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    • Pizarro Aguirre, Fernando; Araya, Magdalena; Vásquez, Marcela; Lagos, Gustavo; Olivares, Manuel; Méndez, Marco A.; Leyton Dinamarca, Bárbara; Reyes, Arturo; Letelier, Victoria; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo (Humana Press Inc., 2007)
      Several families of Talca city, Chile complained to health authorities for what they attributed to consumption of copper (Cu)-contaminated drinking water. We assessed the situation 6-12 mo after the initiation of complaints ...
    • Meléndez, Pedro; Ramírez, Romina; Marín, María P.; Duchens Arancibia, Mario (Elsevier, 2020)
      The objective of this study was to compare the effect of linseed and canola expeller on average daily weight gain (ADG), concentrate intakes, incidence of diarrhea, serum haptoglobin, interleukin (IL)-1, and resolvin-E1 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Muñoz, Pamela; Mercado P., Rubén; Morales, Gabriela; Bravo, Viviana; Raffo Carvajal, Eduardo (Universidad de Cordoba, 2014)
      Objective. To determine the Cryptosporidium spp. infection frequency by using Ziehl-Neelsen and Auramine stains on samples obtained from diarrheic calves from milking farms of the Valdivia province. To compare both diagnostic ...
    • Gallardo Schall, Pablo; Izquierdo, Mariana; Vidal Álvarez, Roberto; Chamorro Veloso, Nayaret; Rossello Mora, Ramón; O'Ryan Gallardo, Miguel; Farfán Urzúa, Mauricio (Frontiers media SA, 2017)
      Background: Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli (DEC) strains are a major cause of diarrhea in children under 5 years of age worldwide. DEC pathogenicity relies on the interaction of bacteria with environmental factors, including ...
    • Bravo, María Verónica; Bunout Barnett, Daniel; Leiva, Laura; Maza Cave, María Pía de la; Barrera, Gladys; De La Maza, Javier; Hirsch Birn, Sandra (2008)
      Background: Antibiotic-associated diarrhea is one of the most common adverse effects of antimicrobials. Any antimicrobial can potentially produce diarrhea but beta-lactamics have a higher risk. Among these, amoxicillin is ...
    • 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 ...
    • Ferreccio, Catterine; Prado Jiménez, Valeria; Ojeda, Alicia; Cayyazo, Marisol; Abrego, Paulina; Guers, Linda; Levine, Myron M. (Oxford University Press, 1991)
      To prepare a field site for evaluating preventive interventions against endemic shigellosis, the authors followed prospectively a cohort of 360 children (90 each of children aged 0-11,12-23, 24-35, and 36-47 months) in ...
    • Valdebenito, Carlos; Bonacic, Macarena; Matamala, Jennifer; Wolff Reyes, Marcelo (Sociedad Chilena de Infectologia, 2015)
      © 2015, Rev Chilena Infectol. All right reserved. We report a case of a middle-age male patient, with newly HIV infection in AIDS stage diagnosis, no comorbitidies, who was hospitalized for subacute malaise, fever, ...
    • Ruz,; Solomons, (1994)
      The rate of fecal excretion of zinc and its concentration in each diarrheal stool was determined in 24 male Guatemalan children admitted to a rehydration unit for acute, infectious diarrhea and randomized to receive either ...
    • Gallardo Schall, Pablo; Izquierdo Tramon, Mariana; Vidal Álvarez, Roberto; Soto Barrientos, Francisco; Ossa Alemparte, Juan; Farfán Urzúa, Mauricio (Frontiers Media, 2020)
      Background:DiarrheagenicEscherichia coli(DEC) strains are a main cause of diarrhea worldwide in children under 5 years old. DEC virulence is strongly regulated by environmental conditions and metabolites produced by the ...
    • O'Ryan Gallardo, Miguel; Díaz, Janepsy; Mamani Manzano, Nora; Navarrete, Marisol; Vallebuono, Clelia (2007)
      BACKGROUND: Incorporation of new rotavirus vaccines into national programs of developing countries will rely on well-designed cost-effective analysis based on accurate assessment of disease burden. For Chile, rotavirus ...
    • Espejo Torres, Romilio; García, Katherine; Plaza, Nicolás (Frontiers media SA, 2017)
      A strain of Vibrio parahaemolyticus that emerged in 1995 caused the first known pandemic involving this species. This strain comprises clonal autochthonous ocean-dwelling bacteria whose evolution has occurred in the ocean ...
    • Villanueva Choquehuanca, Mónica; Faúndez Herrera, Rossana; Godoy, Marcela (Sociedad Chilena de Pediatría, 2020)
      SARS-CoV-2 es un virus de alta estabilidad ambiental. Es principalmente un patógeno respiratorio que también afecta el tracto gastrointestinal. El receptor ACE2 es el principal receptor de SARSCoV- 2, hay evidencia de ...
    • Mercado Pedraza, Rubén; Peña, Sebastián; Shozo Ozaki, Luiz; Fredes Martínez, Fernando; Godoy, Juan (Springer, 2015)
      To further understand the composition of population of parasite in a single host, we analyzed the GP60 gene of Cryptosporidium parvum amplified from DNA of a randomly selected isolate found in the feces of a diarrheic ...
    • O'Ryan Gallardo, Miguel (2007)
      Rotavirus is the most common cause of severe gastroenteritis in children younger than 3 years of age worldwide. New rotavirus vaccine candidates were required to confer early protection against the most common rotavirus ...
    • Lo Vecchio, Andrea; Liguoro, Ilaria; Dias, Jorge Amil; Berkley, James A.; Boey, Chris; Cohen, Mitchell B.; Cruchet, Sylvia; Salazar-Lindo, Eduardo; Podder, Samir; Sandhu, Bhupinder; Sherman, Philip M.; Shimizu, Toshiaki; Guarino, Alfredo (Elsevier Ltd, 2017)
      © 2017 Elsevier Ltd Background Rotavirus (RV) is a major agent of gastroenteritis and an important cause of child death worldwide. Immunization (RVI) has been available since 2006, and the Federation of International ...
    • O'Ryan Gallardo, Miguel; Hermosilla Díaz, Germán; Osorio Abarzúa, Carlos Gonzalo (Lippincott Williams, 2009)
      The authors discuss the most relevant information in the field of rotavirus vaccines published from October 2007 to June 2009; new information on the virus, host response and disease burden that relate to our understanding ...
    • Soledad Carrasco, L.; Veronica Solari, G. M V; Valeria Prado, J.; Lorna Suazo, C.; Carolina Arellano, C. T A; Margarita Hernandez, C. E U; Cecilia Espinoza, A. E U (2000)
      In autumn 1996, children from an elementary school in Santiago were affected by an outbreak caused by Shigella sonnei. Initially 35 children out of 350 beneficiaries of the feeding program got sick. However, in the next ...
    • O'Ryan Gallardo, Miguel; Lucero, Yalda; Prado Jiménez, Valeria; Santolaya de Pablo, María Elena; Rabello, Marcela; Solis, Yanahara; Berríos, Daniela; O'Ryan-Soriano, Miguel A.; Cortés, Hector; Mamani, Nora (Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2009)
      Background: Rotavirus and more recently norovirus have been recognized as 2 of the most common causes of acute diarrhea in children. Comparative analysis of these infections in a birth cohort has not been performed and can ...