Research lines:

• Tuberculosis control (MYC)
• Molecular characterizacion studies of the Mycobacterium avium complex (MYC)
• Tuberculosis diagnosis (MYC)
• Molecular epidemiology of tubeculosis (MYC)
• Diagnosis of other mycobacteriosis (MYC)

Next scientific publications:

• Casal C., Bezos J., Diez-Guerrier A., Alvarez J., Romero B., de Juan L., Rodriguez-Campos S., Vordermeier M., Whelan A., Hewinson RG., Mateos A., Dominguez L. and Aranaz A.. Evaluation of two cocktails containing ESAT-6, CFP-10 and Rv-3615c in the interferon-y assay for diagnosis of bovine tuberculosis. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 105(1-2):149-154.
• Rodriguez-Campos S., Schürch AC., Dale J., Lohan AJ., Cunha MV., Botelho A., De Cruz K., Boschiroli ML., Boniotti B., Pacciarini M., Garcia-Pelayo MC., Romero B., de Juan L., Dominguez L., Gordon SV., van Soolingen D., Loftus B., Berg S., Hewinson RG., Aranaz A. and Smith NH.. European 2-a clonal complex of Mycobacterium bovis dominant in the Iberian Peninsula. Infection, Genetics and Evolution : Journal of Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics in Infectious Diseases , 12(4):866-872.
• Rodriguez-Campos S., Gonzalez S., de Juan L., Romero B., Bezos J., Casal C., Alvarez J., Fernandez de Mera IG., Castellanos E., Mateos A., Saez JL., Dominguez L., Aranaz A. and The Spanish Network on Surveillance and Monitoring of Animal Tuberculosis.. A database for animal tuberculosis (mycoDB.es) within the context of the Spanish national programme for eradication of bovine tuberculosis. Infection, Genetics and Evolution : Journal of Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics in Infectious Diseases , 12(4):877-882.
• Bezos J., Alvarez J., Moreno I., de Juan L., Romero B., Rodriguez-Campos S., Dominguez M., Torano A., Mateos A., Dominguez L. and Aranaz A.. Study of peripheral blood cell populations involved in the immune response of goats naturally infected with Mycobacterium caprae. Research in Veterinary Science.
• Bezos J., Alvarez J., Minguez O., Marques S., Martin O., Vigo V., Pieltain C., Romero B., Rodriguez-Campos S., Casal C., Mateos A., Dominguez L. and de Juan L.. Evaluation of specificity of tuberculosis diagnostic assays in caprine flocks under different epidemiological situations. Research in Veterinary Science.

Last scientific publications:

• Bezos J., Alvarez J., Romero B., Aranaz A. and de Juan L.. Tuberculosis in goats: Assessment of current in vivo cell-mediated and antibody-based diagnostic assays. The Veterinary Journal, 191(2):161-5. 2012.
• Romero B., Rodriguez-Campos S., Bezos J., Diaz R., Copano MF., Merediz I., Minguez O., Marques S., Palacios JJ., Garcia de Viedma D., Saez JL., Mateos A., Aranaz A., Dominguez L. and de Juan L.. Humans as source of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in cattle, Spain . Emerging Infectious Diseases, 17(12). 2011.
• Bezos J., Alvarez J., de Juan L., Romero B., Rodriguez-Campos S., Castellanos E., Saez JL., Mateos A., Dominguez L. and Aranaz A.. Factors influencing the performance of an interferon-y assay for diagnosis of tuberculosis in goats. The Veterinary Journal, 190(1):131-135. 2011.
• Garrido JM., Sevilla I., Beltran-Beck B., Minguijon E., Ballesteros C., Galindo RC., Boadella M., Lyashchenko K., Romero B., Geijo MV., Ruiz-Fons F., Aranaz A., Juste R., Vicente J., de la Fuente J. and Gortazar C.. Protection against Tuberculosis in Eurasian Wild Boar Vaccinated with Heat-Inactivated Mycobacterium bovis . PLoS ONE, 6(9):e24905. 2011.
• Rodriguez-Campos S., Aranaz A., de Juan L., Saez JL., Romero B., Bezos J., Jimenez A., Mateos A. and Dominguez L.. Limitations of Spoligotyping and Variable Number Tandem Repeat Typing for Molecular Tracing of Mycobacterium bovis in a High Diversity Setting. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 49(9):3361-3364. 2011.

Last outreach publications:

• Alvarez J., Marques S., Saez JL., de Juan L., Romero B., Grau A., Mateos A. and Minguez O.. Evaluación de las medidas incorporadas en el programa de erradicación de la tuberculosis bovina de Castilla y León. Editorial Complutense / Centro VISAVET. 2010.
• Romero B.. Tuberculosis en España. Weblog Madri+d de Seguridad Alimentaria y Alimentación, Fundación para el Conocimiento madri+d. 2007.
• de Juan L., Aranaz A., Alvarez J., Romero B., Bezos J., Diez de Tejada P., Fernandez JM., Mateos A. and Dominguez L.. Tuberculosis y Paratuberculosis Caprina. Programa de Control y Erradicación mediante la obtención de animales libres de patógenos específicos. Tierras de Castilla y Leon, 122: 41-46, Gestora de Comunicaciones de Castilla y Leon. 2006.
• de Juan L., Alvarez J., Aranaz A., Bezos J., Romero B., Mateos A., Dominguez L. and Travnicek M.. Epizootológia a diagnostika mycobakteriálnych infekcií. Cast I. Tuberkulóza. Slovenský veterinársky casopis, XXXI:2,94-97, Institute of Experimental Veterinary Medicine. 2006.
• Romero B., Bezos J., Alvarez J., Aranaz A., de Juan L., Lozano F., Mateos A., Dominguez L. and Travnicek M.. Bovinná tuberkulóza v EÚ - prítomnost a budúcnos.. Slovenský veterinársky casopis, XXXI:3,165-168, Institute of Experimental Veterinary Medicine. 2006.

Last communications:

• Romero B.. Reaccion en cadena de la polimerasa. Seminarios VISAVET 2012. 2012. (Oral communication)
• Bezos J., Casal C., Romero B., Rodriguez-Campos S., Mateos A., Dominguez L. and de Juan L.. Interference of Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis with caprine tuberculosis diagnostics tests. AHVLA International Conference 2011. 2011. (Poster communication)
• Casal C., Bezos J., Diez A., Romero B., de Juan L., Alvarez J., Rodriguez-Campos S., Vordermeier M., Whelan A., Hewinson G., Mateos A., Dominguez L. and Aranaz A.. Use of antigenic cocktails in the skin test for in vivo diagnosis of bovine tuberculosis. AHVLA International Conference 2011. 2011. (Poster communication)
• Casal C., Bezos J., Romero B., Diez A., Alvarez J., Rodriguez-Campos S., de Juan L., Mateos A., Linscott R., Martel E., Lawrence J., Aranaz A. and Dominguez L.. Evaluation of a serological assay for the detection of bovine tuberculosis. AHVLA International Conference 2011. 2011. (Poster communication)
• Romero B.. Epidemiología molecular e interferencias diagnósticas de la tuberculosis bovina. Xornada Técnica Galicia 2011. 2011. (Oral communication)