Publicaciones
25 publicaciónes científicas del laboratorio.
Mendoza-Guido, B., Calvo, T., Chacón, L. et al. First Detection of Hepatitis E Virus in Wastewater in Costa Rica. Food Environ Virol 18, 23 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12560-026-09696-0
Barrantes-Jiménez, K., Lejzerowicz, F., Tran, T., Calderón-Osorno, M., Rivera-Montero, L., Rodríguez-Snchez, C., Wikmark, O. G., Eiler, A., Grossart, H. P., Arias-Andrés, M., & Rojas-Jiménez, K. (2025). Anthropogenic imprint on riverine plasmidome diversity and proliferation of antibiotic resistance genes following pollution and urbanization. Water Research, 281, 123553. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2025.123553
Montiel-Mora JR, Rivera-Montero L, Badilla-Aguilar A, Barrantes K, Rivera-Navarro P, Chacón L. Antimicrobial resistance and phylogenetic diversity of Escherichia coli isolates from coastal recreational waters in Costa Rica. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 2026;198:176. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-026-15002-z
Calderón-Osorno M, Barrantes-Jiménez K, Lejzerowicz F, Arias-Andres M, Rojas-Jiménez K. Insights into the riverine metaplasmidome: The role of anthropogenic factors in shaping microbial communities. The Microbe. 2026;10:100640. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.microb.2025.100640
Morales E, Rivera-Montero L, Ramos-Montalvo N, Montiel-Mora J, Mendoza-Guido B, Alfaro-Arrieta E, Rivera-Navarro P, Barrantes K, Chacón L. Applying weighted quantile sum regression to wastewater surveillance: enteric viral mixtures and diarrheal disease trends in Costa Rica. Journal of Water and Health. 2026.
Barrios-Hernandez, M. L., Solomon, T., Orias-Obando, F., Mendoza-Guido, B., & Hooijmans, C. M. (2026). Temperature-driven dynamics in prokaryotic and eukaryotic communities of an aerobic granular sludge lab-scale reactor. Science of The Total Environment, 1024, 181591. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2026.181591.
Montiel-Mora JR, Pérez-Rojas G, Brenes-Alfaro L, Rodríguez-Rodríguez CE. Multiple exposure pathways to pesticide residues in tropical agroecosystems: A human health risk assessment in Costa Rica. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 2026;198:47
Montiel-Mora JR, Segura-Arroyo P, Barrantes K, Mendoza-Guido B, Chacón L. Antimicrobial resistance in coastal waters of Latin America: current knowledge and challenges. Discover Public Health. 2026;23:261.
Mendoza-Guido B, Castro-Camacho V, Quesada-González A, Chacón L, Barrios-Hernández ML. Genome-resolved metagenomics of a neotropical wastewater treatment plant reveals community-wide metal and biocide-resistance genes and the diversity of phosphate-accumulating and denitrifying bacteria. International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation. 2026;208:106258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibiod.2025.106258
Fernández-Vargas R, Jiménez-Alpízar S, Leandro-Arce V, Mendoza-Guido B, Rojas-Jiménez K. Draft genome sequences of four potential new species of the genus Bradyrhizobium isolated from root nodules of native legumes in Costa Rican forests. Access Microbiol. 2025;7:000990.v3. https://doi.org/10.1099/acmi.0.000990.v3
Castro-Camacho V, Robles-Azor R, Rodríguez-Burdock L, Rojas-Jiménez K, Mendoza-Guido B. Draft genome sequence of Methylobacterium aquaticum LEGMi-203a isolated from root nodules of Pithecellobium hymenaeifolium. Microbiol Resour Announc. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.00754-25
Vargas R, Alpízar R, Chacón-Jiménez L, Fuentes-Schweizer P, Barahona M. Caracterización hidrogeológica del sistema acuífero ubicado en las comunidades Isla Chica y La Trocha, cantón de Los Chiles, Alajuela. Rev Geol Am Cent. 2025;72:1-16. https://doi.org/10.15517/rgac.2025.65179
