1997 – Molecular epidemiology of infectious diseases, Stanford.
1994 – Specialty in Infectology, INNSZ.
1991 – Specialty in Internal Medicine, INNSZ.
1987 – Medicine, National Autonomous University of Mexico
Academic appointments:
Head, Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology, National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition Salvador Zubirán.
Researcher in Medical Sciences E, INCMNSZ.
National System of Researchers, Level III.
Advisor to the Tuberculosis Control Program in Mexico
Member of the STOP TB Committee in Mexico
Undergraduate professor at the Universidad Panamericana School of Medicine
Visiting professor of the Faculty of Medicine of the UNAM
Professor of the specialty of Infectology, masters and doctoral tutor at UNAM.
Research interests:
Tuberculosis.
Molecular Epidemiology.
Bacterial resistance.
Invasive Fungal Infections.
Featured projects:
He has coordinated various research groups to study tuberculosis in conjunction with the INSP, INER, UNAM, and more than ten foreign universities and graduated Ph.D. students in the area of tuberculosis.
Selected publications
Rios-Muñiz D, Cerna-Cortes JF, Lopez-Saucedo C, Angeles-Morales E, Bobadilla-Del Valle M, Ponce-de Leon A, Estrada-Garcia T. Longitudinal Analysis of the Microbiological Quality of Raw Cow’s Milk Samples Collected from Three Small Family Dairy Farms in Mexico over a 2-Year Period. J Food Prot. 2019 Dec;82(12):2194-2200. doi: 10.4315/0362-028X.JFP-19-155. PubMed PMID: 31742445.
Guerra-De-Blas PDC, Bobadilla-Del-Valle M, Sada-Ovalle I, Estrada-García I, Torres-González P, López-Saavedra A, Guzmán-Beltrán S, Ponce-de-León A, Sifuentes-Osornio J. Simvastatin Enhances the Immune Response Against Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Front Microbiol. 2019 Sep 20;10:2097. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2019.02097. eCollection 2019. PubMed PMID: 31616387; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6764081.
Lee-Tsai YL, Luna-Santiago R, Demichelis-Gómez R, Ponce-de-León A, Ochoa-Hein E, Tamez-Torres KM, Bourlon MT, Bourlon C. Determining the risk factors associated with the development of Clostridium difficile infection in patients with hematological diseases. Blood Res. 2019 Jun;54(2):120-124. doi:10.5045/br.2019.54.2.120. Epub 2019 Jun 25. PubMed PMID: 31309090; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6614093.
Walker IF, Shi O, Hicks JP, Elsey H, Wei X, Menzies D, Lan Z, Falzon D, Migliori GB, Pérez-Guzmán C, Vargas MH, García-García L, Sifuentes Osornio J, Ponce-De-León A, van der Walt M, Newell JN. Analysis of loss to follow-up in 4099 multidrug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis patients. Eur Respir J. 2019 Jul 11;54(1). pii: 1800353. doi:10.1183/13993003.00353-2018. Print 2019 Jul. PubMed PMID: 31073080.
Gonzalez-Lara MF, Roman-Montes CM, Diaz-Lomeli P, Rangel-Cordero A, Valenzuela MO, Ponce-de-Leon A, Sifuentes-Osornio J, Ostrosky-Zeichner L, Martinez-Gamboa A. Azole resistance and cyp51A mutation screening in Aspergillus fumigatus in Mexico. J Antimicrob Chemother. 2019 Jul 1;74(7):2047-2050. doi:10.1093/jac/dkz121. PubMed PMID: 31220262.
Ortiz-Brizuela E, Leal-Vega F, Cuellar-Rodríguez J, Bobadilla-Del-Valle M, Ponce-de-León A. Vaccine-derived varicella zoster infection in a kidney transplant recipient after zoster vaccine live administration. Vaccine. 2019 Jun 12;37(27):3576-3579. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.05.017. Epub 2019 May 17. PubMed PMID: 31109718.
Luis BAL, Díaz-Lomelí P, Gómez-Albarrán LP, Martínez-Gamboa A, Ponce-de-León A. Mycobacterium obuense Bacteremia in a Patient with Pneumonia. Emerg Infect Dis. 2019 May;25(5):1015-1016. doi: 10.3201/eid2505.180208. PubMed PMID: 31002048.
Tinajero CG, Bobadilla-Del Valle M, Alvarez JA, Mosqueda JL, Ponce De Leon A, Macias AE. Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium sensitivity to isopropyl alcohol before and after implementing alcohol hand rubbing in a hospital. Am J Infect Control. 2019 Apr 27. pii: S0196-6553(19)30210-X. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2019.03.027. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31036399.
Ortiz-Brizuela E, Rangel-Cordero A, Ponce-de-León A, Sierra-Madero J. False-positive results in the galactomannan Platelia™ Aspergillus assay with generic piperacillin/tazobactam. Rev Iberoam Micol. 2019 Jan 28. pii: S1130-1406(18)30073-1. doi: 10.1016/j.riam.2018.07.004. [Epub ahead of print]PubMed PMID: 30704831.