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Concha V., Emma; López G., Juan P.; Cofré G., José; Torres Torretti, Juan Pablo (2007)Acute retinal necrosis (ARN) is a serious condition that can impair vision. It mostly occurs in adult patients, especially those severely immunocompromised, in association with a reactivation of a herpes virus infection. ...
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Farfán, Mauricio J.; Torres Torretti, Juan Pablo; Vergara A., Alejandra; Donoso W., Gloria; Alba G., Andrea; Paris D., Claudia; Santolaya de Pablo, María Elena (SOC CHILENA INFECTOLOGIA, 2011-04)Background: Cytomegal virus (CMV) infections are an important cause of morbidity and mortality in transplant recipient. To date, the antigenemia assay is the most used technique for diagnostic and management of CMV ...
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Torres Torretti, Juan Pablo; O’Ryan Gallardo, Miguel (Sociedad Chilena de Pediatría, 2020)
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George, Sergio; Mamani Manzano, Nora; Lucero Álvarez, Yalda; Torres Torretti, Juan Pablo; Farfán Urzúa, Mauricio; Lagomarcino, Anne J.; Orellana, Andrea; O'Ryan Gallardo, Miguel (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016)BackgroundWe previously detected Helicobacter pylori infection by stool antigen ELISA assay in 33-41% of asymptomatic Chilean children between 2-3 years of age, of which 11-20% had a transient infection and 21-22% a ...
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Reyes S., Marcelo; Torres Torretti, Juan Pablo; Prado Jiménez, Valeria; Vidal Álvarez, Roberto (SOC MEDICA SANTIAGO, 2008-03)Acute bacterial meningitis (ABM) is a serious disease that needs rapid diagnosis for an accurate treatment. The most important etiological agents are: Streptococcus pneumoniae, Neisseria meningitidis and Haemophilus ...
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O'Ryan Gallardo, Miguel; Rabello, Marcela; Cortés, Hector; Lucero, Yalda; Peña, Alfredo; Torres Torretti, Juan Pablo (2013)Background: Helicobacter pylori colonization/infection can be transitory or persistent, conditions that have not been thoroughly evaluated in young children. We aimed to characterize the dynamics of H. pylori stool ...
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George, Sergio; Lucero Álvarez, Lucero; Torres Torretti, Juan Pablo; Lagomarcino, Anne J.; O’Ryan, Miguel (Frontiers Media, 2020)Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is well-known to be involved in gastric carcinogenesis, associated with deregulation of cell proliferation and epigenetic changes in cancer-related genes. H. pylori infection is largely ...
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Orellana Manzano, Andrea; O'Ryan Gallardo, Miguel; Lagomarcino, Anne; George Carreño, Sergio; Muñoz, Mindy; Mamani Manzano, Nora; Serrano, Carolina; Harris, Paul; Ramilo, Octavio; Mejías, Asunción; Torres Torretti, Juan Pablo; Lucero Álvarez, Yalda; Quest, Andrew F. G. (Frontiers Media, 2016)Background: Helicobacter pylori infects half of the world's population and causes gastric cancer in a subset of infected adults. Previous blood microarray findings showed that apparently healthy children, persistently ...
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Maza León, Verónica de la; Manríquez, Macarena; Castro, Magdalena; Viveros, Paola; Fernández, María; Vogel, Evelyn; Peña, Erica; Santolaya de Pablo, María Elena; Villarroel, Milena; Torres Torretti, Juan Pablo (Wiley, 2020)Objective To assess the impact of a structured educational programme for caregivers of children with cancer on their level of knowledge about the disease and patient's clinical outcome. Methods This prospective, non-randomised, ...
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Torres Torretti, Juan Pablo; O'Ryan Gallardo, Miguel; Hervé E., Béatrice; Espinoza, Ricardo; Acuña, Guillermo; Mañalich Raffo, Juan; Chomalí, May (Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2010)Background. In Chile, the novel influenza A (H1N1) epidemic began in the middle-high income area of Santiago. Clinical and laboratory surveillance was intensified with the aim to characterize the epidemic and determine ...
