M.CRISTINA RIERA LIZANDRA

M.CRISTINA RIERA LIZANDRA

Associate professor

ORCID: 0000-0002-3522-5598
Knowledge area: Parasitologia

Research group: Parasitologia Humana i animal, aspectes Bàsics i Aplicats

Contact Information
Department of Biology, Healthcare and the Environment
Av. Joan XXIII, s/n
934024500
mcriera(a)ub.edu

Academic profile

Parasitologia general
Parasitologia clínica

Academic training

Doctor en Farmacia
Especialista en Microbiología y Parasitología clínica

Research interests

Assajos in vitro de fàrmacs anti- Leishmania: estudis de susceptibilitat i nanoencapsulament de fàrmacs
L'estudi de la infecció asimptomàtica per L. infantum en donants de sang i les seves implicacions en la transfusió de hemoderivats
Diagnòstic serològic de les malalties parasitàries

Projects

Estudio de la leishmaniosis críptica en población de zona endémica (isla deIbiza). Interés sanitario . 1999 - 2002 . Ref.99/1132 . Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo . PI: M.Cristina Riera Lizandra
Estudio de la leishmaniosis críptica en donantes de sangre de Mallorca (islas Baleares). Implicaciones sanitarias y epidemiologicas . 2002 - 2005 . Ref.PI021304 . Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo . PI: M.Cristina Riera Lizandra
Biologia i parasitologia de mamífers terrestres . 2009 - 2013 . Ref.2009SGR403 . Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . PI: Joaquim Gosalbez Noguera
Benznidazol and Triazol REsearch group for Nanomedicine and Innovation on Chagas diseasE (BERENICE) . 2012 - 2017 . Ref.305937 . Unió Europea . PI: Maria Teresa Vinuesa Aumedes
Engineering of nanovectors for the delivery of antimalarial drugs to Plasmodium transmission forms . 2015 - 2017 . Ref.BIO2014-52872-R . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Xavier Fernandez Busquets
Coated liposome nanocomplexes as drug delivery systems for treatment of leishmaniasis . 2019 - 2022 . Ref.18/C/2018 . Fundació La Marató de TV3 . PI: M. Cristina Riera

Relevant publications

Tomás-Pérez, M.; Hide, M.; Riera, C.; Montoya, L.; Bañuls, A.L.; Ribera, E.; Portús, M.; Fisa, R. Multilocus microsatellite typing of Leishmania infantum isolates in monitored Leishmania/HIV coinfected patients. In Parasites & Vectors. Volume 8. Number 386. 2015 . Institutional Repository
Pujol Brugues, Alba; Clares Naveros, Beatriz; Calpena Campmany, Ana C.; Pastor, Pilar Hernandez; Fisa Saladrigas, Roser; Riera Lizandra, Cristina. Developing cutaneous applications of paromomycin entrapped in stimuli-sensitive block copolymer nanogel dispersions. In Nanomedicine. Volume 10. Number 2. 2015 . https://doi.org/10.2217/NNM.14.102
Pujol Brugués, A.; Calpena Campmany, A.C.; Riera Lizandra, C.; Halbaut Bellowa, L.; Clares Naveros, B. Development of a liquid chromatographic method for the quantification of paromomycin. Application to in vitro release and ex vivo permeation studies. In Spectrochimica Acta Part A-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy. Number 133. 2014 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.saa.2014.06.017
Tomás-Pérez, M.; Khaldi, M.; Riera, C.; Mozo-León, D.; Ribas, A.; Hide, M.; Barech, G.; Benyettou, M.; Seghiri, K.; Doudou, S.; Fisa, R. First report of natural infection in hedgehogs with Leishmania major, a possible reservoir of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis in Algeria. In Acta Tropica. Volume 135. 2014 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actatropica.2014.03.018
Molina, I.; Fisa, R.; Riera, C.; Falcó, V.; Elizalde, A.; Salvador, F.; Crespo, M.; Curran, A.; López-Chejade, P.; Tebar, S.; Pérez-Hoyos, S.; Ribera, E.; Pahissa, A. Ultrasensitive real-time PCR for the clinical management of visceral leishmaniasis in HIV-Infected patients. In American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Volume 89. Number 1. 2013 . https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.12-0527
Riera, C.; Vergés, M.; Iniesta, L.; Tebar, S.; Fisa, R.; Gállego, M.; Portus, M. Identification of the Western blot pattern for the specific diagnosis of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in human sera. In American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Volume 86. Number 3. 2012 . https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.2012.11-0111
Riera, C.; Fisa, R.; López-Chejade, P.; Serra, T.; Girona, E.; Jiménez, M.A.; Muncunill, J.; Sedeño, M.; Mascaró, M.; Udina, M.; Gállego, M.; Carrió, J.; Forteza, A.; Portús, M. Asymptomatic infection by Leishmania infantum in blood donors from the Balearic Islands (Spain). In Transfusion. Volume 48. Number 7. 2008
Riera, C.; Guarro, A.; El Kassab, H.; Jorba, J.M.; Castro, M; Angrill, R.; Gállego, M.; Fisa, R.; Martin, C.; Lobato, A.; Portús, M. Congenital transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi in Europe (Spain): a case report. In American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Volume 75. Number 6. 2006 . Institutional Repository
Riera, C.; Valladares, J.E.; Gállego, M.; Aisa, M.J.; Castillejo, S.; Fisa, R.; Ribas, N.; Carrió, J.; Alberola, J.; Arboix, M. Serological and parasitological follow-up in dogs experimentally infected with Leishmania infantum and treated with meglumine antimoniate. In Veterinary Parasitology. Volume 84. Number 1-2. 1999
Mª Magdalena Alcover; Vicenç Rocamora; Mª Carmen Guillén; Diana Berenguer; Marta Cuadrado; Cristina Riera; Roser Fisa. Case report: Diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis by Leishmania infantum in a patient undergoing immunosuppressive therapy: risk status in an endemic Mediterranean area. In American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 2018 . Institutional Repository