Browsing by Author "Mercado, Rubén"
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Weitz V., Juan Carlos; Tassara O., Renzo; Mercado, Rubén (1988)
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Mercado, Rubén; Buck, Gregory A.; Manque, Patricio A.; Ozaki, Luiz Shozo (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2007)Cryptosporidium oocysts, observed in a natural sputum sample of a patient with HIV, were further studied by using DNA markers to determine the species of the parasite. C. hominis was identified as the species infecting the ...
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Mercado, Rubén; Torres, Patricio; Maira, Jorge (Universidade de Sao Paulo, 1997)Only three cases of human infection by anisakid nematodes have been reported in Chile since 1976. In the present case, an anisakid worm, identified as a fourth-stage Pseudoterranova decipiens larva, was removed with a ...
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Human infection by Pseudoterranova decipiens (Nematoda, Anisakidae) in Chile: Report of seven cases Mercado, Rubén; Torres, Patricio; Morales Muñoz, Víctor; Apt Baruch, Werner (Fundacao Oswaldo Cruz, 2001)From 1997 to 1999, we identified seven human cases of infection by fourth stage larvae of Pseudoterranova decipiens in Chile. All identified larvae were coughed up by the patients. Subjects were 10-55 years old; five were ...
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Weitzel, Thomas; Sugiyama, Hiromu; Yamasaki, Hiroshi; Ramirez, Cristian; Rosas, Reinaldo; Mercado, Rubén (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2015)
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Jaque López, Javier; Valiente-Echeverría, Fernando; Carrasco, Marcela; Mercado, Rubén; Abarca Villaseca, Katia (Sociedad Chilena de Infectologia, 2012)Introduction: To date, there has been no definitive confirmation of the presence of zoonotic dirofilariasis in dogs in Chile. Objectives: To study the presence of dirofilarias in blood samples from dogs collected in a ...
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Mercado, Rubén; Jercic, Maria Isabel; Alcayaga, Sergio; De Paula, Fabiana M.; Ueta, Marlene T.; Costa-Cruz, Julia María (Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo, 2007)To determine the frequency of Strongyloides stercoralis antibodies by means of the enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) in Chile, in 2001-2003, 675 blood samples of patients of two psychiatric hospitals and 172 of ...