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    • Ortega, René; Mena Vásquez, Juan; Grecco, Sofía; Pérez, Rubén; Panzera, Yanina; Napolitano, Constanza; Zegpi, Nhur-Aischa; Sandoval, Alberto; Sandoval, Daniel; González Acuña, Daniel; Cofré, Sergio; Neira Ramírez, Víctor; Castillo Aliaga, Cristóbal (Wiley, 2020)
      Carnivore protoparvovirus 1is one of the most important pathogens affecting both wild and domestic carnivores. Here, we reported the genetic characterization of canine parvovirus (CPV-2) strains from a rescued guina ...
    • Sepúlveda Cerda, Felipe; Butto Miranda, Nicole; Arias Bautista, José Luis; Yazdani Pedram, Mehrdad; Szewczyk, Priot K.; Gruszczynski, Adam; Stachewicz, Urszula; Neira Castillo, Andrónico (American Chemical Society, 2020)
      The effect of nonporous (NP-PCL) and porous (P-PCL) fibrous polycaprolactone (PCL) meshes, used as templates, on in vitro CaCO3 crystallization via a gas diffusion (GD) method at 20 degrees C for 24 h was studied. The ...
    • Tapia, Rodrigo; Torremorell, Montserrat; Culhane, Marie; Medina, Rafael; Neira Ramírez, Víctor (Nature, 2020)
      Novel H1N2 influenza A viruses (IAVs) in swine have been identified in Chile co-circulating with pandemic H1N1 2009-like (A(H1N1)pdm09-like) viruses. The objective of this study was to characterize antigenically the swine ...
    • Chagas Teodózio de Araújo, Filipe; Lopes de Oliveira, Carlos Antonio; Costa Campos, Eric; Massako Yoshida, Grazyella; Lewandowsk, Vanessa; Todesco, Humberto; Hong Nguyen, Nguyen; Pereira Ribeiro, Ricardo (Springer, 2020)
      Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) is the major fish species produced in Brazil, a country with a vast territory and great climate diversity. This study assessed the effects of the genotype x environment interaction on ...
    • Soza Ossandón, Paula; Rivera, Dácil; Tardone, Rodolfo; Riquelme Neira, Rodolfo; García, Patricia; Hamilton-West Miranda, Christopher; Adell, Aiko D.; González Rocha, Gerardo; Moreno Switt, Andrea (Frontiers Media, 2020)
      Salmonella entericais a highly infectious microorganism responsible for many outbreaks reported in equine hospitals. Outbreaks are characterized by high morbidity and mortality rates, nosocomial transmission to other ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • Tardone, Rodolfo; Rivera, Dácil; Dueñas, Fernando; Sallaberry Pincheira, Nicole; Hamilton West, Christopher; Adell, Aiko D.; Moreno Switt, Andrea I. (Wildlife Disease Association, 2020)
      Salmonella enterica is one of the main causes of gastrointestinal disease worldwide. Wild birds are capable of harboring a variety of Salmonella serovars, which could have an important role in the epidemiology of salmonellosis ...
    • Galarce Gálvez, Nicolás; Sánchez García, Fernando; Fuenzalida, Verónica; Ramos Ríos, Romina; Escobar González, Beatriz; Lapierre Acevedo, Lisette; Paredes Osses, Esteban; Arriagada, Gabriel; Alegría Morán, Raúl; Lincopán, Nilton; Fuentes Castillo, Danny; Vera Leiva, Alejandra; González Rocha, Gerardo; Bello-Toledo, Helia; Borie Polanco, Consuelo (Frontiers Media, 2020)
      Non-O157 Shiga toxin-producingEscherichia coli(STEC) is a zoonotic pathogen that causes bloody diarrhea and hemolytic-uremic syndrome in humans, and a major cause of foodborne disease. Despite antibiotic treatment of STEC ...
