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    • Rivera, Dacil; Toledo, Viviana; Di Pillo, Francisca; Dueñas, Fernando; Tardone, Rodolfo; Hamilton-West Miranda, Christopher; Vongkamjan, Kitiya; Wiedmann, Martin; Moreno Switt, Andrea I. (International Association Food Protection, 2018)
      The genus Salmonella has more than 2,600 serovars, and this trait is important when considering interventions for Salmonella control. Bacteriophages that are used for biocontrol must have an exclusively lytic cycle and the ...
    • Di Pillo, Francisca; Anríquez, Gustavo; Alarcón, Pablo; Jiménez Bluhm, Pedro; Galdames, Pablo; Nieto, Vanesa; Schultz-Cherry, Stacey; Hamilton-West Miranda, Christopher (Elsevier B.V., 2019)
      Backyard production systems (BPS) that involve poultry are a good way to improve food security and poverty alleviation. Few studies have been carried out to quantify the contribution of poultry production to these households ...
    • 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-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 ...