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    • Fuentes, Marisol; Hernández, Romané; Gordillo, Diego; Amaro, José; Falconer, Mary A.; Alburquenque, Claudio; Tapia Paredes, Cecilia (2014)
      Background: Melanocytes are cells located in epidermis and mucous membranes that synthesize melanin and cytokines. It is known that melanin has antimicrobial activity and that melanocytes are melanized in presence ...
    • Alburquenque, Claudio; Bucarey Vivanco, Sergio; Neira Carrillo, Andrónico; Urzúa Orellana, Blanca; Hermosilla Díaz, Germán; Tapia Paredes, Cecilia (TAYLOR & FRANCIS, 2010-12)
      Chitosan is a natural polymer derived from chitin, a structural component of fungi, insects and shrimp, which exerts antimicrobial effects against bacteria and fungi. The aim of this study was to investigate the in vitro ...
    • Chanqueo C., Leonardo; Gutiérrez R., Catalina; Armas-Merino, Rodolfo; Urriola Jofré, Gabriela; Bustos M., Marisol; Tapia Paredes, Cecilia; Vásquez T., Patricia (SOC MEDICA SANTIAGO, 2008-02)
      L.monocytogenes infections are infrequent. Sepsis in pregnant women and newborns and central nervous system infections in the elderly are the most common clinical manifestations. We report a 61 years old woman with diabetes ...
    • Tapia Paredes, Cecilia (Sociedad Chilena de Infectología, 2008-08)
      Es una levadura saprófita, que forma parte de la microbiota comensal. Inicialmente fue clasificada como Cryptococcus glabratus (1917) y posteriormente reclasificada como Torulopsis glabrata (1938) debido a que sus ...
    • Tapia Paredes, Cecilia; Correa, Néstor (Sociedad Chilena de Infectología, 2015)
    • Alburquenque, Claudio; Beltrán, Sebastian; Olivares Castillo, Roberto; Falconer, Mary A.; Amaro, José; Fuentes, Marisol; Tapia Paredes, Cecilia (2013)
      Background: The most of the surveillance studies has been conducted in hospitalized patients with invasive infections. Recently, new clinical breakpoints (CBPs) have been proposed for antifungal susceptibility testing and ...
    • Fuentes Sánchez, Marisol América (Universidad de Chile, 2014)
      Las infecciones fúngicas o micosis son infecciones producidas por hongos oportunistas y/o patógenos que pueden ser superficiales o sistémicas. El agente etiológico más importante a nivel mundial de estas infecciones es ...
    • Tapia Paredes, Cecilia; Amaro, José (Sociedad Chilena de Infectología, 2014)
    • Rodas, Paula; Alamos Musre, A.; Alvarez, Francisca; Escobar Alvarez, Alejandro; Tapia Paredes, Cecilia; Osorio, Eduardo; Otero, Carolina; Calderón, Iván; Fuentes, Juan A.; Gil, Fernando; Paredes Sabja, Daniel; Christodoulides, Myron (Oxford University Press, 2016)
      The ADP-ribosylating enzymes are encoded in many pathogenic bacteria in order to affect essential functions of the host. In this study, we show that Neisseria gonorrhoeae possess a locus that corresponds to the ...