Browsing by Author "Figueroa, Guillermo"
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Figueroa, Guillermo; Portell, D. Pilar; Soto, Vivian; Troncoso, Mirian (1992)The adherence of 25 strains of Helicobacter pylori was evaluated in HEp-2 cells. These bacterial isolates, obtained from Chilean patients with gastric disorders, were also tested for haemagglutination of human red blood ...
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Pastene, Edgar; Troncoso, Miriam; Figueroa, Guillermo; Alarcón, Julio; Speisky Cosoy, Hernán (2009)Apple peel extracts and their fractions pooled according to their molecular size were prepared and evaluated for their inhibitory activity against Helicobacter pylori and Jack bean ureases. Urease Inhibitory effect of apple ...
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Faundez, Gustavo; Troncoso, Miriam; Figueroa, Guillermo (BioMed Central Ltd., 2002)Background: The cytotoxin associated gene A (cagA), and the vacuolating cytotoxin gene A (vacA) of Helicobacter pylori have been associated to phenotypic characteristics of virulence. The objectives of this study were to ...
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Araya, Magdalena; Olivares Grohnert, Manuel; Pizarro Aguirre, Fernando; Llanos, Adolfo; Figueroa, Guillermo; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo (US DEPT HEALTH HUMAN SCIENCES PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCE, 2004-07)We assessed gastrointestinal effects in 1,365 adults exposed to either < 0.01 (controls), 2, 4, or 6 mg copper/L of drinking water for 2 months in a randomized, double-blind community-based study. The risk of symptoms ...
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Guiraldes, Ernesto; Triviño, Ximena; Figueroa, Guillermo; Parker, Myriam; Gutiérrez, Carmen; Vásquez, Alicia; Harún, Abdalla (1995)This randomized trial compared the efficacy of a rice-based (50 g/L) oral rehydration solution with the standard glucose-based WHO/UNICEF solution in the treatment of 100 hospitalized infants, ages 3-18 months, with acute ...
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Brunser, Oscar; Gotteland, Martin; Cruchet, Sylvia; Figueroa, Guillermo; Garrido, Daniel; Steenhout, Philippe (2006)Antibiotics exert deleterious effects on the intestinal microbiota, favoring the emergence of opportunistic bacteria and diarrhea. Prebiotics are nondigestible food components that stimulate the growth of bifidobacteria. ...
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Figueroa, Guillermo; Araya, Magdalena; Ibáñez, Silvia; Cierc, Nadiñe; Brunser, Oscar (1986)Thirty-five infants of low socioeconomic status who were living in urban Santiago were hospitalized for acute diarrhea were prospectively evaluated for the presence of enteropathogens associated with the episode. Some ...
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Tsang, Raymond; Figueroa, Guillermo; Bryden, Louis; NG, Lai-King (American Society for Microbiology, 2001)Campylobacter jejuni recovered from patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) in different geographical locations and hearing different heat-labile and heat-stable antigens were found to have identical amino acid sequences ...
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Pastene, Edgar; Speisky Cosoy, Hernán; García, Apolinaria; Moreno, Jessica; Troncoso, Miriam; Figueroa, Guillermo (2010)The inhibitory effects of a standarized apple peel polyphenol-rich extract (APPE) against Helicobacter pylori infection and vacuolating bacterial toxin (VacA) induced vacuolation were investigated. Apple peel polyphenols ...
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Pastene, Edgar; Speisky Cosoy, Hernán; Troncoso, Miriam; Alarcón, Julio; Figueroa, Guillermo (2009)In the present work, the in vitro effect of a standardized extract of apple peel APPE (60% of total polyphenols; 58% of flavonoids; 30% of flavan-3-ols and procyanidins) was evaluated with regard to the viability of ...
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Figueroa, Guillermo; Acuña, Raul; Troncoso, Miriam; Portell, Dana P.; Toledo, Maria S.; Albornoz, Viviana; Vigneaux, Jorge (1996)Objectives: We studied prospectively in a single-blind controlled manner the efficacy of 4-wk triple-antibiotic therapy, with amoxicillin (500 mg p.o., t.i.d.), metronidazole (250 mg p.o., t.i.d.), and bismuth subsalicylate ...
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Figueroa, Guillermo; Troncoso, Miriam; Ĺopez, Cristián; Rivas, Patricia; Toro, Magaly (2009)Background. Thermotolerant Campylobacter is among the more prevalent bacterial pathogens that cause foodborne diseases. This study aimed at evaluating the occurrence of thermotolerant Campylobacter contamination in chicken ...
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Parra Flores, Julio; Holý, Ondrej; Riffo, Francisca; Lepuschitz, Sarah; Maury-Sintjago, Eduard; Rodríguez Fernández, Alejandra; Cruz Córdova, Ariadnna; Xicohtencatl Cortés, Juan; Mancilla Rojano, Jetsi; Troncoso, Miriam; Figueroa, Guillermo; Ruppitsch, Werner; Forsythe, Stephen (Frontiers Media, 2021)Cronobacter sakazakii is an enteropathogen that causes neonatal meningitis, septicemia, and necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm infants and newborns with a mortality rate of 15 to 80%. Powdered and dairy formulas (P-DF) ...
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Palza Cordero, Humberto; Gutiérrez, Sebastián; Delgado, Katherine; Salazar, Oriana; Fuenzalida Escobar, Víctor; Avila, Jonathan I.; Figueroa, Guillermo; Quijada Abarca, Juan (Wiley InterScience, 2010)A set of poly(propylene) composites containing different amounts of copper nanoparticles (CNP) were prepared by the melt mixed method and their antimicrobial behavior was quantitatively studied. The time needed to reduce ...