Dr. Emilia Cantón Lacasa is co-author of one of the most comprehensive manuals in Spanish medicine for the identification of fungal diseases. The manuscript, entitled Métodos microbiológicos para el diagnóstico, manejo y estudio de la infección fúngica invasora (Microbiological methods for the diagnosis, management and study of invasive fungal infection), is a must-read text for microbiologists.  

The document is a reflection of the wide range of procedures and practical experiences that this expert has sustained during her more than four decades in the professional practice of medicine and has the support of the Spanish Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology.    

• Researcher at the Microbiology Laboratory at La Fe University Hospital
• Doctor of Medicine from the University of Barcelona 
• Member of the Spanish Society of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology