Surgeon, National Autonomous University of Mexico.
Academic appointments:
Physician Attached to the Department of Infectious Diseases of the National Cancer Institute.
National System of Researchers Level III.
Professor of the Specialty in Infectology, National Autonomous University of Mexico.
Researcher affiliated with CISIDAT.
Research interests:
Infectious diseases, especially HIV.
Oncogenic human papillomavirus and HIV co-infection in Mexican women.
Kaposi’s sarcoma, Prevention of Immune Recovery Syndrome in KS patients initiating cART.
Featured projects:
She has participated since 1990 as a CENSIDA advisor on issues related to clinical patient management.
She has been involved in legislative work to establish preventive policies to control hospital infections and against the Infectious Biological Waste law.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Miranda-Novales MG, Flores-Moreno K, López-Vida Y, Rodríguez-Álvarez M, Solórzano-Santos F, Soto-Hernández JL, Ponce de León-Rosales S; UNCAR Network*. Antimicrobial resistance and antibiotic consumption in Mexican hospitals. Salud Publica Mex. 2020 Jan-Feb;62(1):42-49.
Graña-Miraglia L, Evans BA, López-Jácome LE, Hernández-Durán M, Colín-Castro CA, Volkow-Fernández P, Cevallos MA, Franco-Cendejas R, Castillo-Ramírez S. Origin of OXA-23 Variant OXA-239 from a Recently Emerged Lineage of Acinetobacter baumannii International Clone V. mSphere. 2020 Jan 8;5(1). pii: e00801-19.
Volkow-Fernández P, Lome-Maldonado C, Quintero-Buenrostro H, Islas-Muñoz B, Cornejo-Juárez P. HIV-associated multicentric Castleman disease: a report of 19 cases at an oncology institution. Int J STD AIDS. 2020;31(4):318‐
de la Cruz-Hernández I, Cornejo-Juárez P, Tellez-Miranda O, et al. Microbiology and prevalence of E2SKAPE-resistant strains in catheter-related bloodstream infections in patients with cancer. Am J Infect Control. 2020;48(1):40-45.
Ángeles-Sistac D, Martin-Onraet A, Cornejo-Juárez P, Volkow P, Pérez-Jimenez C, Vilar-Compte D. Influenza in patients with cancer after 2009 pandemic AH1N1: An 8-year follow-up study in Mexico. Influenza Other Respir Viruses. 2020;14(2):196-203.
Volkow-Fernández P, Lome-Maldonado C, Quintero-Buenrostro H, Islas-Muñoz B, Cornejo-Juárez P. HIV-associated multicentric Castleman disease: a report of 19 cases at an oncology institution. Int J STD AIDS. 2020;31(4):318-325.
Cornejo-Juárez P, Islas-Muñoz B, Ramírez-Ibarguen A, et al. Bone Marrow Culture Yield for the Diagnosis of Opportunistic Diseases in Patients with AIDS and Disseminated Kaposi Sarcoma [published online ahead of print, 2020 Jun 3]. Curr HIV Res. 2020;10.
Salgado-Camargo AD, Castro-Jaimes S, Gutierrez-Rios RM, et al. Structure and Evolution of Acinetobacter baumanniiFront Microbiol. 2020;11:1283. Published 2020 Jun 18.
Castro-Jaimes S, Bello-López E, Velázquez-Acosta C, et al. Chromosome Architecture and Gene Content of the Emergent Pathogen Acinetobacter haemolyticus. Front Microbiol. 2020;11:926. Published 2020 May 25.
Cornejo-Juárez P, Cevallos MA, Castro-Jaimes S, et al. High mortality in an outbreak of multidrug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infection introduced to an oncological hospital by a patient transferred from a general hospital. PLoS One. 2020;15(7):e0234684. Published 2020 Jul 23.
Cornejo-Juárez P, González-Oros I, Mota-Castañeda P, Vilar-Compte D, Volkow-Fernández P. Ventilator-associated pneumonia in patients with cancer: Impact of multidrug resistant bacteria. World J Crit Care Med. 2020 Aug 7;9(3):43-53.
Colunga-Salas P, Sánchez-Montes S, Volkow P, Ruíz-Remigio A, Becker I. Lyme disease and relapsing fever in Mexico: An overview of human and wildlife infections. PLoS One. 2020 Sep 17;15(9):e0238496.
Islas-Muñoz B, Méndez-Sotelo B, Reyes-Pérez J, Jiménez-de Los Santos M, Herrera-Goepfert R, Volkow-Fernández P. Obstructive cholangiopathy patient caused by cytomegalovirus and Kaposi sarcoma in a person living with HIV and hepatitis C. Int J STD AIDS. 2020 Oct;31(11):1110-1113.
Cardenas-Ortega A, Ramírez-Ibarguen AF, Rivera-Buendía F, Pérez-Jiménez C, Volkow-Fernández P, Martin-Onraet A. Clinical characteristics and outcomes f HIV positive patients with lymphoma in an oncological reference center in Mexico City. Medicine (Baltimore). 2020 Oct 2;99(40):e22408.
