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    • Ramírez Toloza, Galia; Aguilar Guzmán, Lorena; Valck Calderón, Carolina; Menon, Smrithi S.; Ferreira, Viviana P.; Ferreira, Arturo (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      Chagas' disease is a zoonotic parasitic ailment now affecting more than 6 million people, mainly in Latin America. Its agent, the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, is primarily transmitted by endemic hematophagous triatomine ...
    • Millanao, Ana R.; Mora, Aracely; Villagra, Nicolás A.; Bucarey Vivanco, Sergio Antonio; Hidalgo, Alejandro A. (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, 2021)
      Broad antibacterial spectrum, high oral bioavailability and excellent tissue penetration combined with safety and few, yet rare, unwanted effects, have made the quinolones class of antimicrobials one of the most used in ...
    • Avendaño, Constanza; Vidal, Sonia; Villamizar Sarmiento, María Gabriela; Guzmán, Miguel; Hidalgo Olate, Hector Anibal; Lapierre Acevedo, Lisette Nicole; Valenzuela Venegas, Carolina Paz; Sáenz Iturriaga, Leonardo Enrique (MDPI, 2021)
      The aim of this study was to develop and characterize Salmonella enterica serovar Infantis (S. Infantis) cochleates protected by encapsulation technology as a potential vaccine and to determine its safety in pullets. ...
    • Muñoz Leal, Sebastián Alejandro; Silva de la Fuente, María Carolina; Barros Battesti, Darci Moraes; Guglielmone, Alberto Alejandro; Venzal, José Manuel; Nava, Santiago; Sepúlveda, María Soledad; Tkach, Vasyl; Kinsella, Mike; Fuentes Castillo, Danny; Llanos Soto, Sebastián; Grandón Ojeda, Alexandra; Celis Hidalgo, José Enrique; Espejo, Winfred; Jara Carrasco, Solange Elena; Azat, Claudio; Fernandes Martins, Thiago; Bahia Labruna, Marcelo; Briceño Urzua, Cristóbal; Figueroa, Ricardo Antonio; Corales Stappung, Soraya; Moreno, Lucila (Brazilian Coll Veterinary Parasitology, 2021)
    • Cáceres, Pablo; Barría, Agustín; Christensen, Kris A.; Bassini Ney, Liane; Correa, Katharina; García, Baltasar; Lhorente Causade, Jean Paul; Yáñez López, José Manuel (Nature Research, Germany, 2021)
      Sea lice (Caligus rogercresseyi) is an ectoparasite which causes major production losses in the salmon aquaculture industry worldwide. Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) are two of the ...
    • Mastrochirico Filho, Vito A.; Ariede, Raquel B.; Freitas, Milena; Borges, Carolina H. S.; Lira, Lieschen V. G.; Mendes, Natalia J.; Agudelo, John F. G.; Cáceres, Pablo; Berrocal, Milthon H. M.; Sucerquia, Gustavo A. L.; Porto Foresti, Fabio; Yáñez, José; Hashimoto, Diogo T. (Nature Research, 2021)
      Scarce genomic resources have limited the development of breeding programs for serrasalmid fish Colossoma macropomum (tambaqui) and Piaractus mesopotamicus (pacu), the key native freshwater fish species produced in South ...
    • Clavijo Baquet, Sabrina; Cavieres, Grisel; González, Avia; Cattan Ayala, Pedro Eduardo; Bozinovic, Francisco (Public Library Science, 2021)
      Vector-borne diseases (VBD) are particularly susceptible to climate change because most of the diseases’ vectors are ectotherms, which themselves are susceptible to thermal changes. The Chagas disease is one neglected ...
    • Luna, Daniela; González, Catalina; Byrd, Christopher J.; Palomo Bartolotti, Rocío María Paz; Huenul, Elizabeth; Figueroa, Jaime (MDPI, 2021)
      In this study, we addressed the social attentiveness, as well as the phenomenon of social facilitation and inhibition in the context of a positive human–pig relationship. Specifically, we investigated whether the social ...
    • Parraguez Gamboa, Víctor; Sales Zlatar, Francisco Andrés; Peralta Troncoso, Óscar Alejandro; Reyes Solovera, Mónica Isabel de los; Campos, Alfonso; González, Javier; Peralta, Wolfgang; Cabezón, Camila; González Bulnes, Antonio (MDPI, 2021)
      The effects of a combined supplementation with herbal antioxidants during pregnancy on reproductive traits and piglet performance (number of live, dead, and mummified newborns and litter weight at birth and individual ...
    • Díaz, Leonela; Gutiérrez, Sebastián; Moreno Switt, Andrea; Herve Lelievre, Luis; Hamilton-West Miranda, Christopher Norman; Padola, Nora Lía; Navarrete Wallace, Paola Alejandra; Reyes Jara, Angélica Sofía; Meng, Jianghong; González Escalona, Narjol; Toro Ibaceta, Magaly Alejandra (MDPI, 2021)
      Simple Summary Cattle are the main reservoir of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC), foodborne pathogens that cause severe disease and outbreaks. However, not all STEC cause human illnesses or have the same virulence ...
