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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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Pérez Brocal, Vicente; Magne, Fabien; Ruiz Ruiz, Susana; Ponce, Carolina A.; Bustamante, Rebeca; San Martín, Viviana; Gutiérrez, Mireya; Gatti, Gianna; Vargas Munita, Sergio; Moya, Andrés (Nature, 2020)Human lungs harbor a scarce microbial community, requiring to develop methods to enhance the recovery of nucleic acids from bacteria and fungi, leading to a more efficient analysis of the lung tissue microbiota. Here we ...
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Vargas Munita, Sergio; Pizarro, Patricia; López Vieyra, Mónica; Neira Avilés, Patricia; Bustamante, Rebeca; Ponce, Carolina A. (Univ Chicago, 2010)The presence of Pneumocystis was assessed in oropharyngeal wash specimens from 110 adults (median age, 76 years; age range, 69–95 years), 66 of whom had a paired nasal swab specimen. Pneumocystis jirovecii DNA was ...
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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 Munita, Sergio; Ponce, Carolina Angélica; Sánchez, Catherine Andrea; Ulloa, Ana Victoria; Bustamante, Rebeca; Juárez, Guido (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2003)
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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). ...