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    • Detección de polyomavirus BK y JC en extractos leucocitarios de sangre periférica de pacientes con infección ... 
      Martínez Galofre, María Jose; Moreno Moreno, Claudia; Levicán, Jorge; Peña, Mónica; Gaggero Brillouet, Aldo; Chnaiderman Figueroa, Jonás (Sociedad Chilena de Infectología, 2016)
      Introduction: Polyomavirus BK (BKPyV) and JC (JCPyV) are persistent pathogens able to reactivate in immunocompromised patients, involving mostly urinary and central nervous system. There are no Chilean studies in HIV ...
    • Human bocavirus in children with acute gastroenteritis, Chile, 1985-2010 
      Levican, Jorge; Navas, Esteban; Orizola, Joaquín; Avendaño, Luis; Gaggero Brillouet, Aldo (2013)
      We detected human bocavirus in 89 (19.3%) of 462 fecal samples collected during 3 periods from 1985 through 2010 from children <5 years of age in Chile who were hospitalized with acute gastroenteritis. Our findings ...
    • JC polyomavirus circulation in one-year surveillance in wastewater in Santiago, Chile 
      Levican, Jorge; Levican, Arturo; Ampuero, Manuel; Gaggero Brillouet, Aldo (Elsevier B.V., 2019)
      Human polyomavirus JC (JCPyV) is a widely distributed viral agent and because it high resistance against environmental conditions it is frequently recovered from diverse sources of water and is considered a good marker for ...
    • Merkel cell polyomavirus in non-small cell lung carcinomas from Chile 
      Gheit, Tarik; Muñoz, Juan Pablo; Levican, Jorge; González, Carolina; Ampuero Llanos, Sandra; Parra, Bárbara; Gaggero Brillouet, Aldo; Corvalán, Alejandro H.; Uribe Meneses, Manuel Ángel; Tommasino, Massimo; Aguayo, Francisco (2012)
      Lung cancer is a leading pathology strongly associated with the smoking habit. However, a viral etiology for a subset of patients developing lung cancer has been suggested. Polyomaviruses (PyVs) are small double stranded ...
    • Role of BK human polyomavirus in cancer 
      Levican, Jorge; Acevedo Acevedo, Mónica; León Decap, Oscar; Gaggero Brillouet, Aldo; Aguayo González, Francisco (Biomed Central, 2018)
      Human polyomaviruses (HPyV), which are small DNA viruses classified into the polyomaviridae family, are widely distributed in human populations. Thirteen distinct HPyVs have been described to date. Some of these viruses ...
    • Viral infections in prostate carcinomas in Chilean patients Clinical oncology 
      Rodríguez, Hector; Levican, Jorge; Muñoz, Juan P.; Carrillo, Diego; Acevedo, Mónica L.; Gaggero Brillouet, Aldo; León, Oscar; Gheit, Tarik; Espinoza Navarro, Omar; Castillo, Jorge; Gallegos, Iván; Tommasino, Massimo; Aguayo, Francisco (BioMed Central Ltd., 2015)
      © 2015 Rodríguez et al.Background: A few viruses have been detected in prostate cancer, however their role in the development of this malignancy has not been determined. The aim of this study was to analyze the presence ...