Publications by authors named "Katia Abarca"

68Publications

Chigger Mites (Acariformes: Trombiculidae) of Chiloé Island, Chile, With Descriptions of Two New Species and New Data on the Genus Herpetacarus.

Authors:
María Carolina Silva-de la Fuente Alexandr A Stekolnikov Thomas Weitzel Esperanza Beltrami Constanza Martínez-Valdebenito Katia Abarca Gerardo Acosta-Jamett

J Med Entomol 2020 Dec 10. Epub 2020 Dec 10.

Instituto de Medicina Preventiva Veterinaria, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile.

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December 2020

Scrub typhus in Tierra del Fuego: a tropical rickettsiosis in a subantarctic region.

Authors:
Thomas Weitzel Mabel Aylwin Constanza Martínez-Valdebenito Gerardo Acosta-Jamett Katia Abarca

Clin Microbiol Infect 2020 Nov 27. Epub 2020 Nov 27.

Departamento de Enfermedades Infecciosas e Inmunología Pediátricas, División de Pediatría, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

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November 2020

Clinical and serological profile of asymptomatic and non-severe symptomatic COVID-19 cases: Lessons from a longitudinal study in primary care in Latin America.

Authors:
Klaus Puschel Catterina Ferreccio Blanca Peñaloza Katia Abarca Maria-Paulina Rojas Alvaro Tellez Philippa Moore Ana Maria Cea Carlos Wilson Vicente Cid Joaquin Montero

BJGP Open 2021 Jan 23;5(1). Epub 2021 Feb 23.

Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

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January 2021

Safety and immunogenicity evaluation of recombinant BCG vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase I clinical trial.

Authors:
Katia Abarca Emma Rey-Jurado Natalia Muñoz-Durango Yaneisi Vázquez Jorge A Soto Nicolás M S Gálvez Javier Valdés-Ferrada Carolina Iturriaga Marcela Urzúa Arturo Borzutzky Jaime Cerda Luis Villarroel Victoria Madrid Pablo A González José V González-Aramundiz Susan M Bueno Alexis M Kalergis

EClinicalMedicine 2020 Oct 6;27:100517. Epub 2020 Oct 6.

Millennium Institute on Immunology and Immunotherapy, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Av. Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins No. 340, Santiago, Chile.

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October 2020

Human seroepidemiology of Rickettsia and Orientia species in Chile - A cross-sectional study in five regions.

Authors:
Thomas Weitzel Gerardo Acosta-Jamett Ju Jiang Constanza Martínez-Valdebenito Christina M Farris Allen L Richards Katia Abarca

Ticks Tick Borne Dis 2020 11 1;11(6):101503. Epub 2020 Jul 1.

Departamento de Enfermedades Infecciosas e Inmunología Pediátricas, Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. Electronic address:

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November 2020

Molecular Description of a Novel Orientia Species Causing Scrub Typhus in Chile.

Authors:
Katia Abarca Constanza Martínez-Valdebenito Jenniffer Angulo Ju Jiang Christina M Farris Allen L Richards Gerardo Acosta-Jamett Thomas Weitzel

Emerg Infect Dis 2020 09;26(9):2148-2156

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September 2020

Prevalence and Risk Factors of Antibodies to spp. in Chile: A Household-Based Cross-Sectional Study in Healthy Adults and Domestic Dogs.

Authors:
Gerardo Acosta-Jamett Thomas Weitzel Javier López Doris Alvarado Katia Abarca

Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 2020 08 1;20(8):572-579. Epub 2020 Apr 1.

Chilean Rickettsia and Zoonosis Research Group, Santiago, Chile.

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August 2020

Identification of trombiculid mites (Acari: Trombiculidae) on rodents from Chiloé Island and molecular evidence of infection with Orientia species.

Authors:
Gerardo Acosta-Jamett Constanza Martínez-Valdebenito Esperanza Beltrami María Carolina Silva-de La Fuente Ju Jiang Allen L Richards Thomas Weitzel Katia Abarca

PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2020 01 23;14(1):e0007619. Epub 2020 Jan 23.

Departamento de Enfermedades Infecciosas e Inmunología Pediátricas, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

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January 2020

Asthma and the Risk of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease: A Meta-analysis.

Authors:
Jose A Castro-Rodriguez Katia Abarca Erick Forno

Pediatrics 2020 01 16;145(1). Epub 2019 Dec 16.

Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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January 2020

Scrub Typhus in Continental Chile, 2016-2018.

Authors:
Thomas Weitzel Constanza Martínez-Valdebenito Gerardo Acosta-Jamett Ju Jiang Allen L Richards Katia Abarca

Emerg Infect Dis 2019 06 17;25(6):1214-1217. Epub 2019 Jun 17.

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June 2019

Yellow fever vaccination for Chilean tourists visiting Brazil. Practical considerations.

Authors:
Thomas Weitzel Cecilia Perret Francisca Valdivieso Katia Abarca Pablo Vial

Rev Chilena Infectol 2018;35(5):587-590

Facultad de Medicina, Clínica Alemana, Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile.

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August 2019

Scrub typhus risk in travelers to southern Chile.

Authors:
Thomas Weitzel Gerardo Acosta-Jamett Constanza Martínez-Valdebenito Allen L Richards Martin P Grobusch Katia Abarca

Travel Med Infect Dis 2019 May - Jun;29:78-79. Epub 2019 Jan 9.

Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. Electronic address:

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July 2019

Tuberculosis and impaired IL-23-dependent IFN-γ immunity in humans homozygous for a common missense variant.

