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    • Jiménez Bluhm, Pedro; Di Pillo Sanhueza, Francisca; Bahl, Justin; Osorio, Jorge; Schultz Cherry, Stacey; Hamilton-West Miranda, Christopher (Elsevier, 2018-05)
      Backyard productive systems (BPS) are recognized as the most common form of animal production in the world. However, BPS frequently exhibit inherent biosecurity deficiencies, and could play a major role in the epidemiology ...
    • Bravo Vásquez, Nicolás; Yao, Jiangwei; Jiménez Bluhm, Pedro; Meliopoulos, Victoria; Freiden, Pamela; Sharp, Bridgett; Estrada, Leonardo; Davis, Amy; Cherry, Sean; Livingston, Brandi; Danner, Angela; Schultz Cherry, Stacey; Hamilton West, Christopher (Centers Disease Control & Prevention, USA, 2020)
      Since their discovery in the United States in 1963, outbreaks of infection with equine influenza virus (H3N8) have been associated with serious respiratory disease in horses worldwide. Genomic analysis suggests that equine ...
    • Di Pillo, Francisca; Jimenez-Bluhm, Pedro; Baumberger, Cecilia; Marambio, Víctor; Galdames, Pablo; Monti, Gustavo; Schultz Cherry, Stacey; Hamilton-West Miranda, Christopher (Frontiers Media, 2020)
      During the last 5 years there has been an alarming number of reports of highly pathogenic avian influenza worldwide. However, little is known about the status of this disease in South America. Chile has been the only country ...
    • Bravo Vásquez, Nicolás; Di Pillo Sanhueza, Francisca; Lazo Quezada, Juan; Jiménez Bluhm, Pedro; Schultz Cherry, Stacey; Hamilton-West Miranda, Christopher (Elsevier, 2016)
      In South America little is known regarding influenza virus circulating in backyard poultry and swine populations. Backyard productive systems (BPS) that breed swine and poultry are widely distributed throughout Chile with ...
    • Bravo-Vasquez, Nicolas; Baumberger, Cecilia; Jiménez Bluhm, Pedro; Di Pillo, Francisca; Lazo Escobar, Andrés; Sanhueza, Juan; Schultz Cherry, Stacey; Hamilton West, Christopher (Wiley, 2020)
      Backyard production systems (BPS) are a common form of poultry and swine production worldwide. The limited implementation of biosecurity standards in these operations makes BPS a potential source for the emergence of ...
    • Ruiz Philipps, Soledad; Jiménez Bluhm, Pedro; Di Pillo, Francisca; Baumberger, Cecilia; Galdames Alarcón, Pablo; Marambio Romero, Victor; Salazar, Carla; Mattar Bader, Cristián; Sanhueza, Juan; Schultz-Cherry, Stacey; Hamilton-West Miranda, Christopher (Wiley, 2020)
      Although wild birds are considered the main reservoir of the influenza A virus (IAV) in nature, empirical investigations exploring the interaction between the IAV prevalence in these populations and environmental drivers ...
    • Jiménez Bluhm, Pedro; Karlsson, Erik A.; Freiden, Pamela; Sharp, Bridgett; Di Pillo, Francisca; Osorio, Jorge E.; Hamilton-West Miranda, Christopher; Schultz Cherry, Stacey (Nature Publishing Group, 2018)
      While the circulation of avian influenza viruses (IAV) in wild birds in the northern hemisphere has been well documented, data from South America remain sparse. To address this gap in knowledge, we undertook IAV surveillance ...