Browsing by Author "Higuera, Gastón"

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Amplification of tlh gene in other Vibrionaceae specie by specie-specific multiplex PCR of Vibrio parahaemolyticus

Yáñez, Romina; Bastías, Roberto; Higuera, Gastón; Salgado, Oscar; Katharios, Pantelis; Romero Ormazábal, Jaime; Espejo Torres, Romilio; García, Katherine (PUCV, 2015)

Background: The surveillance of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in the Chilean coast has been mainly performed by multiplex PCR amplification of three different hemolysin genes, which are specie-specific virulence factors. These ...
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Inactivated E. coli transformed with plasmids that produce dsRNA against infectious salmon anemia virus ...

Katherin, García; Ramírez Araya, Sebastián; Díaz, Álvaro; Reyes Cerpa, Sebastián; Espejo Torres, Romilio; Higuera, Gastón; Higuera, Gastón; Romero Ormazábal, Jaime (Frontiers Research Foundation, 2015)

Infectious salmon anemia virus (ISAV) has caused great losses to the Chilean salmon industry, and the success of prevention and treatment strategies is uncertain. The use of RNA interference (RNAi) is a promising approach ...
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A new group of cosmopolitan bacteriophages induce a carrier state in the pandemic strain of Vibrio parahaemolyticus

Bastías, Roberto; Higuera, Gastón; Sierralta, Walter; Espejo Torres, Romilio (Society for Applied Microbiology and Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2010)

A clonal population of pathogenic Vibrio parahaemolyticus O3 : K6 serovar has spread in coastal waters, causing outbreaks worldwide since 1996. Bacteriophage infection is one of the main factors affecting bacterial ...