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    • Case-control study of risk factors for meningococcal disease in Chile 
      Olea, Andrea; Matute, Isabel; González, Claudia; Delgado, Iris; Poffald, Lucy; Pedroni, Elena; Alfaro Morgado, Tania; Hirmas, Macarena; Nájera, Manuel; Gormaz, Ana; López, Darío; Loayza, Sergio; Ferreccio, Catterina; Gallegos, Doris; Fuentes, Rodrigo; Vial, Pablo; Aguilera, Ximena (Centers Disease Control, 2017)
      An outbreak of meningococcal disease with a case-fatality rate of 30% and caused by predominantly serogroup W of Neisseria meningitidis began in Chile in 2012. This outbreak required a case-control study to assess determinants ...
    • Clinical features and prognostic factors of meningococcal disease: A case series study in Chile during the ... 
      Matute, Isabel; Olea, Andrea; López, Darío; Loayza, Sergio; Nájera, Manuel; Arenas González, Claudia; Poffald, Lucy; Hirmas, Macarena; Delgado, Iris; Pedroni, Elena; Alfaro, Tania; Gormaz, Ana María; Sanhueza, Gabriel; Vial, Pablo; Dabanch, Jeannette; Gallegos, Doris; Aguilera, (Sociedad Chilena de Infectologia, 2015)
      © 2015, Sociedad Chilena de Infectologia. All rights reserved.Introduction: Meningococcal disease (MD) is a major global problem because of its case fatality rate and sequels. Since 2012 cases of serogroup W have increased ...
    • Patterns of adherence of diarrheagenic escherichia coli to HEp-2 cells 
      Nataro, James P.; Kaper, James B.; Robins-Browne, Roy; Prado Jiménez, Valeria; Vial, Pablo; Levine, Myron M. (1987)
      A total of 516 Escherichia coli strains randomly isolated from coprocultures of 154 Chilean children with diarrhea and 66 controls were examined with DNA probes and tested for adherence to HEp-2 cells. Three adherence ...