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    • ELISA to determine anti-K99 pilus antibody in the sera of normal and diarrhoeic calves 
      Smith Schuster, Pedro; Zurita Arevalo, Livio; Canale Montenegro, Francisco; Ferreira Vigouroux, Luis Arturo; Toro Guzmán, Haroldo (1994)
      An ELISA to detect circulating antibodies against K99 pili, a major attachment factor to intestinal epithelial cells of Escherichia coli in calves, was performed. Two methods of K99 pili purification were attempted. Best ...
    • is the Antitumor Property of Trypanosoma cruzi infection Mediated by its Calreticulin? 
      Ramírez Tolosa, Galia; Avello Cáceres, Paula; Ferreira Vigouroux, Luis Arturo (Frontiers Media, 2016)
      Eight to 10 million people in 21 endemic countries are infected with Trypanosoma cruzi. However, only 30% of those infected develop symptoms of Chagas' disease, a chronic, neglected tropical disease worldwide. Similar to ...
    • Trypanosoma cruzi calreticulin: immune evasion, infectivity, and tumorigenesis 
      Ramírez Toloza, Galia; Sosoniuk Roche, Eduardo; Valck Calderón, Carolina; Aguilar Guzmán, Lorena; Ferreira, Viviana; Ferreira Vigouroux, Luis (Elsevier, 2020)
      To successfully infect, Trypanosome cruzi evades and modulates the host immune response. T. cruzi calreticulin (TcCalr) is a multifunctional, endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-resident chaperone that, translocated to the external ...
    • Trypanosoma cruzi evades the complement system as an efficient strategy to survive in the Mammalian host: ... 
      Ramírez Toloza, Galia; Ferreira Vigouroux, Luis Arturo (Frontiers media SA, 2017)
      American Trypanosomiasis is an important neglected reemerging tropical parasitism, infecting about 8 million people worldwide. Its agent, Trypanosoma cruzi, exhibits multiple mechanisms to evade the host immune response ...
    • Variability in the response of canine and human dendritic cells stimulated with Brucella canis 
      Pujol, Myriam; Castillo, Francisca; Álvarez, Carla; Rojas, Camila; Borie Polanco, Consuelo; Ferreira Vigouroux, Luis Arturo; Vernal Astudillo, Rolando (Biomed Central Ltd., 2017)
      Brucella canis is a small intracellular Gram-negative bacterium whose primary host is the dog, but it also can cause mild human brucellosis. One of the main causes of an inefficient immune response against other species ...