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    • Lombardo, Mary-Jane; Michalski, Jane; Martínez Wilson, Héctor; Morín, Cara; Hilton, Tamara; Morín, Cara; Hilton, Tamara; Osorio Abarzúa, Carlos Gonzalo; Nataro, James P.; Tacket, Carol O.; Camilli, Andrew; Kaper, James B. (National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 2007)
      In vivo expression technology (IVET) has been widely used to study gene expression of human bacterial pathogens in animal models, but has heretofore not been used in humans to our knowledge. As part of ongoing efforts to ...
    • Levine, Myron M.; Ferreccio, Catterine; Prado Jiménez, Valeria; Cayazzo, Marisol; Abrego, Paulina; Martinez, Juan; Maggi, Leonardo; Baldini, Mary M.; Martin, Wendy; Maneval, David; Kay, Bradford; Guers, Linda; Lior, Hermy; Wasserman, Steven S.; Nataro, James P. (Oxford University Press, 1993)
      The incidence of diarrhea due to six categories of diarrheogenic Eschenchia coli was determined in two pediatric cohorts in a low socioeconomic level community in Santiago, Chile, with access to chlorinated water. An age ...
    • Izquierdo, Mariana; Navarro-Garcia, Fernando; Nava-Acosta, Raul; Nataro, James P.; Ruiz-Perez, Fernando; Farfan, Mauricio J. (American Society for Microbiology, 2014)
      Fimbria-mediated adherence to the intestinal epithelia is a key step in enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) pathogenesis. To date, four fimbriae have been described for EAEC; aggregative adherence fimbria II (AAF/II) ...
    • Del Canto, Felipe; Botkin, Douglas J.; Valenzuela, Patricio; Popov, Vsevolod; Ruiz-Perez, Fernando; Nataro, James P.; Levine, Myron M.; Stine, O. Colin; Pop, Mihai; Torres, Alfredo G.; Vidal, Roberto (2012)
      Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) is an important cause of diarrhea, mainly in developing countries. Although there are 25 different ETEC adhesins described in strains affecting humans, between 15% and 50% of the ...
    • Izquierdo, Mariana; Alvestegui, Alejandra; Nataro, James P.; Ruiz-Perez, Fernando; Farfan, Mauricio J. (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2014)
      © 2014 Mariana Izquierdo et al. Adherence to the intestinal epithelia is a key feature in enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) infection. The aggregative adherence fimbriae (AAFs) are involved in EAEC interaction with ...
    • Nataro, James P.; Kaper, James B.; Robins-Browne, Roy; Prado Jiménez, Valeria; Vial, Pablo; Levine, Myron M. (1987)
      A total of 516 Escherichia coli strains randomly isolated from coprocultures of 154 Chilean children with diarrhea and 66 controls were examined with DNA probes and tested for adherence to HEp-2 cells. Three adherence ...
    • Yáñez, Dominique; Izquierdo, Mariana; Ruiz Pérez, Fernando; Nataro, James P.; Girón, Jorge A.; Vidal Álvarez, Roberto; Farfan, Mauricio J. (Frontiers Media S.A., 2016)
      © 2016 Yáñez, Izquierdo, Ruiz-Perez, Nataro, Girón, Vidal and Farfan. Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) infections are still one of the most important etiologic pathogens of diarrhea in children worldwide. EAEC ...
    • Alvestegui, Alejandra; Olivares-Morales, Mauricio; Muñoz, Ernesto; Smith, Rachel; Nataro, James P.; Ruiz-Perez, Fernando; Farfan, Mauricio J. (Frontiers Media S.A., 2019)
      Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC) infections are one of the most frequent causes of persistent diarrhea in children, immunocompromised patients and travelers worldwide. The most prominent colonization factors of ...