Peer-reviewed, and built on our own genome cohorts.

Every test and study we offer rests on published research, carried out with universities and veterinary hospitals across the Mediterranean.

Publications

Copy-number profiles across Leishmania infantum chromosomes

Publications

2026

Genomic drug resistance biomarkers in Leishmania infantum: from quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) to digital PCR (dPCR)

Carrasco-Martín M, Roura X, Martí-Carreras J, Ferrer L, Francino O · Parasites & Vectors

Leishmania
2026

Genotypic diversity of Leishmania infantum in non-human, non-dog mammals of the Mediterranean area: a targeted mitochondrial and nuclear SNP analysis

Carrasco-Martín M, Cózar-Fernández A, Francino O, Roura X, Alcover MM, Martí-Carreras J, Ferrer L, Verde MT, Abad-Valero V, Villanueva-Saz S, Marteles-Aragüés D

Under revision, Zoonoses and Public Health

Leishmania
2026

Direct quantitative PCR detects genetic biomarkers of antileishmanial drug resistance in clinical samples from dogs with leishmaniosis

Carrasco-Martín M, Viñeta C, Martí-Carreras J, Roura X, Ferrer L, Busquets P, Vila A, Francino O · BMC Veterinary Research 22: 547

Leishmania
2025

Insights on genomic profiles of drug resistance and virulence in a cohort of Leishmania infantum isolates from the Mediterranean area

Carrasco-Martín M, Martí-Carreras J, Gómez-Ponce M, Alcover MM, Roura X, Ferrer L, … Francino O · Parasites & Vectors 19(1): 28

Leishmania
2025

Effects of meglumine antimoniate and allopurinol treatment on the fecal microbiome profile in dogs with leishmaniosis

Martí-Carreras J, Carrasco M, Noguera-Julian M, Francino O, Leal RO, Ferrer L, … Roura X · Animal Microbiome 7(1): 78

Microbiome
2025

Leishmania tarentolae and Leishmania infantum in geckos from Mallorca Island, Spain

Martí-Carreras J, Espunyes J, Carrera-Faja L, Pasetto C, Alcover Amengual MM, Chavez-Fisa S, Carrasco-Martín M, Roura X, Francino O, Ferrer L · International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 28: 101138

Leishmania
2023

Real-time genomics for One Health

Urban L, Perlas A, Francino O, et al. · Molecular Systems Biology 19: e11686

One Health
2022

Identification of Leishmania infantum epidemiology, drug resistance and pathogenicity biomarkers with nanopore sequencing

Martí-Carreras J, et al. · Microorganisms 10(11): 2256

Leishmania

Research network

We work with veterinary hospitals, universities and reference labs in six countries: Spain, Portugal, Italy, Israel, Brazil and the United States. Our Mediterranean cohort of Leishmania infantum isolates comes from this network.

Spain
Portugal
Italy
Israel
Brazil
United States

Map of southern Europe with Spain, Italy and the Balkans shaded, a Leishmania parasite drawn across the region, and a person, a child and a dog in the foreground — Canine leishmaniosis across the Mediterranean, a One Health problem shared by dogs and people.

N1H-Cloud

The engine behind our studies

Our own bioinformatics platform for nanopore data. It runs the analysis for every test and study, keeps client data confidential and stored long term, and lets clients download their results.

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Genome assembly and annotation
Drug-resistance prediction including Leishmania
Full-length 16S microbiome profiling
Metagenomic pathogen identification
Private pipelines hosted for partners on request

Funded R&D projects

Our research is backed by competitive public funding from Spanish, Catalan and European programmes.

See all projects and grants

NEOTEC · CDTI Genomic analysis platform for Leishmania infantum
Industrial doctorate N1H-CIRCULAR METAGENOMICS
Torres Quevedo PIP: Platform for Pathogen Identification
Knowledge generation · with UAB Clinical metagenomics for diagnosing Staphylococcus infection in the dog