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    • Bacterial counts in spleen 

      BARQUERO-CALVO, ELIAS; Chacón-Díaz, Carlos; Chaves-Olarte, Esteban; Moreno, Edgardo (Bio-protocol, 2013-11-05)
      Bacterial loads can be determined as colony forming units (CFU) at any point of the infection by culturing spleen homogenates on agar plates. This is a reliable method for comparing the kinetics of infection in various ...
    • Brucella abortus ornithine lipids are dispensable outer membrane components devoid of a marked pathogen-associated molecular pattern 

      Palacios-Chaves, Leyre; Conde-Álvarez, Raquel; Gil-Ramírez, Yolanda; Zúñiga-Ripa, Amaia; BARQUERO-CALVO, ELIAS; Chacón-Díaz, Carlos; Chaves-Olarte, Esteban; Arce-Gorvel, Vilma; Gorvel, Jean-Pierre; Moreno, Edgardo; de Miguel, María-Jesús; Grilló, María-Jesús; Moriyon, Ignacio; Iriarte, Maite (PLoS One, 2011-01-07)
      The brucellae are a-Proteobacteria facultative intracellular parasites that cause an important zoonosis. These bacteria escape early detection by innate immunity, an ability associated to the absence of marked pathogen-associated ...
    • Chromobacterium violaceum infection in a free ranging howler monkey in Costa Rica 

      Baldi, Mario; Morales, Juan Alberto; Hernandez, Giovanna; Jiménez-Soto, Mauricio; Alfaro-Alarcón, Alejandro; BARQUERO-CALVO, ELIAS (Wildlife Disease Association, 2010)
      Chromobacterium violaceum is a gram-negative saprobe bacterium that is a rare opportunistic pathogen in mammals. There are numerous reports in humans including fatalities, but no record exists in free-ranging nonhuman ...
    • Reporte de caso clínico Primer diagnóstico de Rhodococcus equi confirmado, laboratorialmente, en un potrillo de Costa Rica 

      Estrada McDermott, Pedro; Murillo Ramírez, Carla; Razquin, Patricio; BARQUERO-CALVO, ELIAS; Chacón-Díaz, Carlos; Estrada, Juan Manuel (Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2020-03-09)
      Neumonía por Rhodococcus equi es importante causa de morbilidad y mortalidad en potrillos de todo el mundo. La prevalencia y/o virulencia de la bacteria es, aparentemente, baja en Costa Rica, pues nunca han sido reportados ...