Browsing by Author "Luchsinger Farías, Vivian"
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(Sociedad Chilena de Infectología, 2015)Background: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is frequent in HIV adults. It is unknown usefulness of quantitative methods for diagnosing the CMV disease in Chilean patients. Aim: To determine the performance of antigenemia ...
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(Universidad de Chile, 2014)La Neumonía Adquirida en la Comunidad (NAC) es una infección aguda del parénquima pulmonar de origen extrahospitalario, causada por virus y bacterias. La gravedad de la NAC sería independiente de la etiología y dependiente ...
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(Wiley-Blackwell, 2016)Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is the third cause of death worldwide. Viruses are frequently detected in adult CAP. Highly sensitive diagnostic techniques should be used due to poor viral shedding. Different sampling ...
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(2010-04)The article summarizes the scientific evidence related with protection conferred by the 23 valent polysacchar-die vaccine against invasive pneumococcal disease, non bacteriemic pneumococcal pneumonia, and probable ...
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(SOC MEDICA SANTIAGO, 2008-11)This article briefly reviews the epidemiology of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and associated diseases globally and in Chile, and the scientific information of the licensed HPV vaccines: Garadasil (R) and Cervarix ...
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(Sociedad Médica de Chile, 2008-09)This article briefly reviews the epidemiology of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and associated diseases globally and in Chile, and the scientific information of the licensed HPV vaccines: Garadasil (R) and Cervarix ...
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(Society for General Microbiology, 2008)Diagnosis of pneumonia caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae in adults is hampered by a lack of rapid and standardized tests for detection. This prospective study was conducted to compare the diagnostic values of an indirect ...
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(UNIV CHICAGO PRESS, 2005-06-01)Fresh-frozen lung and tracheal-aspirate specimens obtained from 112 infants who died in Santiago, Chile, during 1998-2000 were analyzed for the presence of Pneumocystis DNA, by use of nested DNA amplification of the large ...
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(2008)The article briefly reviews the epidemiology of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and associated diseases in the world and in Chile and the scientific information of the licensed HPV vaccines: Gardasil® and Cervarix®. ...
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(ELSEVIER, 2008-07)Background: Human respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV) is a major cause of severe lower respiratory tract infection (LRI) in children. Distinct variants of the viruses have been described. Objective: The objective was to ...
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(2010-04)Introduction: Eye infection is a common cause of ophtalmologic consultation. Adenovirus keratoconjunctivitis outbreaks are common worldwide but its impact and clinical characteristic in Chilean population is unkown. ...
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(2013)Oxidant/antioxidant imbalance has been reported in some infectious diseases, including community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). The aim was to assess the antioxidant status in adults with CAP and its relationship with clinical ...
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(Elsevier, 2013)Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection has been associated to recurrent wheezing, but pathogenic mechanisms are unclear. Interleukin-4/Interleukin-13 (IL-4/IL-13) pathway is involved in both conditions. A common ...
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(2012-04)Background. Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has been implicated in the etiology of adult communityacquired pneumonia (CAP). We investigated RSV infection in Chilean adults with CAP using direct viral detection, real-time ...
