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Juan C Roman

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Garcia P, Elvira Balcells M, Castillo C, Miranda C, Geoffroy E, Roman J, et al.
Rev Chilena Infectol . 2017 Nov; 34(4):333-339. PMID: 29165509
Extra-pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) represents the 26.2% of total TB cases in Chile. Culture is the gold standard method, but the process is extremely slow. Xpert®MTB/RIF technique detects Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex...
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Bustamante V, Meza P, Roman J, Garcia P
Rev Chilena Infectol . 2015 Feb; 31(6):670-5. PMID: 25679922
Introduction: Automated systems have simplified laboratory workflow, improved standardization, traceability and diminished human errors and workload. Although microbiology laboratories have little automation, in recent years new tools for automating pre...
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Rojas A, Potin M, Corla C, Roman J, Garcia P
Rev Chilena Infectol . 2014 Feb; 30(6):622-5. PMID: 24522305
Introduction: Identification of patients with methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin resistant Enterococci (VRE) is essential to limit the spread of these agents, through the use of isolation and...
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Miranda C, Wozniak A, Castillo C, Geoffroy E, Zumaran C, Porte L, et al.
Rev Chilena Infectol . 2013 Jul; 30(3):237-43. PMID: 23877774
The incidence of whooping cough in Chile ranges from 4.1 and 7.5 per hundred thousand inhabitants. B. pertussis detection is performed by Real Time PCR (Q-PCR) directed to the insertion...
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Gutierrez C, Labarca J, Roman J, Sanhueza F, Moraga M, Wozniak A, et al.
Rev Chilena Infectol . 2013 Mar; 30(1):103-6. PMID: 23450421
Background: Clinical cultures detect only one-third of colonized patients with carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae. Early identification and contact precautions implementation would help to interrupt transmission. In our hospital no carbapenemase-producing enterobacteria infections...
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Garcia P, Bahamondes L, Reyes P, Roman J, Poblete H, Elvira Balcells M
Rev Chilena Infectol . 2013 Jan; 29(5):521-6. PMID: 23282494
Background: Diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis (TBM) is hampered by the lack of rapid and accurate diagnostic tools. We evaluated the immunological response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis anti-A60 antibodies in cerebrospinal fluid...
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Wozniak A, Villagra N, Undabarrena A, Gallardo N, Keller N, Moraga M, et al.
J Med Microbiol . 2012 Jun; 61(Pt 9):1270-1279. PMID: 22700549
The main goal of this work was to identify the mechanisms responsible for carbapenem resistance in 61 Chilean clinical isolates of Enterobacteriaceae (Enterobacter spp., Serratia marcescens, Morganella morganii, Escherichia coli...
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Rodriguez C, Rojas P, Wozniak A, Kalergis A, Ceron I, Riedel I, et al.
Rev Med Chil . 2012 Jan; 139(9):1143-9. PMID: 22215392
Background: Macrolide and lincosamide resistance in Streptococcus pyogenes is due to the acquisition of mef, ermB and ermA genes, which confer different resistance phenotypes, namely M, MLSBconstitutive and MLSBinducible respectively....
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Selman C, Poggi H, Roman J, Garcia P, Lagos M
Rev Chilena Infectol . 2010 Jan; 26(6):495-8. PMID: 20098781
Background: Commercial polymerase chain reaction (PCR) kits are widely accepted for analysis of smear positive respiratory specimens, but the sensitivity is variable for smear negative ones. Objective: To assess the...
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Blu A, Leon E, Roman J, Chanqueo L, Garcia P
Rev Chilena Infectol . 2005 Mar; 22(1):58-62. PMID: 15798871
Several studies have concluded that it is inappropriate to perform stool cultures (SC) to inpatients that have stayed hospitalized three days or more because nosocomial diarrhea is not due to...