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    • Céspedes, Sandra; Saitz Rojas, Waleska; Canto Fuentes, Felipe del; Fuente, Marjorie de la; Quera Pino, Rodrigo; Hermoso Ramello, Marcela; Muñoz, Raúl; Ginard, Daniel; Khorrami, Sam; Jorge, Girón; Assar Cuevas, Rodrigo; Rosello Mora, Ramón; Vidal Álvarez, Roberto (Frontiers Media, 2017)
      Adherent-invasive Escherichia coli (AIEC) strains are genetically variable and virulence factors for AIEC are non-specific. FimH is the most studied pathogenicity-related protein, and there have been few studies on other ...
    • Araya, Pamela; Fernández, Jorge; Canto Fuentes, Felipe del; Seoane, Mabel; Ibarz Pavón, Ana; Barra, Gisselle; Pidal, Paola; Díaz, Janepsy; Hormazábal, Juan; Valenzuela, María (Centers Disease Control, 2015)
      Serogroup W Neisseria meningitidis was the main cause of invasive meningococcal disease in Chile during 2012. The case-fatality rate for this disease was higher than in previous years. Genotyping of meningococci isolated ...
    • Gutiérrez, Daniela; Pardo, Mirka; Montero, David; Oñate, Ángel; Mauricio, Farfán; Ruiz Pérez, Fernando; Canto Fuentes, Felipe del; Vidal Álvarez, Roberto (AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY, 2015)
      Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC), a leading cause of acute diarrhea, colonizes the intestine by means of adhesins. However, 15 to 50% of clinical isolates are negative for known adhesins, making it difficult to ...
    • Riquelme Neira, Roberto; Rivera, Alejandra; Sáez, Darwin; Fernández, Pablo; Osorio Abarzúa, Carlos Gonzalo; Canto Fuentes, Felipe del; Salazar Garrido, Juan; Vidal Álvarez, Roberto; Oñate, Angel (Frontiers Media S.A., 2016)
      Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coil (EHEC) O157:H7 is the predominant causative agent of hemorrhagic colitis in humans and is the cause of haemolytic uraemic syndrome and other illnesses. Cattle have been implicated as the ...