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Ponce, Carolina A.; Chabé, Magali; George, Claudio; Cárdenas, Alejandra; Durán, Luisa; Guerrero, Julia; Bustamante, Rebeca; Matos, Olga; Huang, Laurence; Miller, Robert F.; Vargas, Sergio L. (American Society for Microbiology, 2017)© 2017 American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.Mutations in the dihydropteroate synthase (DHPS) gene of Pneumocystis jirovecii are associated with the failure of sulfa prophylaxis. They can develop by selection ...
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Vargas, Sergio L.; Hughes, Walter T.; Wakefield, Ann E.; Oz, Helieh S. (University of Chicago, 1995)The purpose of this study was to determine the period of persistence of Pneumocystis carinii in the lungs after P. carinii pneumonitis (PCP). After primary PCP was induced with dexamethasone, experimental rats were moved ...
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Ponce, Carolina A.; Gallo, Myriam; Bustamante, Rebeca; Vargas, Sergio L. (2010)Increasing reports of Pneumocystis DNA in noninvasive respiratory specimens from immunocompetent asymptomatic adults and the characteristic lung tropism of Pneumocystis suggest that asymptomatic pulmonary infections with ...
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Vargas, Sergio L.; Ponce, Carolina A.; Gálvez, Paula; Ibarra, Carolina; Haas, Elisabeth A.; Chadwick, Amy E.; Krous, Henry F. (2007)We compared the frequency of Pneumocystis in 126 sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) cases with a control group of 24 infants from the San Diego SIDS/SUDC Research Project who died of accidental or inflicted injuries. Cysts ...
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Méndez, Andrea; Rojas, Diego A.; Ponce, Carolina A.; Bustamante, Rebeca; Beltrán, Caroll J.; Toledo, Jorge; García-Angulo, Victor A.; Henriquez, Mauricio; Vargas, Sergio L. (Public Library of Science, 2019)Clara cells are the main airway secretory cells able to regenerate epithelium in the distal airways through transdifferentiating into goblet cells, a process under negative regulation of the Notch pathway. Pneumocystis is ...
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Iturra, Pablo; Rojas, Diego A.; Pérez, Francisco J.; Méndez, Andrea; Ponce, Carolina A.; Bonilla, Paula; Bustamante, Rebeca; Rodríguez, Héctor; Beltrán, Caroll J.; Vargas, Sergio L. (Elsevier INC, 2018)Subclinical primary Pneumocystisinfection is the most common pulmonary infection in early infancy, making it important to determine whether it damages the lung. Pneumocystis peaks at 2 to 5 months of age, when respiratory ...
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Djawe, Kpandja; Daly, Kieran R.; Vargas, Sergio L.; Santolaya de Pablo, María Elena; Ponce, Carolina A.; Bustamante, Rebeca; Koch, Judith; Levin, Linda; Walzer, Peter D. (2010)Objectives: To characterize the seroepidemiological features of Pneumocystis jirovecii infection in healthy Chilean children using overlapping fragments (A, B, C) of the P. jirovecii major surface glycoprotein (Msg). ...