Relevant publications

La Rosa G., Sanseverino I., Della Libera S., Iaconelli M., Ferrero V.E.V., Barra Caraccio A., Lettieri T. . The impact of anthropogenic pressure on the virological quality of water of the Tiber river, Italy. Applied Microbiology, accepted 14 July 2017, DOI:10.1111/Iam.12774


Barra Caracciolo A., Topp E., Grenni P. Pharmaceuticals in the environment: Biodegradation and effects on natural microbial communities. A Review. J. Pharm. Biomed. Anal. 2015, 106, 25-36


Devonshire A.S., Honeyborne I., Gutteridge A., Whale A.S., Nixon G., Wilson P., Jones G., Mchugh T.D., Foy C.A., Huggett J.F. Highly reproducible absolute quantification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex by digital PCR. Anal Chem. 2015, [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 25646934


Grenni P., Patrolecco L., Ademollo N., Di Lenola M., Barra Caracciolo A. Capability of the natural microbial community in a river water ecosystem to degrade the drug naproxen. Environ. Sci. Pollut. Res., 2014, 21, 13470-13479


O'Sullivan D.M., Laver T., Temisak S., Redshaw N., Harris K.A., Foy C.A., Studholme D.J., Huggett J.F. Assessing the accuracy of quantitative molecular microbial profiling. Int. J. Mol. Sci., 2014, 15 (11), 21476-21491


Pavšič J., Devonshire A.S., Parkes H., Schimmel H., Foy C.A., Karczmarczyk M., Gutiérrez-Aguirre I., Honeyborne I., Huggett J.F., McHugh T.D., Milavec M., Zeichhardt H., Zel J. Standardizing clinical measurements of bacteris and viruses using nucleic acid tests. J. Clin. Microbiol. 2014, pii: JCM.02136-14. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 25392365


Carvalho R.N., Arukwe A., Ait-Aissa S., Bado-Nilles A., Balzamo S., Baun A., Belkin S., Blaha L., Brion F., Conti D., Creusot N., Essig Y., Ferrero V.E.V., Flander-Putrle V., Fürhacker M., Grillari-Voglauer R., Hogstrand C., Jonáš A., Kharlyngdoh J.B., Loos R., Lundebye A.K., Modig C., Olsson P.E., Pillai S., Polak N., Potalivo M., Sanchez W., Schifferli A., Schirmer K., Sforzini S., Stürzenbaum S.R., Søfteland L., Turk V., Viarengo A., Werner I., Yagur-Kroll S., Zounková R., Lettieri T. Mixtures of chemical pollutants at European legislation safety concentrations: how safe are they? Toxicological Sciences 2014, 141 (1), 218-233


Medlin L. K., Kegel J. U. Validation of the detection of Pseudo-nitzschia spp. using specific RNA probes tested in a microarray format: Calibration of signal based on variability of RNA content with environmental conditions. Harmful Algae 2014, 37, 183-193


Bourlat S.J., Borja A., Gilbert J., Taylor M.I., Davies N., Weisberg S.B., Griffith J.F., Lettieri T., Field D., Benzie J., Glöckner F.O., Rodríguez-Ezpeleta N., Faith D.P., Bean T.P., Obst M. Genomics in marine monitoring: new opportunities for assessing marine health status. Mar. Pollut Bull. 2013, 74 (1), 19-31


Huggett J.F., Laver T., Tamisak S., Nixon G., O'Sullivan D.M., Elaswarapu R., Studholme D.J., Foy C.A. Considerations for the development and application of control materials to improve metagenomic microbial community profiling. Accred. Qual. Assur., 2013, 18 (2), 77-83


Kegel J. U., Del Amo Y., Costes L., Medlin L. K. Testing a Microarray to Detect and Monitor Toxic Microalgae in Arcachon Bay in France. Microarrays 2013, 2, 1-23


Grenni P., Patrolecco L., Ademollo N., Tolomei A., Barra Caracciolo A. Degradation of gemfibrozil and naproxen in a river water ecosystem. Microchemical Journal, 2013, 107, 158-164


Barra Caracciolo A., Bottoni P., Grenni P. Microcosms studies to evaluate microbial potential to degrade pollutants in soil and water ecosystems. Microchemical Journal, 2013, 107, 126-130


Kegel J. U., Del Amo Y., Medlin L. K. Introduction to project MIDTAL: its methods and samples from Arcachon Bay, France. Environ. Sci. Pollut. Res. 2013, 20 (10), 6690-6704


Kisand V., Valente A., Lahm A., Tanet G., Lettieri T. Phylogenetic and Functional Metagenomic Profiling for Assessing Microbial Biodiversity in Environmental Monitoring. PLoS ONE 2012, 7 (8), e43630


Gibello A., Vela AI, Martín M., Mengs G., Alonso P.Z., Garbi C., Fernández-Garayzábal J.F. Pseudomonas composti sp. nov., isolated from compost samples. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2011, 61 (12), 2962-2966


Nardini E., Kisand V., Lettieri T. Microbial Biodiversity and Molecular Approach. Aquatic microbial world and biodiversity: Molecular Approach to improve the knowledge. Report EUR 24243 EN (2010)


Barra Caracciolo A., Grenni P., Saccà .ML., Amalfitano S., Martin M., Gibello A. The role of a groundwater bacterial community in the degradation of the herbicide terbuthylazine. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 2010, 71, 127-136


Grenni P., Gibello A., Barra Caracciolo A., Fajardo C., Nande M., Vargas R., Saccà M.L., Martinez-Iñigo M.J., Ciccoli R., Martín M. A new fluorescent oligonucleotide probe for in situ detection of s-triazine-degrading Rhodococcus wratislaviensis in contaminated groundwater and soil samples. Water Research, 2009, 43, 2999-3008


Martín M., Mengs G., Plaza E., Garbi C., Sánchez M., Gibello A., Gutierrez F., Ferrer E. Propachlor removal by Pseudomonas strain GCH1 in an immobilized-cell system. Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 2000, 66 (3), 1190-1194


Allende J.L., Gibello A., Fortún A., Mengs G., Ferrer E., Martín M. 4-Hydroxybenzoate uptake in an isolated soil Acinetobacter sp. Curr. Microbiol., 2000, 40 (1) 34-39


Martin M., Mengs G., Allende J.L., Fernandez J., Alonso R., Ferrer E. Characterization of two novel propachlor degradation pathways in two species of soil bacteria. Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 1999, 65 (2), 802-806