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Alzamora, Alejandra; Correa, Paola; Gaggero, Eduardo; Acuña Retamar, Mariana; Catan, Pedro E. (2007)The aim of this study was to compare the feeding and defecation behaviour of wild and laboratory-reared specimens of Mepraia spinolai confronted to the rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus, and the wild rodent, Octodon degus ...
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Cautivo, Karla; Schountz, Tony; Acuña Retamar, Mariana; Ferrés, Marcela; Torres Pérez, Fernando (2014)We assessed the utility of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the detection of hantavirus-specific antibodies from sera of Oligoryzomys longicaudatus, the principal reservoir of Andes virus (ANDV), using an ...
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Botto Mahan, Carezza; Cattan Ayala, Pedro; Canals Lambarri, Mauricio; Acuña Retamar, Mariana (ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2005-08)n this study, we quantify the home range of Mepraia spinolai, a wild vector of Trypanosoma cruzi, and the abundance of wild mammals during summer and winter seasons in a protected area of north-central Chile. Results ...
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Torres Pérez, Fernando; Acuña Retamar, Mariana; Cook, Joseph A.; Bacigalupo, Antonella; García Mora, Alejandro; Cattan Ayala, Pedro (Elsevier, 2011)Chagas disease is one of the most important vector-borne diseases in Latin America. The disease, caused by the flagellate protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, is commonly transmitted to humans by Triatoma infestans in South ...
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Campos, Ricardo; Acuña Retamar, Mariana; Botto Mahan, Carezza; Ortiz Zúñiga, Sylvia; Cattan Ayala, Pedro; Solari Illescas, Aldo (ELSEVIER, 2007)Trypanosoma cruzi is the causative agent of Chagas disease, a zoonosis involving domestic and sylvatic mammalian reservoirs. Since scarce information has been published about the susceptibility of T. cruzi lineages to ...
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Botto Mahan, Carezza; Campos, Ricardo; Acuña Retamar, Mariana; Coronado, Ximena; Cattan Ayala, Pedro; Solari Illescas, Aldo (2010)In the present study, we compared Trypanosoma cruzi infection in four native mammals from a hyperendemic area of Chagas disease in Chile for two different periods to assess the occurrence of interannual variation (1999– 2000 ...
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Campbell, Corey L.; Torres Pérez, Fernando; Acuña Retamar, Mariana; Schountz, Tony (Public Library Science, 2015)Long-tailed pygmy rice rats (Oligoryzomys longicaudatus) are principal reservoir hosts of Andes virus (ANDV) (Bunyaviridae), which causes most hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome cases in the Americas. To develop tools for ...