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    • Cediel, Gustavo; Corvalán Aguilar, Camila; López de Romaña, Daniel; Mericq, Verónica; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo (Amer Acad Pediatrics, 2016)
      OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the following from prepuberty to the puberty-onset: (1) changes in serum 25-hydroxyvitamin-D (25[OH]D), adiposity, and insulin resistance (IR); (2) the effect of prepubertal adiposity on serum 25(OH)D ...
    • González Escalona, Narjol; Gavilán, Ronnie G.; Toro Ibaceta, Magaly; Zamudio, María L.; Martínez Urtaza, Jaime (Centers Disease Control, 2016)
      In 2009, an outbreak of Vibrio parahaemolyticus occurred in Piura, Cajamarca, Lambayeque, and Lima, Peru. Whole-genome sequencing of clinical and environmental samples from the outbreak revealed a new V. parahaemolyticus ...
    • Santa María Vásquez, Lorena; Aliaga Vera, Solange; Faúndes Gómez, Víctor; Morales Roldán, Paulina; Pugin Aguayo, Ángela; Curotto Liotta, Bianca; Soto Reyes, Paula; Peña, María Ignacia; Salas Aliaga, Isabel; Alliende Rodríguez, María Angélica (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
      Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is the most common form of inherited intellectual disability (ID) and co-morbid autism. It is caused by an amplification of the CGG repeat (>200), which is known as the full mutation, within the ...
    • Weisstaub Nuta, Sergio; Curi, K.; Salazar, G.; Anziani, A. (Nature Publishing, 2016-03)
    • González Escalona, Narjol; Toro Ibaceta, Magaly; Rump, Lydia; Cao, Guojie; Nagaraja, T. G.; Meng, Jianghong (American Society for Microbiology, 2016)
      Escherichia coli O26 is the second most important enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) serogroup worldwide. Serogroup O26 strains are categorized mainly into two groups:enteropathogenic (EPEC) O26, carrying a locus of enterocyte ...
    • Guerrero, N.; Bunout Barnett, Daniel; Hirsch Birn, Sandra; Barrera Acevedo, María Gladys; Leiva Balich, Laura; Henríquez Parada, Sandra (Elsevier, 2016)
      Introduction: Muscle mass and function are among the most relevant factors that contribute to an optimal quality of life, and are strong predictors of mortality in the elderly. Loss of lean tissues and deterioration of ...
    • Angel, Bárbara; Lera Marques, Lydia; Sánchez Reyes, Hugo; Oyarzún, Amaya; Albala Brevis, Cecilia (Elsevier, 2016)
      Introduction: FokI polymorphismhas been associatedwith obesity and type 2 diabetes (T2D) in somepopulations. Objective: To investigate the frequencies of a genetic polymorphismof Vitamin D receptor (FokI) inpatients with ...
    • Oliveira Lino, Leandro; Pacheco Cruz, Igor; Mercier, Vincent; Faoro, Franco; Bassi, Daniele; Bornard, Isabelle; Quilot-Turion, Benedicte (Amer Chemical Society, 2016)
      Brown rot (BR) caused by Monilinia spp., has been an economic problem for the stone fruit market due to dramatic losses, mainly during the postharvest period. There is much literature about basic aspects of Monilinia spp. ...
    • Albala Brevis, Cecilia; Lera Marques, Lydia; Ángel Badillo, Bárbara; Sánchez Reyes, Hugo; Marquez, C.; Arroyo Albala, Patricia (Springer, 2016)
    • Sánchez Reyes, Hugo; Lera Marques, Lydia; Ángel Badillo, Bárbara; Marquez, C.; Albala Brevis, Cecilia (Springer, 2016)
    • Haendiges, Julie; Jones, Jessica; Myers, Robert A.; Mitchell, Clifford S.; Butler, Erin; Toro Ibaceta, Magaly; González Escalona, Narjo (Amer Soc Microbiology, 2016)
      In the summer of 2010, Vibrio parahaemolyticus caused an outbreak in Maryland linked to the consumption of oysters. Strains isolated from both stool and oyster samples were indistinguishable by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis ...
    • Cheng, J.; East, P.; Blanco, E.; Sim, E. Kang; Castillo, M.; Lozoff, B.; Gahagan, S. (Jonh Wiley, 2016)
      BackgroundPoor motor skills have been consistently linked with a higher body weight in childhood, but the causal direction of this association is not fully understood. This study investigated the temporal ordering between ...
    • Gonzalez Arancibia, Camila; Escobar Luna, Jorge; Barrera Bugueno, Camila; Díaz Zepeda, Camilo; González Toro, Maria P.; Olavarría Ramirez, Loreto; Zanelli Massai, Francesca; Gotteland, Martin; Bravo, Javier A.; Julio Pieper, Marcela (SAGE Publications Inc., 2016-05)
      The gut and the brain communicate bidirectionally through anatomic and humoral pathways, establishing what is known as the gut-brain axis. Therefore, interventions affecting one system will impact on the other, giving the ...
    • Parra Flores, Julio; Juneja, Vijay; Garcia de Fernando, Gonzalo; Aguirre, Juan (Frontiers Media S.A., 2016)
      Cronobacter spp. have been responsible for severe infections in infants associated with consumption of powdered infant formula and follow-up formulae. Despite several risk assessments described in published studies, few ...
    • Mandakovic, Dinka; Glasner, Benjamín; Maldonado, Jonathan; Aravena, Pamela; González, Mauricio; Cambiazo Ayala, Verónica; Pulgar Tejo, Rodrigo (Frontiers Media, 2016)
      The gram negative facultative bacterium P. salmonis is the etiological agent of Salmonid Rickettsial Septicaemia (SRS), a severe disease that causes important economic losses in the global salmon farmer industry. Despite ...
    • Brito, Álex; Fedosov, Sergey N.; Miller, Joshua W.; Green, Ralph; Uauy Dagach-Imbarack, Ricardo; Allen, Lindsay H. (Amer Soc Nutrition-ASN, 2016)
    • Reyes Jara, Angélica; Cordero, Ninoska; Aguirre, Juan; Troncoso, Miriam; Figueroa Gronemeyer, Guillermo (Frontiers Media, 2016)
      The antimicrobial properties of copper have been recognized for several years; applying these properties to the prevention of diseases such as bovine mastitis is a new area of research. The aim of the present study was to ...
    • Gaitan, Diego; Chamorro Melo, Rodrigo; Cediel, Gustavo; Lozano, Gustavo; Silva Gomes, Fabio da (Archivos Latinoamericanos Nutrición, 2015)
      Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the main causes of morbidity and mortality in Latin America (LA). A high sodium intake is one of main risk factors for CVD. Strategies aiming to decrease sodium intake has been shown health ...
    • Castillo, Daniel; Christiansen, Rói Hammershaimb; Dalsgaard, Inger; Madsen, Lone; Espejo Torres, Romilio; Middelboe, Mathias (Public Library Science, 2016)
      Flavobacterium psychrophilum is a fish pathogen in salmonid aquaculture worldwide that causes cold water disease (CWD) and rainbow trout fry syndrome (RTFS). Comparative genome analyses of 11 F. psychrophilum isolates ...
    • Le ón, Soraya; Bravo Cavicchioli, Daniel; Giacaman, Rodrigo A.; Correa Beltr án, Gloria; Albala Brevis, Cecilia (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016)
      Objective: To validate the Spanish version of the OHIP-49 among elderly population. Background: Oral health, as a predictor of quality of life, can be evaluated using validated instruments. One of the most commonly used ...