Authors:
Stéphanie Boisson-Dupuis Noe Ramirez-Alejo Zhi Li Etienne Patin Geetha Rao Gaspard Kerner Che Kang Lim Dimitry N Krementsov Nicholas Hernandez Cindy S Ma Qian Zhang Janet Markle Ruben Martinez-Barricarte Kathryn Payne Robert Fisch Caroline Deswarte Joshua Halpern Matthieu Bouaziz Jeanette Mulwa Durga Sivanesan Tomi Lazarov Rodrigo Naves Patricia Garcia Yuval Itan Bertrand Boisson Alix Checchi Fabienne Jabot-Hanin Aurélie Cobat Andrea Guennoun Carolyn C Jackson Sevgi Pekcan Zafer Caliskaner Jaime Inostroza Beatriz Tavares Costa-Carvalho Jose Antonio Tavares de Albuquerque Humberto Garcia-Ortiz Lorena Orozco Tayfun Ozcelik Ahmed Abid Ismail Abderahmani Rhorfi Hicham Souhi Hicham Naji Amrani Adil Zegmout Frédéric Geissmann Stephen W Michnick Ingrid Muller-Fleckenstein Bernhard Fleckenstein Anne Puel Michael J Ciancanelli Nico Marr Hassan Abolhassani María Elvira Balcells Antonio Condino-Neto Alexis Strickler Katia Abarca Cory Teuscher Hans D Ochs Ismail Reisli Esra H Sayar Jamila El-Baghdadi Jacinta Bustamante Lennart Hammarström Stuart G Tangye Sandra Pellegrini Lluis Quintana-Murci Laurent Abel Jean-Laurent Casanova

Sci Immunol 2018 12;3(30)

St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Rockefeller Branch, Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA.

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December 2018

Imported scrub typhus: first case in South America and review of the literature.

Authors:
Thomas Weitzel Mabel Aylwin Constanza Martínez-Valdebenito Ju Jiang Jose Manuel Munita Luis Thompson Katia Abarca Allen L Richards

Trop Dis Travel Med Vaccines 2018 16;4:10. Epub 2018 Aug 16.

4Viral and Rickettsial Diseases Department, Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, MD USA.

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August 2018

Disruption of an antimycobacterial circuit between dendritic and helper T cells in human SPPL2a deficiency.

Authors:
Xiao-Fei Kong Ruben Martinez-Barricarte James Kennedy Federico Mele Tomi Lazarov Elissa K Deenick Cindy S Ma Gaëlle Breton Kimberly B Lucero David Langlais Aziz Bousfiha Caner Aytekin Janet Markle Céline Trouillet Fabienne Jabot-Hanin Cecilia S Lindestam Arlehamn Geetha Rao Capucine Picard Théo Lasseau Daniela Latorre Sophie Hambleton Caroline Deswarte Yuval Itan Katia Abarca Dewton Moraes-Vasconcelos Fatima Ailal Aydan Ikinciogullari Figen Dogu Ibtihal Benhsaien Alessandro Sette Laurent Abel Stéphanie Boisson-Dupuis Bernd Schröder Michel C Nussenzweig Kang Liu Frédéric Geissmann Stuart G Tangye Philippe Gros Federica Sallusto Jacinta Bustamante Jean-Laurent Casanova

Nat Immunol 2018 09 20;19(9):973-985. Epub 2018 Aug 20.

St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Rockefeller Branch, The Rockefeller University, New York , NY, USA.

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September 2018

Canine seroprevalence to Orientia species in southern Chile: A cross-sectional survey on the Chiloé Island.

Authors:
Thomas Weitzel Ju Jiang Gerardo Acosta-Jamett Constanza Martínez-Valdebenito Javier López Allen L Richards Katia Abarca

PLoS One 2018 6;13(7):e0200362. Epub 2018 Jul 6.

Departamento de Enfermedades Infecciosas e Inmunología Pediátricas, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

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January 2019

Geographical distribution and phylogenetic analysis of Rhipicephalus sanguineus sensu lato in northern and central Chile.

Authors:
Fabián E Díaz Constanza Martínez-Valdebenito Javier López Thomas Weitzel Katia Abarca

Ticks Tick Borne Dis 2018 05 5;9(4):792-797. Epub 2018 Mar 5.

Departamento de Enfermedades Infecciosas e Inmunología Pediátricas, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile; Laboratorio de Infectología y Virología Molecular, Red Salud UC, Santiago, Chile; Millennium Institute on Immunology and Immunotherapy, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. Electronic address:

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May 2018

An Update on Host-Pathogen Interplay and Modulation of Immune Responses during Orientia tsutsugamushi Infection.

Authors:
Fabián E Díaz Katia Abarca Alexis M Kalergis

Clin Microbiol Rev 2018 04 31;31(2). Epub 2018 Jan 31.

Millennium Institute on Immunology and Immunotherapy, Departamento de Genética Molecular y Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

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April 2018

[Scrub typhus, an emerging infectious disease in Chile].

Authors:
Katia Abarca Thomas Weitzel Constanza Martínez-Valdebenito Gerardo Acosta-Jamett

Rev Chilena Infectol 2018;35(6):696-699

Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad Austral de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

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August 2019

[Nasal phaeohyphomycosis by Curvularia spicifera in pediatric patient with neutropenia and acute myeloid leukemia].

Authors:
Constanza Bay Tamara González Gonzalo Munoz Paulette Legarraga Cecilia Vizcaya Katia Abarca

Rev Chilena Infectol 2017 Jun;34(3):280-286

Departamento de Enfermedades Infecciosas e Inmunología Pediátricas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile,

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June 2017