR Assay for the Identification and Differentiation of all Brucella Species and the Vaccine Strains Brucella abortus S19 and RB51 and Brucella melitensis Rev1

    David García-Yoldi;Clara M. Marín;María J. de Miguel;Pilar M. Muñoz

  • Efficacy of several serological tests and antigens for diagnosis of bovine brucellosis in the presence of false-positive serological results due to Yersinia enterocolitica O:9.

    P. M. Muñoz;C. M. Marín;D. Monreal;D. González

  • Spatial distribution and risk factors of Brucellosis in Iberian wild ungulates

    Pilar M Muñoz;Mariana Boadella;Maricruz Arnal;María J de Miguel

  • Brucellosis Vaccines: Assessment of Brucella melitensis Lipopolysaccharide Rough Mutants Defective in Core and O-Polysaccharide Synthesis and Export

    David González;María-Jesús Grilló;María-Jesús De Miguel;Tara Ali

  • Development of a Selective Culture Medium for Primary Isolation of the Main Brucella Species

    M J De Miguel;C M Marín;P M Muñoz;L Dieste

  • A systematic review of current immunological tests for the diagnosis of cattle brucellosis.

    Marie J. Ducrotoy;Pilar M. Muñoz;Raquel Conde-Álvarez;José M. Blasco

  • Comparison of Multiple-Locus Variable-Number Tandem-Repeat Analysis with Other PCR-Based Methods for Typing Brucella suis Isolates

    David García-Yoldi;Philippe Le Fleche;María J De Miguel;Pilar M Muñoz

  • Specificity dependence between serological tests for diagnosing bovine brucellosis in Brucella-free farms showing false positive serological reactions due to Yersinia enterocolitica O:9

    Raúl C. Mainar-Jaime;Pilar M. Muñoz;María J. de Miguel;María J. Grilló

  • Rough mutants defective in core and O-polysaccharide synthesis and export induce antibodies reacting in an indirect ELISA with smooth lipopolysaccharide and are less effective than Rev 1 vaccine against Brucella melitensis infection of sheep.

    María B. Barrio;María J. Grilló;Pilar M. Muñoz;Isabelle Jacques;Isabelle Jacques

  • Assessment of genetic stability of Brucella melitensis Rev 1 vaccine strain by multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis.

    David García-Yoldi;Philippe Le Fleche;Clara M. Marín;María J. De Miguel

  • Comparative performance of lateral flow immunochromatography, iELISA and Rose Bengal tests for the diagnosis of cattle, sheep, goat and swine brucellosis

    Amahyel M. Gusi;Wilson J. Bertu;M. Jesús de Miguel;Lucía Dieste-Pérez

  • Brucella ceti infection in dolphins from the Western Mediterranean sea.

    Marcos Isidoro-Ayza;Nazareth Ruiz-Villalobos;Lola Pérez;Caterina Guzmán-Verri

  • Increases of efficacy as vaccine against Brucella abortus infection in mice by simultaneous inoculation with avirulent smooth bvrS/bvrR and rough wbkA mutants.

    María Jesús Grilló;Lorea Manterola;María Jesús de Miguel;Pilar María Muñoz

  • Brucella outer membrane complex-loaded microparticles as a vaccine against Brucella ovis in rams

    Pilar M. Muñoz;Maite Estevan;Clara M. Marín;M. Jesús De Miguel

  • Phylogeography and epidemiology of Brucella suis biovar 2 in wildlife and domestic swine.

    Pilar María Muñoz;Virginie Mick;Lorena Sacchini;Anna Janowicz

  • Evaluation of particulate acellular vaccines against Brucella ovis infection in rams.

    Raquel Da Costa Martins;Juan M. Irache;José M. Blasco;M. Pilar Muñoz

  • Isolation of Brucella species from a live-stranded striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba) in Spain.

    P. M. Muñoz;C. García-Castrillo;P. López-Garciá;J. C. González-Cueli

  • Development of a multiplex PCR assay for polymorphism analysis of Brucella suis biovars causing brucellosis in swine.

    Lénia Ferrão-Beck;Regina Cardoso;Pilar María Muñoz;María Jesús de Miguel

  • Assessment of performance of selected serological tests for diagnosing brucellosis in pigs

    Pilar M. Muñoz;José M. Blasco;Bas Engel;María Jesús de Miguel

  • Efficacy of several antibiotic combinations against Brucella melitensis Rev 1 experimental infection in BALB/c mice

    M. J. Grilló;M. J. De Miguel;P. M. Muñoz;C. M. Marín

Frequent Co-Authors

José M. Blasco
José M. Blasco University of Zaragoza
Ignacio Moriyón
Ignacio Moriyón University of Navarra
Jaime Sancho
Jaime Sancho Spanish National Research Council
José de la Fuente
José de la Fuente University of Castilla-La Mancha
Pilar Alvarez-Pellitero
Pilar Alvarez-Pellitero Spanish National Research Council
Ariadna Sitjà-Bobadilla
Ariadna Sitjà-Bobadilla Spanish National Research Council
Ignacio López-Goñi
Ignacio López-Goñi University of Navarra
Bruno Garin-Bastuji
Bruno Garin-Bastuji French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety
Clara M. Marín
Clara M. Marín University of Zaragoza
Christian Gortázar
Christian Gortázar University of Castilla-La Mancha

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