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    • Navarrete Mariscal, Diana Lía (Universidad de Chile, 2013)
      Las alteraciones conductuales son consideradas causa y síntoma de un problema de bienestar animal. Generalmente se han asociado a condiciones de estabulación y de manejo sub-óptimas, así como a factores intrínsecos del ...
    • Navarrete, D.; Hamilton-West Miranda, Christopher; Stephens, N.; Weber, C.; Tadich Gallo, Tamara (Universidad Austral de Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, 2015)
      Behaviour alterations are considered as cause and symptom of poor animal welfare. Generally they have been associated to suboptimal husbandry practices and intrinsic factors of horses. The aim of this study was to indentify ...
    • Alegría Moran, Raúl; Rivera, D.; Toledo, V.; Moreno Switt, A. I.; Hamilton-West Miranda, Christopher (Cambridge University Press, 2017)
      Little is known about Salmonella serovars circulating in backyard poultry and swine populations worldwide. Backyard production systems (BPS) that raise swine and/or poultry are distributed across Chile, but are more heavily ...
    • Meza Deutelmoser, Carolina Tatiana (Universidad de Chile, 2013)
      La emergencia de patógenos zoonóticos, está dada por la combinación de diversos factores que permiten su diseminación, como la interrelación entre especies de animales silvestres, domésticas y el humano. La cercanía entre ...
    • Butto, N.; Hamilton-West Miranda, Christopher; Arias, José I. (Czech Academy Agricultural Sciences, 2018)
      External skeletal fixation has been used for the management of fractures of many types of bone. The use of polymeric free-form connecting bars in external fixators has become widely used in veterinary orthopaedics because ...
    • Valenzuela Venegas, Carolina; Olivares Grohnert, Manuel; Brito, Alex; Hamilton-West Miranda, Christopher; Pizarro Aguirre, Fernando (Springer, 2013)
      Although a 40%absorption of a standard reference dose corresponds to iron (Fe) absorption in borderline Fedeficient subjects, this percentage is currently applied to all subjects independent of Fe status: (a) to assess ...
    • Jiménez Bluhm, Pedro; Bravo Vásquez, Nicolás; Torchetti, Mia K.; Killian, Mary L.; Livingston, Brandi; Herrera, José; Fuentes, Mauricio; Schultz Cherry, Stacey; Hamilton-West Miranda, Christopher (Taylor and Francis, 2019)
      In late 2016, an H7N6 low pathogenic avian influenza virus outbreak occurred in domestic turkeys in Central Chile. We characterized the genetic and antigenic properties of the outbreak virus and its experimental transmission ...
    • Di Pillo, Francisca; Jimenez-Bluhm, Pedro; Baumberger, Cecilia; Marambio, Víctor; Galdames, Pablo; Monti, Gustavo; Schultz Cherry, Stacey; Hamilton-West Miranda, Christopher (Frontiers Media, 2020)
      During the last 5 years there has been an alarming number of reports of highly pathogenic avian influenza worldwide. However, little is known about the status of this disease in South America. Chile has been the only country ...
    • Bravo Vásquez, Nicolás; Di Pillo Sanhueza, Francisca; Lazo Quezada, Juan; Jiménez Bluhm, Pedro; Schultz Cherry, Stacey; Hamilton-West Miranda, Christopher (Elsevier, 2016)
      In South America little is known regarding influenza virus circulating in backyard poultry and swine populations. Backyard productive systems (BPS) that breed swine and poultry are widely distributed throughout Chile with ...
    • Yatabe, T.; Arriagada, G.; Hamilton-West Miranda, Christopher; Urcelay Vicente, Santiago Patricio (WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2011-05)
      Sea lice, Caligus rogercresseyi, are ectoparasitic copepods, which severely affect the salmon farming industry in southern Chile, reducing the health status of fish and producing both direct and indirect economic losses. ...
    • Navarrete, D.; Hamilton-West Miranda, Christopher; Stephens, N.; Weber, C.; Tadich Gallo, Tamara (Universidad Austral de Chile, 2015)
      Behaviour alterations are considered as cause and symptom of poor animal welfare. Generally they have been associated to suboptimal husbandry practices and intrinsic factors of horses. The aim of this study was to indentify ...
    • Rivera O., Dácil; Rojas O., Hernán; Urcelay Vicente, Santiago Patricio; Hamilton-West Miranda, Christopher (Universidad de Chile, 2012)
      La condición sanitaria de los países y la inocuidad de sus productos se han convertido en la principal limitante para el comercio internacional de productos pecuarios, en un escenario de globalización y liberación de ...
    • Hervé Claude, Luis Pablo; Lavado A., Alan; Rivera O., Dacil; Navarrete Talloni, María; Hamilton-West Miranda, Christopher (Universidad de Córdoba, Colombia, 2017)
      Objective. To provide information about seroprevalence and risk factors of Neospora caninum infection in bovines of central Chile. Material and Methods. The study population are small dairy farms that are part of a Government ...
    • Dueñas, Fernando; Rivera, Dácil; Toledo, Viviana; Tardone, Rodolfo; Hervé Claude, Luis Pablo; Hamilton-West Miranda, Christopher; Moreno Switt, Andrea I. (Elsevier, 2017)
      Salmonella enterica can cause disease and mortality in calves. This pathogen is also a zoonosis that can be transmitted by animal contact or by food. The prevalence of Salmonella in dairy farms has been reported to range ...
    • Penna Varela, Mario; Hamilton-West Miranda, Christopher (ACADEMIC PRESS LTD ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2007-07)
      Animals that communicate by means of acoustic signals show diverse strategies in the presence of noise interference. Penna et al. (2005, Animal Behaviour, 70, 639e651) found that the leptodactylid frog Eupsophus calcaratus ...
    • Ruiz Philipps, Soledad; Jiménez Bluhm, Pedro; Di Pillo, Francisca; Baumberger, Cecilia; Galdames Alarcón, Pablo; Marambio Romero, Victor; Salazar, Carla; Mattar Bader, Cristián; Sanhueza, Juan; Schultz-Cherry, Stacey; Hamilton-West Miranda, Christopher (Wiley, 2020)
      Although wild birds are considered the main reservoir of the influenza A virus (IAV) in nature, empirical investigations exploring the interaction between the IAV prevalence in these populations and environmental drivers ...
    • Soza Ossandón, Paula; Rivera, Dácil; Tardone, Rodolfo; Riquelme Neira, Rodolfo; García, Patricia; Hamilton-West Miranda, Christopher; Adell, Aiko D.; González Rocha, Gerardo; Moreno Switt, Andrea (Frontiers Media, 2020)
      Salmonella entericais a highly infectious microorganism responsible for many outbreaks reported in equine hospitals. Outbreaks are characterized by high morbidity and mortality rates, nosocomial transmission to other ...
    • Jiménez Bluhm, Pedro; Karlsson, Erik A.; Freiden, Pamela; Sharp, Bridgett; Di Pillo, Francisca; Osorio, Jorge E.; Hamilton-West Miranda, Christopher; Schultz Cherry, Stacey (Nature Publishing Group, 2018)
      While the circulation of avian influenza viruses (IAV) in wild birds in the northern hemisphere has been well documented, data from South America remain sparse. To address this gap in knowledge, we undertook IAV surveillance ...