Microbiology Laboratory

María Carolina Touz

ctouz@immf.uncor.edu

Instituto de Investigación Médica Mercedes y Martín Ferreyra

National University of Cordoba

EVs research

EVs in host and infectious agents (viruses, parasites, fungi, and bacteria).

Recent publications

1. Rivero MR, Feliziani C, De Angelo C, Tiranti K, Salomon OD, Touz MC. Giardia spp., the most ubiquitous protozoan parasite in Argentina: human, animal and environmental surveys reported in the last 40 years. Parasitol Res. 2020 Oct;119(10):3181-3201. doi: 10.1007/s00436-020-06853-7. Epub 2020 Aug 15. PMID: 32803334.

2. Moyano S, Musso J, Feliziani C, Zamponi N, Frontera LS, Ropolo AS, Lanfredi- Rangel A, Lalle M, Touz M. Exosome Biogenesis in the Protozoa Parasite Giardia lamblia: A Model of Reduced Interorganellar Crosstalk. Cells. 2019 Dec 9;8(12):1600. doi: 10.3390/cells8121600. PMID: 31835439; PMCID: PMC6953089.

3. Mayol GF, Revuelta MV, Salusso A, Touz MC, Rópolo AS. Evidence of nuclear transport mechanisms in the protozoan parasite Giardia lamblia. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Res. 2020 Jan;1867(1):118566. doi: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2019.118566. Epub 2019 Oct 29. PMID: 31672613.

4. Rópolo AS, Feliziani C, Touz MC. Unusual proteins in Giardia duodenalis and their role in survival. Adv Parasitol. 2019;106:1-50. doi: 10.1016/bs.apar.2019.07.001. Epub 2019 Aug 1. PMID: 31630755.

5. Frontera LS, Moyano S, Quassollo G, Lanfredi-Rangel A, Rópolo AS, Touz MC. Lactoferrin and lactoferricin endocytosis halt Giardia cell growth and prevent infective cyst production. Sci Rep. 2018 Dec 21;8(1):18020. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-36563-1. PMID: 30575774; PMCID: PMC6303297.