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Torres Torretti, Juan Pablo; Castro Moraga, María José; Catalán, Paula; Maza León, Verónica de la; Vergara, Alejandra; Valenzuela Cortés, Romina; Tapia Faúndes, Lorena; Olivares Morales, Mauricio; Farfán Urzúa, Mauricio; Santolaya de Pablo, María Elena (Sociedad Chilena de Infectología, 2020)Introducción: Los niños que reciben trasplante de precursores hematopoyéticos (TPH) pueden presentar infecciones respiratorias virales (IRV) durante episodios febriles. Los datos sobre su evolución clínica son escasos, ...
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Torres Torretti, Juan Pablo; Tapia Faúndes, Lorena; Catalán, Paula; Maza León, Verónica de la; Mejías, Asunción (Wiley, 2017)Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection can cause lower respiratory tract disease and mortality in pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) recipients. We report two children who underwent HSCT and developed ...
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Zylbersztajn, Brenda; Barraza, Marlon; Torres Torretti, Juan Pablo; Morales Vallespín, Jorge (Sociedad Chilena de Infectología, 2018)This review summarizes recommendations of therapeutic monitoring of three antimicrobials based in regional data: vancomycin, amikacin and voriconazole in pediatric population. Regional evidence agrees with international ...
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Torres Torretti, Juan Pablo; Concha V., Emma; López G., Juan Pablo; Cofré G., José (2007)Acute retinal necrosis (ARN) is a serious condition that can impair vision. It mostly occurs in adult patients, especially those severely immunocompromised, in association with a reactivation of a herpes virus infection. ...
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Torres Torretti, Juan Pablo; López G., Juan Pablo (2007)Acute retinal necrosis (ARN) is a serious condition that can impair vision. It mostly occurs in adult patients, especially those severely immunocompromised, in association with a reactivation of a herpes virus infection. ...
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Farfán Urzúa, Mauricio; Torres Torretti, Juan Pablo; O'Ryan Gallardo, Miguel; Olivares Morales, Mauricio; Gallardo Schall, Pablo; Lastra Torres, Jorge; Salas Palma, Carolina (Sociedad Chilena de Infectología, 2020)The global shortage of reagents and kits for nucleic acid extraction and molecular detection of SARS-CoV-2 requires new cost-effective strategies for the diagnosis of suspected COVID-19 cases, especially in countries that ...
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Farfán Urzúa, Mauricio Javier; Salas, Carolina; Canales López, Cristina; Silva, Felipe; Villarroel, Milena; Kopp, Katherine; Torres Torretti, Juan Pablo; Santolaya de Pablo, María Elena; Morales, Jorge (BioMed Central, 2014)Background: Mercaptopurine (6-MP) plays a pivotal role in treatment of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL); however, interindividual variability in toxicity of this drug due to genetic polymorphism in 6-MP ...
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Santolaya de Pablo, María Elena; Alvarez, Ana M.; Avilés, Carmen L.; Becker, Ana; Venegas, Marcela; O'Ryan Gallardo, Miguel; Salgado, Carmen; Topelberg, Santiago; Tordecilla, Juan; Varas, Mónica; Villarroel, Milena; Viviani, Tamara; Zubieta, Marcela; Maza León, Verónica de la; Vergara, Alejandra; Farfán, Mauricio J.; Torres Torretti, Juan Pablo (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2013)Background: We previously created a risk prediction model for severe sepsis not clinically apparent during the first 24 hours of hospitalization in children with high-risk febrile neutropenia (HRFN), which identified 3 ...
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Torres Torretti, Juan Pablo; Maza León, Verónica de la; Santolaya de Pablo, María Elena (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2017)
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Rodríguez Fernández, Rosa; Tapia Faúndes, Lorena; Yang, Chin Fen; Torres Torretti, Juan Pablo; Chavez Bueno, Susana; García, Carla; Jaramillo, Lisa M.; Moore Clingenpeel, Melissa; Jafri, Hasan S.; Peeples, Mark E.; Piedra, Pedro A.; Ramilo, Octavio; Mejias, Asuncion (Oxford University Press, 2018)Background. Data on how respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) genotypes influence disease severity and host immune responses is limited. Here, we characterized the genetic variability of RSV during 5 seasons, and evaluated the ...