Browsing by Author "Balcells, María Elvira"

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    • Association of Vitamin D deficiency, season of the year, and latent tuberculosis infection among household contacts 
      Balcells, María Elvira; García, Patricia; Tiznado, Camila; Villarroel, Luis; Scioscia, Natalia; Carvajal, Camila; Zegna-Ratá, Francesca; Hernández, Mariluz; Meza, Paulina; González, Luis F.; Peña, Carlos; Naves, Rodrigo (Public Library of Science, 2017)
      © 2017 Balcells et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the ...
    • Early versus deferred anti-SARS-CoV-2 convalescent plasma in patients admitted for COVID-19: A randomized ... 
      Balcells, María Elvira; Rojas, Luis; Le Corre, Nicole; Martínez Valdebenito, Constanza; Ceballos, María Elena; Ferrés, Marcela; Chang, Mayling; Vizcaya, Cecilia; Mondaca, Sebastián; Huete, Álvaro; Castro, Ricardo; Sarmiento, Mauricio; Villarroel, Luis; Pizarro, Alejandra; Ross, Patricio; Santander, Jaime; Lara, Bárbara; Ferrada, Marcela; Vargas Salas, Sergio Sebastián; Beltrán Pavez, Carolina Alejandra; Soto Rifo, Ricardo Andrés; Valiente Echeverría, Fernando Andrés; Caglevic, Christian; Mahave, Mauricio; Selman, Carolina; Gazitua, Raimundo; Briones, José Luis; Villarroel Espíndola, Franz; Balmaceda, Carlos; Espinoza, Manuel A.; Pereira, Jaime; Nervi, Bruno (Public Library Science, 2021)
      Background Convalescent plasma (CP), despite limited evidence on its efficacy, is being widely used as a compassionate therapy for hospitalized patients with COVID-19. We aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of ...
    • Identification of Recent Tuberculosis Exposure Using QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus, a Multicenter Study 
      Pérez Recio, Sandra; Pallares, Natalia; Grijota Camino, María D.; Sánchez Montalva, Adrián; Barcia, Laura; Campos Gutiérrez, Silvia; Pomar, Virginia; Rabunal Rey, Ramón; Balcells, María Elvira; Gazel, Déniz; Montiel, Natalia; Vicente, Diego; Goic Barisic, Ivana; Schon, Thomas; Paues, Jakob; Marekovic, Ivana; Cacho Calvo, Juana; Barac, Aleksandra; Goletti, Delia; Garcia Gasalla, Mercedes; Barcala, José María; Tórtola, María Teresa; Anibarro, Luis; Suárez Toste, Isabel; Moga, Esther; Gude González, María J.; Naves Pichuante, Rodrigo Antonio; Karsligil, Tekin; Martin Penaranda, Tania; Stevanovic, Goran; Trigo, Matilde; Rubio, Verónica; Karaoglan, Ilkay; Bayram, Nazan; Alcaide, Fernando; Tebe, Cristian; Santin, Miguel (Amer Soc Microbiology, 2021)
      We investigated whether the difference of antigen tube 2 (TB2) minus antigen tube 1 (TB1) (TB22TB1) of the QuantiFERON-TB gold plus test, which has been postulated as a surrogate for the CD81 T-cell response, could be ...
    • Insights into neutralizing antibody responses in individuals exposed to SARS-CoV-2 in Chile 
      Beltrán Pavez, Carolina Alejandra; Riquelme Barrios, Sebastian Andres; Oyarzún Arrau, Aarón; Gaete Argel, Aracelly Janis; González Stegmaier, Roxana; Cereceda Solis, Karina; Aguirre, Adam; Travisany Flores, Dante Felipe; Palma Vejares, Ricardo Fernando; Barriga Pinto, Gonzalo Andrés; Gaggero Brillouet, Aldo Andres; Martínez Valdebenito, Constanza; Le Corre, Nicole; Ferres Garrido, Marcela Viviana; Balcells, María Elvira; Fernández, Jorge; Ramírez, Eugenio; Villarroel, Franz; Valiente Echeverría, Fernando Andrés; Soto Rifo, Ricardo Andrés (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2021)
      Chile has one of the worst numbers worldwide in terms of SARS-CoV-2 positive cases and COVID-19-related deaths per million inhabitants; thus, characterization of neutralizing antibody (NAb) responses in the general population ...