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Coccidioides is a primary pathogenic fungus, which infects humans through highly infectious arthroconidia, causing substantial morbidity including life-threatening disseminated infections. Due to the low infectious dose, laboratory personnel might become infected during diagnostic procedures. Acc...

Introducción: La Atención Primaria en Salud (APS), es la primera aproximación del paciente al Sistema de Salud Público en Chile. Se rige bajo el Modelo de Salud Familiar y Comunitario ytiene como objetivo brindar una atención integral, oportuna y resolutiva. Existen patologías que no ...

Introducción: La apendicitis aguda corresponde a una de las indicaciones más comunes de cirugías de emergencia a nivel mundial, incluso llegando a ser un 7,5% de los dolores abdominales que consultan en urgencias. Supresentación clínica es variada e inespecífica. ...

Introduction: acute myocardial inflammation with pericardial involvement may frequently occur with a clinical presentation of chest pain, pericarditis or pseudo-ischemic, sign of heart failure, palpitation, or unexplained arrhythmia. There is limited information about clin...

Background: Hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS) is caused by new world hantaviruses, among which Andes hantavirus (ANDV) is endemic to Chile and Southern Argentina. The disease caused by ANDV produces plasma leakage leading to enhanced vascular permeability and has a high case fatality rat...

Background: Different techniques have been described for percutaneous Achilles tendon rupture repair, but no biomechanical evaluation has been performed separately for proximal and distal suturing techniques. The purpose of this study was to biomechanically analyze proximal versus distal percutan...

Reaction to stressful events has an impact on several cognitive processes. High levels of stress can be detrimental to working memory, attention and decision-making. Here, we investigated whether individuals’ reactivity to stress is related to their introspective sensitivity (i.e., how well indiv...

Organizations are facing an interesting phenomenon in the composition of their workforce: the concurrence of multiple age generations that demand suitable strategies regarding work design, job satisfaction, and incentives. Ongoing entrepreneurship and strategic management debates require a better...

Inherited epidermolysis bullosa (EB) comprises rare heterogeneous disorders characterized by cutaneous and mucosal fragility. Most of the 20 proteins affected have structural functions. Recently, a previously undescribed type of EB simplex (EBS), caused by gain-of-function mutations in KLHL24, en...

Breakfast is one of the most important meals of the day. A good quality breakfast must include dairy products, cereals, and fruits. The aim of this study is to determine breakfast dietary patterns and their nutritional quality among Chilean university students. A cross-sectional nonprobabilistic ...