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    • Berentsen, AR; Cruz-Martinez, L; Vos, A; Ortmann, S; Kretzschmar, A; Kaiser, C; Herve-Claude, L; Knobel, D; Rupprecht, CE (University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, 2020)
    • Parraguez V.H., Gonzalez-Bulnes A. (Elsevier Ltd, 2020)
    • Cortez Chica, Jahaira Azucena; Leiva, Bárbara; Torres Mendoza, Cristian Gabriel; Parraguez Gamboa, Víctor; Reyes Solovera, Mónica de los; Carrasco Morales, Albert; Peralta Troncoso, Oscar Alejandro (MDPI, 2022)
      Simple Summary Organoids are 3D-cell culture systems composed of tissue-specific cells that create structures similar to those of their tissue of origin. Organoids have generated great interest in recent years, since they ...
    • Jiménez Arriagada, Daniela Andrea; Hidalgo, Alejandro A.; Neira Ramírez, Víctor Manuel; Neira Carrillo, Andrónico David; Bucarey Vivanco, Sergio Antonio (BMC, 2022)
      Background Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2)-associated diseases are a major problem for the swine industry worldwide. In addition to vaccines, the availability of antiviral polymers provides an efficient and safe option ...
    • Tapia, David; Kuznar, Juan; Farlora, Rodolfo; Yáñez López, José Manuel (MDPI, 2022)
      The IPN virus (IPNV) causes a highly contagious disease that affects farmed salmonids. IPNV isolates have been phylogenetically classified into seven genogroups, of which two are present in Chile, genogroups 1 and 5. This ...
    • Pereira, Ismael; Hidalgo, Christian; Stoore, Caroll; Baquedano, María Soledad; Cabezas, Carolina; Bastías, Macarena; Riveros, Aníbal; Meneses, Claudio; Cancela, Martín; Bunselmeyer Ferreira, Henrique; Saenz Iturriaga, Leonardo Enrique; Paredes, Rodolfo (BMC, 2022)
      Cystic Echinococcosis (CE), a zoonotic parasitic disease, is caused by the cestode Echinococcus granulosus sensu lato. CE inflicts severe damage in cattle, sheep, and human hosts worldwide. Fertile CE cysts are characterized ...
    • Chacón Olivos, Francisco Javier; Muñoz San Martín, Catalina; Bacigalupo Bacigalupo, Antonella Eugenia; Álvarez Duhart, Bárbara Raquel; Solís Muñoz, Rigoberto Antonio; Cattan Ayala, Pedro Eduardo (MDPI, 2022)
      Simple Summary We studied the locomotor activity of one of the kissing bug species that transmit the Chagas disease-causing parasite in humans, which usually bites during the night. To date, no other reports researching ...
    • Barron Montenegro, Rocío; Rivera, Dácil; Serrano Castillo, María Jesús; García, Rodrigo; Álvarez, Diana M.; Benavides, Julio; Arredondo, Fernanda; Álvarez, Francisca P.; Bastías, Roberto; Ruiz Philipps, Soledad Alejandra; Hamilton-West Miranda, Christopher Norman; Castro Nallar, Eduardo; Moreno-Switt, Andrea I. (Frontiers Media, 2022)
      Salmonella spp. is a relevant foodborne pathogen with worldwide distribution. To mitigate Salmonella infections, bacteriophages represent an alternative to antimicrobials and chemicals in food animals and food in general. ...
    • Valdés Rebolledo, Fabrizzio; Villanueva Villanueva, Valeria; Durán Durán, Emerson; Campos Espinoza, Francisca; Avendaño Alarcón, Constanza; Sánchez Olate, Manuel; Domingoz Araujo, Chaneta; Valenzuela Venegas, Carolina (MDPI, 2022)
      Simple Summary Currently, there is a wide variety of insect-based pet foods and treats; however, there are several questions about the nutritional contribution of insects for dogs and cats, their health effects, safety ...
    • Pizarro, Guadalupe; Alavia, Wilson; González, Karen; Díaz, Héctor; Marambio, Oscar G.; Martin Trasanco, Rudy; Sánchez, Sánchez; Oyarzún, Diego P.; Neira Carrillo, Andrónico (MDPI, 2022)
      Recent progress in the field of photosensitive materials has prompted a need to develop efficient methods to synthesize materials with basic intermolecular architectural designs and novel properties. Accordingly, in this ...
