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Sandoval Rodríguez, Alejandra; Rojo, Gemma; López, Angélica; Ortiz, Sylvia; Saavedra, Miguel; Botto Mahan, Carezza; Cattan Ayala, Pedro; Solari, Aldo (Elsevier B.V., 2019)© 2018 Elsevier B.V. Chagas disease is a vector-borne disease caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, and transmitted by triatomine insects to several mammal species. In Chile, the wild triatomine species are the endemic ...
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Egaña, Camila; Pinto, Raquel; Vergara, Fernanda; Ortiz, Sylvia; Campos Soto, Ricardo; Solari Illescas, Aldo (Elsevier B.V., 2016)© 2016 Elsevier B.V. The authors regret to inform that the affiliations of all the author were linked incorrectly. The corrected author-affiliation link is now updated and indicated above. The authors would like to apologise ...
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Egaña, Camila; Pinto, Raquel; Vergara, Fernanda; Ortiz, Sylvia; Campos Soto, Ricardo; Solari Illescas, Aldo (Elsevier, 2016)Mepraia species are hematophagous insects and the most important wild vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi, the causative agent of Chagas disease in southeastern South America. Because the domestic Triatoma infestans is already ...
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Mejía-Jaramillo, Ana María; Agudelo-Uribe, Luz Adriana; Dib, Juan Carlos; Ortiz, Sylvia; Solari Illescas, Aldo; Triana-Chávez, Omar (BioMed Central Ltd., 2014)Background: Chagas disease is a neglected illness caused by the Trypanosoma cruzi parasite, which widely affects American communities. This study attempted to identify T. cruzi genotypes circulating in four indigenous ...
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Rojo Aravena, Gemma Beatriz; Pelissier Serrano, Teresa; Sandoval Rodríguez, Alejandra; Bacigalupo, Antonella; García, Vanessa; Pinto Sierralta, Raquel; Ortiz, Sylvia; Botto Mahan, Carezza; Cattan Ayala, Pedro; Solari Illescas, Aldo (Elsevier, 2020)Chagas disease is a public health problem in America. Its parasite, Trypanosoma cruzi, presents different discrete typing units (DTUs), colonizes organs of mammalian hosts in chronic infections, and presents tropism for ...
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Ihle Soto, Camila Adriana; Costoya, Eduardo; Correa, Juana P.; Bacigalupo, Antonella; Cornejo-Villar, Berenice; Estadella, Viviana; Solari, Aldo; Ortiz, Sylvia; Hernández, Héctor J.; Botto Mahan, Carezza; Gorla, David E.; Cattan Ayala, Pedro (Public Library of Science, 2019)Background Trypanosoma cruzi is a protozoan parasite that is transmitted by triatomine vectors to mammals. It is classified in six discrete typing units (DTUs). In Chile, domestic vectorial transmission has been interrupted; ...
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Ortiz, Sylvia; Zulantay Alfaro, Inés; Apt Baruch, Werner; Saavedra, Miguel; Solari Illescas, Aldo (Elsevier Ireland Ltd, 2015)© 2014 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. The etiologic agent of Chagas disease is Trypanosoma cruzi, a protozoan whose life cycle involves obligatory passage through vertebrate and invertebrate hosts in a series of stages. The aim of ...
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Rodríguez, Ingrid B.; Botero, Adriana; Mejía-Jaramillo, Ana M.; Marquez, Edna J.; Ortiz, Sylvia; Solari Illescas, Aldo; Triana-Chávez, Omar (2009)This study attempted to evaluate the transmission dynamics of Trypanosoma cruzi in four indigenous communities of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (SNSM), Colombia. Low-stringency single primer-polymerase chain reaction ...
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Apt Baruch, Werner; Arribada, Arturo; Zulantay Alfaro, Inés; Saavedra, Miguel; Araya, Eduardo; Solari Illescas, Aldo; Ortiz, Sylvia; Arriagada, Katherine; Sánchez Rodríguez, Jorge E. (Springer Verlag, 2015)© 2015, The Author(s).There are currently no biomarkers to assess which patients with chronic indeterminate Chagas disease will develop heart disease and which will spend their entire life in this state. We hypothetize ...
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Toledo, Andrea; Vergara, Fernanda; Campos, Ricardo; Botto Mahan, Carezza; Ortiz, Sylvia; Coronado, Ximena; Solari Illescas, Aldo (The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2013)We evaluated Trypanosoma cruzi infection in 397 wild Mepraia gajardoi specimens from five coastal localities in northern Chile by detection of minicircle DNA by polymerase chain reaction. The wild capture sites were ...
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Egaña, Camila; Vergara, Fernanda; Campos, Ricardo; Ortiz, Sylvia; Botto Mahan, Carezza; Solari Illescas, Aldo (American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2014)© 2014 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. We evaluated Trypanosoma cruzi infection rates by means of minicircle DNA-based polymerase chain reactions (PCRs) in 70 starved Mepraia gajardoi from northern ...
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Apt Baruch, Werner; Zulantay Alfaro, Inés; Solari Illescas, Aldo; Ortiz, Sylvia; Oddo, David; Corral, Gabriela; Truyens, Carine; Carlier, Yves (Society of Biology of Chile, 2010)Congenital Chagas disease acquired special importance in Chile after the certification of the control of Triatoma infestans and transmission by blood donors affected with Trypanosoma cruzi. In order to establish adequate ...