| Ayala, S., Escobar, N., Canals, M. |
Spatio-temporal analysis of pulmonary tuberculosis in the Metropolitan Region of Chile since 2016 to 2020 |
Background: In 2020, tuberculosis (TB) was responsible for 9.9 million new cases and 1.5 million deaths worldwide. In Chile, an increase in incidence rates has been reported in recent years, with a co... |
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| Veloso, M., Arros, P., Acosta, J., Rojas, R., Berríos-Pastén, C., Varas, M., Araya, P., Hormazábal, J.C., Allende, M.L., Chávez, F.P., Lagos, R., Marcoleta, A.E. |
Antimicrobial resistance, pathogenic potential, and genomic features of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolated in Chile: high-risk ST25 clones and novel mobile elements |
Multidrug- and carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CR-Kp) are critical threats to global health and key traffickers of resistance genes to other pathogens. Despite the sustained increase in CR... |
2023 |
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| Larraechea, M., Hidalgo, H., Ramírez-Toloza, G., Sandoval-Rodríguez, A., Ibáñez, D., Briceño Urzúa, C. |
Seropositivity to zoonotic Chlamydophila psittaci in invasive monk parakeets (Myiopsitta monachus) from Santiago, Chile |
Background: Chlamydophila psittaci is a zoonotic obligate intracellular bacterium that causes the human psittacosis, and its main host are psittacine birds. The monk parakeet is a psittacine bird nati... |
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| Williams, T., Jackson, S., Barr, I., Bi, S., Bhiman, J., Ellis, J., von Gottberg, A., Lindstrom, S., Peret, T., Rughooputh, S., Viegas, M., Hirve, S., Zambon, M., Zhang, W., Dia, N., Razanazatovo, N., Al-Nabet, A.D.M.H., Abubakar, A., Tivane, A., Barakat, A., Naguib, A., Aziz, A., Vicari, A., Moen, A., Govindakarnavar, A., Hall, A., Darmaa, B., Nathalie, B., Herring, B., Caetano, B.C., Whittaker, B., Baumeister, E., Nakouné, E., Guthrie, E., Inbanathan, F., Nair, H., Campbell, H., Kadjo, H.A., Oumzil, H., Heraud, J.-M., Mott, J.A., Namulondo, J., Leite, J., Nahapetyan, K., Al Ariqi, L., Gazo, M.H.I., Chadha, M., Pisareva, M., Venter, M., Siqueira, M.M., Lumandas, M., Niang, M., Albuaini, M., Salman, M., Oberste, S., Srikantiah, P., Tang, P., Couto, P., Smith, P., Coyle, P.V., Dussart, P., Nguyen, P.N., Okada, P.A., Wijesinghe, P.R., Samuel, R., Brown, R., Pebody, R., Fasce, R., Jha, R., Lindstrom, S., Gerber, S., Potdar, V., Dong, X., Deng, Y.M., WHO RSV Surveillance Group |
Results from the second WHO external quality assessment for the molecular detection of respiratory syncytial virus, 2019?2020 |
Background: External quality assessments (EQAs) for the molecular detection of human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are necessary to ensure the standardisation of reliable results. The Phase II, 20... |
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| Oyarte, M., Cabieses, B., Rada, I., Blukacz, A., Espinoza, M., Mezones-Holguin, E. |
Unequal Access and Use of Health Care Services among Settled Immigrants, Recent Immigrants, and Locals: A Comparative Analysis of a Nationally Representative Survey in Chile |
Globally, and particularly in the Latin American region, international migration continues to grow. Access and use of health care services by migrants vary according to their country of origin and res... |
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| Schultz, Bárbara M., Melo-González, Felipe, Duarte, Luisa F., Gálvez, Nicolás M. S., Pacheco, Gaspar A., Soto, Jorge A., Berríos-Rojas, Roslye V., González, Liliana A., Moreno-Tapia, Daniela, Rivera-Pérez, Daniela, Ríos, Mariana, Vázquez, Yaneisi, Hoppe-Elsholz, Guillermo, Andrade-Parra, Catalina A., Vallejos, Omar P., Piña-Iturbe, Alejandro, Iturriaga, Carolina, Urzua, Marcela, Navarrete, María S., Rojas, Álvaro, Fasce, Rodrigo, Fernández, Jorge, Mora, Judith, Ramírez, Eugenio, Gaete-Argel, Aracelly, Acevedo, Mónica L., Valiente-Echeverría, Fernando, Soto-Rifo, Ricardo, Weiskopf, Daniela, Grifoni, Alba, Sette, Alessandro, Zeng, Gang, Meng, Weining, CoronaVac03CL Study Group, González-Aramundiz, José V., González, Pablo A., Abarca, Katia, Kalergis, Alexis M., Bueno, Susan M. |
A Booster Dose of CoronaVac Increases Neutralizing Antibodies and T Cells that Recognize Delta and Omicron Variants of Concern |
CoronaVac is an inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine approved by the World Health Organization (WHO). Previous studies reported increased levels of neutralizing antibodies and specific T cells 2 and 4 weeks... |
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| Rada, Isabel, Oyarte, Marcela, Cabieses, Báltica |
