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    • Ulloa Flores, María Teresa; Porte T., Lorena; Braun J., Stephanie; Dabanch P., Jeannette; Fica Cubillos, Alberto; Henríquez A., Tania; Osorio Abarzúa, Carlos Gonzalo (Sociedad Chilena de Infectología, 2011)
      Pathogenic Vibrio cholerae isolates, the etiologic agents of cholera, generally express one of two O antigens (O1 or O139). Most environmental isolates are nonpathogenic and are referred to as “non-O1, non-O139”. However some ...
    • Núñez, Harold; Ulloa Flores, María Teresa; Guerra, Fabiola; Osorio Abarzúa, Carlos Gonzalo (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2009)
      Background: Most clinical isolates of Vibrio parahaemolyticus produce a major virulence factor known as the thermostable direct hemolysin (TDH). TDH is encoded by the tdh gene which is located in a genomic pathogenicity ...
    • Briceño L., Isabel; Puebla A., Claudio; Guerra A., Francisco; Jensen F., Daniela; Núñez B., Harold; Ulloa Flores, María Teresa; Osorio Abarzúa, Carlos Gonzalo (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2009)
      We report a 70-year-old woman, who had recently consumed shellfish, that was admitted to the intensive care unit with septic shock and died 19 hours later due to a multi-organic failure. Microbiological, serological and ...