Cecilia A Silva-Valenzuela
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Vera-Mansilla J, Silva-Valenzuela C, Sanchez P, Molina-Quiroz R
Res Microbiol
. 2023 May;
174(7):104083.
PMID: 37257734
Persister cells and biofilms are associated with chronic urinary infections which are more critical when generated by multi-drug resistant bacteria. In this context, joint administration of phages and antibiotics has...
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Molina-Quiroz R, Silva-Valenzuela C
Curr Opin Microbiol
. 2023 Apr;
74:102308.
PMID: 37062175
Bacteriophages (phages) are viruses that specifically infect bacteria. These viruses were discovered a century ago and have been used as a model system in microbial genetics and molecular biology. In...
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Molina-Quiroz R, Camilli A, Silva-Valenzuela C
Adv Exp Med Biol
. 2023 Feb;
1404:149-173.
PMID: 36792875
Viruses of bacteria, i.e., bacteriophages (or phages for short), were discovered over a century ago and have played a major role as a model system for the establishment of the...
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Silva-Valenzuela C, Molina-Quiroz R, Sillankorva S
Front Cell Infect Microbiol
. 2023 Jan;
12:1124187.
PMID: 36644772
No abstract available.
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Vera-Mansilla J, Sanchez P, Silva-Valenzuela C, Molina-Quiroz R
Microbiol Spectr
. 2022 Feb;
10(1):e0167821.
PMID: 35171030
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are the second most frequent bacterial infections worldwide, with Escherichia coli being the main causative agent. The increase of antibiotic-resistance determinants among isolates from clinical samples,...
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Molina-Quiroz R, Dalia T, Camilli A, Dalia A, Silva-Valenzuela C
mSphere
. 2020 Nov;
5(6).
PMID: 33177216
Natural transformation is a broadly conserved mechanism of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) in bacteria that can shape their evolution through the acquisition of genes that promote virulence, antibiotic resistance, and...
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Espinoza-Vergara G, Noorian P, Silva-Valenzuela C, Raymond B, Allen C, Hoque M, et al.
Nat Microbiol
. 2019 Oct;
4(12):2466-2474.
PMID: 31570868
Vibrio cholerae interacts with many organisms in the environment, including heterotrophic protists (protozoa). Several species of protozoa have been reported to release undigested bacteria in expelled food vacuoles (EFVs) when...
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Silva-Valenzuela C, Camilli A
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
. 2019 Jan;
116(5):1627-1632.
PMID: 30635420
, the causative agent of cholera, has reservoirs in fresh and brackish water where it interacts with virulent bacteriophages. Phages are the most abundant biological entity on earth and coevolve...
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Reyes-Robles T, Dillard R, Cairns L, Silva-Valenzuela C, Housman M, Ali A, et al.
J Bacteriol
. 2018 Apr;
200(15).
PMID: 29661863
Novel preventatives could help in efforts to limit infection and the spread of cholera. Bacteriophage (phage) treatment has been proposed as an alternative intervention, given the rapid replication of virulent...
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Silva-Valenzuela C, Lazinski D, Kahne S, Nguyen Y, Molina-Quiroz R, Camilli A
ISME J
. 2017 Jul;
11(12):2718-2728.
PMID: 28742070
Vibrio cholerae is a water-borne bacterial pathogen and causative agent of cholera. Although V. cholerae is a halophile, it can survive in fresh water, and this has a major role...