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Yáñez, Romina; Bastías, Roberto; Higuera, Gastón; Salgado, Oscar; Katharios, Pantelis; Romero Ormazábal, Jaime; Espejo Torres, Romilio; García, Katherine (PUCV, 2015)Background: The surveillance of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in the Chilean coast has been mainly performed by multiplex PCR amplification of three different hemolysin genes, which are specie-specific virulence factors. These ...
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Comparative Genome Analysis Provides Insights into the Pathogenicity of Flavobacterium psychrophilum Castillo, Daniel; Christiansen, Rói Hammershaimb; Dalsgaard, Inger; Madsen, Lone; Espejo Torres, Romilio; Middelboe, Mathias (Public Library Science, 2016)Flavobacterium psychrophilum is a fish pathogen in salmonid aquaculture worldwide that causes cold water disease (CWD) and rainbow trout fry syndrome (RTFS). Comparative genome analyses of 11 F. psychrophilum isolates ...
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González Escalona, Narjol; Martínez Urtaza, Jaime; Romero Ormazábal, Jaime; Espejo Torres, Romilio; Jaykus, Lee-Ann; De Paola, Angelo (AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY, 2008-04)Vibrio parahaemolyticus is an important human pathogen whose transmission is associated with the consumption of contaminated seafood. There is a growing public health concern due to the emergence of a pandemic strain causing ...
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Castillo, Daniel; Christiansen, Rói Hammershaimb; Espejo Torres, Romilio; Middelboe, Mathias (Springer, 2014)Flavobacterium psychrophilum is an important fish pathogen worldwide that causes cold water disease (CWD) or rainbow trout fry syndrome (RTFS). Phage therapy has been suggested as an alternative method for the control ...
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Castillo, D.; Higuera, G.; Villa, M.; Middelboe, M.; Dalsgaard, I.; Madsen, L.; Espejo Torres, Romilio (Blackwell, 2012)Flavobacterium psychrophilum causes rainbow trout fry syndrome (RTFS) and cold water disease (CWD) in salmonid aquaculture. We report characterization of F. psychrophilum strains and their bacteriophages isolated in ...
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Navarrete Wallace, Paola; Toledo, Isabel; Mardones, Pamela; Opazo, Rafael; Espejo Torres, Romilio; Romero Ormazábal, Jaime (WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, 2010-09-16)The application of natural and innocuous compounds has potential in aquaculture as an alternative to antibiotics. We evaluated the effect of diet supplementation with Thymus vulgaris essential oil (TVEO) on the allochthonous ...
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Loyola, David E.; Navarro, Cristell; Uribe, Paulina; García, Katherine; Mella, Claudia; Díaz, Diego; Valdes, Natalia; Martínez Urtaza, Jaime; Espejo Torres, Romilio (BioMed Central, 2015)Background: New strains of Vibrio parahaemolyticus that cause diarrhea in humans by seafood ingestion periodically emerge through continuous evolution in the ocean. Influx and expansion in the Southern Chilean ocean of ...
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Castillo, Daniel; Espejo Torres, Romilio; Middelboe, Mathias (John Wiley & Sons, 2014)Flavobacterium psychrophilum is currently one of the most devastating fish pathogens worldwide causing considerable economic losses in salmonid aquaculture. Recently, attention has been drawn to the use of phages for ...
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Espejo Torres, Romilio; García, Katherine; Plaza, Nicolás (Frontiers media SA, 2017)A strain of Vibrio parahaemolyticus that emerged in 1995 caused the first known pandemic involving this species. This strain comprises clonal autochthonous ocean-dwelling bacteria whose evolution has occurred in the ocean ...
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Timmis, Kenneth; Jebok, Franziska; Espejo Torres, Romilio (Wiley, 2017)
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García, Katherine; Gavilán, Ronnie G.; Höfle, Manfred G.; Martínez Urtaza, Jaime; Espejo Torres, Romilio (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2012-01-24)The emergence of the pandemic strain Vibrio parahaemolyticus O3:K6 in 1996 caused a large increase of diarrhea outbreaks related to seafood consumption in Southeast Asia, and later worldwide. Isolates of this strain ...
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González Escalona, Narjol; Romero Ormazábal, Jaime; Espejo Torres, Romilio (ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2005-05-15)The genome sequence of a strain of Vibrio parahaemolyticus holds 11 copies of rRNA operons (rrn) with identical 16S rRNA genes (rrs). Conversely, the species type strain contains two rrs classes differing in 10 nucleotide ...
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González Escalona, Narjol; Fey, Axel; Hofle, Manfred G.; Espejo Torres, Romilio; Guzmán, Carlos A. (BLACKWELL, 2006-04)We performed a comparative analysis of the Vibrio cholerae strain El Tor 3083 entering the viable but non-culturable (VBNC) state and starvation after incubation in artificial seawater (ASW) at 4 and 15 degrees C respectively. ...
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Cabello, Alicia; Espejo Torres, Romilio; Romero Ormazábal, Jaime (ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2005-12-27)Oysters feed by removing particles from the water. This food is composed of complex mixtures of living microorganisms, detrtus, and inorganic particles that widely range in size. It has been speculated that some marine ...
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González Escalona, Narjol; Cachicas, Viviana; Acevedo, Claudia; Rioseco, María; Vergara, Juan; Cabello, Felipe C.; Romero Ormazábal, Jaime; Espejo Torres, Romilio (CENTER DISEASE CONTROL, 2005-01)Analysis of clinical isolates of Vibrio parahaemolyticus from outbreaks in Chile in the cities of Puerto Montt in 2004 and Antofagasta in 1998 indicated that 23 of 24 isolates from Puerto Montt and 19 of 20 from Antofagasta ...
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Fuenzalida, Loreto; Hernández, Cristina; Toro, Jessica; Rioseco, M. Luisa; Romero Ormazábal, Jaime; Espejo Torres, Romilio (BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, 2006-04)Large epidemics of diarrhoea associated with seafood consumption and Vibrio parahaemolyticus occurred during the austral summers of 2004 and 2005 in the environs of Puerto Montt, Chile (41 degrees 29'S 72 degrees 24'W). ...
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González Escalona, N.; Moreno, C. X.; Romero Ormazábal, Jaime; Espejo Torres, Romilio (2010)Vibrio parahaemolyticus species type strain ATCC 18702T contains two 16S rRNA gene (rrs) types in the 11 ribosomal operons. The differences between these two rrs types are concentrated in a variable stem loop and can be ...