A comparative analysis of health status of international migrants and local population in Chile: a population-based, cross-sectional analysis from a social determinants of health perspective |
BACKGROUND: During recent decades intraregional migration has increased in Latin America. Chile became one of the main receiving countries and hosted diverse international migrant groups. Evidence hav... |
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| Cornejo, Javiera, Asenjo, Gabriela, Zavala, Sebastian, Venegas, Lucas, Galarce, Nicolás, Hormazábal, Juan Carlos, Vergara-E, Constanza, Lapierre, Lisette |
Advances in Integrated Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance and Control Strategies in Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Economies: Assessment of a Multiyear Building Capacity Project |
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing global health concern for both animal and public health, and collaborative strategies are needed to combat the threat. The level of awareness and funding fo... |
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| Orjuela-Rodríguez T., Rojas-Cortés R., Vergara V., Aldunate F., Jiménez G., Orta I.A., Serrano K., Jiménez G., González D.M.G., Gutiérrez D., Cortez F.B., González J.D., Porrás A., Castro J.L. |
Adverse reactions to drugs used for COVID-19 in five Latin American countries [Reações adversas a medicamentos utilizados para a COVID-19 em cinco países da América Latina] [Reacciones adversas a medicamentos utilizados para la COVID-19 en cinco países de América Latina] |
Objective. Characterize and describe reports of suspected adverse reactions to a group of drugs used in Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Chile, El Salvador, Mexico, and Peru to treat or prevent coronavirus... |
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| Cona E., Pidal P., Martínez M.C., Airola C., Torrejón C., Chacón E., Santos Y., Smoilis S., Araya I., Araya P. |
Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales in the sink traps of a Critical Patient Unit [Enterobacterales productores de carbapenemasas en sifones de lavamanos de una Unidad de Paciente Crítico] |
Introduction: Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (CPE) are an important cause of health care associated infections (HAI). The main reservoir is constituted by infected and colonized patients, ho... |
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| Reyes, Carolina, González, Christian R., Alvarado, Sergio, Flores, Leticia, Martin, Catherine, Oyarce, Alan, Aylwin, María Paz, Canals, Mauricio, Parra, Alonso, Valderrama, Lara |
Chagas disease in northern Chile: Detection of Trypanosoma cruzi in children, dogs and triatomine bugs |
Chagas disease is an anthropozoonotic disease caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, transmitted by triatomine vectors. In Chile, there are four species of triatomine bugs that are potential vecto... |
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| Morales, Cristian, Rojas, Gabriel, Rebolledo, Camilo, Rojas-Herrera, Marcelo, Arias-Carrasco, Raúl, Cuadros-Orellana, Sara, Maracaja-Coutinho, Vinicius, Saavedra, Kathleen, Leal, Pamela, Lanas, Fernando, Salazar, Luis A., Saavedra, Nicolás |
Characterization of microbial communities from gut microbiota of hypercholesterolemic and control subjects |
INTRODUCTION: In recent years, several studies have evidenced the importance of the microbiome to host physiology as metabolism regulator, along with its potential role in triggering various diseases.... |
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| Lopes L.C., Salas M., Osorio-de-Castro C.G.S., Leal L.F., Doubova S.V., Cañás M., Dreser A., Acosta A., Baldoni A.O., de Cássia Bergamaschi C., Mota D.M., Gómez-Galicia D.L., Sepúlveda-Viveros D., Delgado E.N., da Costa Lima E., Chandia F.V., Ferre F., Marin G.H., Olmos I., Zimmermann I.R., Fulone I., Roldán-Saelzer J., Sánchez-Salgado J.C., Castro-Pastrana L.I., de Souza L.J.C., Beltrán M.M., Silva M.T., Mena M.B., de França Fonteles M.M., Urtasun M.A., Tarapués M., Hernández P.G., Medero N., Herrera-Comoglio R., Barberato-Filho S., Galvão T.F., Luiza V.L., Santa-Ana-Tellez Y., Rodríguez-Tanta Y., Elseviers M. |
Data sources for drug utilization research in Latin American countries?A cross-national study: DASDUR-LATAM study |
Purpose: Drug utilization research (DUR) contributes to inform policymaking and to strengthen health systems. The availability of data sources is the first step for conducting DUR. However, documents ... |
