CRISTINA BALLART FERRER

Professor Associat
Parasitologia

Contact Information
Department of Biology, Healthcare and the Environment
Facultat de Farmàcia, Universitat de Barcelona. Av. Joan XXII s/n
934024497
cristinaballartferrer(a)ub.edu

Academic profile

Parasitología

Academic training

Biologia Sanitària
Màster Oficial en Biodiversitat
Màster Propi en Salut Internacional i Medicina Tropical
Postgrau Diagnòstic de Laboratori de les Malalties Parasitàries
Curs de Malalties Tropicals i del Viatger
Curs de Formació de Personal Investigador Usuari d'Animals d'Experimentació
Doctorat en Parasitologia per la Facultat de Farmàcia
Postdoctorat

Research interests

Parasitología Animal
Leishmaniasis
Malaltia de Chagas
Georeferenciació
Epidemiología
Entomología
Parasitología Sanitària

Projects

Domiciliació de la transmissió de la leishmaniosis tegumentària a Bolívia . 2015 - 2015 . Universitat de Barcelona . PI: Montserrat Gallego Cullere

Relevant publications

Ballart, C.; Alcover, M.M.; Portús, M.; Gállego, M. Is leishmaniosis widespread in Spain?. First data on canine leishmaniosis in the province of Lleida, Catalonia, norheast Spain. In Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Volume 106. Number 2. 2012
Ballart, C.; Barón, S.; Alcover, M.M.; Portús, M.; Gállego, M. Distribution of phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in Andorra: First finding of P. perniciosus and wide distribution of P. ariasi. In Acta Tropica. Volume 122. Number 1. 2012
Ballart, C.; Alcover, M.M.; Picado, A.; Nieto, J.; Castillejo, S.; Portús, M.; Gállego, M. First survey on canine leishmaniasis in a non classical area of the disease in Spain (Lleida, Catalonia) based on a veterinary questionnaire and a cross-sectional study. In Preventive Veterinary Medicine. Volume 109. Number 1-2. 2013 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2012.09.003
Ballart, C.; Guerrero, I.; Castells, X.; Barón, S.; Castillejo, S.; Alcover M.M.; Portús, M.; Gállego, M. Importance of individual analysis of environmental and climatic factors affecting the density of Leishmania vectors living in the same geographical area. The example of Phlebotomus ariasi and P. perniciosus in northeast Spain. In Geospatial Health. Volume 8. Number 2. 2014 . https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2014.28
González, E.; Gállego, M.; Molina, R.; Abras, A.; Alcover, M.M.; Ballart, C.; Fernández, A.; Jiménez, M. Identification of blood meals in field captured sand flies by a PCR-RFLP approach based on cytochrome b gene. In Acta Tropica. Volume 152. 2015 . Institutional Repository
Ballart, C.; Vidal, G.; Picado, A.; Rojas, M.; Torrico, F.; Torrico, M.C.; Lozano, D.; Gállego, M. Intradomiciliary and peridomiciliary captures of sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae) in the leishmaniasis endemic area of Chapare province, Tropic of Cochabamba, Bolivia. In Acta Tropica. Volume 154. 2016 . Institutional Repository
Lladró, S.; Picado, A.; Ballart, C.; Gállego, M. Management, prevention and treatment of Canine Leishmaniasis in NE Spain: an online questionnaire-based survey in the province of Girona with special emphasis on new preventive methods (Canileish® vaccine and Domperidone). In Veterinary Record. 2016 . https://doi.org/10.1136/vr.103653
Abras, A.; Gállego, M.;Muñoz, C.; Juiz N.A.; Ramírez J.C.; Cura C.I.; Tebar, S.; Fernández-Arévalo, A.; Pinazo, M.J.; de la Torre, L.; Posada, E.; Navarro, F.; Espinal, P.; Ballart, C.; Portús, M.; Gascón, J.; Schijman, A.G. Identification of Trypanosoma cruzi Discrete Typing Units (DTUs) in Latin-American migrants in Barcelona (Spain). In Parasitology International. 2016 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.parint.2016.12.003
Abras, Alba; Gállego, Montserrat; Llovet, Teresa; Tebar, Silvia; Herrero, Mercedes; Berenguer, Pere; Ballart, Cristina; Martí, Carmen; Muñoz, Carmen. Serological diagnosis of chronic Chagas disease: Is it time for a change?. In Journal of Clinical Microbiology. Volume 54. Number 6. 2016 . Institutional Repository
Abras, A.; Muñoz, C.; Ballart, C.; Berenguer, P.; Llovet,T.; Herrero, M.; Tebar, S.; Pinazo, M.J.; Posada, E.; Martí, C.; Fumadó, V.; Bosch, J.; Coll, O.; Juncosa, T.; Ginovart, G.; Armengol, J.; Gascón, J.; Portús, M.; Gállego, M. Towards a new strategy for the diagnosis of congenital Trypanosoma cruzi infection. In Journal of Clinical Microbiology. Volume 55. 2017 . https://doi.org/10.1128/JCM.02248-16

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