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Chronic Chagas cardiopathy in Chile. Importance of Trypanosoma cruzi burden and clinical evaluation Apt Baruch, Werner; Arribada Contreras, Julio; Zulantay Alfaro, Inés; Saavedra, Miguel; Muñoz, Catalina; Toro, Bruno; Vega, Bastián; Rodríguez Tobar, Jorge (Elsevier, 2016)Currently there are no biological markers to indicate which individuals with chronic indeterminate period of Chagas disease develop heart disease and who will remain all his life in this phase. The aim of this survey was ...
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Sandoval Rodríguez, Alejandra; Rojo, Gemma; López, Angélica; Ortiz, Sylvia; Saavedra, Miguel; Botto Mahan, Carezza; Cattan Ayala, Pedro; Solari, Aldo (Elsevier B.V., 2019)© 2018 Elsevier B.V. Chagas disease is a vector-borne disease caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, and transmitted by triatomine insects to several mammal species. In Chile, the wild triatomine species are the endemic ...
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Zulantay Alfaro, Inés; Apt Baruch, Werner; Valencia, Claudio; Torres, Alberto; Saavedra, Miguel; Sánchez Rodríguez, Jorge E.; Sandoval, Lea; Martínez, Gabriela; Thieme, Patricio; Sepúlveda, Eduardo (2011)Objectives: This study compared three parasitological methods applied simultaneously in individuals with untreated chronic Chagas' disease in order to determine their individual and combined performances. Methods: From a ...
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Muñoz San Martín, Catalina; Zulantay Alfaro, Inés; Saavedra, Miguel; Fuentealba, Cristián; Muñoz, Gabriela; Apt Baruch, Werner (Elsevier B.V., 2018)© 2018 Elsevier B.V. Chagas disease is a major public health problem in Latin America and has spread to other countries due to immigration of infected persons. 10–30% of patients with chronic Chagas disease will develop ...
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Saavedra, Miguel; Zulantay Alfaro, Inés; Apt Baruch, Werner; Castillo, Juan; Araya, Eduardo; Martínez, Gabriela; Sánchez Rodríguez, Jorge E. (BioMed Central Ltd., 2016)© 2016 The Author(s).Background: Trypanosoma cruzi multiplies and differentiates in the digestive tract of triatomine insects. Xenodiagnosis (XD) is a parasitological tool in which the insect vectors acts as a biological ...
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Bravo, Nicolás; Mũoz, Catalina; Nazal, Nicolás; Saavedra, Miguel; Martínez, Gabriela; Acha Araya, Eduardo Javier; Apt Baruch, Werner; Zulantay Alfaro, Inés (2012)Background: The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has proved to be a sensitive technique to detect Trypanosoma cruzi in the chronic phase of Chagas disease, which is characterized by low and fluctuating parasitemia. Another ...
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Wuth Sepúlveda, Jorge; Correa, Pedro; Núñez González, Tomás; Saavedra Mayorga, Matías; Becerra Yoma, Néstor (Springer, 2020)The role and relevance of speech synthesis and speech recognition in social robotics is addressed in this paper. To increase the generality of this study, the interaction of a human being with one and two robots when ...
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Ortiz, Sylvia; Zulantay Alfaro, Inés; Apt Baruch, Werner; Saavedra, Miguel; Solari Illescas, Aldo (Elsevier Ireland Ltd, 2015)© 2014 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. The etiologic agent of Chagas disease is Trypanosoma cruzi, a protozoan whose life cycle involves obligatory passage through vertebrate and invertebrate hosts in a series of stages. The aim of ...
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Apt Baruch, Werner; Arribada, Arturo; Zulantay Alfaro, Inés; Saavedra, Miguel; Araya, Eduardo; Solari Illescas, Aldo; Ortiz, Sylvia; Arriagada, Katherine; Sánchez Rodríguez, Jorge E. (Springer Verlag, 2015)© 2015, The Author(s).There are currently no biomarkers to assess which patients with chronic indeterminate Chagas disease will develop heart disease and which will spend their entire life in this state. We hypothetize ...
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Canals Lambarri, Mauricio; Yáñez González, Christian Ariel; Canals, Lucía; Canals Cifuentes, Andrea; Cáceres, Dante; Alvarado, Sergio A.; Cattan Ayala, Pedro; Saavedra, Miguel; Zulantay Alfaro, Inés; Apt Baruch, Werner (Sociedad Chilena de Infectologia, 2017)©, 2017 Sociedad Chilena de Infectologia. All rights reserved.Chagas disease remains highly prevalent in Chile, especially between the regions of Arica and Parinacota, and Coquimbo. Since 1999 it is considered that in Chile ...
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Rojo, Gemma; Sandoval Rodríguez, Alejandra; López, Angélica; Ortiz Zuñiga, Sylvia; Correa, Juana P.; Saavedra, Miguel; Botto Mahan, Carezza; Cattan Ayala, Pedro; Solari Illescas, Aldo (BIOMED Central Ltd., 2017)Background: Chagas disease caused by Trypanosoma cruzi is considered a major public health problem in America. After an acute phase the disease changes to a chronic phase with very low parasitemia. The parasite presents ...