    • García Peña, Gabriel E.; Rubio Carrasco, André Víctor; Mendoza, Hugo; Fernández, Miguel; Milholland, Matthew T.; Aguirre, A. Alonso; Suzán, Gerardo; Zambrana Torrelio, Carlos (Royal Soc, England, 2021)
      Land-use change has a direct impact on species survival and reproduction, altering their spatio-temporal distributions. It acts as a selective force that favours the abundance and diversity of reservoir hosts and affects ...
    • Yánez, José M.; Xu, Peng; Carvalheiro, Roberto; Hayes, Ben (Wiley, 2022)
      The increasing global demand for food, due to the continuous growth of human population, requires improvements in the efficiency and sustainability of animal production systems. In addition, several challenges facing farming ...
    • Pavez Muñoz, Erika Isabel; Fernández Sanhueza, Bastián Ignacio; Urzúa Encina, Constanza Andrea; Galarce, Nicolás; Alegría Morán, Raúl Alejandro (MDPI, 2021)
      In the Metropolitana region of Chile there are 3836 backyard production systems (BPS), characterized as small-scale systems. They act as a source of zoonotic pathogens, such as Salmonella enterica and Shiga toxin-producing ...
    • Di Pillo, Francisca; Baumberger, Cecilia; Salazar Llanos, Carla; Galdames Alarcón, Pablo; Ruiz, Soledad; Sharp, Bridgett; Freiden, Pamela; Tan, Shaoyuan; Schultz-Cherry, Stacey; Hamilton-West Miranda, Christopher; Jiménez Bluhm, Pedro (MDPI, 2022)
      Little is known about the prevalence of avian influenza viruses (AIV) in wildlife and domestic animals in Polynesia. Here, we present the results of active AIV surveillance performed during two sampling seasons in 2019 on ...
    • Muñoz, Camila; Villalobos, Rodrigo; Peralta, Alejandra María Teresa; Morales, Rodrigo; Urrutia, Natalie Louise; Ungerfeld, Emilio Mauricio (MDPI, 2021)
      Research is ongoing to find nutritional methane (CH4 ) mitigation strategies with persistent effects that can be applied to grazing ruminants. Lipid addition to dairy cow diets has shown potential as means to decrease ...
    • Mena, Juan; Tapia, Rodrigo; Verdugo, Claudio; Avendaño Carvajal, Luis Fidel; Parra Castro, Paulina; Medina, Rafael A.; Barriga Pinto, Gonzalo Andrés; Neira Ramírez, Víctor Manuel (Nature, 2021)
      Understanding the diversity and circulation dynamics of seasonal influenza viruses is key to public health decision-making. The limited genetic information of pre-pandemic seasonal IAVs in Chile has made it difficult to ...
    • Flores Olivares, Carlos Andrés Felipe; Ariyama Takenaka, Naomi; Bennett Laso, Benjamín; Mena, Juan; Verdugo, Claudio; Mor, Sunil; Brito, Barbara; Ramírez Toloza, Galia Andrea; Neira Ramírez, Víctor Manuel (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Porcine Astrovirus (PoAstV) causes mild diarrhea in young pigs and is considered an emerging virus in the swine industry worldwide. PoAstV has high genetic diversity and has been classified into five genetic lineages, ...
    • Hernández, María del Carmen; Rubio Carrasco, Andre Víctor; Barja, Isabel (MDPI, 2021)
      Even though behavioural and physiological reactions to predation risk exhibited by prey species have received considerable attention in scientific journals, there are still many questions still unsolved. Our aim was to ...
    • Di Cataldo, Sophia; Cevidanes, Aitor; Ulloa Contreras, Claudia Andrea; Sacristán, Irene; Peñaloza Madrid, Diego; Vianna, Juliana; González Acuña, Daniel; Sallaberry Pincheira, Nicole; Cabello, Javier; Napolitano, Constanza; Hidalgo Hermoso, Ezequiel; Acosta Jamett, Gerardo; Millán, Javier (MDPI, 2021)
      Blood samples of 626 rural dogs, 140 Andean foxes (Lycalopex culpaeus), and 83 South American grey foxes (L. griseus) from six bioregions of Chile spanning 3000 km were screened for Mycoplasma DNA by conventional PCR and ...
    • Ariyama Takenaka, Naomi; Agüero, Belén; Valdés, Valentina; Berríos, Felipe; Bucarey, Sergio; Mor, Sunil; Brito, Bárbara; Neira Ramírez, Víctor Manuel (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Porcine Circovirus 2 (PCV2) can cause multiple clinical conditions known as porcine circovirus-associated diseases (PCVAD). Before the wide availability of PCV2 vaccines, PCVAD resulted in significant losses to the global ...