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| Higginson, Ellen E., Nkeze, Joseph, Permala-Booth, Jasnehta, Kasumba, Irene N., Lagos, Rosanna, Hormazabal, Juan Carlos, Byrne, Alexander, Frankel, Gad, Levine, Myron M., Tennant, Sharon M. |
Detection of Salmonella Typhi in Bile by Quantitative Real-Time PCR |
In countries where the incidence of typhoid fever is high, fecal material from short-term carriers of Salmonella Typhi contaminates inadequately treated water supplies. As treated water supplies and i... |
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| Gálvez, Nicolás M. S., Pacheco, Gaspar A., Schultz, Bárbara M., Melo-González, Felipe, Soto, Jorge A., Duarte, Luisa F., González, Liliana A., Rivera-Pérez, Daniela, Ríos, Mariana, Berrios, Roslye V., Vázquez, Yaneisi, Moreno-Tapia, Daniela, Vallejos, Omar P., Andrade, Catalina A., Hoppe-Elsholz, Guillermo, Iturriaga, Carolina, Urzua, Marcela, Navarrete, María S., Rojas, Álvaro, Fasce, Rodrigo, Fernández, Jorge, Mora, Judith, Ramírez, Eugenio, Gaete-Argel, Aracelly, Acevedo, Mónica L., Valiente-Echeverría, Fernando, Soto-Rifo, Ricardo, Weiskopf, Daniela, Grifoni, Alba, Sette, Alessandro, Zeng, Gang, Meng, Weining, CoronaVacCL03 Study Group, González-Aramundiz, José V., Johnson, Marina, Goldblatt, David, González, Pablo A., Abarca, Katia, Bueno, Susan M., Kalergis, Alexis M. |
Differences in the immune response elicited by two immunization schedules with an inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine in a randomized phase 3 clinical trial |
BACKGROUND: The development of vaccines to control the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic progression is a worldwide priority. CoronaVac is an inactivated severe acute respiratory syndrome c... |
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| Oyarce, Alan, Ayala, Salvador, Canals, Mauricio |
Epidemiology of cysticercosis in Chile] |
BACKGROUND: Neurocysticercosis is the most prevalent parasitic disease of the central nervous system in Chile, where sporadic cases are reported, without information about the epidemiology or distribu... |
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| Villena, Rodolfo, Alvarado, Sylvina, Saldaña, Adiela |
Experiencia chilena en el comportamiento del SARS-COV-2 y campaña de vacunación en pediatría^ies |
La pandemia por Covid-19 ha provocado millones de hospitalizaciones y muertes en el mundo, principalmente en la población adulta. A pesar de que la población pediátrica se ha visto afectada con una... |
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| Buchta, Christoph, Coucke, Wim, Huf, Wolfgang, Griesmacher, Andrea, Müller, Mathias M., Mayr, Wolfgang R., Flesland, Øystein, Politis, Constantina, Wiersum-Osselton, Johanna, Aburto, Andrés, Badrick, Tony, Bouacida, Lobna, Budina, Marek, Duenas, Joseph A., Geilenkeuser, Wolf-Jochen, Guimarães, André V. P., Hecimovic, Ana, Jutzi, Markus, Lee, Chang-Keun, Lim, Young Ae, Mammen, Joy, Molnár, Petra Magdolna, Mokhtari, Azita, Morabito, Giuseppa, Muñiz-Diaz, Eduardo, Niekerk, Truscha, Pakkanen, Anja, Pezzati, Paola, Popa, Razvan, Sárkány, Erika, Siest, Jean-Pascal, Suvagandha, Dhitiwass, Thelen, Marc, Ullhagen, Jenny, Vitkus, Dalius, Körmöczi, Günther F. |
External quality assessment providers' services appear to more impact the immunohaematology performance of laboratories than national regulatory and economic conditions |
OBJECTIVES: Medical laboratories may, at their own discretion, exceed but not undercut regulatory quality requirements. Available economic resources, however, may drive or hinder eagerness to exceed m... |
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| Zanella, Louise, Riquelme, Ismael, Reyes, Maria Elena, Infante, Francisca, Reyes, Soledad, Ramirez, Eugenio, Ili, Carmen, Brebi, Priscilla |
Genome analysis suggests HTLV-1aA introduction in Chile related to migrations of ancestral indigenous populations |
The human T cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1), unlike other RNA viruses such as HIV, has a stable genome and has infected humans since remote times. Although the HTLV-1 infection is endemic in S... |
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| Rodríguez, Ariel Antonio, Escanilla, David Eduardo, Caroca, Luis Alberto, Albornoz, Christian Eduardo, Marshall, Paulina Andrea, Molenbroek, Johan F. M., Lee, Wonsup, Viviani, Carlos, Castellucci, Héctor Ignacio |
Head and facial dimensions of Chilean workers for design purposes and the differences with other populations |
BACKGROUND: An appropriate match between a product and its end-users requires anthropometric data, which show variations among different countries. Proper Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) fit is ke... |
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