* Mendoza-Guido, B., Durán-Mendez, S., Barrantes, K., Rojas-Jimenez, K., & Chacón, L. (2025). Genomic analysis of IncH plasmids reveals their role as drivers of antimicrobial resistance and adaptive traits in enterobacterales. FEMS Microbiology Letters, fnaf148. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsle/fnaf148
Montiel-Mora JR, Gómez-Ramírez EH, Irías-Mata A, Chacón-Jiménez L, Barrantes-Jiménez K, Fuentes-Schweizer P. Aplicación de tres índices de calidad del agua en un río tropical de Costa Rica: el caso del río Durazno. UNED Res J. 2025;17(1):e5921. https://doi.org/10.22458/urj.v17i1.5921
Barrantes-Jiménez K, Mendoza-Guido B, Morales-Mora E, Rivera-Montero L, Montiel-Mora J, Chacón-Jiménez L, Rojas-Jiménez K, Arias-Andrés M. Influence of seasonality and pollution on the presence of antibiotic resistance genes and potentially pathogenic bacteria in a tropical urban river. Antibiotics. 2025;14:798. https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics14080798
Mendoza-Guido B, Romero-Carpio JD, Molina-Castro S. Comprehensive plasmidomic analysis of Helicobacter pylori reveals the potential role of plasmids in pathogenic adaptation and a novel putative toxin-antitoxin system. FEMS Microbiol Lett. 2025;372:fnaf092. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsle/fnaf092
Morales-Mora E, Centeno-Mora E, Barrios-Hernández ML, Chacón L. Utilizing performance parameters in wastewater treatment plants for the implementation of wastewater-based epidemiology. In: Souabi S, et al., editors. Wastewater Treatment Plants. Water Science and Technology Library. Cham: Springer; 2025. p. 137-176. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-87461-1_8
Mendoza-Guido, B., & Rojas-Jimenez, K. (2025). Beyond plasmid addiction: the role of toxin–antitoxin systems in the selfish behavior of mobile genetic elements. Journal of Bacteriology, e00232-25.
Mendoza-Guido B, Montiel-Mora JR, Ureña-Salazar C, Barrantes K, Chacón L. Molecular epidemiology of aquatic environments: challenges from sampling to implementation of surveillance programs. Front Public Health. 2025;13:1652535. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1652535
Molina-Ospina A, Rivera-Montero L, Barrantes-Jiménez K, Montiel-Mora JR, Chacón-Jiménez L. Antibiotic resistance genes and pathobiome in a wastewater treatment plant: insights from environmental surveillance. Sci Total Environ. 2025.
Campos-Parra D, Blanco-Picado A, Herrera-Quesada J, Mendoza-Guido B and Rojas-Jimenez K. Draft genome sequences of five Rhizobium spp. isolates including one potential new species from legume tropical plants in Costa Rica. (2025).
Chacón L, Mendoza-Guido B, Rodríguez-Rojas A, Rojas-Jiménez K. Novel Aeromonas hydrophila subsp. inisa with potential phage-mediated tolerance to benzalkonium chloride. Front Bacteriol. 2025;4:1709187. https://doi.org/10.3389/fbrio.2025.1709187
Morales-Mora E, Rivera-Montero L, Montiel-Mora JR, Barrantes-Jiménez K, Chacón-Jiménez L. Assessing microbial risks of Escherichia coli: a spatial and temporal study of virulence and resistance genes in surface water in resource-limited regions. Sci Total Environ. 2025;958:178044.
Mendoza-Guido B, Barrantes K, Rodríguez C, Rojas-Jiménez K, Arias-Andrés M. The impact of urban pollution on plasmid-mediated resistance acquisition in Enterobacteria from a tropical river. Antibiotics. 2024;13:1089.
Molina-Mora JA, Sibaja-Amador M, Rivera-Montero L, Chacón-Arguedas D, Guzmán C, García F. Assessment of mathematical approaches for the estimation and comparison of efficiency in qPCR assays for a prokaryotic model. DNA. 2024;4:189-200.