    • Galarce Gálvez, Nicolás Elías; Sánchez García, Fernando Alonso; Escobar González, Beatriz del Carmen; Lapierre Acevedo, Lisette Nicole; Cornejo Kelly, Javiera; Alegría Morán, Raúl Alejandro; Neira Ramírez, Víctor Manuel; Martínez Moncada, Víctor Agustín; Johnson, Timothy; Fuentes Castillo, Danny; Sano, Elder; Lincopan, Nilton (MDPI, 2021)
      Simple Summary Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) are zoonotic pathogens that cause food-borne diseases in humans, where cattle and derived products play a key role as reservoirs and vehicles. We analyzed the ...
    • Rivera, Dácil; Allel, Kasim; Dueñas, Fernando; Tardone, Rodolfo; Soza, Paula; Hamilton-West Miranda, Christopher Norman; Moreno Switt, Andrea I. (MDPI, 2021)
      Simple Summary In this study, for the first time in Chile, we compared resistance profiles of Salmonella strains isolated from 4047 samples from domestic and wild animals. A total of 106 Salmonella strains (2.61%) were ...
    • Palomino Zúñiga, Jaime; Gómez, Camila; Otárola Carrasco, María Teresa; Dettleff Faúndes, Phillip James; Patiño García, Daniel; Orellana, Renán; Moreno, Ricardo D. (Frontiers Media, 2021)
      In pelagic fish, embryo buoyancy is a noteworthy aspect of the reproductive strategy, and is associated with overall quality, survival, and further developmental success. In captivity, the loss of buoyancy of early embryos ...
    • Véliz Ahumada, Alexis; Vidal, Sonia; Siel Siel, Daniela Rocío; Guzmán, Miguel; Hardman, Timothy Edwin; Farías, Valentina; Lapierre Acevedo, Lisette Nicole; Sáenz Iturriaga, Leonardo Enrique (MDPI, 2021)
      Simple Summary Canine parvovirus (CPV) is a relevant pathogen, mainly affecting unvaccinated puppies, causing severe and fatal disease. CPV is classified into three variants (CPV-2a, CPV-2b and CPV-2c), which are widely ...
    • 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 ...
    • Neira Ramírez, Víctor Manuel; Brito, Bárbara; Agüero, Belén; Berrios, Felipe; Valdés, Valentina; Gutiérrez, Alberto; Ariyama Takenaka, Naomí; Espinoza, Patricio; Retamal Merino, Patricio Iván; Holmes, Edward C.; González Reiche, Ana S.; Khan, Zenab; Van de Guchte, Adriana; Dutta, Jayeeta; Miorin, Lisa; Kehrer, Thomas; Galarce, Nicolás; Almonacid, Leonardo I.; Levican, Jorge; Van Bakel, Harm; García Sastre, Adolfo; Medina, Rafael A. (Taylor & Francis, 2021)
      Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has been detected in domestic and wild cats. However, little is known about natural viral infections of domestic cats, although their importance for modelling ...
    • Pokrant Huerta, Ekaterina Valerievna; Trincado, Lina; Yevenes, Karina; Terraza Rubio, Gigliola Elvira; Maddaleno Toledo, Aldo Eugenio; San Martín, Betty; Zavala, Sebastián; Hidalgo Olate, Héctor Aníbal; Lapierre Acevedo, Lisette Nicole; Cornejo Kelly, Javiera (Elsevier, 2021)
      Antimicrobials are currently used in poultry for disease treatment. However, their excretion in bird feces may contaminate the environment. Considering this, the objective of this work was to quantify antimicrobials residues ...
    • Huenchullan, Paula R.; Vidal, Sonia; Larraín, Rafael; Sáez Vidales, Leonardo Daniel (MDPI, 2021)
      Castration of males is a common procedure in cattle production. Surgical procedures are most commonly used, but there is an increasing interest in non-invasive alternatives to avoid risk of infection, bleeding, pain, ...
    • López, M. E.; Cádiz Escobar, María Ignacia; Rondeau, E. B.; Koop, B. F.; Yáñez López, José Manuel (Nature, 2021)
      Animal domestication and artificial selection give rise to gradual changes at the genomic level in populations. Subsequent footprints of selection, known as selection signatures or selective sweeps, have been traced in the ...
    • Briceño Urzúa, Cristóbal; Yévenes Coa, Karina Andrea; Larraechea Bascuñán, Matilde; Sandoval Rodríguez, Alejandra; Silva de la Fuente, María Carolina; Fredes Martínez, Fernando Guillermo; Hidalgo Olate, Héctor Aníbal; Alcayaga, Valeria; Oyarzun Ruiz, Pablo Enrique; Munita, Cintia; González Acuña, Daniel Alfonso (Brazilian Coll Veterinary Parasitology, 2021)
      Myiopsitta monachus is an invasive psittacine with wide distribution due to the pet trade. Its large communal nests and synanthropic nature contribute to its successful colonization of cities, from where it seems to be ...