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    • Pavez Muñoz, Erika Isabel; González, Camilo; Fernández Sanhueza, Bastián; Sánchez, Fernando; Escobar, Beatriz; Ramos, Romina; Fuenzalida, Verónica; Galarce, Nicolás; Arriagada, Gabriel; Neira, Víctor; Muñoz Aguayo, Jeannette; Flores Figueroa, Cristian; Johnson, Timothy J.; Alegría Morán, Raúl Alejandro (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) is a zoonotic pathogen and important cause of foodborne disease worldwide. Many animal species in backyard production systems (BPS) harbor STEC, systems characterized by low ...
    • Alegría Moran, Raúl; Rivera, D.; Toledo, V.; Moreno Switt, A. I.; Hamilton-West Miranda, Christopher (Cambridge University Press, 2017)
      Little is known about Salmonella serovars circulating in backyard poultry and swine populations worldwide. Backyard production systems (BPS) that raise swine and/or poultry are distributed across Chile, but are more heavily ...
    • Di Pillo, Francisca; Jimenez-Bluhm, Pedro; Baumberger, Cecilia; Marambio, Víctor; Galdames, Pablo; Monti, Gustavo; Schultz Cherry, Stacey; Hamilton-West Miranda, Christopher (Frontiers Media, 2020)
      During the last 5 years there has been an alarming number of reports of highly pathogenic avian influenza worldwide. However, little is known about the status of this disease in South America. Chile has been the only country ...
    • Bravo-Vasquez, Nicolas; Baumberger, Cecilia; Jiménez Bluhm, Pedro; Di Pillo, Francisca; Lazo Escobar, Andrés; Sanhueza, Juan; Schultz Cherry, Stacey; Hamilton West, Christopher (Wiley, 2020)
      Backyard production systems (BPS) are a common form of poultry and swine production worldwide. The limited implementation of biosecurity standards in these operations makes BPS a potential source for the emergence of ...
    • Pavez Muñoz, Erika Isabel; Fernández Sanhueza, Bastián Ignacio; Urzúa Encina, Constanza Andrea; Galarce, Nicolás; Alegría Morán, Raúl Alejandro (MDPI, 2021)
      In the Metropolitana region of Chile there are 3836 backyard production systems (BPS), characterized as small-scale systems. They act as a source of zoonotic pathogens, such as Salmonella enterica and Shiga toxin-producing ...