Microcistinas y bandera sanitaria

Análisis de situación sobre el protocolo de bandera sanitaria

Claudia Piccini, Gabriela Martínez de la Escalera, Carolina Croci
Departamento de Microbiología – IIBCE
Montevideo, 12 de enero de 2026

Cianobacterias tóxicas

Estamos desarrollando un método rápido y sensible para detectar la presencia de cianobacterias tóxicas en el agua.

Programa Uruguay SUB200

Nuestro grupo de investigación también forma parte del Programa Uruguay Sub200, cuyo eje central fue la campaña Fkt250812 del B/I Falkor (Too) en aguas uruguayas.

Biogeography of the cyanobacterium Raphidiopsis (Cylindrospermopsis) raciborskii: Integrating genomics, phylogenetic and toxicity data

Raphidiopsis (Cylindrospermopsis) raciborskii, a globally distributed bloom-forming cyanobacterium, produces either the cytotoxin cylindrospermopsin (CYL) in Oceania, Asia and Europe or the neurotoxin saxitoxin (STX) and analogues (paralytic shellfish poison, PSP) in South America (encoded by sxt genetic cluster) and none of them in Africa. Nevertheless, this particular geographic pattern is usually overlooked in current hypotheses about the species dispersal […]

Effect of hydrological modification on the potential toxicity of Microcystis aeruginosa complex in Salto Grande reservoir, Uruguay

It is widely known that the environmental conditions caused by the construction of reservoirs favor the proliferation of toxic cyanobacteria and the formation of blooms due to the high residence time of the water, low turbidity, temperature regimes, among others. Microcystin-producing cyanobacteria such as those from the Microcystis aeruginosa complex (MAC) are the most frequently found organisms in reservoirs worldwide, […]