    • Peralta Troncoso, Óscar; Carrasco, C.; Vieytes, C.; Tamayo, M. J.; Muñoz, I.; Sepúlveda, S.; Tadich Gallo, Tamara; Duchens Arancibia, Mario; Meléndez, P.; Mella, A.; Torres, C. G. (Nature, 2020)
      Although, antibiotics are effective in the treatment of bovine mastitis, they do not address the regeneration of mammary glandular tissue and have been associated to the increment in antimicrobial resistance worldwide. ...
    • Ramírez Toloza, Galia; Aguilar Guzmán, Lorena Andrea; Valck, Carolina; Ferreira, Viviana P.; Ferreira, Arturo (Frontiers Media, 2020)
      Because of its capacity to increase a physiologic inflammatory response, to stimulate phagocytosis, to promote cell lysis and to enhance pathogen immunogenicity, the complement system is a crucial component of both the ...
    • Agüero Aguirre, Belén; Mena Vásquez, Juan; Berríos, Felipe; Tapia Tapia, Rodrigo; Salinas Gatica, Carlos; Dutta, J.; van Bakel, H.; Mor, S. K.; Brito, B.; Medina, R. A.; Neira Ramírez, Víctor (Elsevier, 2020)
      Porcine respirovirus 1 (PRV1) is an emerging virus in pigs that has been previously described in the USA and China. There are no reports of its presence in the rest of the world. The objective of this study was to determine ...
    • Yáñez López, José; Joshi, R.; Yoshida, Grazyella Massako (Wiley, 2020)
      Selective breeding of tilapia populations started in the early 1990s and over the past three decades tilapia has become one of the most important farmed freshwater species, being produced in more than 125 countries around ...
    • Yoshida, Grazyella; Cáceres Refusta, Andrés; Marín Nahuelpi, Rodrigo; Koop, Ben F.; Yáñez López, José (MDPI, 2020)
      The characterization of runs of homozygosity (ROH), using high-density single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) allows inferences to be made about the past demographic history of animal populations and the genomic ROH has ...
    • Berger, Joel; Wangchuk, Tshewang; Briceño Urzúa, Cristóbal; Vila, Alejandro; Lambert, Joanna E. (MDPI, 2020)
      The human population grows inexorably. When Charles Darwin explored the southern cone of South America in 1830, fewer than 1.2 billion people inhabited Earth. When Ehrlich'sPopulation Bombappeared in 1968, there were similar ...
    • Arros, Francisca; Garrido, Camila; Valenzuela Venegas, Carolina (Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, 2020)
      Nettle plants in Chile are an underutilized resource. Its use in animal nutrition is also limited. In addition, information about its composition (specifically fatty acids and aminoacids) is scarce. The objective of this ...
    • López J., Miguel; Miranda, Elisa; Ramos, Cecilia; García, Héctor; Neira Carrillo, Andrónico (MDPI, 2020)
      Chitin is an excellent material for the synthesis of nanoparticles because it is an elicitor and can form nanostructured materials. The application of chitin nanoparticles (CNPs) in plants can activate early defense responses ...
    • Cádiz, María I.; López, María Eugenia; Díaz Domínguez, Diego; Cáceres Cruz, Giovanna; Yoshida, Grazyella Massako; Gómez Uchida, Daniel; Yáñez López, José (Nature, 2020)
      Nile tilapia belongs to the second most cultivated group of fish in the world, mainly because of its favorable characteristics for production. Genetic improvement programs and domestication process of Nile tilapia may have ...
    • Romero Figueroa, Jaime Hernán; Gasalla, Patricia; Müller Bravo, Maximiliano; Dwyer, Dominic (Elsevier, 2020)
      In two experiments, the social influence on choosing between two novel diets was analyzed. In Experiment 1, a group of rats (demonstrators) ingested a novel flavor cue presented in powdered food or in a 4% sucrose solution. ...
    • Butto, Nicole; Cotrina Vera, Nicole; Díaz Soler, Felipe; Yazdani-Pedram, Mehrdad; Neira Carrillo, Andrónico (MDPI, 2020)
      Biominerals fulfill various physiological functions in living organisms, however, pathological mineralization can also occur generating mineral pathologies such as the formation of calcium oxalate (CaOx) calculi in the ...