Articles

• Cardona PJ, Ausina V. Patogenia de las enfermedades infecciosas. En: Medicina Interna. Farreras Rozman. Rozman C (ed). 20 edición. 2000; 265: 2498-2510.
  
  
• Ausina V, Cardona PJ. Tuberculosis. En: Medicina Interna. Farreras Rozman. Rozman C (ed). 20 edición. 2000; 272:2840-2849.
  
  
• Cardona PJ, Cooper A, Luquin M, Ariza A, Filipo F, Orme IM, Ausina V. The Intravenous Model of Murine Tuberculosis is Less Pathogenic Than the Aerogenic Model Owing to a More Rapid Induction of Systemic Immunity. Scand.J.Immunol. 49, 362–366,1999.[PDF]
  
  
• Cardona PJ.Bases experimentales para la destrucción del bacilo latente. Enf Emerg 2000;3(2):144-186.[PDF]
  
  
• Cardona PJ, Llatjós R., Gordillo S., Díaz J., Ojanguren I., Ariza A., Ausina V. Evolution of granulomas in mice infected aerogenically with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Scand J Immunol. 2000;52:156-63. [PDF]
  
  
• Cardona PJ, Ausina V. [Histopathology of tuberculosis. Approximation to the clinical course of lung lesions in animal experimentation models induced with aerosols].Arch Bronconeumol 2000;36:645-50.
  
  
• Cardona PJ, Ausina V. [Delayed-type hypersensitivity and caseous necrosis in tuberculous granuloma. New ideas for the design of a new vaccine against human tuberculosis]. Med Clin (Bar) 2000;115:503-9. [PDF]
  
  
• Cardona PJ, Llatjós R., Gordillo S.,Viñado B., Díaz J., Ariza A., Ausina V. Towards a “human-like” model of tuberculosis: Local inoculation of LPS in lungs of Mycobacterium tuberculosis aerogenically infected mice induces intragranulomatous necrosis. Scand J Immunol 2001;53:65-71. [PDF]
  
  
• Cardona PJ, Julian E, Gordillo S, Díaz J, Vallès X, Luquín M, Ausina V. Production of antibodies against glycolipids from the cell wall of M. tuberculosis in a murine model of tuberculosis. Scand J Immunol. 2002; 55: 639-645. [PDF]
  
  
• Cardona PJ, Gordillo S, Amat I, Pallarés A, Vilaplana C, Tapia G, Ariza A, Ausina V. Catalase-peroxidase activity has no influence on virulence in a murine model of tuberculosis. Tuberculosis. 2003; 83 (6): 351-359. [PDF]
  
  
• Cardona PJ, Gordillo S, Díaz J, Tapia G, Amat I, Pallarés A, Vilaplana C, Ariza A, Ausina V Widespread bronchogenic dissemination makes DBA/2 mice more susceptible than C57BL/6 mice to experimental aerosol infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Infect Immun. 2003; 71 (10): 5845-5854. [PDF]
  
  
• Cardona PJ, Ruiz-Manzano J. On the Nature of Mycobacterium tuberculosis latent bacilli. Eur J Respir 2004. 24:1044-1051. [PDF]
  
  
• Cardona PJ, Amat I, Gordillo S, Arcos V, Guirado E, Diaz J, Vilaplana C, Tapia G, Ausina V. Immunotherapy with fragmented Mycobacterium tuberculosis cells increases the effectiveness of chemotherapy against a chronical infection in a murine model of tuberculosis. Vaccine 2005; 23, 1393-1398. [PDF]
  
  
• Garcia de Viedma D, Lorenzo G, Cardona PJ, Alonso Rodriguez N, Gordillo S, Ruiz Serrano MJ, Bouza E. Association between the Infectivity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strains and Their Efficiency for Extrarespiratory Infection. J Infect Dis 2005; 192, 2059-2065. [PDF]
  
  
• Cardona PJ, Soto CY, Martin C, Giquel B, Agusti G, Guirado E, Sirakova T, Kolattukudy P, Julian E, Luquin M. Neutral-red reaction is related to virulence and cell wall methyl-branched lipids in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Microbes Infect 2006; 8: 183-190. [PDF]
  
  
• O Gil, E Guirado, S Gordillo, J Díaz, G Tapia, C Vilaplana, A Ariza, V Ausina, PJ Cardona. Intragranulomatous necrosis in lungs of mice infected by aerosol with Mycobacterium tuberculosis is not related to the induction of protective immunity. Microbes Infect 2006; 8: 628-636. [PDF]
  
  
• Guirado E, Amat I, Gil O, Díaz J, Arcos V, Caceres N, Ausina V, Cardona PJ. Passive serum-therapy with polyclonal antibodies against Mycobacterium tuberculosis protects against post-chemotherapy relapse of tuberculosis infection in SCID mice. Microbes Infect 2006; 8: 1252-1259. [PDF]
  
  
• Guirado E, Gordillo S, Gil O, Díaz J, Tapia G, Vilaplana C, Ausina V, Cardona PJ. Intragranuloma6tous necrosis in pulmonary granulomas is not related with resistance against Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in experimental murine models induced by aerosol. International Journal of Experimental Pathology 2006; 87: 139-149. [PDF]
  
  
• Cardona PJ, Amat I. Origin and Development of RUTI, a New Therapeutic Vaccine Against Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection. Arch Bronconeumol 2006; 42:25-32.
  
  
• Carlos Martin, Ann Willians, Rogelio Hernandez-Pando, Pere J. Cardona, Eamonn P. Gormley, Yann Bordat, Carlos Y. Soto, Simon Clark, Graham Hatch, Diana Aguilar, Vicente Ausina and Brigitte Gicquel The highly attenuated Mycobacterium tuberculosis phoP confers superior protection against tuberculosis when compared to Mycobacterium bovis BCG . Vaccine 2006; 24: 3408-3419. [PDF]
  
  
• Tjärnlund A, Rodríguez A, Cardona PJ, Guirado E, Ivanyi J, Singh M, Marsh PD, Williams A, Troye-Blomberg M, Fernández C. Polymeric Ig Receptor knockout mice are more susceptible to Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium bovis infections in the respiratory tract than wild-type mice. Int Immunol 2006; 18, 807-816. [PDF]
  
  
• Tjarnlund A, Guirado E, Julian E, Cardona PJ, Fernandez C. Determinant role for TLR signalling in acute mycobacterial infection in the respiratory tract. Microbes & Infection 2006. [PDF]
  
  
• Rodriguez-Guell E, Agusti G, Corominas M, Cardona PJ, Casalas I, Parella T, Sempere MA, Luquin M, Julian E. The production of a new extracellular putative long-chain saturated polyester by smooth variants of Mycobacterium vaccae interferes with Th1-cytokine production. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2006; 90:93-108. [PDF]
  
  
• Cardona PJ. RUTI: a new chance to shorten the treatment of latent tuberculosis infection. Tuberculosis (Edinb) 2006; 86: 273-289. [PDF]
  
  
• Gordillo S, Guirado E, Gil O, Díaz J, Tapia G, Molinos S, Ausina V, Cardona PJ. Genetic expresión of Mycobacterium tuberculosis under stressing conditions in “in vitro” and “in vivo” experimental models. Scand J Immunol 2006; 64: 30-39. [PDF]
  
  
• Cardona, P. J. (2006). [Robert Koch was right. Towards a new interpretation of tuberculin therapy.]. Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin 2006; 24:385-391. [PDF]
  
  
• Cardona, P. J. (2006). [Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Homo sapiens: a long way to cross.]. Med Clin (Barc) 2006; 126: 771-773. [PDF]