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    • Fierro, Andrés; Grez Villarroel, Audrey; Vergara, Pablo M.; Ramírez Hernández, Alfredo; Micó, Estefanía (Elsevier, 2017)
      Native forest in central Chile has been increasingly replaced by exotic forest plantations. In particular, saproxylic beetles could be highly sensitive to exotic forest plantations due to the clear-cutting management ...
    • Melendez, P.; Romero, C.; Pithua, P.; Marin, M. P.; Pinedo, P.; Duchens Arancibia, Mario (Taylor & Francis, 2017)
      AIMS: To describe milk yield and culling risk in cows diagnosed with left displacement of abomasum (LDA) treated either conservatively, by right flank pyloric omentopexy, or rolling and toggling, compared with normal ...
    • Vargas, J. F.; Quintana, O.; Barraza, C.; Olivares, R. (Sociedad Chilena de Anatomía, 2017)
      El presente estudio tuvo como objetivo el describir la musculatura intrínseca del miembro torácico del león africano (Panthera leo). Para tal efecto se utilizó un ejemplar hembra, donado por el Zoológico Metropolitano de ...
    • Retamal Merino, Patricio; Llanos Soto, Sebastián; Moreno Salas, Lucila; López, Juana; Vianna, Juliana; Hernández, Jorge; Medina Vogel, Gonzalo; Castañeda, Francisco; Fresno, Marcela; González Acuña, Daniel (Springer, 2017)
      Anthropogenic activity in Antarctica constitutes a continuous risk for the introduction of infectious diseases into indigenous wildlife populations. Penguin colonies living close to human settlements or inhabiting in areas ...
    • Luna, Daniela; Vásquez Salfate, Rodrigo; Rojas, Manuel; Tadich Gallo, Tamara (MDPI AG, 2017)
      Simple Summary: Appropriate strategies aimed at improving the welfare of working horses should contemplate the assessment of welfare status, as well as the evaluation of the human-animal relationship within each geo-cultural ...
    • Correa, Juana P.; Bacigalupo, Antonella; Botto Mahan, Carezza; Bucarey Vivanco, Sergio; Cattan Ayala, Pedro; García de Cortázar, Rodrigo; Landaeta Aqueveque, Carlos; Ramírez Estrada, Juan (Wildlife Disease Assoc, Inc., 2017)
      We report natural infections by pathogenic Leptospira of two rodent species endemic to Chile: the degu (Octodon degus) and Darwin's pericote (Phyllotis darwini). We detected Leptospira DNA in kidney and urine samples taken ...
    • Morales, Nelly; Aldridge, Dennis; Bahamonde, Andrea; Cerda, Julio; Araya, Claudio; Muñoz, Rodrigo; Saldias, María Esther; Lecocq, Claudio; Fresno, Marcela; Abalos Pineda, Pedro; Retamal Merino, Patricio (Wildlife Disease Association, 2017)
      Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis is an intracellular bacteria and the etiologic agent of caseous lymphadenitis in domestic and wildlife species. We report C. pseudotuberculosis infection in Patagonian huemul (Hippocamelus ...
    • Hervé Claude, Luis Pablo; Lavado A., Alan; Rivera O., Dacil; Navarrete Talloni, María; Hamilton-West Miranda, Christopher (Universidad de Córdoba, Colombia, 2017)
      Objective. To provide information about seroprevalence and risk factors of Neospora caninum infection in bovines of central Chile. Material and Methods. The study population are small dairy farms that are part of a Government ...
    • Alegría Moran, Raúl; Miranda, Daniela; Barnard, Matt; Parra, Alonso; Lapierre Acevedo, Lisette (Elsevier, 2017)
      Rabies is a zoonotic disease of great impact to public health. According to the World Health Organization, the country of Chile is currently declared free from human rabies transmitted by dogs. An epidemiological ...
    • Neira Carrillo, Andrónico; Fernández Garay, María Soledad; Poblete Hevia, Gonzalo Andrés; Arias Bautista, José Luis; Gebauer, Denis; Coelfen, Helmut (Elsevier, 2017)
      Gastroliths are highly calcified structures formed in the cardiac stomach wall of crustaceans for the temporary storage of amorphous CaCO3 (ACC). The gastrolithic ACC is stabilized by the presence of biomolecules, and ...
    • Rives Blanchard, Ninette; Torres Pérez, Fernando; Ortiz, Silvia; Solari Illescas, Aldo; Campos Soto, Ricardo (Elsevier, 2017)
      Chagas disease is one of the main zoonosis mediated by vectors in America. The etiologic agent Trypanosoma cruzi infects different mammals and is transmitted principally by the subfamily Triatominae. Mepraia is a genus ...
    • Neira Ramírez, Víctor; Tapia, Rodrigo; Verdugo, Claudio; Barriga, Gonzalo; Mor, Sunil; Fei Fan Ng, Terry; García, Victoria; Río, José del; Rodrigues, Pedro; Briceño Urzúa, Cristóbal; Medina, Rafael A.; González Acuña, Daniel (Centers Disease Control, 2017)
    • Alaniz, Alberto J.; Bacigalupo, Antonella; Cattan Ayala, Pedro (Oxford Universitu Press, 2017)
      Background: Zika virus is an emerging Flaviviridae virus, which has spread rapidly in the last few years. It has raised concern because it has been associated with fetus microcephaly when pregnant women are infected. The ...
    • Neira Ramírez, Víctor; Brito, Bárbara; Mena, Juan; Culhane, Marie; Apel, María Ignacia; Max, Vanessa; Pérez, Patricio; Moreno, Valentina; Mathieu, Christian; Johow, Magdalena; Badía, Catalina; Torremorell, Montserrat; Medina, Rafael; Ortega, René (Public Library Science, 2017)
      Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome ( PRRS) is endemic in most pork producing countries. In Chile, eradication of PRRS virus ( PRRSV) was successfully achieved in 2009 as a result of the combined efforts of ...
    • Costoya Tolosa, Eduardo Andrés (Universidad de Chile, 2015)
      La enfermedad de Chagas es producida por el protozoo flagelado Trypanosoma cruzi. Esta enfermedad es endémica en Chile y tiene una compleja diversidad genética (enumeradas de TcI a TcVI) con distintas características ...
    • Bahamondes Guerra, Francisca; Flores Pavez, Estefanía; Cattaneo Univaso, Federico; Bruna, Flavia; Conget, Paulette (BioMed Central, 2017-06-08)
      Background: Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs) are a promising therapeutic tool in veterinary medicine. Currently the subcutaneous adipose tissue is the leading source of MSCs in dogs. MSCs derived from distinct fat depots have ...
    • Adarmes Ahumada, Héctor; Donders Riveros, Leonardo; Dörner Santa María, Cristóbal; González Zamora, Ema; Galleguillos Caamaño, Marco (Universidad Austral de Chile, 2017)
      The purpose of this study was to establish if there was any difference in the GAGs content between loaded and unloaded surfaces of the joint. Furthermore, the results were compared between macroscopically healthy and damaged ...
    • Lapierre Acevedo, Lisette; Asenjo Andrews, Gabriela; Vergara, Constanza; Cornejo Kelly, Javiera (Sage, 2017-05)
      The objective was to gather information on the status of antimicrobial surveillance in the Asia Pacific region and suggest control strategies. Twenty-one economies of the Asia Pacific region participated in this initiative. ...
    • Pasutti Morales, Rominna Stefannie (Universidad de Chile, 2017)
      Los armadillos, junto a los perezosos y osos hormigueros, pertenecen al Megaorden Xenarthra. Actualmente se conocen 20 especies de armadillos en el mundo, de las cuales sólo tres se distribuyen en Chile. Habitan, ...
    • Pérez Barahona, Siboney Eliana (Universidad de Chile, 2017)
      En los últimos años se ha masificado la tenencia de mascotas no tradicionales, lo cual se evidencia con el gran número de clínicas veterinarias que se han ido especializando en el área. Siendo en su gran mayoría reptiles, ...